Can it be January already?

[yakalskovich]

Not that I don't like Christmas or don't want to do sushi on New Year's Eve with the Nazgul, or anything. But really, I can't wait to properly app Urquhart (scots_wolf). He's moving into my brain as energetically as no charrie since Teja has done.

He's already acquired a 'theme song', a poem that he quotes in canon.

Here's the version of it that occurs in Orff's 'Carmina Burana', and this one is the Corvus Corax version.


Oh, and just to research history in order to properly evoke that world! Can you get addicted to the past?

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[yakalskovich]

I can do leisurely; what I balk at is 'rudely disrupting the pr0n plot flow'.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

The only "interrupting the plot for the image" moment that I recall really irritating is in The Worm Ouroboros:

And ere that was done, came a little page running to her chamber door, and when it was opened to him, stood panting from his running and said, "The king your husband bade me tell you, madam, and pray you go down to him i' the great hall. It may be ill news, I fear."

"Thou fearest, pap-face?" said the Queen. "I'll have thee whipped if thou bringest thy fears to me. Dost know aught? What's the matter?"

"The ship's much battered, O Queen. He is closeted with our Lord the King, the skipper. None dare speak else. 'Tis feared the high Admiral--"

"Feared!" cried she, swinging round for the nurse to put about her white shoulders her mantle of sendaline and cloth of silver, that shimmered at the collar with purple amethysts and was scented with cedar and galbanum and myrrh.

(end quote)

I'm sure it's a lovely cloak, but do we HAVE to know all about it at that exact moment?

[yakalskovich]

No, we don't -- we want to know how she went downstairs and raised hell...