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1. I have acquired The Cough That Wouldn't Die, apparently. The cold I acquired earlier in the semester (the one that morphed into vertigo) has mostly passed, but the dry cough hasn't gone away yet. It occasionally disappears for a few days to lull me into a false sense of security, but once I've convinced myself it's gone it strikes again in the night. It's not particularly bad - certainly not as bad as the cough I had while I actually had said cold - but I can't figure out what's up with that and it's beginning to bother me.

2. Halfway through Mysteries of Udolfo; still have 300 pages to go, but I've learned to skim the lavishly descriptive bits and any passage where Emily ruminates on how horrid her life is and how much she misses Valancourt, so it shouldn't take as long. I'll still be up late, but at least there's a goalpost in sight.

It helps that the plot's finally started to move, and while Madame Cheron and Montoni are assholes of the wicked-step-parent variety, they're at least interesting wicked step-parents, and Madame Cheron in particular is at times quite funny. Plus, the whole thing is much more interesting going once I realized that Montoni and Cavigni were kind of working the subtext. Oh, and that Emily and her step-mother's servant, Annette, could be quite girlslashy when viewed in the right light.

Oh, fandom goggles. What did I do without you.

3. I never did see Grindhouse when it came out, mostly because it had Planet Terror in it and zombiefear > ironic love for pulp horror (and because someone told me what happens in Quentin Tarantino's "guest star" scene and there are some things I never, ever, ever need to see). The Planet Terror soundtrack is beginning to make me reconsider that decision.

Actually, no, that's a lie. I'm still not in a big hurry to see Planet Terror, but the soundtrack makes me wish I had an excuse to dance naked to it. Purr.

(Has anybody on the flist seen Grindhouse, by the way? Any good? Worth a rental provided I fast-forward through the Tarantino scene?)

4. Didn't pay too much attention to the Super Bowl, what with having Gothic mysteries to read, but am I the only one who thought the commercials were especially unimpressive this year? Nothing particularly offensive, but I honestly can't remember a single commercial except for that Coke Zero one and the Monsters vs. Aliens promo, which I'd already seen. Nothing stood out.

5. A meme what I've seen tossed around (no, not the 15 OTPs in 15 words meme; I'm still trying to think up good clues for that one, since I spend way too much time on memes like this): Fanfic tropes: bold the clichés you have written, and italicise those you've considered writing. Explicate/annotate as necessary.



Genderswap: kayliemalinza knows all about this one. Every so often, I still take out old drafts of that Doctor/Master Alien Sex-Change Pollen fic and tinker with it.

Bodyswap: It was a really old fic, back when I was a Digimon fandom noobling, but it happened.

Drunk!fic: It was a microfic, but I think it counts.

Huddling together for warmth: Terribly tempted, but no.

Undercover in a gay bar: Don’t know enough about gay bars – or, hell, bars period – to write that with any confidence.

Pretending to be married: My churchontime fic, which I never did finish, mostly because I couldn’t decide who I wanted it to be about. Oh, and I couldn’t make the plot make sense.

Secretly a virgin: I prefer “secretly not a virgin”. :D

Amnesia: The Memory Always Lies, after a fashion.

Cross-dressing: That Ten-and-Donna-visit-Transsexual, Transylvania fic. Of course I’m working on it!

Forced to share a bed: Nope.

Aliens make them do it: I still periodically work on that one challenge!hour!fic kayliemalinza told me to do when I was blocked one night...it just keeps going wrong. I mean, hell, one time I just started freewriting it out of curiosity and it ended with angst, control issues, and a sideways form of prison rape. ...Yeah, your guess is as good as mine.

Wingfic: Never really seen the point of it – there are only so many plot devices to be milked from that. In conclusion, nope.

Mpreg: One of my squicks, so no.

Mistakenly assumed to be gay: Sort of. There was a Ten/Jo I was writing for the kinkmeme a while back where Ten asks why Jo never said anything to him if she was interested. Jo's response (after a bit of dodging) is that she assumed he was gay.

Let's play truth or dare: Almost everyone in my fandoms is too old for that.

Mary Sue fic: Didn't we all? We may not all have posted it, but...

Aphrodisiacs: You Really Should Have Specified. Alien Sex Pollen totally counts, right?

Curtainfic: I periodically get the urge (one normal partner and one out-there/alien/eccentric partner doing domestic is sort of my genkink), but I manage to suppress it most of the time.

Hurt/Comfort: Shamefully. It’s never been posted.

Healing Through Sex: That gets too cheerfully ripped into every day at fanficrants for me to even try it.

Apocalypse fic: The Waiting-Room World, naturally.

Someone has a baby: I have nothing to contribute to this subgenre.

Baby!fic: How is this any different than the above? But also no.

Telepathic soulbonding: Buh?

Werewolves mate for life: They do? News to me.



Back to Udolfo; comment replies to come when I get bored again.