Killing Time

[mark_asphodel]

 Back from Vegas, and it's nice to feel spring air again.  I don't care if it is late June.

While I was away, my most excellent spouse retrieved my dollhouse from its storage area of the last nine years, while the new telescope I ordered for him arrived.  It was like the Gift of the Magi (short story version) except not sucky and pointless.

-x-

OK.  So, clearly, the Vegas experience left me in some way unhinged, because I wrote upwards of 4,000 words of... jacked up Magvel stuff.  First there's the Forde/Eirika/Ephraim thing, which now comes in two flavors, angstfest and not!angstfest, the latter being called "Renascence" because apparently we need more Edna St. Vincent Millay references around here.  Then there's the Lyon/Eirika/Ephraim pregame AU from hell I just put down for the night.  I don't know if I'll post that either, because it reminds me more of the stuff I was writing for my own amusement once my original work went off a cliff.

-x-

PD received a surprise award yesterday.  His reaction on receiving it was to look, in the words of the award presenter, "like he was facing a firing squad."  He grimly accepted it on behalf of his members-- and then wondered aloud what it meant to get a lifetime achievement award at 41.  "Am I done?" he asked.

<3

Comments

[kyusil.livejournal.com]

oof. I liked Gift of the Magi. What kind of dollhouse is it? I wanted to get into miniature collecting a while back but didn't end up doing so.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't mean the story was bad, just what happened with the gift exchange in it. I quite like the story.

It's a three-story wooden San Franciscan. It's a kit, but a high-quality one. My grandfather made it for me in 1990.

[xirysa.livejournal.com]

Jacked up Magvel? Do want.

[sailorvfan10.livejournal.com]

He grimly accepted it on behalf of his members-- and then wondered aloud what it meant to get a lifetime achievement award at 41. "Am I done?" he asked.
I lol'd. PD sounds awesome.

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

Welcome to Magvel. :-) You are now one of us.

*eerie music*

One of us. One of us.

[amielleon]

There was a guy I knew from the MUD I played who went by PD. He was a hyper enthusiastic Middle Eastern guy who couldn't spell or use the right your/you're for the life of him. Rather adorable, but nothing like your PD. It's a little funny for me to read these posts.