If you're looking for a fire, darling, let me be the spark

[sovay]

Well, I dreamed of chaos theorist Loki.

She was female and in a manga my cousins lent me.

(Lab coat, check. Glasses ditto, the little round wire-rimmed kind. Long lionfish ribbons of shakudo-bright hair, curling out as if on an updraft. She chain-smoked continually in front of her computer, but no one ever saw her light her cigarettes.)

Why can I not get this title in this universe?

(I also dreamed of Edward Petherbridge, but that sort of thing is much less unusual around here.)

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I will draw her, based on your description. And since it was a manga, this should be easy.

Why can I not get this title in this universe

Try interuniversal loan?

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I very much want to see. And then there could be storyboarding and then and then and then...

Possibly too much coffee...?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

possibly! Make sure you are hitting the return bar, if you are writing!

(but still--it really could be great, couldn't it!)

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I approve of the project no one actually suggested, yes. In advance. :)

I am sadly chasing coffee from this morning with the dregs of a two-liter of soda. I got five hours of sleep last night because I was working on the weird artist boyfic.

Also, I didn't know you drew. Clearly I need to pay more attention.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'm not particularly **good** at drawing! I just have no hesitation about sharing my very ordinary efforts :D

(Here's one, though, in this icon)

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

It is always good to know an artist. You never know when you'll need passage documents into some strange land in a wardrobe or something, and boom, your artist whips out the Derwents, sucks on the tip of one, and you've got -- as evidenced by the icon -- a nicely representative identity portrait ready to bear you through sundry checkpoints. :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I shall be happy to forge create any identity papers you should need.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

See? Nothing handier. *adds your card to the liminal rolodex*

(And you have an icon with a tricorne -- or is it a bicorne athwart?)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I will have to rely on you to let me know--you will be able to tell me more after you observe our hero in action in this OTT 1980s music video

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

--but tricorne, I believe, yes?

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

...Yup, a tricorne in very interesting circumstances. I sometimes wish I'd set the Lesbian Regency Romance well, not in the Regency, because Regency hats were just so blah. (The bicorne held on through most of the Longteenth, because it could go tucked under a gentleman's arm if he was a military man.)

[sovay]

I'm not particularly **good** at drawing!

Oh, for God's sake, I am the only person allowed to be self-despairing in this journal. You drew me Arlecchino and Il Dottore. You're good.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

No worries, no worries--not self despairing. Just trying to establish parameters for expectations!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

(Whoa, look at my enthusiasm for exclamation points in the previous comment. It's hurting my eyes...)

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Is all good. I just won't let you near the mug of soda.

[sovay]

I will draw her, based on your description.

Awesome!

Try interuniversal loan?

They never got back to me on Powell and Pressburger's Earthsea; I've been disillusioned with them ever since.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Why can I not get this title in this universe?

Yes. Why?

(I dreamed of war. That I was responsible for the strategy of Poland against Germany, or, at least, responsible for rolling the dice that *might* have saved us, if I could only figure out which values were the right ones.)

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

You may want to give up the tactical manuals and hot guilt toddies at bedtime. It makes for heavy subconscious weather. :)

[sovay]

(I dreamed of war. That I was responsible for the strategy of Poland against Germany, or, at least, responsible for rolling the dice that *might* have saved us, if I could only figure out which values were the right ones.)

Great. God does play dice. Also, Risk.

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

Why can I not get this title in this universe?

Obviously, you must be its conduit.

[sovay]

Obviously, you must be its conduit.

Right, because I'm so terribly prolific at the moment!

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

Prolificer than me!

[carik.livejournal.com]

That sounds fantastic. If it gets written, I want to read it!

[sovay]

If it gets written, I want to read it!

Hah. Thank you. Me, too!

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I feel slightly spammy given the conversation I've taken the liberty of having upstream (at least I'm not posting boys everywhere?), but what's an Edward Petherbridge when it's at home?

Also, you totally need to write this. I know your slate is brimming, but knock her into the queue maybe.

[sovay]

but what's an Edward Petherbridge when it's at home?

Edward Petherbridge played Lord Peter Wimsey across from Harriet Walter's Harriet Vane in the BBC adaptations of Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, and Gaudy Night in 1987. The scripts are flawed, but the two of them are very good; I wish they'd had the budget to go on with Busman's Honeymoon. He also played Newman Noggs in the RSC's astonishing The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1980), which I cannot recommend highly enough—I have written about the character here. Otherwise I mostly read his blog and regret that I never saw him in the same production of The Duchess of Malfi as Ian McKellen and Eleanor Bron. He can paint, too.

Also, you totally need to write this. I know your slate is brimming, but knock her into the queue maybe.

I'll try. I'm really feeling brain-dead.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Understandably, *hugs*

Thank you for explicating him far more richly than I could glean from IMDB. I'm continually fascinated how you can interest me in nondeadtree media.

[helivoy.livejournal.com]

You essentially described a fusion of Asimov's Susan Calvin (the creator of the sentient robots and perhaps his only interesting character) and Lilith, kinswoman to Loki, Prometheus and all the other firebringers.

*smile*

[sovay]

*smile*

This is my second major dream about Loki. Maybe I should try for a triptych.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Why can I not get this title in this universe?

Write it!

Nine

[sovay]

Write it!

And then become a mangaka?

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Hmm. That's a little harder.

Nine

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I'd like to read that manga as well.

[sovay]

I'd like to read that manga as well.

I'll put it in the queue . . .

Loki will torment you

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

[sovay]

Loki will torment you

Quite possibly, but you just improved my day about a zillion times. Thank you.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

my most sincere pleasure

Re: Loki will torment you

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

This is excellent. Thank you for sharing it with all of us.

Re: Loki will torment you

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thank *you*--so glad you like it.

[genarti]

If this title appears in this universe, I would be delighted to read it too. What a marvelous image.

[sovay]

What a marvelous image.

I never feel I can take credit for the things my brain does when I'm asleep!

(I approve of your icon.)