New Yorkers in the South, and also, Twilight and Andrew Marvell

[bedlamsbard]

I was social last night. It was good! Moulin Rouge, craft-making, and some girl talk in a friend's room for four hours or so: awesomeness. Except for the part where by the time I finally got to bed it was almost one and I'd meant to study. OH WELL.

ANYWAY. Our company included two New York girls among a host of Southerners (and me, but the West and especially the PNW doesn't have that much of a reputation), and the New Yorkers were talking about what they missed.

"I miss people being rude to me."

Cue: the Southern girls (and one guy) gawking, and my snickering. Look, I'm from Washington, we don't have stereotypes! Except I had to reassure the guy that NO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I AM FROM NOWHERE NEAR FORKS. I am from the cool part of Washington, thanks muchly.

This is made funnier by the fact that, today in Brit Lit, we are talking about Marvell poetry, and specifically about "To His Coy Mistress."

Upperclassman guy: "So last night I saw Twilight --"
Prof: "What's that?"
Half the girls in class: "YOU DID? HOW WAS IT? NO WAIT STOP TALKING."
Prof: "No, really, what is it? Is it a show?"
Girl 1: "IT IS AN UTTERLY FANTASTIC SERIES."
Me: "It's horrid."
Girl 2: "Those books are so badly written!"
Girl 3: "IT IS A BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY."
Me: "IT IS ABOUT STALKING."
Prof: "...I am so confused."
Upperclassman guy: "SO ANYWAY, in the movie there is --"
Half the girls in class: "NO STOP TALKING."
Upperclassman guy: "I'm not going to spoil anything! Anyway, IN RELATION TO MARVELL --"

The funniest thing about it is that it was this upperclassman fratboy. Well. I think he is not actually a fratboy, I think he's a major player at the Catholic Center, but you know, same thing.

Comments

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I want to see the movie just for the two hours of MOCKING it will allow me to have. But I don't want to spend any money on it. *ponders this*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, same here. And if you spend money on it, then it will go up in the box office charts, which is a crime against humanity. I have this problem as well. *muses*

Hey, is there any chance you still have the ebook versions of the books?

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I also want to see James Bond, though. And "Bolt". So possibly I will go see one of those and then slip casually into Twilight so I may mock for free.

I only have "New Moon" and "Eclipse" on my computer. I made the unfortunate mistake of paying for "Twilight" back when it came out in paperback, so I never bothered to download the illegal version of that. I can probably find the ebook of it, though, if you want?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Bond.

I don't particularly want them, it's just that there are girls in my hall who have never experienced the horror, and I may have said that I could possibly have a way to hook them up. (Twilight: like drugs, but sparklier.)

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

OH YES YOU ARE JUST GETTING THESE BOOKS FOR "A FRIEND"

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

OH YES I AM (http://bedlamsbard.livejournal.com/189777.html). i have mockeries on lj for when i want to know what everybody's talking about; i don't actually have to put myself through the horror.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

he totally only watched it to bang the girl he saw it with!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

this is about ten times funnier because it came hot on the heels of reading that fratboy!arthur au. *bemused*

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

oh man that au. it is pitch perfect. it reminded me of how all my boy and his former roommate did was antagonize each other, and how he loved to bitch about his roommate, but in the end they would hang out and party all the damn time and do each other these great favors, all the while calling each other huge motherfuckers, but with these huge grins on their faces. BOYS. PERHAPS THEY WERE SECRETLY BUTTFUCKING BEHIND MY BACK. it is like being an anthropologist in some strange tribe!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

ONE DOES NOT SEE THESE THINGS IN AN ALL-GIRLS DORM.

but i do remember it from high school. (no, i, like...really don't talk to boys here. well, i mean, i do, but not many of them. there is nrotc guy, i have lunch with him sometimes.)

OH MY GOD YOUR ICON OH PEVENSIES.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

ISN'T MY ICON SO MOTHERFUCKIN AWESOME?!??!? IT IS EVERYTHING I COULD EVER WANT. ot3! ot3 frolicking, getting wet, on the beach, like long ago! peter looking like he's doing some strange dance? maybe not that last part. my love for ot3 is true and gratuitous! oh tee threeeeeeeeeeee. (susan falls backward into the water with peter's arms around her waist and she's not sure if he's catching her or pulling her down with him.)

I WILL USE IT AGAIN

but yeah. i don't mostly see these things much either since i'm much more hunkered down as a grad student. but i still ship my RL friends and acquaintances because how can i not when certains of them insist on being so queerfariously bromantic. i wish there was a show about the boys i knew in college, and how vince and matt do nothing but watch history channel and baseball and lock themselves in vincent's room to get high, play guitar, and compliment each other profusely on how excellent their guitar-playing is. i would slash that soooo fast.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

i have just realized something! remember in lww, when they come through the wardrobe into narnia, all four of them, for the first time? THERE IS FROLICKING IN THE SNOW. OH ADAMSON WHY? you and your symmetry dude.

OOOOOOOHHHH TEEEEE THREEEEE. *hearts immensely*

(so today in theatre arts, all i wanted to do was write peter/susan porn. *facepalm*)

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOSH you are right! motherfucking frolicking. augh, in which lassiter's heart breaks into a kajillion pieces. so to balance this out, dawn treader's entrance into narnia will have half the main characters almost drown. though i wager that the england scene in which we establish that Eustace Is A Prat will be pretty frickin adorable.

urgh, i want the one where PETER AND SUSAN have adventures in narnia, what is all this ed&lu bullshit.

tell me more about this peter/susan porn.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

oh, dawn treader. once they've established that all the dreams are really broken. something tragic about dawn treader: edmund and lucy both know that this is their last time, and they're not even in narnia.

...i can arrange that.


"Peter," Susan says breathlessly. "Peter."

She scrabbles at the front of his trousers, hearing his groan as she feels the hot, silky skin of his cock against her fingers. He kisses her mouth, fast and messy, and works her skirts up around her waist. She makes a little cry as Peter pushes into her, his gasp rough and a little broken.

[ladyprydian.livejournal.com]

Oh man I had a convo. like this with a prof over SpongeBob Square Pants. I can't remember it in full but it came about when we were (for some reason) talking about homophobia in the U.S.

The conversation ended with me in hysterics when my prof said:
"I though he was a sponge?"

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*giggles* My prof was just so confused.

IN WHICH IT IS PAINFULLY OBVIOUS I AM NOT WORKING ON MY THESIS

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD WHAT I AM SO FULL OF HORROR

years ago i made up this word "amurified" to express the emotion of being amused and horrified at the same time. it found much use during my freshman year and I SUSPECT IT IS TO COME BACK INTO FASHION WITH MERLIN FANDOM

OH MY GOD SO OKAY THIS IS AN ARTHUR/MARY SUE VID. VIIIIIIIIID. MARY SUE VID. WAIT TIL YOU SEE WHAT THE SONG IS. OH MY GOD.

lassiter = AMURIFIED. WITH EMPHASIS ON THE HORRIFIED.

omfg

Re: IN WHICH IT IS PAINFULLY OBVIOUS I AM NOT WORKING ON MY THESIS

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD.

i...i...have no words. i could not make it through the whole thing. FANDOM WHEN I WAS TALKING ABOUT ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY I DID NOT MEAN THIS.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

i don't even know where to START. it is like MURPHY'S LAW, like on top of THAT there is THIS TOO. omg. OMG SHE IS AN ANIME CHARACTER.

...nickelback?!?

I CANNOT EVEN

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*weeps*