Various and assorted

[dragojustine]

This was written by a Seattle-area middle-schooler back in 2001ish and posted as part of Seattle's "poetry on the busses" thing. I've had it saved to my hard drive ever since.

to icarus, with love

down beneath the waves
no longer a wax-winged prodigy
just another blue-eyed blue-lipped boy
lost with all eternity to whisper:
love isn’t real until it blisters your skin
isn’t lost until your face has been forced beneath the surface
boy of seaweed hair,
give us a happy ending
the sun promises to requite your love if you return
icarus, i will find your bones and burn them.

Hearing Richard Dean Anderson say, "yes sir" really turns me on. Most men, really, but his is especially good.

As far as I can tell, Macgyver as spent the last three years getting impulsively kissed by a new beautiful woman every week. Every two weeks at the outside. And yet he still manages to look sweetly surprised and dazed every time. I like that in a man.

I want this so badly I can hardly stand it. Even though I'm not a gamer anymore. *grabby hands*

I am asking for Wizard of Earthsea for Yuletide, so I did some digging around the archive. These two fics are two of the most beautiful things I've ever read:

Ligting the Lamps. Short. Ged and Tenar. Not explicit. Beautiful beyond words for it.

Of Thistles and Fir Cones. Aihal, who we knew all too briefly as Ogion.

Comments

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

all those stories of hers in the Earthsea verse changed my life. i return to them over and over. them and tolkien. nothin else has ever come close.

i loved TEHANU when it came out with the fire of a thousand suns. i had toddlers in the house and my heart was so damn breakable for Therru; my god. i haven't cried that much in i don't know how long. experiencing my own kids changed me so much; made my respond to certain stories in a whole new way. i had no empathy for that whole genre of stuff until i had my own kids to love. i know that means i suck at universal compassion (or i did until i became a mom myself) but for me it's been a characterbuilding, personality-changing experience.

but i digress.

i love ged and i love Tenar and i love all those people. they are real. thanks for sparking my memories.

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

I admire her more than ANY living writer. Just... so much WISDOM. I read the first three when I was eight, and they were so different from all other fantasy. I couldn't really articulate why until lots of re-readings later- the deeply Taoist base of her conceptions about power, mostly- but every time I reread it, it feels like solid kindness and empathy and wisdom and simple human compassion and goodness just... leaking in and quieting my soul.

Which is a WAY too purple-prose way to say I love a book. Now I feel a bit silly, but I'm glad you understand :)

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

right there with you. purple emotions and all.

[sherrold.livejournal.com]

MacGyver and Sam (from Quantum Leap) had the same near-virginal quality -- that of course made women want to, um, mess them up a little, but tastefully, of course.

Good luck getting Wizard of Earthsea for Yuletide -- I love that we all win from each other's prezzies!

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

Yes! I just want nothing more than to put that dazed-happy look on his face.

(Are you doing Yuletide?)

Definitely!

[sherrold.livejournal.com]

Last year I missed signup, and then did two pinch-hits. This year, I'm hoping to actually get something back! (No real whine, of course, I got lots of great stories that were really for someone else...)