Succumbing to the Green Fairy

[51stcenturyfox]

...so I was working on a piece of fic involving guess who (points up) and got stuck. I blame using a notebook instead of the computer, because it screws up my sense of order, writing things with PENS. Now back to the original setting and absinthe. Because. John Hart.

Boche had known a joiner who had stripped himself stark naked in the rue Saint-Martin and died doing the polka — he was an absinthe-drinker.

So. Absinthe research led to arguments from the Ist Century BCE Lucretius poem De Rerum Natura : It is a statement of personal responsibility in a world in which everyone is driven by hungers and passions with which they were born and do not understand.

Odd prompts/structure for naughty fan fiction about two guys from the 51st Century. Probably.

Unrelated but funny: the John Barrowman peen pic. Likely not his, but "being dickrolled" has now entered the LJ lexicon.

***Also, the best YouTube cooking video title I've seen lately: Béchamel Sauce - Let's Turn This "Mother" Out!

Comments

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

I prefer notebooks when I'm getting my thoughts in order...I'm more likely to continue if I use a notebook first then type stuff up.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I just keep flipping around, and end up with scribbles on 15 pages in no particular order. :) On the laptop, I can cut and paste, but here, it's this: "Damn, where's that part where they're walking down the street, because I think there was a nice line about gaslights flickering on. Oh. It's illegible."

Years of using computers has ruined my handwriting. (That's an excuse, but I'm sticking with it.)

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

LOL. I tend to just write in order and add stuff when I type, it's actually better 'cause I gets me to actually read stuff over...

That works.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I read it over in word. Word. ;)

BTW: Eight is on who_secrets, looking attractive:

http://community.livejournal.com/who_secrets/11336.html

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

Eight is always lookin' attractive :)

[neifile7.livejournal.com]

Now, I'd really like to know just how you got from absinthe to Lucretius. I mean, in dictionary roulette you could easily have just missed Lucifer instead. But I sense subtlety in the offing here. Expound!

Or maybe that's the kind of connection that arises when you write by hand? It's hell for structure but great for random insight, I find. :)

And speaking of dictionaries, haven't we all been waiting for the perfect Barrowmanian adjective? "Dickrolled" is overdue. Or over-something.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

"...haven't we all been waiting for the perfect Barrowmanian adjective? "Dickrolled" is overdue. Or over-something."

I know! (I really hope that's not his. But he does tend to show it off.)

Bizarrely, I'm actually able to backtrack the reference. The absinthe wikipedia entry to a direct link to Lucretius:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe#Etymology.2C_spelling.2C_pronunciation

Wikipedia is worse (or better) than the TV Tropes website for losing time. ;)

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

Don'tcha just hate it when absinthe research leads to ancient Roman philosophical poetry? So annoying.

Is that the pic on the hot dog bun? Pretty sure that's not John, as the peen in that pic is circumcised, and JB has said he isn't.

THIS, on the other hand, I am almost entirely certain IS John.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Yes, my brain is broken. Seriously, though. Lucretius plotbunnied me. Excellent.

YAY on the peen pic. Yes, that looks like JB's... jawline.

The bun image looks entirely too hairy. Not that I studied it for very long. I was EATING LUNCH.

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

I was EATING LUNCH.

Awww shit, now you just made me sporfle on the keyboard.

Totally JB's "jawline". It's the incredibly neat manscaping of the pubes that convinces me it's JB.
Also the nipples. :-)))

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Totally. Check the timecodes.


I mean, I do like cock. But pitas with loads of feathery alfalfa sprouts WHICH LOOK LIKE HAIR and dick on a bun do NOT MIX.

Yes, the nips and manscaping convince me. FTW.