This should worry me more.

[dira]

Five Emotions Invented by the Internet

The third one is ... very familiar. Yes.

Speaking of which, I should go write something instead of refreshing all my tabs 600 more times and then giving up and going to bed, shouldn't I?

Oh, also: come and tell me which Mary Renault book to read next, I am halfway through The Persian Boy, and I suspect Funeral Games would just make me sad.


P. S. I have finally seen Lawrence of Arabia for the first time except I think I ... missed some things, due to not having the attention span for a four-hour movie when my laptop is right next to me. Also I was kind of confused, because I had already seen Ralph Fiennes and Alexander Siddig in Lawrence After Arabia, so I was all like, Yes! Lawrence and Prince Feisal! THEY ARE BOYFRIENDS! And that was not it at all. *g*

Anyway, the upshot is that I think I need to see Lawrence of Arabia again sometime, with more fangirls and fewer available distractions.

Comments

[mlyn]

feochadn is a big T.E. Lawrence expert, so if you want to yak about LoA she'll be your huckleberry. :D

Those internet emotions…HAHAHAOH GOD.

[dira]

I feel like I need someone to sit me down and explain what the hell happened in LoA, which, er, possibly shows how distracted I was? Because I don't think it's known as a WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED? movie, but my attempts to form a coherent internal monologue for Lawrence were not notably successful. I am not ready to write fic of him, is I guess what I am saying. :)

[mlyn]

No, I don't think you're alone. There's a lot of military actiony history there, so covering it all in a movie can't be easy. I know for a fact that Sherif Ali is a composite character, for one. I couldn't tell you exactly what happens, and I've seen it a few times. The prospect of writing fic for the fandom (whenever I see the fandom in Yuletide) fills me with dread, because it is so big and emotional and Repressed post-Edwardian Society. I think it was astolat who wrote an awesome fic a few years back where I thought the narrative voice was perfect, but astolat and perfection are kind of redundant.

[dira]

See, and, like. I was pretty willing to let all the military action just sort of wash over me. "Okay, now another battle ... somewhere! For ... some important strategic purpose! Sure!" But dear God, WHAT IS LAWRENCE THINKING, all the times where he's like "No, I can't do this I can't do this--I AM THE GOD OF DOING THIS I WILL DO IT HARDER THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN DONE BEFORE." And so on. *g*

[mlyn]

Yeah, I can't help you there. :D

[dira]

Well, as long as it's not just me. :)