Title: The Notebook
Author:![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
theoreme
Pairing: none. B/G friendship
Rating: FRT
Summary: A Watcher’s mind is like a cemetery
Warnings: none.
Length: 2604
Timeline : Season 7. Picks up at the end of LMPTM.
Disclaimer: I’m just playing with Joss’ shiny toys.
Note : thank you to the wonderfulthisiszircon , who betaed this fic.
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- Location:Home
- Mood:
content - Music:The Veils - Nux Vomica - Not Yet
History will still be a passion, but I don't want to teach it.
So now, I just have to find what I want to do. It's the first time that I don't know where I'm going and it's kind of unsettling. A few ideas here and here, so we'll see.
In a totally non-sequitur way, I haven't read BTVS fics since December and I'm sure there is a lot of good ones to catch on.
BTW, I received Firefly for my birthday. Wow. This is what TV is about, people. I need a Jayne icon.
Damn, it's good to be back.
- Location:Home
- Music:Not As We - Alanis Morissette
antennapedia !May this day be full of good things -cake, presents and friends singing loudly and off-key cheesy birthday songs.
- Location:Home
- Music:Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason (A New Beginning)
Author: theoreme
Pairing: Giles/Jenny
Rating: FRT
Summary: Giles has to choose Jenny’s clothes.
Warnings: None
Length: 515
Timeline : After Passion
Note : the title comes from Flaubert’s Dance of Death. I loosely used Lori’s Great Frock Meme. No beta.
Disclaimer: Giles and Jenny are not mine.
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- Music:Bruce Springsteen - Empty Sky (The Rising)
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.
GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
(Wilfred Owen / Otto Dix)
antennapedia and sahiya are thinking of running a Buffyverse Big Bang ficathon. This is so great, think about all the long and satisfying stories we are going to read !I was going to say "Yes, count me in !", when my brain remembered me that I couldn't : I'm studying for the competitive examinations allowing me to become a history teacher and therefore I'll have no life this year (and maybe the next one), except for studying.
We have four historical and three geographical subjects (ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary ; France, Russia and one about "feeding the people"), we must also know historical and geographical epistemology and historiography, school programs, etc.
And the deadline is March, 9th. Yipee!
At least, the subjects are very interesting.
(makes me think : can somebody tell me how do you become a teacher in America? Do you need a diploma or do you have an exam?)
It saddens me because I've got that cool B/G plotline that keeps messing with my neurons and this ficathon would have been a great opportunity.
Well, at least I'm going to read some great fics and that makes me very happy !
And if a writer needs to bounce ideas off someone, I would be glad to help.
- Music:Bruce Springsteen - Little Latin Lupe Lu
ladyforash When you see this, post another Buffy quote in your LJ. Let's see how long this can go on.
- Giles: All right, I-I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophecy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
Buffy: Okay, at this point you're abusing sarcasm.
- Mood: good
- Music:Coldplay - Lost
Author: theoreme
Pairing: none. B/G friendship
Rating: FRT
Summary: Giles’ thoughts as he prepares for the final battle
Warnings: None
Length: 4009
Timeline : During Chosen
Note : First fic ever. Veillée d’armes means several things. Firstly, it is a knightly vigil, i.e. the night a future knight must spend in prayers before his dubbing. It also means the day preceding the battle. Finally, it can be literally translated as “Arms vigil”.
Disclaimer: Giles is not mine, alas. I also used Perez-Reverte's Fencing Master for several fencing terms.
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- Location:Home
It's a gen fic, about 4000 words, FRT-rated and written in English. It's of course the English part which confuses me the most and I'm looking for someone that a somewhat awkward English will not bother too much and willing to do a thorough grammar check. Please, help me to improve it!
The fic takes places in season 7 and explores Giles' thoughts before the final battle.
Thanks!
- Location:Hometown
- Mood:working
- Music:The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Should be very interesting.
http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/
- Location:Hometown
- Mood: good
- Music:Bach - Brandenburg Concerto 4
I'm begging you, don't make them come back.
Cameron and Chase were fading in the background -maybe to the point of oblivion- and we were perfectly fine without them.
http://blog.zap2it.com/korbitv/2008/07/e
- Location:Home
- Mood:
exhausted - Music:Emiliana Torrini - Merman
I do suspect that my own attachment to the character of Rupert Giles comes -among other things- from my studies (I want to be a history teacher and I hope to specialize in early modern times studies).
As a watcher, Giles has a solid background in history, mythology, ancient languages and civilization (human or demonic) and he uses his knowledge to help with the crisis of the moment or the impending apocalypse. In other words, his knowledge has power –and the most precious that could be, as he helps with it to save many lives, even the world a few times. I do think any historian (especially the wannabes) is confronted with the difficult task to justify to the society the will to spend the rest of his/her life in obscure archive rooms, looking for small facts, events or studies of the past. The specialists of the 20th century are the most honored as they study a recent past (and a very tragic one), but the others, we can encounter incomprehension, if not hostility, for we devote our life to something that happened long ago.
And here comes Rupert Giles, who proves how the books and the research can literally save you. You can be a scholar and be useful to society – this is a refreshing idea, especially at the times when humanities are frown upon (at least, it is what happens in France today). Giles searches in old musty books and antique items, studies ancient artifacts and it helps. And he has done it for three years, in a library of all places.
The character also represents the dream of every scholar : you can find an answer to your quest of knowledge and almost every problem has his solution – you just have to find the right book. Well, wish it were true, but it is a hope all historians have and that none achieve. One day, we hope that our research gives us the right answer and slays the demon (oblivion, ignorance, anachronism, negationism, etc.) for good.
Of course, not every problem has its solution in musty and academic books, and Giles does not say anything else at the end of Prophecy Girl. But they educate us, help us to think and they warn us –that should be enough.
We historians have a duty to guard the past (I apprehend the term "guard" with Paul Ricoeur’s metaphor of the cemetery : historians must guard the place but also perform the rituals and ceremonies for the dead). We don’t lead but we watch.
- Mood:working
Thus, the major purpose of this journal is to comment and thank the few writers I am currently reading.
As I only read fanfictions written in English, I'm going to use the same language : a task, while not unpleasant, bound to be awkward. I am already sorry about the spelling mistakes I committed (and the ones I am goint to commit).
- Mood:working
When Buffy slays the newly-fanged ones, why do they immediately turn to ashes? Their human corpses should still be in decomposition and not only animated by the demons. Or is the natural process completelychanged/interrupted?
In Dracula, Lucy's body remains after it was staked.
I understand that a Slayer carrying a shovel on patrol would have been less effective, but Whedon did give us a strange vampire biology.
- Mood:
thoughtful - Music:Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen