Variations on the same theme

Today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! There be no excuse not to be tarrin decks or plunderin towns this good day. Become yer governor's nightmare, and the thorn in the side of that lovely stuck up commodore who could well do with listenin to the sea once in a while. Feel the heave o' t'sea under yer feet and treat yer boat with every respect ye owe 'er. Spread the word! And drink ter a pirate's life fer us all.

Take what ye can. Give nothin back!

...drink up, me hearties, yo ho!

Edit: save me from boredom, ye scoundrels, else ye want ter have that on your conscience. Lord above knows ye likely have a lot on it already. Request drabbles from yours truly! Pirate drabbles, me lovelies, what else.

( Spoilers for Pirates 3. )

We're watching Mysterious Skin now. We watched Tangled last night and it's so bad. We're not a bicycle, damnit.

Do bear in mind that I've read none of my dear flist's detailed reviews prior to seeing this movie. All I knew was that half of it raved that it was wonderful, and the other, well, wasn't quite so enthusiastic.

(  I can see both sides of the argument. (Aka spoilerific ramblings ahead.) )

( And for a shorter few paragraphs on the same subject... )

In other, very quick news: Berlin's great! Despite the fact that they make a ten-minute break at the most inopportune moment in the middle of movies, because on the other hand? They show Dead Man's Chest a week before France, and they show it without subtitles! There has been museuming and zooing going on. It's pretty hot. Joey is going trigger-happy with her new reflex digital camera. And I'm getting to sleep on a more time-zone-appropriate sleeping schedule, which is odd. And that's about it, folks.

Tagged by zoesca:

( My Five Guilts. (Yeah, I know, only five?) )

Originally gakked from anna_tarawiel, but it's popped up all over the flist since. Choose twelve characters from your fandoms, then answer the questions under the link. Do not look at the questions beforehand.

01. Logan Echolls (Veronica Mars)
02. River Tam (Firefly)
03. Gene Hunt (Life on Mars)
04. Captain Jack (Doctor Who)
05. Wash (Firefly)
06. Geoffrey Chaucer (A Knight's Tale)
07. Commodore Norrington (The Pirates of the Caribbean)
08. Nine (Doctor Who)
09. Haldir (LotR)
10. Lucius Malfoy (Harry Potter)
11. Methos (Highlander)
12. Dana (Sports Night)


( Questions madness! )

Okay, now I'm off to procrastinate by finishing editing NaNo, and then if Joey's still not back I might actually try to write something. I swear. I need to get my muses back, seriously.

Note to self: try and write some Pirates fic in the not too terribly distant future. It's been too damn long. I miss it.

I'm back in Reims! Quiet night tonight, with two of my siblings (out of three) away. I'm glad to see G's getting so much of a social life. I'm always quite worried about him. Sometimes I have a sudden urge to hug him. Wish I could.

Got my requirement for the Tertiary PotC Character Ficathon, I'm going to have to work on this. I want the recipient to be happy. Am positively thrilled by the feedback I got on my Groves "Virtues and Sins" drabbles. I do adore spreading the Groves love, and this was highly enjoyable to write. Something non demanding that you still feel good about when the day's done.

( Watched Ned Kelly this evening. )

First entry, yay! I now officially have somewhere to rant in. Isn't that sweet! I can hear all of ya who I usually rant to heaving huge sighs of relief.

Anyhoot. Topic of my first entry: Sin. Or Lieutenant Sinclair Groves, as he was called back then. For those of you who haven't seen Pirates of the Caribbean (and what have you been doing, really?), just skip this paragraph. For those of you who *have* witnessed the amazing job of Johnny, Keira, Jack, Geoffrey, and should I really go on with that list, do you remember the nice piece of officer stating that, "That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen" after Captain Sparrow's commandeering of the Interceptor? That would be Sin. I just got a thing for the guy - a naval officer acknowledging Jack's genius, how could I not? Turns out he is referred to in the script as Groves, and the fanon seems to have named him Theodore.

So, since I'd been toying with the idea of creating an Immortal who had once served in the navy, this guy was the natural choice, 'cause you see so little of him in Pirates that I can just take him and make him into what I want.

Now, I love Theos. Really. I don't think I've written a Theo*dore* yet, but I'm having a hell of a lot of 'fun' (the kind of fun only a Jossbringer can have - I'll explain Jossbringers later, for those who might wonder) with Theodred in Out of Memory of Time (aka "Kate and Faith get stranded in Middle Earth," will expand in another rant), and some actual fun with a Theophile in Tapping (huge HP/BtVS crossover, will also expand in another rant). Point being, I love Theos.

But no, I couldn't have my dear lieutenant be called Theodore. It just didn't fit, for some reason. So I decided that he would go by his middle name, as I had seen done in a fic thus renaming him Ellis (after the actor playing him, Greg Ellis). That is, his mother's maiden name. She happened to be French. After much concertation with Joey (what would I do without you?), it turned out to be Sinclair. Suits him much better than Theodore. Muuuuch better.

So, what about his character, and will he ever be actually written? Well, be ready to chuckle incredulously, all of you who know me well enough, but Sin is a *good guy*, with a *code of honour*. I swear. Like, really. Kronos (my Kronos muse kinda lives with me. Sometimes. It's a long story - or to make it short: I'm a freak. And very possibly quite close to insanity. And I like it!) is never gonna let me live this down, whenever he hears about it (and for those of you who wonder, Kronos is the ultime K'Immie - understand, evil Immortal. Big bad ass of an Immortal.).

So yeah, that's why I liked Sinclair so much, 'cause shortening it to Sin, for the first of my Immortal characters who's actually a real white hat, it's pretty ironic. Me loves irony.

And also, sidenote, Sin is gay. For some reason. Or actually, for the very precise reason that I read a really good Jack/Groves fic on the Pirates archive Parley (Fortune and Favor for the non-slash bits, Shorn for the slash bits, all of it by firesignwriter - for the non slash-lovers, Fortune and Favor, as a stand-alone, is already bloody amazing, excellent Jack characterisation, not to mention Anamaria, Norrington and obviously Groves) and I mean, *really* good, I was amazed.

Now, yes, Sin will eventually get written (emphasis on eventually), in the sequel to Quelques Cahots, an X-Men/BtVS/HL crossover I wrote (all in French, for you English-speakers, sorry). Let's just say he'll have a serious grudge against Damien. I'm still in the thinking-it-out phase. Right now, I need to get to know Sin's mentor (kudos to Manu). Then I might just get to the planning of the fic. Might. 'Cause I do have a life. And, more importantly, tons of other WIPs.

Well, guess that's enough for a first rant. Plus, I have an exam tomorrow. My brain is so not in the right state to cram my civilisation course in it. I think it's starting to really, really miss some decent sleep.

Fan'