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rynneFirst of all, this is bloody hilarious. Lego!Remus and Lego!Sirius have Lego!sex while a Lego!Dementor pervs. It's only rated R, as...it's Legos, but really. Go read. Hilarious.
Also, *cough*. My![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
pervy_werewolf fic yesterday was more het. Remus/Hermione, and one which I've been planning pretty much since this challenge started and only got around to writing last night. Maybe once I get rid of the NC17 bits, I'll put it up at FA. (Note to self--remember to do that for the long Remus/Harry one too. And expand a bit on other stuff. I like that fic.)
I am...rather amazed that I've kept at this challenge for so long. It ends in two days, and I'm pretty much free both those days, which means that I'll really be able to finish this challenge. That rather amazes me. Before May started, I'd written like, four NC17 things or something, and all of them were Remus/Sirius. Now I've written twenty-nine this month alone so far, most of which were not R/S. I don't think I'll be able to go back to writing nearly only R/S after this (not that that's a bad thing, exactly :p).
Yesterday I had the strongest urge to go play FFIX again, but my friend is apparently still borrowing my first disc, grr, so I can't start a new game and maybe try to get Excalibur II this time (getting all the way to nearly the end of disc four--the last disc--in under twelve hours is hard! Especially when doing that normally takes me over thirty hours, though I do tend to obsessively level up and get everything possible). Must ask her about that next time I see her. Maybe I can just start a new game in VI, VII, VIII, X, or X-2, or maybe I should finish my games in IV and V, but gah, I wanna play IX. It's my favorite. And I don't have any saves on disc two or three, so I've just been doing things on one of my disc four saves--my perfect game is gathering dust, really. Well, almost perfect, as I don't have all the cards (or Excalibur II, but it's impossible to get Excalibur II and have an otherwise perfect game), but really, what else can you do besides beat the final boss when you've already levelled up all the characters as high as they can go, have all the best weapons and armor and accessories, know every single ability, have beaten all the hidden bosses, etc.? Boring. And I really wanna play Chocobo Hot and Cold...
...Enough video game babble, especially as most of you don't know what the hell I'm talking about :p.
Am debating joining the classic canon challenge. The Count of Monte Cristo, because damn, wouldn't Sirius make the best Edmond Dantes ever? With Voldemort as Napoleon and Crouch Sr as Monsieur de Villefort and Remus as Haydee definitely, and with either James or Peter as Fernand de Morcerf (if James, then Lily can be Mercedes and Harry can be Albert, but damn, Peter fits Fernand far more than James does, but if I made Peter him, then I'd have to find Peter a wife and a son...), and maybe Dumbledore as Abbe Faria...I'd have to think up the full cast of characters. And read the book again, as it's been two years since I've read it. Er. Assuming I have time to do this. It's very possible that I will not. *cough* Be fun, though. And I know we don't have to do the whole book, but it really would be fun...
Also, *cough*. My
pervy_werewolf fic yesterday was more het. Remus/Hermione, and one which I've been planning pretty much since this challenge started and only got around to writing last night. Maybe once I get rid of the NC17 bits, I'll put it up at FA. (Note to self--remember to do that for the long Remus/Harry one too. And expand a bit on other stuff. I like that fic.)I am...rather amazed that I've kept at this challenge for so long. It ends in two days, and I'm pretty much free both those days, which means that I'll really be able to finish this challenge. That rather amazes me. Before May started, I'd written like, four NC17 things or something, and all of them were Remus/Sirius. Now I've written twenty-nine this month alone so far, most of which were not R/S. I don't think I'll be able to go back to writing nearly only R/S after this (not that that's a bad thing, exactly :p).
Yesterday I had the strongest urge to go play FFIX again, but my friend is apparently still borrowing my first disc, grr, so I can't start a new game and maybe try to get Excalibur II this time (getting all the way to nearly the end of disc four--the last disc--in under twelve hours is hard! Especially when doing that normally takes me over thirty hours, though I do tend to obsessively level up and get everything possible). Must ask her about that next time I see her. Maybe I can just start a new game in VI, VII, VIII, X, or X-2, or maybe I should finish my games in IV and V, but gah, I wanna play IX. It's my favorite. And I don't have any saves on disc two or three, so I've just been doing things on one of my disc four saves--my perfect game is gathering dust, really. Well, almost perfect, as I don't have all the cards (or Excalibur II, but it's impossible to get Excalibur II and have an otherwise perfect game), but really, what else can you do besides beat the final boss when you've already levelled up all the characters as high as they can go, have all the best weapons and armor and accessories, know every single ability, have beaten all the hidden bosses, etc.? Boring. And I really wanna play Chocobo Hot and Cold...
...Enough video game babble, especially as most of you don't know what the hell I'm talking about :p.
Am debating joining the classic canon challenge. The Count of Monte Cristo, because damn, wouldn't Sirius make the best Edmond Dantes ever? With Voldemort as Napoleon and Crouch Sr as Monsieur de Villefort and Remus as Haydee definitely, and with either James or Peter as Fernand de Morcerf (if James, then Lily can be Mercedes and Harry can be Albert, but damn, Peter fits Fernand far more than James does, but if I made Peter him, then I'd have to find Peter a wife and a son...), and maybe Dumbledore as Abbe Faria...I'd have to think up the full cast of characters. And read the book again, as it's been two years since I've read it. Er. Assuming I have time to do this. It's very possible that I will not. *cough* Be fun, though. And I know we don't have to do the whole book, but it really would be fun...
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Date: 2004-05-30 02:44 am (UTC)Rynne, it's been years since I read The Count of Monte Cristo. I vaguely remember Edmond Dantes--that is, I remember that he's the title character, though I remember nothign else about the guy. And Haydee was some sort of Egyptian slave girl, I remember that. (I also remember hating her for putting up with slavery instead of high-tailing it back to Egypt, stupid bitch.) But the rest of these people...Fernand? Mercedes? Alfred? Abbe Faria? Who are they?
You know, if you do this, you're going to need Cliff Notes to explain which Monte Cristo character each HP character is supposed to be.
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Date: 2004-05-30 02:59 am (UTC)Edmond is a sailor, and one time when he's out to sea, his captain is really sick, so they land at the island Napoleon's been exiled on to try to find medical help. In return for the services of a doctor, Napoleon gives Edmond a letter and makes him promise to give it to one of Napoleon's old supporters. The only one who knows about this is Fernand de Morcerf, Edmond's best friend. But when they get back to Marseilles, Edmond is reunited with his fiancee, Mercedes, who Fernand is also in love with. And because Fernand is jealous, he tells the authorities about the letter, and the chief, Monsieur de Villefort, listens to Edmond's explanations and is about to let him go when he sees that the letter is addressed to de Villefort's own father, and realizes that de Villefort himself would be ruined if it got out that his father was a Bonapartist. So to prevent Edmond from talking, de Villefort throws him in a small prison out to sea for fourteen years (hence the similarities to Sirius), until he escapes after being taught swordfighting and things like that by Abbe Faria, another prisoner who dug his way into Edmond's cell. The whole rest of the book is basically Edmond trying to get revenge on everyone who wronged him, namely de Villefort, Fernand (who Mercedes married and had a son, Albert, with when she found out Edmond was in prison), and various others. Haydee is one of the people who helps him do this, and who he falls in love with (hence why I want Remus to be her), and she with him, which is why I believe she stayed in France, though I have to reread the book.
If I do this, I'll link to the Cliffsnotes character and plot pages. But that's a big "if".
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Date: 2004-05-30 08:21 am (UTC)*does the Vivi dance*
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Date: 2004-05-30 02:47 pm (UTC)Ohhh. A beautifully written Re/Hr fic - with smut too? You have no idea how much I love you for writing that. *worships* <3
Brilliant. *in awe*
And also, FFIX rocks. :D (Though FFVII is my favourite... IX comes quite close. :P)
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Date: 2004-05-30 05:49 pm (UTC)I think it'd make for an interesting idea. It's a pretty good book after all. And I definitely think James should be Fernand. You're right about Peter being more of Fernand's personality, but the character connections fit James more. Of course, that does imply there was once Lily/Sirius, which I'm not really a big fan of (Remus/Lily I'm all for though), but I would definitely look forward to this if you ever got around to writing it.
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Date: 2004-05-31 09:40 pm (UTC)VII's my second favorite (dude, nothing beats the Cloud/Sephiroth :D), but IX just holds a special place in my heart because it was my very first FF, and Zidane's just the perfect kind of hero for me--he has his flaws *cough*womanizer*cough*, but he's just all noble and giving and selfless, and far more of what I picture a hero to be than Cloud is, and I just like that.
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Date: 2004-05-31 09:45 pm (UTC)I was leaning more towards James as Fernand anyway, though I really wouldn't like making him betray Sirius and have Lily really be in love with Sirius rather than James (I'm no more a fan of Lily/Sirius than you are), but it does mean that I could use canon characters rather than making up my own, and Harry already seems rather Albert-like *g*. I don't know if I will end up doing this--it'd be fun, but I have so many responsibilities...
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Date: 2004-05-31 09:57 pm (UTC)Now that I think about it, it sounds ridiculous, but here goes. James could be laboring under the assumption that Sirius sold him out. It doesn't really seem like his personality, but if you add in the right motive, it might work.
The only other major problem I can see thus far is, it would definitely be Lily/Sirius, and there would be an unrequited love between Lily/James, but the authenticity of the feelings would be right.
@_@ Ok, that sounded like an utterly stupid idea. You may say so.
I'm thinking of finding myself a cheap copy of the complete version. Half Price totally rocks. It's probably longer, but from what you said, I think I might understand it better?
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Date: 2004-05-31 10:08 pm (UTC)Re: getting a copy of the complete version. One word: library. *g* You'll still have to wade through about the same language as in the abridged version (I read the abridged version my freshman year of high school), and there'll be more of it, but I understood the complete version better.
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Date: 2004-05-31 10:50 pm (UTC)The only problem with me borrowing the book from the library is that I wouldn't be able to finish it fast enough. With all the summer reading I have to do for school, I doubt I'd find the time, especially since I'll be reading those slowly...boring books. >.< But I'm going to have to read it someday; it's on my to-do list.