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dicingalice and me were putting together a list of the worst books we ever read.  After some thinking and digging in boxes of books I just cannot stand to have in my shelves I finally found Vampire Vow one of the most hilariously bad gay porn books I have ever read in my life full of gay pr0n love.

and so we decided to share some gems:

it goes medias in res and these are the first sentences:


Chapter 1

I wanted Jesus. That's how it started. Yes, the Jesus they built a religion on, the one they say rose from the dead. (I should be the last creature in the world to doubt that.)
There we were, on a quite, stony hilltop overlooking the city, the stars above us, like light through pinpricks in black velvet.
Just he and I, years before the 12 dolts who formed his entourage. We huddled next to each other as we often did, and I finally asked him.
"Joshu," I whispered - that was my name for him. "Why resist this? You're always talking about the vanity of human law, about wanting to strike out against the old order."
He looked troubled, a young man of 23 still as idealistic as his disgustingly naive, dull Nazarene parents, who actually believed me, when I told them I was a Jew - I a Roman Officer serving under Pilate!
"I'm troubled," he said, he leaned back on his hands. The moonlight washed over his lean form, his fine brow betraying his sensuality as much as it did his intelligence.
[...]
"You're talking about forbidden relations."
"Forbidden to whom?" I asked. I could hear him weakening, see him eyeing my strong calves, my bulky thighs. It was hot and I had thrown off my tunic to tempt him. Nature had given me a square jaw, a cleft chin, a dark mane, eyes that could bring a vestal virgin to her knees - a cock that could keep her there.
[...]
"[...]We race along the river, buck-naked. We even bathe each other! Ours is the only ultimate bond."
Right there, the Jew temple of Jerusalem beneath us, I swore to myself that I would finally enter him - the boy prophet, the ultimate challenge, my obsession. I would enter him, the way I entered the emperor's gates after a campaign: invincible, majestic. But hailed by his groans rather than by the cries of banner-waving masses.
I reached beneath his robe.
He pulled away. "No, Victor." His voice was not without regret. "I'm not ready to throw out the law of my fathers. This cannot happen."


( more cock )

ordered pizza. too lazy to cook and frigde is empty anyway. going to watch the very last stargate sg-1 episode. spent the last weeks occasionally watching the whole series. might have to watch stargate atlantis next. and the movies. but exams are coming up so I'll be busy with reading and studying and translating Latin to German and vice versa and what not.

started to read Stiller by Max Frisch. yes I finally started to read some German "classic" literatur again. I noticed that I haven't read much yet this year and it's already June! this cannnot be tolerated! next on the list is to finish Karl Kraus' Dritte Walpurgisnacht. and there's still much to be read from my reading list for the Deutsche Literaturgeschichte 1500-1848 examn... for which I'll hopefully can still get an apointment with the Prof to actually take the exam........ as it is a course from last term.... LAZY ME! oh well...

Comtraya!

haven't been posting much, have I? just here to tell you that I'm still alive an' all.

short reading update: I've finished Storm Constantine's Wraeththu and it was awesome. Aside from those books (the first 3) being definitely well written with quite a larger vocabulary than I'm used to in fantasy-literature, they are also full of rich and intriguing characters and the plot leaves nothing to wish for (except the desire for even more than those 800 or so pages. which you can actually get by buying even more books that take place in the same universe - so no harm done there). If that doesn't already convince you to GO READ IT ALREADY you might have to admit that a world full of prettyful hermaphrodites, yes HERMAPHRODITES as in hermaphroditic hermaphrodites is so very worth diving into. At least I sure as hell love to screw gender. yes, go read. I will tell you time and time again. did I mention it has hermaphrodites?

ahem.

that's that. other book I read: Corambis by Sarah Monette (truepenny ) 4th and last in a series. which makes me a little SAD. but same as the other three I highly enjoyed reading it but I won't say anymore because dicingalice  hasn't read it yet.


university-related stuff:

Latin. I really do love it. But it's WAY more difficult than in school and German Philology seems like preschool in comparison. The few lectures I'm attending this term are really time-consuming. they are:

Grundlagen der Grammatik - in which we have to translate German sentences into Latin
Lateinische Lektüre: Ovid, Amores - in which we read and translate - who would have guessed Ovid's Amores
Metrik: in which we learn how to correctly read/pronounce/chant all and anything the Latin metric system has to offer. (that's the most difficult one)

there is no peace that I've felt so far the laughter penetrates my silence as drunken men find flaws in science

this post is here to remind me that I wanted to make some anime/mange related icons with Tori Amos quotes on them, yes. like that one

rejoice and cry with me the tears of utter joy that every fangirl has to shed in tremendous amounts at newfound FANDOMLANDS/shinyverse whatever you may call it.

why YES, I've been sick, still am rather weak and because I'm super bored I ordered me some new fantasy that has been on my amazon wishlist for about 2 years now - it arrived two days ago and I'm already in love and all that crazy stuff that happens when you plunge head first with a fever addled brain into a new fantasy universe. it's the 3 in 1 edition of - as some of you might have already guessed by new shiny icon presiding over this entry - Storm Constantine's Wraeththu. why I haven't ordered it sooner, is beyond me but I had clearly not known what utter joy it would bring me.

at the moment I'm about to finish the first book my mind is already totally absorbed and I cannot think straight (but who'd want that anyway?) point of this entry being....... pouring out my fangirlish craze of course.

as always, I'm a wee bit afraid of teh DRAMAH that surly will smite me as I tend to get very much absorbed in the world and characters of fantasy if I'm that much in fangirly-mode but alas, that's what it's all about, isn't it? wish me luck on my journey through this new universe! may I return unscathed! dear Zeus, watch over your acolyte for thou knowest best her debauchery ways.

oh Ganymede don't distract the father of the gods too much...

I fell ill ;_; cough, headache, fever an' all. lying in bed all the time is really BORING. but my aching head affects my eyes and I can't spend too much time reading, watching TV or in front of my computer D:

anyway. I was checking the list of reserved/reported Diplomarbeitsthemen (diploma thesis topics) for German Philology. I STILL don't know what my topic will/should be. it's not THAT urgent as I'm not yet ready to start working on it... BUT I really should be thinking about it... and therefore I started reading aforementioned list for inspiration.

I like those:

Literarische Bearbeitungen des Phaedra- Mythos
Der Dialog in Ingeborg Bachmanns Roman Malina
Deutschsprachige Star Trek-Fan Fiction. Genre, Kanäle, Motive (--> yep, Star Trek Fan Fiction -- AWESOME -- maybe I shouold write about slash fanfic? that'd be way too much fun. or I could write about media adaption: writing fanfiction for manga/anime LOL)
"Von Hexentieren, Gelehrten und Gefährten" - die Katze in der Literatur der deutschen Romantik
Ingeborg Bachmann und Ludwig Wittgensteins "Philosophische Untersuchungen"
Die Stiefmutter in den Grimmschen Märchen (I loled)
\"Seht euch die Lilien an, entspringt nicht Gatte und Gattin auf einem Stengel?\" - Androgynie in Johann Wolfgang von Goethes \"Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre\" (Arbeitstitel)
Tod und Eros in den Exilromanen Klaus Manns
Die Darstellung der Frauenfiguren in Thomas Bernhards \"Auslöschung. Ein Zerfall\"
Michel Foucault und der Homosexualitätsbegriff und der Versuch seiner Anwendung für die Analyse literarischer Texte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Hubert Fichtes Roman \"Versuch über die Pubertät\"
NS-Sprache in der Dritten Walpurgisnacht von Karl Kraus
Pornographie und Sexualität im Frauenbild der Gegenwartsliteratur
Frauenzeitschriften im Nationalsozialismus

dear dicingalice ,


don't get the ninja too drunk, they've got work to do!

dhurhurhur I totally dig that XD

also joined bleach_yaoi  ^__^ not that I have much time to read anything anytime soon, nevertheless...

random stuff, yet again XD

right now downloading 1st episode of Dollhouse the new and hopefully sparkly awesome shiny TV series by Joss Whedon <3 I'm damn curious!!

also! I finally started watching Bleach again. right now I'm watching ep 113! (ok, I admit it I skipped those damn BOUNTO-fillers)

what else? research for my college paper is eating me up - which always drives me to excessive anime-watching so my head won't explode from all that literary and scientific BLATHERING texts of highly intellectual merit. (have been cleaning my room for two days now, so there is not much left to occupy me with to avoid studying/writing.)

ya see...... I got nothing interesting to say, but I felt like updating XD ....sorry....

oh and dicingalice  I PHYSICALLY ITCH for a good ol' pen&paper RPG session! something needs to be done!

which reminds me - if you love H.P. Lovecraft - GO READ The Bone Key by Sarah Monettetruepenny! my copy arrived on Feb. 10th and I read it in one go. it's awesome and I wish there was more! and because I'm lazy I just copy the review I wrote over at anobii.com*:

"If you like Lovecraft you most probably will love this collection of interconnected stories by Sarah Monette. They are odd and enchanting.
The narrator is a museum archivist. He is a withdrawn bibliophile who tends to attract mysterious beings between life and death. Probably because he holds too much theoretical knowledge about necromancy. (And considering one particular story - it's not only theoretical...)
And I have too add that there is a story about an incubus which is particularly stirring.
I highly recommend this collection, though I'm usually not into short stories. "


* anobii.com is btw AWESOME. For those who know me in rl they might also know that I'm not only obsessed with reading and buying books but also with cataloging them. Since 2000 I've got list about when I started reading which book, when I finished it and now even where and when I bought it. up to now this list was a vulgar .odt file over at anobii.com it's a (not yet complete) collection of awesomeness. TRY IT OUT!

this is awesome. and I know we know parts of it beacuse of the video starring Orihime and her leek. but this is awesome

in Wien, im Theater.

maybe I'd like to see that. maybe with you, dicingalice ?

redoing an old meme:

"On your current play list, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favorite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs."


1.) "and Mathilda asks the sailors are those dreams or are those prayers"
2.) "lieber und reizvoller noch als den König"
3.) "I can scream as loud as your last one. But I can't claim innocence" -- [almost^^] guessed by dicingalice 
4.) "ich lass mich auf alle Laster ein und Pfeife auf die Tugend"
5.) "and I don't know what's good for me" -- guessed by dicingalice 
6.) "but the grass is greener here and I can see all of your snakes." -- guessed by regenvogel 
7.) "You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline"
8.) "There to dwell with the immortals"
9.) "You sign Prince of Darkness/Try squire of dimness" -- guessed by dicingalice 
10.) "Oh, and I'm just waiting 'til the shine wears off"
11.) "Shout, shout your praises to the man who kissed the Lord"
12.) "Make it charged with controversy/ I’m straight, I’m queer, I’m bi"
13.) "If the Devine master plan is perfection. maybe next I'll give Judas a try"
14.) "in you I feel so pretty. in you I taste god" -- guessed by regenvogel 
15.) "I gave my soul to someone else. she must have known that it was already sold"
16.) "Luna hängt sich Schleier über ihr Gesicht" or "Wo die Stürme nicht ruhen bis der Nachen sinkt"
17.) "They call thee fickle, they call thee false one and seek tae change me but all in vain"
18.) "Where is the face that I knew before. I am awake and cannot sleep"
19.) "Der Wellenschalg bezahmt mein Herz" -- guessed by dicingalice 
20.) "Kimi ni aitakute aitakute" [my Japanese is still almost non-existent so I just picked a random line XD] -- guessed by dicingalice 

GUESSES, please! (yes, I realize my tastes are odd and some of those musicians are rather... um... not well known but I like them... sorry^^)

dear dicingalice ! rejoice! chapter 19 is written. BUT I won't post it yet. I'm not sure if what happened in that chapter is really what I wanted to happen. but first Michi and then Noah got totally out of hand! it's scaring those things they do. I think there is something to Noah that I didn't know about him........ argh! mustn't spoil anything. wake me/call me!

You Scored as Kakashi You’re a bit of a mystery; no-one knows when you are smiling behind that mask. You genarally appear laid back, have a bad habit of being late and don’t seem to care much. However, you’ve got the sharpest mind. I never ever would want to get in a fight with you – you can be very dangerous when you want to. Kakashi 69% Genma 63% Rock Lee 63% Sasuke 63% Iruka 50% Shikamaru 44% Naruto 44% Neji 38% TenTen 38% Hinata 25%

not what I would have guessed... (must have been the pron-question) but then again, as neither Jiraiya nor Orochimaru were an option... ^^

yesterday I started downloading the whole Sailor Moon Series. that's 37GB. I might be crazy but I thought this would be an intresting project. it's a feasibility study. just to keep you informed.

2009. and already orderd an amazon package. good thing I don't have any new year's resolutions. (like stopping to spend money on books I don't need or DVDs or any other fun things I need to nurse my nerdy/geeky desires)

years I've been looking for this version of "The Snow Queen" (because I loved it as a child and the video is broken. and it has such a lovely soundtrack.) and suddenly they sell it on DVD it's like a late christmas gift. As soon as it arrives I'll have to make icons. - which reminds me! dearest dicingalice ! I thank you again for your most awesome christmas present! one year of incredible 105 icon joy! I love you!!!

finally watched Naruto Shippuuden 90. crazy filler woman is crazy. Kakashi was fun. And Jiraiya's back. aww you pervy old guys <3. so Konohamaru's jutsu was cut in half. only the girls got action and only the guys had fun. sad thing Sakura and Moegi cannot appreciate the beauty of to naked women. BUT that still is no reason to deny us all the enjoyment of SasuSai. Not that I ship them. BUT the scene was hilarious. now we got only the first half of it and it was only half as funny. BUT I still believe hope that we will see the other half some episodes later. I want to see it animated. And I don't see why we shouldn't. (also it is indeed sexist to show that it's ok to show two naked girls but not two naked boys - as already mentioned over at chuunin ).

so. am out of cigarettes. off to buy some. (why, yes I do smoke and as already mentioned no resolutions no regrets ^__^)

yessssssss! I'm so fucking proud!!! just finished my very first linux installation completely on my OWN. yays!

Blingee

in case you needed something to crack you up...

AWWWWWW. I tell you people: watch Merlin! I don't care if you think it's cheesy and soppy. it has HOYAY (in every possible meaning and constellations) and it's super cute. and it has ANTHONY HEAD. And pouty-mouthed Arthur. oh and I'm in love with both Morgana and Nimue - how's that even possible? I don't know. (there should be femslash!) OH, and it has a DRAGON! (with a tremendous slash-spirit, BELIEVE IT!) and it's so magical and mythical and totally screws up the so-called Arthurian-canon - it blows your mind - in a good way.

ramblebamble. it's 06:06 AM I should go to sleep. should be asleep already but damn download of Merlin's season finale took so long and I've been way to curious to wait till tomorrow - which is now today. Ah, it get's so confusing not sleeping at night and being all tired and brain is addled with lovey-dovey Arthur/Merlin.

( tiny spoiler )

(also, Merlin almost makes me feel like back then in ye old days when Princess Fantaghiro introduced me to a whole new world of fantasy and magic and also induced my first dark-wizard crush, I still love you best TARABAS <3)


EDIT: Oh and how awsome is it that Uther hates magic not because of some fucked up christian reasoning!? I hate all that Merlin book/movies/shows/... that do that. (and the WORST absolute WORST is the book-raping movie version of The Mists of Avalon - but I better NOT get started on that imense amount of fail right now.) ( though Uthers mentioning of "a guardian angel" made me a little afraid...)

note to self: despite the fact that cellphones do exist and to a certain extent are really useful - remember the landline for zeus' sake!

communication isn't utterly impossible. if you try the right means...

gah. annoying shit.......... - I think I hate interpreting "Komik" and how we recieve it and why or why not and yadda, yadda, yadda in literary/autobiographical works. I think I hate it really much.

>_<

me wantes some chai-tea now. gonna make some. blah.

vielleicht habe ich aber einfach nur zu wenig zeit zu spielen. und spiele immer nur halb. so wie ich alles immer nur halb mache. und weil ich so viel mache (man denke nur daran, dass ich gerade dabei bin 3 Fächer zu studieren und mich mit 3 Sprachen intensiv  und mit zweien peripher beschäftige und außerdem noch meine ich müsse nebenher ein wandelndes Philosophielexikon werden... ganz abgesehen davon, dass ich still und heimlich an 5 völlig unterschiedlichen Texten arbeite...) kommt alles zu kurz. ALAS. es würde mir schon helfen zu erkennen, dass ich nicht zu wenig sondern zu viel mache. woran es vor allem mangelt ist erkenntnis. was auch immer es sei. dann könnte ich nämlich verstehen und danach handeln. hm. das hat jetzt fast schon geholfen. man soll sich ja auch nicht zu ernst nehmen (ich wenn das vermutlich wieder mein omipräsenter verdränger ist und ich mir vielleicht erst über ein paar dinge klar werden sollte, bevor ich sie im vergessen einsperre...) lalala...


Today I got my hair cut. By the most wonderful emrebekka . Thank you! :D

*exciiiiited* posted chapter 17. it stayed short. But that has to be ok. Will try to post next chapter soon. (as soon as possible.) will be needing dicingalice 's help for th "filler" thingies. yes. It's so exciting it's almost been a year since I posted the last chapter so... it felt like a personal historical moment *lol* because, well it's been two years since we started writing this stupid but cute story and I've thought and talked about it so much -- possibly, definitely more than I talk about my "real" work i.e. the writing that I don't show anybody because it might embarrass myself OR the reader... ....... um... so excited and happy and soooooooo looking forward to reviews. I HOPE there'll be at least some! I'm afraid not many remember the story... or want to read on because it might be on hiatus AGAIN. *angsting away* -

anyways I'm curious about how all the plot points in my head will evolve and fit in the whole storyline and all. Writing with feedback is so much more fun! should do this more often (but I tell myself that all the time...)

stopping babbling now. :)

[oh and emrebekka  : I'm soooo curious about your thoughts concerning m&n!!!!!!! --> seven exclamation marks - the sure sign of an insane mind... muahaha.]

 than just one reason why I love this song.

they say he crashed and burned
I know I'll never learn why any boy should die so young.


( the whole story )

chapter 17. 2 1/2 pages. 2 1/2 to go. not sure how I want to proceed. will have to talk about further plot-points with dicingalice  my ever flowing fountain of inspiration. and of course with p&k.

das ist eine Erinnerung. weil ich die Faszination* ja ohnehin nicht erklären kann. es ist nicht nur der interessante und unkonventionelle Vergleich. Das große Bild, die archaische Metapher. auf musikalischer Seite vermutlich auch der Chor und ja die Komposition der Instrumente überhaupt. und weil es mein System nicht verlässt, gebe ich dem Drang nach:



( I used to rule the world )

*fascinare: beschreien, be-, verhexen

gah. so viele Metaphern die mich treffen. ingenious. und deswegen, zur Erinnerung.

finally I'm in the mood to write again. this news will hopefully make my dear dicingalice  happy as it concerns M&N! amazing, isn't it. I already read the whole thing again to get into mood and "style" AND the best thing: I know what will happen next and how I want to write it. now I just have to find the time...

Latin was fun. Now we have to read Catull's Carmina. As we asked, when he would give us the reading list for the whole semester he surprised us by saying: no, he won't... there won't be a list he'll just tell us every week what we should read till net time... he's definitely a nice guy but he is strange. and he seems to hate Vergil's Aeneis... well I'm curious about his next act of strangeness.

what else. Japanese is way more difficult than I thought. Now I'm challenged and amazingly enough I like it, the challenge that is, that I like Japanese doesn't come as a surprise ^_^

I wish I could write about M&N NOW. but alas... there are three books to be read: Catull: Carmina, Andreas Gryphius: Großmütiger Rechts-Gelehrter, oder Sterbender Aemilius Paulus Papinianus (*shudder* Baroque Tragedy *shudder*), and Thomas Bernhard: Alte Meister (which is a great and hilarious book).

ta-ta

my university timetable is becoming ever more colourful. this time red marks my major courses i.e.: German Philology stuff, purple is Philosophy, blue stands once again for Comparative Literature and my NEW AND SHINY GREEN: Classical Philology YAY! CHEERS! I'm happy I finally decided to study Latin. Don't ask why it took me so long... happy now :) - oh and ORANGE is also something new and exciting: it's a tutorial that will be going on for 2 semesters, it's at the University of Technology, Vienna (yes, it is strange) and they will teach us to read and understand Japanese in only 1 year. amazing, isn't it? I'm sure I will be talking a LOT about this course as the first lesson was already more than awesome(- if strange...).

[damit ich auch wieder mal was sag.]

Was ich zu lesen habe, ist ein schier unüberwindbarer Berg; mit Klippen, Gletscherspalten, kopulierenden Gemsen und mystischen, uralten und zottigen Bären. Dann ist natürlich auch an die Sekundärliteratur zu denken, unquerbare Felder voller knospender Blüten, die ihre Samen fliegen lassen und ich fang sie auf und schlage Wurzeln mitten im Tal und zerreiße mich, oder die Wurzeln, in Sorge nicht zur rechten Zeit den Weg weiter in die Berge zu finden. ob ich die Flur noch vor der nächsten Mahd werde verlassen können?
Selbst bleibe ich beim Säen hängen, gerate ins Stocken... was sich hinterm Horizont versteckt, hinter den schwarzen Wipfeln, selbst- nein gerade die Mondsichel macht mich die Saat achtlos auf den zu fruchten dürstenden Boden werfen. Es sind wohl die Spatzen, die dann fruchtragende Kerne fressen, bevor sie ausschlagen können. Bestimmt sind schon viele dem Mond nachgelaufen, ihm entgegengeschwommen, zugetaumelt, nachgeflogen auch, jeder nach seiner Art, und soll es nicht so sein? Wer nach Schönem strebt, wird doch auch Schönes finden. Aber noch bevor ich ihn ganz sehen kann, hör ich Rufe aus allen Winkeln, von allen Seiten glitzert es in der tauweichen, nebeldurchzogenen Nacht. Noch weiß ich es nicht, aber die Schimmerscheine, die Schatten, die Stimmen, und ja, die Düfte, sie alle - und ich glaube an sie und erspüre erfüllbare Träume, wünschenswerte Wünsche, lebbares Leben hinter ihnen - alle sie muss ich als Irrwische erkennen. (während ich mich noch quäle mich nicht daran zu erinnern, dass ich ihnen nicht glauben darf)

und immer wird es Nacht, und immer jage ich in die Nacht und immer suche ich in die Nacht, und immer finde ich in die Nacht und immer träume ich wachend in die Nacht und immer glaube ich, in jeder Nacht.

bis so gräßlich und schneidend und brennend und so sanft sie auch hervorzukriechen scheinen mag aus dem Sumpf der Dämmerung, die rote Sonne ihre klauenartigen blendenden Strahlen nach mir emporreckt. was greift sie mich an? was weckt sie mich aus einem Traum, der mir nicht vom Schlaf eingegeben wurde? Kann ich denn anders, als erschöpft mich verkriechen in einer Höhle, die zuvor mich nicht ein Augenblick verlockt hätte? Wo doch alles still glänzt, ohne gleißende, blendende Helligkeit, sondern ruhig, melodisch. wo soll man denn hinsehen, worauf sein Auge richten, wenn man alles sehen kann? Vor diesem allem fliehe ich in einen Schlaf ohne Traum, ohne Glaube, ohne Kraft. und bis ich erwache, finde ich sie nicht. weder Ruhe noch einen Geistessinn an dem ich mich erquicken könnte.

aber. es bleibt meine Schuld, wer in der Sonne nicht zu leben weiß, muss über einen noch größeren Schatten springen, als den der Erde.

scheiß österreich. scheiß rechte bauernschädln.

transparentes Toilettentissue....



"... des war gleich bei ersten spot da fehla." - "aha? inwiefern?" - "weil es völlig abgehoben klingt. durchsichtiges häslpapier, das ist deusch." - "jo, momenterl aber des warad dann eher der rustikal populäre approach gwesn........."
.der kloverstand. - "ein kafkaesker zombie mit existenzialisten-rolli taucht plötzlich in meim häsl auf und redt deppad."

"ja ok. i würd vorschlagen machma doch glei ein kleines preview-screening vom neuen prime-time-spot-layout?" - ".......sie woin ma de neie reklam zeign?"

*in love*

... I finally post about Phantasmagoria. I'm not a Marilyn Manson fangirl but this project is highly intriguing. Also Tilda Swinton is always a reason to keep my eyes and ears open. --- So it's a movie about Lewis Carroll and his world/dreams/visions ... or something ... doesn't matter really. I cannot find much more information about it than wikipedia and imdb offer. still, I'm damn curious if this project will acutally ever be realised.

synopsis:

"Victorian England.
A haunted writer in an isolated castle is tormented by sleepless nights and visions of a girl named Alice. He finds himself becoming a symptom of his own invention.
“Now all my nightmares know my name.”
He is Lewis Carroll. Terrified of what waits for him each night."*

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Shadows Return has arrived. I've never been so quick to answer the postman who usually knocks me awake by delivering books early in the morning.... it's 7:30 am --- I will be reading now. though I only fell asleep three hours ago because of the heat.

OMGYAY! I've never in ages felt that awake this early!!!!!!! ---- off to (I cannot believe it!) read (FINALLY) Shadows Retrun ^___^

IN EXTREMO Arena Vienna July 11th --- hingehen! dicingalice, hingehen?

oh and Schandmaul Arena Vienna Nov. 6th auch hingehen :D

M. has passed her "Latinum". She called me right after her exam and told me she got a "2" yay! I'm so proud. And still I can't imagine wanting to be a teacher. still I aim for staying at university and working there... or maybe... I don't know. but I really want to tutor someone again. (LET ME TUTOR YOU dicingalice IT WILL BE SO MUCH FUN!!! WIRKLICH!)
It was really great to see her learning so much in so little time. and boy did she study. I couldn't have done that. I'm so glad that I had Latin in school for 6 years. I don't envy all those people who have to learn Latin for their majors.... then again I cannot imagine majoring in say German or any Roman Language or Philosophy etc. without having at least done the "Latinum". I wonder if there's something similar like this in other countries. I know it's about the same in Germany. But as for the rest...? - care to tell me?*

hum. so. as for the party on Thursday: tomorrow IKEA. then on Wednesday buying drinks and fruits and barbecueing stuff. Thursday will be filled with decorations. I hope we'll find piraty fun stuff to put all over the place. and as usual I feel like I'm forgetting something......

gah... such a strange thing to feel chatty and having nothing to talk about... and my English is lacking stile and correctness. it's time to read some English literature again. I feel myself falling out of this language. Aber dafür ist mein Deutsch zur Zeit äußerst zuverlässig... Immerhin, immerhin.

tired now.


*EDIT: wikipedia.de tells me that the "Latinum" is nowadays only required in Germany and Switzerland, they don't say a thing about Austria, well I know it's the same here in Austria. Other European countries have gotten rid of the "Latinum" and "some" (the article doesn't state which) are thinking about "reintroducing" it. It seems that there are many pro and contra discussions going on. amazingly enough not even for Romanstic studies knowledge of Latin is required in other European countries... though it's "recommended as helpful" ita vero! ... huh. of course it's helpful. I'm happy that we seem to be among the last countries that appreciate the value of Latin. though it sounds a liiiiittle conservative... but IT'S LATIN for the gods' sake! it needs to be well conserved....

so it's totally stressful over here. with the EM and all (we're showing most of the games via a video projector in the basement of our students' hostel), the upcoming summer fête on June 19th for which I'm more or less responsible.... and there is also my Latin tutoring for a fellow student who has to pass her "Latinum" on Friday. ---- and never forget that end of term is drawing nigh and therefore I have to study for my exams...

therefore this journal is lacking and might well be lacking updates for quite some time. I hope you're doing well my dear dicingalice, of course you may call me ANYTIME! if you feel like it. but I'm simply not capable at the moment to initiate any conversations that I don't have to have anyway - no matter how pleasurable they would surely be. (btw. what are your plans for June 19th? Matura should be over by then? If you have the time it would be great if you could come over to Vienna to enjoy our fête. We have a Motto... it's Pirates, arrrr! No we couldn't be any more innovative... we're lazy but I like it.)

as my head starts to ache and I still have to prepare for tomorrow's Latin grammar -and especially subjunctive- tutorial I'll leave it at that. I'm really sorry :( but what has to be done has to be done. and we both know how much I love Latin, even though I'm such a bloody amateur, well not that bloody but still.... - anyway, that is to change as I'm going to start taking courses at the institute for classical philology come next term! yay :D

new insights concerning the status of women in Ancient Greece. as it seems they had way more power and influence than anticipated by former archeologists "'The problem has been that up until recently our interpretation of life in Ancient Greece has been the work of a previous generations of archaeologists, then a male-oriented profession and who interpreted their findings in a male-oriented way. That is changing now and women in Ancient Greece are being seen in a new light.'" <-- citation from linked text

my love for Ancient Greece, I thought it couldn't grow any fonder. what a pleasant surprise :)

[edit] if you don't count the two "animated" Howl's Moving Caslte-icons this is my first real icon-post. I'd be happy to share them, with anyone who likes them! have fun :D

teasers:

MOTAS has a new level: 20 --> play

LOOOL OMG LOOOL...

Roy Black, of all people...

Horch was kommt von draußen rein - hollahi hollaho
Wird wohl mein fein's Liebchen sein - hollahi jaho
Geht vorbei und kommt nicht rein - hollahi hollaho
Wird's wohl nicht gewesen sein - hollahi jaho

Leute haben's oft gesagt - hollahi hollaho
dass ich k/ein fein's Liebchen hab - hollahi jaho
Lass sie reden, ich schweig still - hollahi hollaho
Kann doch lieben wen ich will - hollahi jaho

Leute sagt mir's ganz gewiss - hollahi hollaho
was das für ein Lieben ist - hollahi jaho
Die ich/man will, die krieg ich/man nicht - hollahi hollaho
und ne andere will ich nicht - hollahi jaho

Wenn mein Liebchen Hochzeit hat - hollahi hollaho
ist für mich ein Trauertag - hollahi jaho
Gehe in mein Kämmerlein - hollahi hollaho
Trage meinen Schmerz allein - hollahi jaho

(it's a German folk song so the text and the verses vary quite a bit)

why, yes I like that song... maybe not the fact that in this version it's sung by Roy Black but I love the song... *hollahi hollaho*

for SailorSnape (don't ask, the places my mind goes, they scare me) I did find quite amusing fanart:
click to enlarge and to see who drew those ....... pretties......... - found them all over at deviantart


Snape as SailorStarSnape is just priceless. SailorMercuryVoldy is also to be worshipped... and SailorMoony... there are no words....

curl girls :) LOL it's an online series about lesbian sufer-girls. I'm not sure yet if it's worth watching but it amuses me. I've only watched the first 2 episodes... but it seems to be fun. though the episodes are split up in 3-minutes parts which IS a bit annoying. still... 

Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone



---off to watch the rest---





[what the master himself has to say about his renewed approach to Evangelion - Hideaki Anno's Release Statement about the New Evangelion movies]

spotted at slythwolf  I just wish we had something like that concerning European politics. would be intresting. you think it's diffrent over here?
(and some of these comments about hilary and diverse cleavages reminds me stronly of comments about Angela Merkel)

gah! wenn ich mich doch only für eine sprache deciden könnt! ich will nicht ständig von einer in die andere hüpfen. wah. wah. wah. geht ma des am oasch. It's just sometimes it's easier to write in english, cause it's more fun to write and has more possibilites. man kann mit dem englischen besser spielen, german though it's such a static language, nevertheless umso schöner, wenn sich jemand meisterlich ihrer bedient.

but I can't neither. and lemme tell ya a secret - es geht ma am oasch.

ansonsten. war nicht in Prag, dafür im Burgenland. war auch schön. Prag kommt ein anderes mal dran, wenn nicht gerde halb europa auch dort is. jaja.

English/Deutsch?

oder einfach weitermachen wie bisher? wenn's mich nicht so nerven würd. vielleicht sollt ich mir einfach ein zweites lj anlegen?

but as I know myself, I'll just stick with the routine - that is: be fickle and kiss both languages. yes, that's the way I proceed with anything in my life. why change that habit on behalf of lj-language. like both? - take both. yes, yes. that suits me just fine.