A short comment on the job and other things:

[nineveh_uk]

I hate it with the power of a thousand suns.

Alas, this is only metaphorical. I would be perfectly happy with a small fragment of one sun, if only it could be concentrated at a structurally vulnerable point of the building.

On a happier note, anyone who has not seen antisoppist’s Busman’s Honeymoon in lolcats should hie there now. Don’t miss the bonus aspidistra pic.

I am making progress on the Romilda Vane fic, pretending that Snape can cover the absence of plot and wishing I found Romilda herself a more interesting character. At least I have managed to summon the will to cut the self-indulgent Andromeda/Nymphadora stuff. Only three weeks, no pressure. Therefore I should really not be scribbling down ideas for Potterverse/Wimsey mpreg, in which I don’t bottle out of the actual mpreg bit, but exile the poor chap to Corsica, have him begging for the story to be omitted from the Ganymede Club Book, and include the line “his plans for the autumn had not included being vigorously rogered by his valet.”

I did not mention that the New York trip included some marvellous fashion indulgence in the form of an exhibition on Luxury at the Fashion Institute of Technology, which I had planned in advance, and the wonderful surprise of the Metropolitan Museum’s enormous exhibition on Paul Poiret, an early C20 Parisian couturier. I bought the magnificent catalogue from Amazon (£12 cheaper, and no hauling home of a 3kg heavier suitcase), and am having rather unrealistic thoughts about reproductions. More realistic thoughts have provided Gaudy Night’s Viennese Opera Singer with a wardrobe. I am not going to buy The House of Elliot on DVD. I am not.

ETA: Speaking of aspidistras, Google has failed to tell me how they reproduce (other than by being divided when they outgrow the pot), but does offer mid-century vicar/aspidistra postcard smut (worksafe).

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

If your Muse has got to the point of whispering ideas - and lines! - to you about the mpreg fic, I think it would be awfully churlish not to carpe the diem, even if Romilda is shrieking "Deadline!" at you.

Besides, there is a great deal of HP fic in the world and very little Wimseyfic, and an absolute dearth of Wimsey mpreg with bonus valet-rogering, so it would be good karma to concentrate on the latter.

Not that I have any vested interest in your finishing one story rather than the other, you understand...

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

The muse has now got to the rather shouty stage. I think Wimsey mpreg may have to be the reward for Romilda.

It's interesting that there's a lot of requests for Wimsey/Bunter, but no-one is actually prepared to write it.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that there's a lot of requests for Wimsey/Bunter, but no-one is actually prepared to write it.

Too bloody difficult, I suspect. I mean, how would they even go about raising the subject in the first place?? And if it doesn't sound even a bit like Sayers, then there's not much point, and if it does sound like her, well ::flails::

Anyway, while I can quite easily imagine Bunter nurturing an unrequited - and most definitely unexamined - passion for Peter, I have rather more trouble imagining Peter with the hots for Mervyn. He's far too introspective for it to have escaped his notice through all those books. (Though I have always wondered exactly how it as that Bunter managed to rekindle his interest in living after the War..)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It is a bit tricky outwith the realms of the already otherwise bizarre. Which is not to say that the issue is not touched upon in canon:

"Could you, in the short space of time at your disposal, insinuate yourself, snakelike, as it were, into the bosom of the household?"

"I will endeavour to insinuate myself to your lordship's satisfaction."

Don't tell me the man of the Busman's Honeymoon wedding speech doesn't know when he's making a double ententre or two!

[azdak.livejournal.com]

I wonder if, like Mr Collins, Bunter's ridiculously felicitous turns of phrase "proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study"? If Jeeves is his model, as Wimsey implies, perhaps he spends what little leisure time he has combing through Wodehouse and the Oxford Dic. of Quotations (which he'd have to do anyway, if he's to understand half of what his employer says).

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Presumably he had a certain amount of free time for reading in the early days at Denver, with Wimsey not doing much, and the household being run by other people.

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

I have at times wondered whether he spent the entire first night of the honeymoon (after writing to his mother) deciding whether or not to risk "I trust your lordship found everything satisfactory".

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Presumably this was dependent upon a judgement as to the likely answer. You wouldn’t want the answer to be ‘No, actually; I suffered from premature ejaculation and things were pretty disappointing all round’. I imagine he'd had the line itself stored up for years.

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

Yeurk.

"I fear that your lordship is providing Too Much Information".

[bronze-ribbons.livejournal.com]

an absolute dearth of Wimsey mpreg with bonus valet-rogering

The fact that this is sharing the same sentence, let alone the same universe, with the concept of "good karma" -- I'm not sure whether to be overcome more by horror or glee.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

A wonderfully horrible glee, in which the horror prvides the frisson that makes the glee wonderful ;-)

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the job. Even the best of jobs gives you days like that. I hope you're not really called upon to summon up suns to reduce the building to a little smouldering heap, anyway!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Alas, I think I lack the magic powers - if I could do it, the deed would long have been done!

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

Impressed by evidence of mid-century preoccupation with vicars with morbid passions for pot plants. Re. aspidistra propagation, weren't they so popular because they were able to withstand the dreadful growing conditions (including lack of sunlight) of Victorian drawing rooms? If so, they probably don't need to reproduce at all and just go on for ever.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Certainly I think my mother has had the same aspidistra for 25 years, with much dividing, neglect, and occasional scorch marks.

[tree_and_leaf]

Sorry about the work problems...

The postcard is utterly mind-boggling!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It is just _so_ mind-boggling boring.

The postcard is even more mind-boggling now I've referred to urban dictionary (though I suspect half its definitions are made up).