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Upon Crossing the Bridge of Dreams
mixing mythologies
04 November 2009 @ 08:17 pm
01 February 2009 @ 02:27 pm
This is really, truly all the fault of the miniseries (and maybe a little bit of David McCullough), because otherwise I am going to hell, since if there is anything that I hold sacred, it's the lead-up from 1776 to the Constitutional Convention. Well, mostly the Convention itself (hi, my Bible is Madison's notes), but still. And, okay, it's also kind of the fault of my current class on early national America, because my teacher tells us adorable stories about all of the Founders, but, really, other than the violin, this is based entirely on miniseries events and characterizations, complete with the miniseries historical inaccuracies (like John and Abigail having none of their children with them in Paris; I'm pretty sure at least John Quincy was there in reality).
But, anyway, I, uh, kind of wrote an entry for Porn Battle VII, except for the fact that I can't write porn, so it's really more like R-rated sap. The prompt was Abigail/Jefferson, admire, but I have a nearly ironclad infidelity squick, so it turned into Abigail/Jefferson(/Adams). Someday, I am actually going to write a story that gets the three of them in bed together (they went from jealousy and flirting in the garden to that lovely family-togetherness of the balloon ascension, which alone would be enough to convince me, but there's more, and the ease with which I could write a ship manifesto about this is kind of frightening), but for now I have:
Title: In Paris (link to entry)
Fandom: John Adams (HBO miniseries)
Rating: R
Pairing: Abigail Adams/Thomas Jefferson(/John Adams)
Disclaimer: Um. The people probably belonged to themselves; these particular characterizations belong to HBO and the producers of the Adams miniseries and kind of David McCullough. Any way you cut it, not mine, not making money, etc.
( Abigail told herself it was Paris, these vast and private gardens in which they took daily walks... )
But, anyway, I, uh, kind of wrote an entry for Porn Battle VII, except for the fact that I can't write porn, so it's really more like R-rated sap. The prompt was Abigail/Jefferson, admire, but I have a nearly ironclad infidelity squick, so it turned into Abigail/Jefferson(/Adams). Someday, I am actually going to write a story that gets the three of them in bed together (they went from jealousy and flirting in the garden to that lovely family-togetherness of the balloon ascension, which alone would be enough to convince me, but there's more, and the ease with which I could write a ship manifesto about this is kind of frightening), but for now I have:
Title: In Paris (link to entry)
Fandom: John Adams (HBO miniseries)
Rating: R
Pairing: Abigail Adams/Thomas Jefferson(/John Adams)
Disclaimer: Um. The people probably belonged to themselves; these particular characterizations belong to HBO and the producers of the Adams miniseries and kind of David McCullough. Any way you cut it, not mine, not making money, etc.
( Abigail told herself it was Paris, these vast and private gardens in which they took daily walks... )
08 May 2008 @ 08:03 pm
So, David Weber is my comfort reading when I want to turn my brain off (and having just finished three finals and a paper, back-to-back, I have the right). Nothing in his world is complicated, unless I make it so, so the brain-off works even better when I can get myself into a mood where his blatant abuse of historical allusion is laughable, rather than infuriating. And I do mean allusion, not history. His history is fine, so far as I can tell, if completely one-sided. (Dear havens, he presents the Meiji reformation as completely positive. Yes, it strengthened the country, but it also created the ruthlessness that led to Japan-in-WWII and the Rape of Nanjing. ...And is it completely obvious that I've just been studying this?) But, anyway, his allusions. Oh, his allusions. Rob Pierre and Oscar Saint-Just? I mean, really. Or better yet, the "Group of Four". Sorry, but it really is just name-dropping when you name your evilly conservative bad guys after the Gang of Four who were the major force behind the Cultural Revolution. The Gang of Four might have been scary, but really. Conservative?
Honestly, though, when I'm in the right mood, it's actually hilarious. I can giggle hysterically over the fact that you can tell what history he's reading (i.e., whoever the next "major world power" seems to be), based on the allusions (and the names! oh, the names!) in his books. So even his historical allusion are really not the problem.
( The problem is... )
Honestly, though, when I'm in the right mood, it's actually hilarious. I can giggle hysterically over the fact that you can tell what history he's reading (i.e., whoever the next "major world power" seems to be), based on the allusions (and the names! oh, the names!) in his books. So even his historical allusion are really not the problem.
( The problem is... )
12 February 2008 @ 12:03 am
So, I'm hovering at the computer unable to sleep because I was just reading really lovely fic, and I realize I've never posted my Yuletide fic on livejournal. Which is silly of me. So, here goes, with many thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
stultiloquentia and karihan for being wonderful betas.
( Owning Light )
stultiloquentia and karihan for being wonderful betas. ( Owning Light )