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

[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*