linndechir | Too many stupid Landa/Hellstrom-ideas for one day

I thought I had an idea for a Landa/Hellstrom-fic. But then I realised that I just want them to quote Schiller to each other in bed. And I haven’t even reread Don Karlos in ages. You can see that something is seriously wrong with my creativity when all I can come up with is have two Nazis quote gorgeous German literature to each other. And reading Musil’s Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (The Confusions of Young Torless) gives me the crazy urge to write about teenage!Landa in an Austro-Hungarian boarding school. Or write about Landa and Hellstrom having some crazy discussion about why Landa is so very Austrian and why that annoys the hell out of Dieter (who is, let's face it, easily annoyed). What on Earth? Reading books is so not good for me, apparently. ;) ~~But don't you just see that? The epic Austrian vs. Prussian bitching? Okay, I'm probably the only person who could get excited about something like that.~~
So, I’m still excited about the second

blackwoodcoward fic exchange. All those gorgeous fics coming up in a month! I love this fandom - it‘s tiny, but it has more really, REALLY great writers than most big fandoms. I just don’t like the prompt I’m supposed to write, it’s rather similar to something I already did before in some other fic I wrote, and it does nothing to make me want to write again. But I’m a good girl, and I will probably come up with something soon. I shouldn’t complain, I just felt kinda disappointed when I read the prompt, and I needed to whine a little. I had hoped for something that would make me think, “Wow, this is epic, my writer's block is gone, I can’t wait to start working on this!” and not “oh, okay, sure, I wouldn’t want to disappoint my giftee”.

Maybe I should really write pretentious literature fic about Landa and Hellstrom just to remember when writing feels like. It would probably be even more snobby than the pretentious music fic I wrote about them. ~~Am I the only one who thinks that Cal Lightman would have a field day with Landa? Don’t worry, I won’t write crazy crossover fic.~~ No, really, I miss Hellstrom, I miss his dysfunctional relationship with Landa, I miss their pretentious intellectuality, their mindfucking, their wonderfully understated love for each other, the kind of love that still wouldn’t keep them from shooting each other if they could get away with it, except that they would be so very bored without each other. I miss Hellstrom’s half-hateful admiration for Landa, and Landa’s reluctant fascination with Hellstrom … I just miss them. If only I knew what to do with them. Other than have them discuss literature in bed. ;)

Anyway, I should focus on my fic for the fic exchange, instead of looking for supposedly legitimate ways of procrastinating. ;)

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Arrgg jealous of language skillz. :)

No, actually I haven't seen it yet.

I just have visions of Blackwood reading something to Coward, but I have no idea *what* it would be.

5am chats - are awesome. Agreed. I've been having some of those lately too. Not like I need fifty more fic ideas, but hey! it's cool.

It's not like I can be very proud of speaking German, I didn't have to learn it. ;)

ARRRRRRRGH you HAVE to watch it!!! Like, immediately. Yesterday. Half a year ago. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen, full of amazing actors. Probably my favourite Tarantino movie, and I generally love Tarantino. And, really, for someone who ships Blackwood/Coward, shipping landa/Hellstrom must be very natural ... They are different, sure, but they have a few things in common. *poke poke nudge* ;)

I always see Blackwood with a Bible in his hands, it seems so ironically fitting. Don't you just see him reading the Bible to Coward? It's violent and cruel enough for his taste. ;) Apart from that ... mhm, what could they possibly like? Now you got me thinking. I will spend the rest of the evening thinking about their literary tastes. *coughDantecough* ;)

I'm having those all the time now, considering that I rarely manage to get into bed before 6am. And I really needed the fic ideas this time. ;)

Hey, I didn't have to learn English, and I still fail to speak/write it every day!

See, the main reason I didn't watch it was because it's Tarantino, and the only thing of his I've ever enjoyed was Sin City - and even then it was only because I could be distracted by the incredible pretty of lighting and coloring - if it hadn't had those, I'd have run off.

Blackwood + bible = yes. As Coward + Machiavelli = yes. But I'd love there to be something contemporary (in their time) that strikes both of them as clever/ridiculous, and then Blackwood is like 'listen to this' or Coward is like, 'I'm sure I'd find this more interesting if you were reading it'.

But I haven't a clue what it would be. Oh, years of lit, why do you fail me now? How could you not prepare me for the really important things in life?

I'm trying hard to make myself sleep a little more, but the conversation gets so much better at 3am!

Well, the good news it: you might enjoy it even if you don't like Tarantino's other movies. I actually know a few IB-fans who didn't like Tarantino before this movie. There's less graphic violence and blood (although there is some), and although it IS a Tarantino movie, it's not a typical Tarantino movie. It's not like Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs, if only because the setting is so different. Also, while Tarantino always has great actors in his movies, the actors outdid themselves in IB. Everything you probably heard about Christoph Waltz is true, times ten-thousand. ;) And he's not the only one.

Something contemporary ... Huh, there's a lot of gorgeous English 19th century poetry. They might enjoy that. Okay, most of those I have in mind are actually early 19th century, so not really contemporary either. Damn it.

Mhm, why does my uni not offer a seminar about "Late 19th century English literature and its relevance for Victorian fanfiction"? Uni is really useless. ;)

The only reason I'm still alive is because I sleep half the day. As you say, conversation gets so much better after 3am. :D

Maybe I'll give it a try then. It might be a little while, because I'm trying to restrict myself on potential new fandom sources for a bit, because the recent Mark spam has just overloaded my brain. :)

I was trying to think of some lovely poetry too! And then ... I really wanted them to get their hands on some of the WWI stuff, but that wouldn't *work*. Sadface.

Why doesn't any university offer that? I WOULD ATTEND IT SO HARD. Now there's a class I might actually manage to go to, rather than fail at life.

I don't know how I was still alive last week when I kept staying up more than right now, because I couldn't sleep all day - I had to go to mfing work. I mean, I do not understand how I didn't do something utterly inane at work.

Mark can easily overload your brain. And IB has the same effect on people - half the fandom went like, "who are these awesome German and French actors I have never seen before? Where can I find their other movies?" It was hilarious, really. ;)

Heh, true. Oh damn you now, now I want my IB-Nazis to read expressionist poetry. I don't need more literary geekery. kay, actually I do. Lovely poetry... huh, Coleridge? Nicely dark and angsty? I just imagined young Coward reading stuff like that and Blackwood being like, "oh, you child, with your romantic poetry." (while secretly enjoying it just as much)

Yeah, I'd prefer that to the boring stuff I usually have to listen to. *grumble*

I'd be dead if I had any sort of work to do right now. Poor you. :/

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