#except if it’s poetry quoted by Jeeves

[may-darling]

Bertie: “Revoking my support for straight relationships until further notice. Direct all complaints and haikus at @B.Little”

If Bertie had a twitter he’d be one of those people constantly blathering about “They need to make a grocery store where kids aren’t allowed” and so forth

[kanna-ophelia]

get to know you meme thing

tagged by @into-september

Top 3 Ships:

That I’ve written: Crowley/Aziraphale (Good Omens). Well obviously. Got me back into fandom and is the hyperfixation that won't end, but I loved it back when it was called airconditioning and I used to read it on bookslash mailing lists. I used to read the book over and over looking for tiny signs they were in love and dreaming about ways they could end up together, and then the series came out and it was all languishing glances and fluttering eyes and oh, thank you. Forbidden love, should-be-enemies to friends to lovers, literally eternal love.

Bill/Clarissa (Malory Towers). Why hello I am sick all the time, introverted, socially awkward and not pretty, isn't there some wonderful butch girl who will see me crying, sweep me off and then adore me and never ever let me go anyway? (Spoiler for my life: yes.) I really wonder how many lesbians, back when we had hardly any wholesome representation, clicked when we read Fourth Form at Malory Towers--or read Last Term and thrilled when the girls were asked what they were doing when they left school because obviously whatever Bill and Clarissa were doing with their life would be as a unit. (They bought riding stables together.)

Juri/Shiori (Revolutionary Girl Utena). Oh, my fucked-up darling girls, always misunderstanding each other and hurting each other (in Shiori's case with a deep obsessive sadism that is ultimately masochistic) and hurting themselves. And really no reason thy shouldn't be happy together, except that Juri feels her Evil Lesbian Desires are corrupting Shiori and Shiori hates herself so much and... yeah, it's almost impossible to see them happy together, The Angst. I adore them. Also, like everything in Utena, a very pretty ship. And Juri, despite her long golden Rose of Versailles curls, is satisfyingly butch.

That I've read:

Garak/Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space 9): Oh, the dark possibly evil one is soft on the sunshiny one and they flirt and bicker a lot and it's all complicated and the sunshiny one has secrets and... do I really have to explain this one? But also Garak is reptilian and that is apparently a thing for me. I adore Cardassians.

Mulder/Scully (The X-Files): They are unhealthily dependent on each other and Mulder is barely functional and they bicker and give each other long, yearning, burning glances and would do anything for each other, oh the UST.

Jeeves/Wooster (P G Wodehouse): You have all the class angst and forbidden love of master and valet, you have the fact that sweet Bertie is actually completely in the manipulative grasp of Jeeves anyway, you have Bertie living in a constant besotted state of "He made me a cup of tea and quoted some poetry, he is utterly amazing", and you have Jeeves devoting all his time to making sure Bertie never, ever marries anyone but him. Despite Bertie's constant peril of being hauled to the altar by one of the many beautiful and highly-born young women who think he is in love with them (the horror).

Last Song: T-ARA, Number Nine. (Warning for rapidly flashing lights). I miss T-ARA. No other K-pop group sounded quite like them.

Last Movie: Cats: On Christmas day. I have no regrets. Wow. That had to be experienced.

Last Read:

Manga: I'm reading my way through Ranma 1/2 from the start again, because God I love all the characters so much it hurts and it still makes me laugh my head off and I love the art. Also Ranma/Akane is the only valid option.

Novel: Nocturnal Lessons: A Gay Historical Fantasy, which is a very sex-heavy and oddly touching book about a cynical half-incubus working in a molly house and learning about the existence of True Love. I will read the rest of the series.

Non-fiction: Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science by John Grant. Pseudoscience is an interest of mine, and I really enjoyed Grant's skeptical history of psychics and mediums, so I've moved on to miracle cures, Nazi racist "science" and climate change denial.

I'm not going to tag anyone to do this, but if you want to do this, consider yourself tagged, and let me know!