I loves you, LJ

[geoviki]

LJ - The Squee Edition

Squee #1 - mayflo drew ATBT art for me! Four sketches of ATBT Draco, to be precise, and they are here! They're great, Hannah, and thank you so so so much! My little writer soul has longed for art for ATBT, and now I can die happy.

Squee #2 - I don't think I mentioned isiscolo's newest fic Players. She posted it from her lovely tropical get-away. Millicent/Luna. Isis always makes characters that I can firmly believe in, and her writing is superb.

Squee #3 - jamoche has written a three-part ficlet in ajhalluk's LoPiverse, here. It's a backstory to The Perilous Point.

Squee #4 - Totally self indulgent shopping trip to Barnes and Noble last night. I got two books I've been wanting, including Mary Renault's The Persian Boy. Oh man. Slash. Slash in a printed book. Beautiful boys in love. I stayed up too late last night getting into it. Yes, I skipped ahead to the good parts; why do you ask? No, I didn't. Nope. Un uh. Wasn't me. Now I want to write Bagoas slash. (The Theban Band has a new Bagoas desktop, BTW, plus a Ron/Harry kiss if you haven't seen it.) Finally, ohreally___ has posted new Boyd pix this week. Love the haircut, honey.

Squee #5 - And I bought 7 new CDs. Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Afro-Celt Sound System, Los Lonely Boys, acoustic Brazilian, and Bonnie Raitt's first one. Doin' my best for the economy...

Squee #6 - The rewriting goes well, my son's team just won its soccer game, and my daughter returns from building houses for the poor in Juarez, Mexico, today.

Comments

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Well, it's far better to read them in order, though, because you catch all the references to FFH in TPB (Oxhead, Phoinix, the place of Philotas, why Alexander accepted so much for so long from Kallisthenes, etc.) And of course Hephaistion, who's a cipher if you haven't read FFH; you can't see what Bagoas doesn't, but Renault intends her reader to know.

Bagoas speaks Greek, so he does have a common language with Hephaistion; but he has no other frame of reference, of course. And both of them make small but real allowances (but I don't want to spoil it for Viki.) And there is one scene in which Hephaistion, in effect, does protect Alexander from Bagoas. (I am evil...)