OMFG BEST SENTENCE EVER!!!!!
Nov. 23rd, 2009 02:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"Et c'est ainsi, le cul encore plein de sperme, que je me résolus à entrer au Sicherheitsdienst."
"And thus, with my arse still full of sperm, I decided to join the Sicherheitsdienst."
- Jonathan Littel, Les Bienveillantes
Okay, I admit it, I only read 100 of the 1300 pages so far, and maybe it's going to suck after 300 pages, because there aren't many authors who can write good books of this length. Far too often it gets boring and repetitive after a few hundred pages. But the beginning is amazing. For those of you who've never heard of it, Les Bienveillantes (English title: The Kindly Ones, which sounds stupid), is the memoirs of a fictitious SS-officier named Maximilien Aue, written by an American author who's writing in French. It's weird to read about Nazis speaking French all the time, honestly. oO Still, Aue is as gay as you can possibly get. 100 pages and already two graphic slash scenes, not to mention this amazing sentence I quoted above (the English translation is by me, I was too lazy to look up how it was really translated). Context? Right after he had some random boy fuck him, his future BFF convinces him to join the SD. Not to mention that his name is Max (like Stierlitz!), he smokes all the fucking time (like Stierlitz, and like Hellstrom!), he's gay and such a sub, and he has a best friend on whom he seems to have a total crush. Well, not crush, but he wants to do him. Not to mention the countless mentions of Heydrich and Schellenberg being suspiciously good friends - this book does not help my recent fascination with historical slash. Bad brain, very very bad! And there I thought it couldn't possibly get worse!
What I really want to say, though, is the following: read this book. I shouldn't, because I really don't have the time, but it's just great so far. At least read the first part, Toccata, which is just great, and only fifty pages long. It's worth the time, even if you don't want to read the entire book. Now let's just hope that I won't be disappointed by the rest.
Other news ... I quit my job, because I'm tired of working on every Saturday, and since I don't desperately need the money, why should I keep doing this? It's a pity, it was a nice job, as far as crappy-jobs-for-students-so-I-can-afford-my-decadent-lifestyle go, with nice colleagues and relatively well paid and not far away from where I live, but still. I want a week-end that consists of two days. Even if it means having a bit less money.
Am also neglecting university stuff. Again. This week is going to be stressful. Which also means that I probably won't post a new fic too soon, but I'll do my best. I'm considering to write some Hellstrom/Wicki, set around 1930, which would be very very angsty and tragic and sweet and beautiful and extremely tragic and sad. With obligatory Landa/Hellstrom-references, mind you. ;)
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Date: 2009-11-23 02:46 am (UTC)YYY to Hellstrom/Wicki! They would be lovely and tragic. ;_;
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Date: 2009-11-23 02:57 am (UTC)Yeeeeeeeeeessss, so tragic. I'm thinking student!Dieter and about 30-year-old Wicki, with naughty Dieter seducing a rather repressed Wicki ... and they'd have a very sweet relationship for a while, and Dieter would try to get Wicki the right papers so he can stay in Germany, and Wicki would try to convince Dieter to leave Germany with him, and in the end they'd have to realise that they just can't stay together ... I just want the picture of them hugging a last time before Wicki leaves, maybe in 1934 or something, with Dieter in uniform because he just came from work, and Wicki crying on his uniform and all sad that his beloved Dieter is working for the guys who make him leave his country ... And all the while Wicki's gentleness will be a stark contrast to Landa, who in that version already met student!Dieter and started toying with him. I want to write this so fucking much!
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Date: 2009-11-23 07:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-23 08:03 am (UTC)Also, Hellstrom/Wicki/Landa for the win. *coughs* I mean, I could read some Hellstrom/Wicki beautiful man pain.
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Date: 2009-11-23 09:35 am (UTC)There won't be a threesome, unless I come up with a great idea. ;) Nah, my pre-war Wicki is too sweet and nice to be in the same room with Landa. ;) But, yeah, Hellstrom/Wicki man pain, there'll be a lot of that. I'm so glad some people approve of the idea. ;)
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Date: 2009-11-23 09:37 am (UTC)Don't throw more books at me, I have strictly no time to read them. ;) I'll put it on the list of "1000 books I should read but won't any time soon because I have no fucking time." ;)
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Date: 2009-11-23 10:33 am (UTC)You should definitely write this. :D Om nom nom bb!Dieter is in sooooo much trouble & Landa finds him so pretty when he's all secretive and terrified. ;D
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Date: 2009-11-23 11:10 am (UTC)The world needs more Hellstrom/Wicki man pain (or even just Hellstrom man pain - he cries so prettily.) And I definitely approve!
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Date: 2009-11-23 01:09 pm (UTC)I've read a few hundred pages in, and had to stop because fuck, uni reading list. I really want to get back to it but it's a book I realy need a holiday for. I've already reserved a place for Max in my Nazi harem though XD
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Date: 2009-11-23 01:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-23 02:15 pm (UTC)I think Landa at that time would be a tiny little bit nicer to him than in my other fics, because bb!Dieter is just so cute not even Landa can resist snuggling him. But, yeah, he'd enjoy himself when little Dieter starts an affair with this pretty Wicki-guy and is all secretive about it and scared that Landa might find out, and even more terrified when Landa does find out ... except that Landa isn't angry, he just finds it amusing. ;)
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Date: 2009-11-23 02:17 pm (UTC)The world needs more Wicki man pain! The poor guy had such a crappy past and nobody writes about it! And they'll cry together. Especially Dieter, when he's losing his fluffy Wicki and has no choice but to stay with not-so-fluffy Landa. ;)
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Date: 2009-11-23 02:24 pm (UTC)My Nazi harem is growing by the day, it's scary. ;) And with all the tops running around there, little sub!Maximilien (ah, this works better ;)) will definitely enjoy himself. I don't really have the time to read it either, but as usual I'm neglecting my uni stuff. Bad me. It will probably take me ages to finish the book.
Wicki is a minor minor minor character in Inglourious Basterds. The German basterd who translated for Raine? http://www.nolapeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bastardos-sin-gloria-Cpl.Wilhelm-WickiGedeon-Burkhard.jpg Who happens to be played by my favourite actor from when I was, like, eight years old, which is why I absolutely love him? ;)
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Date: 2009-11-23 07:46 pm (UTC)Ah, see, for me that character is just a Basterd, and those can just die wholesale in a fire so I set my Nazi characters on them, thinking to watch some torture porn, only to find that they're so disgusted that they just shoot them outright and go home to play darts or something.
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Date: 2009-11-23 07:59 pm (UTC)Heh, I like Wicki, but, again, that's maybe just because I love his actor to no end. And his background fascinates me. *shrug* (And I won't apologise for finding Wicki/Hellstrom fucking hot. ;)) If it's any comfort, it would be about Wicki ten years before he becomes a basterd. ;)
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Date: 2009-11-23 10:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-23 10:19 pm (UTC)I hope you're feeling better already. :)
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Date: 2009-11-23 10:22 pm (UTC)I'm feeling a bit better. Still maudlin, but better.
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Date: 2009-11-23 10:23 pm (UTC)Well, that's a start, right? *sends hugs, cookies, and gay nazis*
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Date: 2009-11-23 10:47 pm (UTC)I shall!
*sends hugs, cookies, and gay nazis*
And drow weapon masters in love with human assassins! I have been re-reading Kindred Spirits, and I hope that you shall be posting a new chapter soon! Boo to Inglourious Basterds that seem to have stolen your fannish heart.
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Date: 2009-11-23 10:49 pm (UTC)LOL
Date: 2009-11-23 11:44 pm (UTC)And I can just see them trying to arrest Zak. uuuuuuu *handwave* Bullets? Lulz? I see heads raining! Yaaaaarg, Zak in The Bride mode.
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Date: 2009-11-23 11:48 pm (UTC)And of course Dieter would like Artemis' boots. And when they're done, he'd make sure Artemis gets shot. I can't risk that. Stfu. :P
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Date: 2009-11-24 04:27 am (UTC)I've never really thought about Wicki's past to be honest, but now that you mention it, it would have been an incredibly difficult one.
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Date: 2009-11-24 09:50 am (UTC)Maybe it's because I love Gedeon so much. ;) I just thought that it must have been hard for him to leave the country he grew up him, the country he considers his home, just because a bunch of stupid idiots took over and decided that omfg he's Jewish and oh-so-evil. Okay, I admit it - I just want believable Wicki/Dieter-porn. :P