am i right side up or upside down?

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Reasons Today is Totally, Totally Awesome:

1. Critical Theory and feeling like I'm seen a smart, competent student.

2. The sky outside right now; sunset in Leicester is for, whatever reason, always stunning and today is no exception. From my window the sky is a patchwork of pink, blue, gray, white and orange and slight, slight purple.

3. Al Gore and Brooklinegirl.

4. My seminar group of awesome, but also my seminar tutor made of awesome.

4a. Becca, having inappropriate conversations at random and quoting pornographic poetry (see: 5 + 5a)

5. Rochester and Johnny Depp in The Libertine and the lecture I had today on Rochester. I know I shouldn't like him, or at least shouldn't like him for the reasons I do, but man. The frankness, honesty and the levels of self-awareness in his work in contrast with the roles he plays and the distance he places between himself and his narrators.

'Do you like me now?'

5a. The Imperfect Enjoyment. The word fucking-post is also one of the reasons the world is awesome today.

5b. Snuggling with Gemma during the lecture, an oddly lovely counterpoint to the massive amounts of meaningless sex in the lecture.

6. The Song of Purple Summer - Brooke/Peyton, One Tree Hill; I love domestic fic that doesn't go overboard on the saccharine, yet manages to convey a sense of contentment and peace.

7. House of Physics!

Comments

[lattara.livejournal.com]

I vote for upside down. Just so you know.

I haven't seen The Libertine, but I've seen a trailer with that exact quote and then, by god - I was intrigued. I have a thiong for monster (or immoral people?) with self-awareness and masks and distances between themselves, others, and their roles (Oxford comma!). *sighs happily*

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

Hee! (Have you ever heard Crush by Dave Matthews Band? If not, go download! Tis awesome!)

We were shown the prologue and epilogue in lecture and it looks damn good. Just, like you say, the idea of masks and taking masks on and off and distancing yourself from, well, you is really interesting. Incidentally, that's what makes Rochester's poetry so...different, I guess? The contrast between his seeming frankness and honesty and the subtext of his own sadness and even his acting out of emotions rather than feeling them.

Also, speaking of masks, have you read Harlequin's Valentine in Fragile Things? *glees!*

[lattara.livejournal.com]

(No, I haven't. I'll do that!)

It just... it's just plain *awesome*. It hits so many narrativ kinks that I can hardly *breathe*.

I *have*. And that story was just plainly wonderful. As was the opening story; I don't think I've ever been that skilfully manipulated before. Neil Gaiman = ♥