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Eee! Willow has joined the fray! I was wondering if anyone from the Buffyverse would come on board. Oh yes, my precious, but she and Tom will have some interesting conversations about Dark magicks!

And Peter Pettigrew! Hmmm, someone Sirius might hate more than Tom. And someone I doubt young Tom would like at all. Oh yes, very interesting.

Can I just say to Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Kassandra, and Beatrice -well done! I felt smart and literary, even as I giggled at the character interaction. :)

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'Morning. In the 'I should really be more grown-up about the time this thing steals from my real life' dept, I had a sudden doctor's appt and missed eighty-one comments and I am pissed.

London Below?

Yay, thank you! And I don't even feel tired this morning...

"Oh, we decided it's canon," said Rymenhild, beaming...

Gah.

"My lord is a glazier, a glazier, a glazier..."

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Read it in preparation? She had a copy lying by the computer even last night.

And it's not so dorky. I re-read The Trojan Women and Agamemnon.

This is what a literary degree will do to you, I suppose.

(I tend to consider words like "nerdy" as being complimentary.)

(I deleted the original post due to the sloppy italics tag, and reposted. Do we want to move these comments beneath the new post?)

Quite, quite, as I have no idea how they ended up above it. Possibly something about replying from inside GMail.

Have you already got a GMail account? If you'd like one...

Hmmm. Well, thank you. My Hotmail account is still good, but I will take you up on that anyway, if you have an invitation free. I'm very curious about GMail. (Hard not to be.) How would one go about obtaining...?

You send me an email (which rymenhild has) or IM Screen Name (mine is pinnipis, and since everybody and their exceptionally rude and badly-spelled monkey knows that because it's in the info of my non-character journal [sorry.... still a little incredulous at having got spammed all to hell this AM] an actual friend might as well also have it. :)

And then I sends ye the invite, savvy?

Sorry, I've been a bit slammed in RL, so I didn't have a chance to check the thread; I will AIM you when next we are both on.

*raises hand sheepishly*
I'm re-reading Neverwhere and Chamber of Secrets while consulting a map of London.

So, so glad to be the only one consulting source materials. :P

It is very much canon. Look:

Ros: (He studies the floor.) That can't be south, can it?
Guil: That's not a direction. Lick your toe and wave it around a bit.
Ros considers the distance of his foot.
Ros: No, I think you'd have to lick it for me.
Pause
Guil: I'm prepared to let the whole matter drop.
Ros: Or I could lick yours, of course.
Guil: No thank you.
Ros: I'll even wave it around for you.
Guil (down Ros's throat): What in God's name is the matter with you?
Ros: Just being friendly.
Guil: Somebody might come in. It's what we're counting on, after all.

(And yes, I did reread all of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in preparation for roleplaying, because, um, I'm a big nerd and it's short enough to get away with. I suspect

rymenhild did too.)

Oh, no need at all to excuse rereading that play. It's wonderful! One of my favorite plays, to be sure. According to many of my friends, that makes me a freak. Whatever. I'm rather proud of that, actually. I revel in my freakishness! :D

Hurrah for freakishness! Let us all be freakish together. (That is what Milliways is all about, isn't it?)

I personally am more of a dork than a freak. (holds up subscription to Four-Eyes Quarterly)

Consider that Elizabeth Bennet just got the once-over from an anthropomorphic turtle, talked about horn polish with a satyr, and is currently debating the sexuality of an angel (without even realizing it)... I'd have to give that a resounding yes. Somehow I don't think Jane Austen ever intended this for her character. *laughs*

Ah, none of the authors would have foreseen what we're doing to their characters. That's what makes it so brilliant!

I don't know, I'm not sure Stoppard would be very surprised.

Canon, I tell you. Canon.

Yar!!

It's like a trainwreck, but in a good way.

Oh, god, I remember studying that in English. I had to read that bit aloud and I couldn't stop laughing- the teacher was really bewildered. ^^;

In the grand tradition of the Ethereals and the Wizards, I'd like to take this moment to dub the little group of Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Kassandra and Beatrice as the Lits.

Also Elizabeth. Duh. *smacks head*

::bows head to accept scepter banged on shoulder and be dubbed Lit::

Peter Pettigrew! Hmmm, someone Sirius might hate more than Tom. And someone I doubt young Tom would like at all.

Oh, I think it's a given that Sirius hates Peter more than young Tom. After all, young Tom didn't lie to both Sirius and Remus about who the mole in their organisation was, betray the Potters, murder James personally, get Sirius arrested and banged up in prison for twelve years without a trial, murder Cedric Diggory, cut Sirius' godson Harry in preparation for a spell to restore Voldemort to life and cut off his own hand to bring Voldemort back to life.

AND everything that Peter has done that hurts Sirius has hurt Remus, and has often parted the two.

AND Peter's a snivelling, guilty coward on top of that.

Tom is only potentially evil, at this point.

Can I just say to Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Kassandra, and Beatrice -well done! I felt smart and literary, even as I giggled at the character interaction. :)

Me too!

Excellent (rubs hands a la Mr. Burns)! We will have fun ;)

Ah yes, the stories that Peter could tell young Tom about his future.

OOOH! Yes! Tell them!

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