Three Years Since Kurt Met Blaine

I’m just gonna recite the lines of this scene off by heart for a second:
K: decorating Pavarotti’s casket
B: well finish up, I have the perfect song for us
K: do tell
B: Candles, by hey monday
K: I’m impressed, you’re usually so top forty
B: Well, I wanted something a little more ~emotional~
K: why did you pick me to sing that song with
B: Kurt, there is a moment, when you say to yourself, ‘oh, there you are, I’ve been looking for you forever’. Watching you do Blackbird, this week, that was a moment, for me, about you. ~loaded pause~ you move me, Kurt, and doing this duet would just be an excuse to spend more time with you.
*Perfect First Kiss Of All Time Ever*
K: We should practice
B: I thought we were
*Perfect Second Kiss Of All Time Ever*
*dun, dun dun*

So, it’s been three years since Kurt was sent to spy on the garglers- sorry warblers- and I’m every bit as in love with Kurt and Blaine as I was that very day.
Not only did Klaine show us that a young, gay couple can weather the storm of secondary school, they showed us that young people are capable of having a mature, adoring, healthy relationship. I could go on and on for hours about how perfect Klaine are, and how much good their exposure has done, I could ramble about how inspirational Chris Colfer is, how talented both he and Darren Criss are, but I won’t, I’ll leave us with a quote from one Blaine Anderson, my pocket ray of sunshine.

‘Prejudice is just ignorance’ – Blaine Anderson

NaNoWriMo Begins

So, on day three, and I’m on track. Well, by my personal plans I’m way behind, but for the daily ‘write this many or you will fail’ tracker, I’m going strong.

Just a brief synopsis of my plot for now, and then I have 7,000 words to somehow pluck from my brain this afternoon!

It’s essentially the story of Cinderella, except told from the point of view of the Prince. He’s under a lot of pressure from his parents- the King and Queen- to marry a suitable girl, but he’s far too naive, and, just to add another twist, far too gay (yes, I am making this a novel with LGBT*QA characters, bite me) .  He sees this boy at a ball and instantly ‘falls in love’ (I don’t believe in love at first sight- attraction at first sight however is totally possible), but he leaves, and being Cinderella, drops his handkerchief with his initials sewn into it.  Prince Edward is heartbroken, however his sassy sister Elizabeth (named for the Bennett), and young Lady Anne, begin a quest to find the mysterious and very cute boy.  Edward’s parents persevere in getting him married off to Princess Katerina of Andalusia, and she isn’t too happy about her fiancee gallivanting  about Greenwich Palace.  Will young love triumph, or is Katerina going to ruin everything?

Also, it’s set around 1650-1680, so I’m channeling my inner Phillipa Gregory and trying to be historically accurate, but it’s difficult to write when your characters can’t even say ‘shut up’ to each other. Damnit why do I make everything twice as hard as it needs to be.

OK, so that’s what I’ll be tearing my hair out over for the next month, and I’ll keep the blog updated every 10,000 words or so! Wish me luck, and don’t be afraid to send me angry messages if I fall behind! Let the battle of literature v common sense commence.

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Haha, figured I’d put this on for Lady R. We watched this during the sleepover, and well…
‘Here, you can take this to your boyfriend.’
‘Hehe, he’s not my boyfriend!’
‘Hehe, you’re not fooling anyone.’

 *fangirls*

That’s the fandom, right there.

Sure.. there are less appropriate moments (the trophy, remember?), but come on, the minute you hear Nagisa’s voice? *mindblow*

Just don’t die while watching this Lady R, we still need to finish the series…

~ Persephone

The 104th Training Division… Dances

While I’m clearly on a SnK run, I guess I better put this on as well.

I mean, when do we get a legitimate reason to listen to High School Musical songs? When it’s in another parody video!

This time, everyone’s in it.. dancing together, it’s pretty amusing all in all.

And for the fangirls, there are some ships there, dancing together. Personally, all I saw was Ereri. Especially at the end, come on, biased much? (But it was glorious.)

 Tell me this isn’t canon. Just try. -_-

It was funny, and made me want to dance too, what can I say? They looked very sophisticated and debonair in dresses and suits!

(I have a problem with YouTube, I think it’s taking over my lif- ‘oh look, a new video from the Yogcast!’)

~ Persephone

Attack on Dust

Sometimes, you wonder why you love a certain character so much… then a video like this comes along.

Lance Corporal Levi may have a potty mouth and makes toilet jokes all the time, but you have to admit, his OCD tendencies are amusing at times… Just like the numerous Photoshopped picutures of him opening the windows in his cleaning gear…

Wow… just wow…

And so, someone decided to make a parody of the anime opening. A pretty spectacular parody if I say so myself! The song, the sheer amount of cleaning cloths and dusters…

May I add that when Eren is reading the SnK manga and Heichou’s outside, cleaning the windows? Their relationship in a nutshell!

I don’t even know anymore, except that Season 2 of the anime could not come any sooner – just like Season 2 of Free!, the fangirls are ready, and Tumblr is sooo, ready for new content.

~ Persephone

School supercedes Social-life

Wow, it’s been too long… too, too long. School started, and then everything went to HELL. (Not that I had a social life before.. but…)

Also, I mean, I’ve got Lady R onto the otaku ship, so… Ouran HSHC every Friday night over Skype – we read it and fangirl, what can I say? I’m a good friend, I know.

Then, we had a sleepover for her birthday, and it turned into a ‘LET’S WATCH LOTS OF ANIME ALL DAY-DAY!’ A feel of it would be… Watching: Ouran HSHC, including the English dub bloopers (the only thing good about the English dub compared to the Japanese), Ghost Hunt (it was near Halloween and we turned off the lights…), Free! (because it’s Summer and light-hearted and now Lady R ships MakoHaru!),Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou (it’s hilarious) and Shingeki no Kyojin (most epic anime of all time… and I’ve watched a lot of anime)!

So.. the overall reaction was good, and honestly I was just happy to have an otaku friend… *sniffs*, it’s hard when your friends don’t appreciate the finer things in life like anime… And  just you wait Lady R… Ereri will be a thing for sure! *cue evil laughter* Hint: we just need to watch a little more SnK.

 Just looook at them *coughs* where was I?

So, essentially, between school, Access to… schemes, tests, and Fangirling to keep myself sane. The blog has turned into a neglected Animal Crossing town… overrun by weeds… (copyright amazing metaphor much?!)

How do I rectify this? Well, we’re doing a lot of wider reading for the English scheme at AtB, and waddya know? Lady R has taken up the challenge of NaNoWriMo… soo, WATCH THIS SPACE.

May the odds be ever in your favour (because Catching Fire is coming out soon),

~ Persephone