Corinthian Blood

Sort of a twitchy, mildly morbid thing. It's not really intended to flow nicely from one idea to the next, and is written in a perspective I'm not used to. You have no idea how many times I had to go back and change verb tenses.

This is really the hours before the Horrible Transformation the character goes through that involves being dead for a while. (When in doubt, murder your characters!)

And the, uh, worms on the described planet? Are not something you'd take home to show to daddy and put in a cute jug with holes in the lid, let's just say. You also might not want to find them in a petting zoo.

Excerpt:
A freezing planet is not terribly warm, yet there are thousands that live openly on its surface. A stone never bigger than a fingernail implanted in your skin could keep the frost out of your tendons indefinitely.

( OrigiFic: The Protection of Stone )

( Pairing Meme )

Also: A Weiss Kreuz drabble about the end of Schuldig's career as an assassin. Not one OUNCE of seriousness in it, I swear. And it's only 100 words!

Will update as I find more, of course!

2002
LOTR/FR - Achas

2003
Harry Potter - Tome of Padfoot, The Eternally Bored: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
Forgotten Realms - The Poet and the Wise Man
LOTR - Computer Geeks of the Immortal Type
- Sun Sets Down Upon the Infantry: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3
- Fighting Caves: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
- Sun's So Hot I Froze To Death: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
Coldfire Trilogy - Beastie: Torrential Agony of Tarrant the Agonized

2004
Yami no Matsuei - Tooth and Nail
- Burning Rain
- Fool's Courtship
- Dude Looks Like A Lady
- One is a Genius, The Other's Insane: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2
- Kurikara's Guide to Wooing the Shikigami Male: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2

(It's been a while since I've done anything Weiss-related. Something like 4-5 years! As ever, got this idea while vacuuming the rug. Might post this to fanfiction.net. Maybe I should also try to make a list of the fics I've posted online, if I can ever find them.)

Of Cockroaches and Assassins: Also known as Why The Fuck Was Weiss Living In A Camper In The OVAs?!

Excerpt:
"A day job, I said. Any day job will do, as long as it had nothing to do with bugs. And now look at me,” said Youji from beneath an unutterably high stack of yuri magazines. He had spoken spontaneously; everyone else had thought he was asleep in his favourite nest of beer cans and illustrated breasts.

( Bugs. Youji hates bugs. )

Just a wee story, a bit different than usual. Unpolished, but hay whuteva rite?

"They discovered the sun's habits quite by accident. Within decades, they'd decided the precise instant of its death and felt secure in the fact that they would not be around when it happened. Unfortunately, this was not the case."

( Short Fiction: Fashionable )

Alright. I'm going to exhibit some peev here, perhaps to the detriment of the Earth's orbital stability. (It's actually quite inconsequential.)

My issue? Stupid thesis statements.

Don't write "... in this essay I will..." in any way, shape, or form. But you know what? Since everyone who does it uses those exact words, perhaps I'll just leave it at don't. It's fucking stupid. You write like that when they first teach you the structure of an essay back in fetus-school. You don't write like that when you hit high school. Or when you're past college. Or, you know, when you finally learn to cross all your t's and spell "cat."

But, unfortunately, people do. More often than they should, which is never. (Certain departments might like you to think this is a perfectly acceptable way to write, but you shouldn't. They're telling you it's okay simply because reading papers written like this delivers quite a substantial amount of funny. Ever wonder why your professor always looks so grimly amused around midterm time?)

I have seen in theses repeated use of "... I argue..." often under the same damn header. Fucking quit it. I don't care if it's the Thing To Do if you want your final degree. Suck a cock or two for lost time. Don't write like that.

Do you walk into a cocktail lounge with your tits out and smeared in things even a dog wouldn't roll in? Because that's what you're doing. Have some fucking class, you lazy shits. Think of something with finesse that is at the same time both clear and opaque. Your meaning should be distinct, yet not be found in the sort of statement of intention that makes you look like a slavering football player who found a pen in his sock one day and thought he'd write about y hee leiks futbal.

If you're writing a draft, whatever. But there's no excuse when you present something that should be polished with the above jewels in it. It's like walking out of the bathroom with toilet paper sticking out the bottom of your skirt. Please don't present people with something you apparently wiped your bottom with. It's just not civilized.

Made dinner tonight: yuba fried in oil and hickory smoke, tiny Kobe-marinated hamburger patties, and octopus all on a fat plate of lettuce and tomato. Had to simmer the octopus for more than an hour in garlic water, although most of that time was quite enjoyable, as it had a tendency to twitch (it was dead already). It also turned the water a delightful, smoky purple!

Poor thing must have been a baby--its legs were only about a centimetre across. Sure tasted damn good soaked in sansho pepper and mirin, though. I love eatin' baby. ;DD

Honestly, if I'm made to cook, I'm going to make what I like, which is really weird shit. My parents will never learn.

Guess which Vladfic pairing I'm using? I betcha never guess.

( 7 Deadly Sins Fic Challenge )

I know Hobb has a violent hate for this sort of thing. Frankly, I don't care.

This is an excuse to put Fitz and lace panties in the same story. Vaguely after the omg-you-gay dustup, and totally wrecking characterization. Mainly because only Hobb has the talent to write Fitz as stupid as he really is.

( A Most Popular Pastime )

Lest you think I fizzle out on all my projects, here's the finished Teldra story. If you thought you were getting graphic porn, you're mistaken. The porn is there. You just have to use your imagination more than normal. Ilu miarr. I even added a wee bit of femslash for you, too! ;3

You know, the more I study Japanese, the shittier my English gets.

( Teldra: A Butler's Tale - Finished )

It's weird the things you think of while doing the dishes. I could have been more detailed with the horrible things, but they do say that life is swift and brutal. ;DD

( Mary S Taltos: A Very Abrupt Sort of Lovestory )

Rule #1 of the Sadistiverse: Whenever you have a hankering for drawing, there are no damn pencils to be had.

Minor commentary during lunch got me amused. Bono has been jumping all over Canada for slacking in the foreign aid department, which is well and good. I agree. However, my lunch buddy had read an article in today's paper that pointed out rather snidely that Canada gives Ireland some 7 million or somesuch for general keep-the-religious-folk-without-guns purposes.

For some reason, both the writer and the Lunch Buddy seem to think this has huge implications of hypocrisy for Bono. WTF? I know formal rhetoric isn't a popular class to take, but this messy fact is nothing more than a messy fact. I don't see how it affects Bono's efforts/arguments/jumping. He stands for no one but himself--not Ireland, and certainly not the Western world in its entirety. 7 mil is also peanuts, if we go down that road.

And isn't Sweden giving almost twice what Canada is to aid? Something like 1% of its total income, while Canada offers .7%? (Drawn from memory, liable to wrong. ;D)

Canada: Land of the Bloated, Incompetent Bureaucracies. And political parties that are identical, even though supposedly the one you don't support is going to Destroy Canada when they're elected. They're so crippled they can't do the apocalyptic shit people think they can. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking. I don't really see much difference between the Conservatives and Liberals at the federal level. Their philosophies are quite different, but that difference isn't translated into the real world.

Only I like to think of the Liberals as a money-puking, snake-eyed Goliath with tentacled arms representing billions of government workers and bureaucracies that do nothing but make the public think that there's lots of social programs being run that will help them deeply. When in fact, there are an uncomfortable amount of destitute people in every community that aren't exactly seeing a lot of this "aid."

But as a post-secondary student, I should be totally liberal and the like. Or be a psycho. I think I'll stick with the green-haired rocker crowd, thanks. If I want to help in something, I'll go help, not wave a little placard on a campus where the majority either don't care or agree with you.

And the new No-Fly List? "Holy shit, Orwell WAS right." Live a little, you fucking pussies. Who needs Toronto?

Selections for second term. Will likely drop CREW 120, as it seems a bit of a waste. Not to say my writing does not need a hell of a lot of work, but I'd rather do it in a non-CW-groupie setting. That, and my patience for shoddily "deep" general fiction is running thin these days.

ANTH 336 - Visual Anthropology
This course investigates film as ethnography, as an applied research method and as a medium of communicating anthropological understanding. Topics include research methodology; visible aspects of culture; the assumed dilemma between science and art; accuracy, fairness and objectivity; the relation between written and visual anthropology; and ethics.

ANTH 350 - Primatology
A detailed survey of the field of primatology including taxonomy, genetics, morphology, palaeontology, ecology, zoogeography, growth and behaviour of the primates.

ANTH 388 - Language and Culture
A study of language in culture and society. Topics include the ways in which people use artistic and expressive language; the nature of speech communities; social meaning and social variation in language; gender and language; the use of language in identity formation and power relations; minority languages; and language revitalization.

CREW 120 - Intro to Writing Fiction
An introduction to the basic structures and approaches in the writing of fiction. Analysis and discussion of professional work will form and develop guidelines for effective criticism and revision of student writing.

ENGL 209 - Fantasy Literature
An exploration of major fantasies from the 20th and 21st centuries with some historical background to the genre.

HIST 222 - Europe 1789-1914
A survey of Europe's history from the French Revolution to World War I. Topics may include the new imperialism, industrialization, revolution and nationalism.

LING 212 - Indo-European Studies
A study of Indo-European languages and their "family" emphasizing the principles of classifying languages; debate concerning macro-families; the theories of the origins and nature of Proto- Indo-European; archaeolinguistic evidence supporting these theories; the nature of Indo-European texts; the provenance and dispersal of Indo-European languages, and the controversies concerning their relationships.

Now all I have to do is choose five (maybe six, if I'm feeling masochistic) of these to pay for. I'm such a fucking liberal studies loser, although it could be worse. I could be a PhysEd major. Then I'd just have to hang myself to preserve some dignity.

ANTH 214 - Human Evolution
An examination of the methods of investigating the biology of human populations in the present and in the past. Laboratories will introduce students to basic techniques.

ANTH 231 - Intro to Music in Culture
An examination of musical phenomena in a cultural context to understand the forces which shape musical styles and the role music plays in broader aspects of culture. Terms and concepts from anthropology, ethnomusicology, and related disciplines are presented along with sound recordings of a wide variety of musical traditions from the Americas, Africa and Asia.

ANTH 343 - Early Prehistory of the Americas
A survey of the early prehistoric cultures of North and South America, from the peopling of the New World to the rise of complex chiefdoms and the beginnings of agriculture.

ENGL 200 - A Study of British Literature to the Restoration
A broad view of representative writing in English literature from its beginnings to the Restoration, with attention to literary form, the social and intellectual characteristics of periods or schools, and major authors.

LING 211 - History of the English Language
A study of the history and development of the English language from its origins to the present, including the historical context of the development of the language; the changes in phonology, grammar, and vocabulary from Old to Middle to Modern English; the history and diversity of English dialects; the role of English today as a world language; and the history and nature of Canadian English.

PHIL 200 - The History of Modern Philosophy
An examination of major modern western philosophers: selections from Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Austin, Ryle, and others. Topics include the 17th Century-the formative era of modern philosophy; the 18th Century-the age of psychology; the 19th Century-characterized by enormous religious, political and economical change; the 20th Century-the philosophers interested in philosophical and linguistical analysis.

RELI 201 - Critical Bible Study: The Old Testament/Hebrew Scriptures
An introduction to the historical, religious and philosophical significance of the Old Testament/Hebrew Scriptures, using techniques of critical Bible study. The course pays attention to the tensions between the "official line" and the "story line" within each biblical book. This course has no positive or negative religious presuppositions.