There is no great genius without a tincture of madness.*

[trinityofone]

Thank your lucky stars, my friends. 'Cause I was going to write a long, bitchy post about how all the people in my Victorianism class are idiots, but you have been saved--saved!--by the amazing and talented slodwick, who made my afternoon and possibly my life by creating a gorgeous cover for my story Something Wicked.



Really, it's just exactly how I pictured it, like slodwick somehow got inside my head. (Yeeeaaaah, it's kind of messy in there--sorry about that.) Go tell her how fabulous it is!

Ahh. *happy sigh* I'm having wonderful delusions of being a published author now.

As for the rest of my day, basically I endured the aforementioned tutorial from hell and--okay, I can't help myself, I have to give you a sample, because my blood is still boiling. We read Dracula, which is a tough read in a post-Buffy world; all the suspense is based on not knowing what's going on, but anyone who hasn't been living under a rock knows that the Count vants to suck your blood, so reading it is basically 400 pages of going, "Hello, guys? He's a vampire," before yawning your way through the unspeakably dull climax in which the big scary Count is killed in his sleep. All right, fine. Just 'cause the book is boring doesn't mean the discussion has to be--we could have talked about lots of interesting things, broken down precisely why the narrative structure fails, and mocked Jonathan Harker for being a wuss who was once portrayed by Keanu Reeves. BUT NO. Instead there had to be 45 million variations on this conversation:

Student: Um, when Dracula bites people, I think it might be, you know, kind of sexual?
Tutor: Huh, I hadn't thought of that!
trinityofone: *cries*

So instead I made a music video in my head. And damn, I wish I were a vidder, because this is, like, the most cracktastically awesome idea ever. Ahem. Get this:

Genius of Love to clips from 'Aurora.'

I mean, just listen to it! And check out these lyrics:

GENIUS OF LOVE--TOM TOM CLUB

What you gonna do when you get out of jail?
I’m gonna have some fun!
What do you consider fun?
Fun, natural fun!

[Am I the only one already cracking up? I mean, just think about John. In prison. In that outfit.]

I’m in heaven
With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend
[Clips from 'Hide & Seek,' hells yes.]
There’s no beginning and there is no end
Time isn’t present in that dimension
He’ll take my arm
When we’re walkin’, rolling and rocking
It’s one time I’m glad I’m not a man
[Because Shep is such a girl. *g*]
Feels like I’m dreaming, but I’m not sleeping

I’m in heaven
With the maven of funk mutation
Clinton’s musicians such as Bootsy Collins
[Okay, I have no idea what this means, and I DON'T CARE.]
Raise expectations to a new intention
No one can sing
Quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson
Wailin’ and shakin’ to Bob Marley
[OMG RONON!]
Reggae’s expanding with Sly and Robbie

All the weekend
Boyfriend was missing
I surely miss him
The way he’d hold me in his warm arms
We went insane when we took cocaine.
[*coughenzymecough*]

Stepping in a rhythm to a kurtis blow
Who needs to think when your feet just go
With a hiditihi and a hipitiho
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...
[A perfect excuse for Shep running, and/or being a dork! Not that we need an excuse for that.]
James Brown, James Brown
James Brown, James Brown

If you see him
Please remind him, unhappy boyfriend
Well he’s the genius of love
He’s got a greater depth of feeling
Well he’s the genius of love
He’s so deep.
[HEE.]

Yes, the crack I am on IS very good, thank you for asking.

*Seneca. Because I am pretentious as well as crazy. Whee!

Comments

[wychwood]

Oooh, spiffy cover!

And I'm sorry about the idiocy of your classmates. Personally, when in that sort of situation, I ask myself "What would McKay do?" and spend time thinking up the most Rodney-ish comments possible with which to slaughter people. If it's really bad, I might even use them... *g*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Oooh, spiffy cover!

Isn't it? *hugs it and squeezes it and calls it George*

Ahh, WWMD--would that you could be my credo. Seriously, I wish I could be that unabashedly rude; I think that my blood pressure would be better. (Er, not that McKay's is...) But I'm actually kind of...well, not meek in person, but...yeah. However, all my saved-up wrath goes into snarky dialogue, so yay. *eg*

[wychwood]

Yeah, I hardly ever say things like that, I'm too polite *g* But it seriously helps keep my blood pressure down, thinking of things to say. Plus being a good source of icon captions, sometimes! :)

[fureux.livejournal.com]

i feel for you dude, i actually had someone in one of my teacher training classes go "what's powerpoint?" the other day. i sit there and think "bite your tongue, don't open your mouth, you are not rodney mckay and you wouldn't be scathing and fabulous, you'd just be a bitch."

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

That is so sad, and so true. *sniff* It's not fair! I want to be scathing and fabulous!

...Does he give lessons, you think?

[dar-jeeling.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. *blinks* That's a gorgeous cover; very fitting.

Student: Um, when Dracula bites people, I think it might be, you know, kind of sexual?
Tutor: Huh, I hadn't thought of that!
Ahahaha! If it wasn't so funny, it'd be tragic.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

That's a gorgeous cover; very fitting.

I KNOW. *resists urge to blow it up and attach it to my wall. ooh! or make shirts!*

If it wasn't so funny, it'd be tragic.

It's kinda borderline already...

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

SQUEE! I'm so, so glad you like it, doll! *beams*

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

Happy!Joe is maybe my favoritest icon, ever. Except, maybe shirtless!Joe... no, this one. *g*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I LOVE IT. Seriously, I had to resist the urge to e-mail my parents. I still kind of want to. It couldn't be that awkward...

Me: Look, look at the pretty pretty thing that was made for this fanfic I wrote!
'Rents: The what that you wrote?
Me: Oh, never mind. Just look--shiny!
'Rents: You wrote what now?

Yeah...so holding off. But I could still e-mail my brother!

*skips away*

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

OMG you are too cute!! *giggles*

[fairestcat]

Genius of Love to clips from 'Aurora.'

I think I love your brain. That is so WRONG and yet so PERFECT.

And now that song's stuck in my head. With accompanying visuals.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Oops, I'm sorry. And yet secretly very very pleased to spread the madness!

DANCE WITH MEEEEE!

[dizzyditz.livejournal.com]

"Student: Um, when Dracula bites people, I think it might be, you know, kind of sexual?
Tutor: Huh, I hadn't thought of that!"

*cries too* I just finished re-reading Dracula myself. I seem to have developed a late obsession with the Dark Side, which you are ironically not around to share (and perhaps it is best that way, I've been up to some insane stuff). But D does disappoint, doesn't it? Not only in a post-Buffy world, but in a post- um, good writing world. The plot drags and drags. So sorry to hear that you are surrounded by dolts - outshine them and make yourself a worshipful club!

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

But D does disappoint, doesn't it? Not only in a post-Buffy world, but in a post- um, good writing world.

Ha! YES. The plot moves like a dead body being hauled through the street, the three suitors are interchangeable, Jonathan's a whiny bitch, Van Helsing is incompetent, and Dracula himself is not the least bit menacing. And nobody even has the respect to call him the dark master...bator. *g*

However, Gary Oldman is hot.

outshine them and make yourself a worshipful club!

My story has a shiny shiny cover! It's shinier than Dracula's cover! I WIN!

[dizzyditz.livejournal.com]

However, Gary Oldman is hot.

Oh lord woman. Is. he. ever.

My story has a shiny shiny cover!

That'll have to do for now then ;-) I'll be sending psychic karma to Ireland to make the idiots in your class start fawning about you like the lesser mortals that they are.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Er, fawning makes me uncomfortable. But if you can get me a free pass on the THREE ESSAYS I have due in two weeks (they should be in awe of my brilliance without physical proof, sheesh) it would be much appreciated. ;-)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

She's European! YOU PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SMART!

However, the guys in heeled boots thing has got to stop.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

You mean the thing with the evil cliffhanger of EVIL? Yes. *grin* *whimper*

Is LJ still not e-mailing you your comments? 'Cause it's being really weird with mine.

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

I have never, ever, been able to get more than a couple chapters into Dracula. I was actually going to give it another shot because people have assured me that once you get past the first THREE HUNDRED PAGES OF JONATHAN HARKER BEING A WHINY LITTLE BITCH OH MY GOD PLZ TO DIE IMMEDIATELY it actually gets kind of interesting, but ...

I'm not feeling so assured now ;)


Also, I cannae remember if I left fb on "Something wicked" (I think I may actually have it open on my own computer to do so?), so: Dude, that was creepeh. I have, on a theme here, never actually been able to finish that book, on account of how it scares the bejeezus out of me, and I think you captured that feeling quite well, mmyep. Also, ZELENKA ZELENKA ZELENKA.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

No! No, it gets worse. You find yourself looking back on Jonathan Harker's snot-stained pages with NOSTALGIA and REGRET.

I love scaring the bejeezus out of people. *eg* Thank you so much, that is AWESOME.

Also, ZELENKA ZELENKA ZELENKA.

Ohmigod, I LOVE HIM. I want him for my bestest bestest friend. Instead I will just have to keep making him Rodney's best friend, because I give Rodney everything I want, including himself. Er. If that makes sense.

*needs Zelenka icon like whoa*

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

HOW. HOW HOW HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE. And I mean, I read some crap; I would buy my little sister trashy teen novels (we're talking "Gossip Girls" and "The A-List" here) and read them before I gave them to her, and I would spend entire summers reading nothing but Old West romance novels when I was younger; for chrissakes, I read Lurlene McDaniels novels, and those all have the same plot. But Dracula, Dracula I didn't finish.

And yes! Yes, yes, you creeped very well; I definitely had a couple flashbacks to that summer when I was like twelve and was determined to read the entirely of Bradbury's oeuvre only to be thwarted by that novel!


And well, I think we all know Rodney wants himself most of all. *pats him lovingly*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I have started but failed to finish:

Little Women
Wuthering Heights
Great Expectations

...and numerous other things I am too embarrassed to bring up. Yet I made it through two and half Laurell K. Hamilton novels. I've read several books by R. L. Stein. Not to mention enough fanfic to DROWN the WORLD.

Um, let's just call it a failure on the part of the "classic" authors, shall we? How is it our fault if they failed to hold out attention? *is deeply ashamed*

And well, I think we all know Rodney wants himself most of all. *pats him lovingly*

Has there been Rodney/Rodney fic yet in this fandom? If not, WHY NOT?

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha oh man, I think I read Little Women about seventeen times when I was, like, eight. Those other two I haven't even looked at.

And no, man, it's true; the Classics are like. Books that people thought were amazing like eighty years ago. Tastes have evolved!


... And when you say Rodney/Rodney, do you mean in some sort of miraculous-Ancient-device sort of way, or are we just talkin' wankfic here? Because I mean. Not that I can think of either off the top of my head, but I WOULDN'T SAY NO.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Tastes have evolved!

Yes! And frankly, a lot of Classics suck. If more people could accept this, the world would be a better place. However, some Classics are awesome. The Scartlet Letter is awesome. No, really! There's slashiness and self-flagellation! Rock 'n' roll!

Pish, wankfic is old news. Definitely miraculous-Ancient-device smutty smut smut. Which I would actually consider writing, if I weren't already writing 80 bagillion things at the moment.

...Actually, I'm still considering writing it. DAMMIT!

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

And by "old news" you mean "I have these 10" fics to link you, right? Because I was hoping that's what you'd say ;)

And yes. PLZ TO DO SO. *encourage!!11*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Well, um, I might've been looking through sga_flashfic's Voyeurism Challenge entries (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=sga_flashfic&keyword=Voyeurism+Challenge&filter=all) yesterday (most of which are disappointingly un-porny--what's up with that? This fandom needs more good voy, dammit, because it's uh, absolutely not a kink of mine...) and some of these might do for ya:

Visual Phallusy (http://www.livejournal.com/community/sga_flashfic/81324.html) by z_rayne

Things That Go Bump in the Night (http://www.livejournal.com/community/sga_flashfic/83179.html) by docmichelle

Resolution (http://www.livejournal.com/community/sga_flashfic/87764.html) by resonant8

Clarity (http://www.livejournal.com/community/sga_flashfic/88191.html) by cesperanza

And I really am starting to have IDEAS now, damn you--mostly about how hilariously awkward it would be if Rodney tried to have sex with himself. But in the mean time, there's always this (http://www.livejournal.com/users/thegrrrl2002/61291.html). *eg*

[whiskeypants.livejournal.com]

dracula is one of the worst books ever written.

i think that your tutor, by the way, is a moron. the lack of knowledge is phenomenal--i mean, really, do they just pull people off the street to teach you, or what?

omg the tom tom club--i haven't heard that song in so very long.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

dracula is one of the worst books ever written.

God, it really is. And then the tutor claimed that it and the Sherlock Holmes stories occupy the same place in our cultural understanding. And I--very politely--said that no, Conan Doyle's stories have endured because they're peopled by fascinating characters and interesting plots and more atmosphere than you can shake a stick at, while Stoker just tapped into the inherent human fascination with the vampire myth. At which point she actually said, "Oh, are there vampire stories that predate this?"

*headdesk*

i mean, really, do they just pull people off the street to teach you, or what?

I'm beginning to think so. She also kept saying that she thought Stoker's decision to tell the story in letters and diary entries was "really innovative." Right, and nothing at all like, say, Frankenstein, or, I don't know, fucking Pamela.

*seethes* *goes to look at story cover again* *okay, happy now*

omg the tom tom club--i haven't heard that song in so very long.

Whee! We must DANCE to it!

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Dude, I always loved it when I was smarter than my teachers.

I think I used to. But now it just scares me, because I've realized that I'm actually not that smart, and if I'm smarter than all these people who are supposed to be TEACHING the YOUTH of the WORLD--ho boy, are we in trouble. Because unlike most Americans *fumes* I want our leaders to be intelligent--that's why THEY are in charge and not ME.

...Okay, drifting into a separate issue here, but what I think I'm really saying is: McKay for President '08! (If they're gonna chance the rules for Arnold, they can change 'em for Rodney!)

And that cover is absolutely fantabulous. Oh so shiny.

Mmm, yes. I look at it and I am CALM again...

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

We ended up having the world's longest discussion about NOTHING. And not in a funny, Seinfeld-type way. *pouts*

Pretty cover, though.

Made my millennium, baby!

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

But I don't want to be a bitch! I want to be scathing and fabulous (http://www.livejournal.com/users/trinityofone/30793.html?thread=481609#t481609)! I'm not really sure where the distinction lies, but it's there. Maybe if I carried a gun...

[aurora]

Hee, Seneca! *is Classics geek*

The cover is incredible. It just fits so great with the story (which is still haunting me in the best way possible, btw).

Student: Um, when Dracula bites people, I think it might be, you know, kind of sexual?
Tutor: Huh, I hadn't thought of that!
trinityofone: *cries*
aurora_84: *cracks up*

Crack = good. I really wished I could vid. Really. Also, because of this
I’m in heaven/With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend/There’s no beginning and there is no end I'm not stuck with Mariah Carey's 'Fantasy' in my head. Now we know where she 'borrowed' these lines from :|

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Hee, Seneca! *is Classics geek*

*knows a lot of Classics geeks*

*also, loves her Bartlett's*

The cover is incredible. It just fits so great with the story (which is still haunting me in the best way possible, btw).

Oh, thank you! I'm so glad. (In a 'yay, lasting imagery,' not an 'oh boy, I'm giving everyone nightmares' kind of way. Well, maybe a little in a 'heh, nightmares' way. *eg*) slodwick's image is going to haunt me, too, which is just awesome. =)

I'm not stuck with Mariah Carey's 'Fantasy' in my head. Now we know where she 'borrowed' these lines from :|

Really? Verbatim? I know next to nothing about Mariah Carey--enough to get Glitter jokes, and not an ounce more. ;-)

[aurora]

*also, loves her Bartlett's* He's da man! :)

Well, maybe a little in a 'heh, nightmares' way. Heh. It's kinda your trademark. 'Little Things' haunted me for weeks.

Really? Verbatim?
Yep. Listen. It starts around 1:00. Also, somewhere near the end (3:50) they used What you gonna do when you get out of jail?/I’m gonna have some fun! as well. Or how original the hiphop scene really is...

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

It's kinda your trademark. 'Little Things' haunted me for weeks.

*grins evily* *then own brain exacts revenge by giving self horrific zombie nightmare*

Payback's a...yeah. ;-)

Or how original the hiphop scene really is...

Yeah, that's some...sample. Sheesh.

I can't believe you got me to listen to Mariah Carey. =P

[aurora]

I can't believe you got me to listen to Mariah Carey. =P
Eep, sorry =) Would you believe me if I told you this is some of her better stuff (and this particular song is from 1995)? It only goes downhill from here. :S

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Oh noes. Now I'm reminded of my 9th Grade English classroom. The class before ours was remedial, and I spent all year looking at a bulletin board of essays they had written, one of which was titled, "What Mariah Carey's Music Means to Me."

Oh, it's a world of sad lightly flavored with indignity!

*has small existential crisis*

*okay, better now*

[aurora]

"What Mariah Carey's Music Means to Me."
o_O Oh, God. Yes, this is definitely enough to enduce an existential crisis.

And I can't believe you hadn't heard any of her stuff before. Sorry for ruining your perfect music world. =))

[taelonmahal.livejournal.com]

Oh that looks really great! :)

[taelonmahal.livejournal.com]

I read the story now. Woah, that was seriously creepy! *shudders* Very good story!

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! This fandom and my warped brain seem to go together disturbingly well. It's awesome. *eg*

[mandysbitch.livejournal.com]

Oh! The cover is awesome! Must read the story... (I'll get there... honest! My backlogue of reading is *huge*).

Student: Um, when Dracula bites people, I think it might be, you know, kind of sexual?
Tutor: Huh, I hadn't thought of that!
trinityofone: *cries*

Oh dear.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I hear ya. My backlog of comments is so huge that if I were back in the States, I'd be worried about FEMA showing up. But hey! Both of us are still way smarter than my tutor! Whee!