Too many stupid Landa/Hellstrom-ideas for one day

[linndechir]

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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[linndechir.livejournal.com]

I was reading a Viennese cookery book yesterday and the author spewed out a page on why the use of 'Kartoffel' on any menu in Vienna was an insult to Austrian culture and linguistics. It made me think of Landa.
Haha, I know. My brother lived in Vienna for half a year and told me quite a few things about those wonderful vocabulary differences between German German and Austrian German. I have to admit that when I visited him, I was sometimes rather confused by things I read on the menu in restaurants.
Landa and Hellstrom arguing about food terminology must be hilarious. Especially when they're in Vienna and Landa lectures him and tells him how Hellstrom is wearing a big sign saying "Piefke" on his head if he says stuff like "Kartoffel".

Petulant Dieter makes me happy for some reason, especially when combined with sexually frustrated, morally ambiguous Landa.
Just reading that makes me squeal. ;)

It's refreshing to know that I'm not the only one suffering from this sort of writer's block.
Don't worry, I'm having the biggest writer's block of my life. I haven't written a single line of fic since May, I believe. Inspiration is only slowly coming back, with Landa/Hellstrom of all things, instead of the pairing I have to write for the fic exchange. But I know that I'll manage to write something for the fic exchange, too, I'm just not very motivated.

Your readers are less discerning than yourself and would be quite happy to have them quote obscure German literature to each other in bed.
I'm about to make you even happier ... last night I had the idea to put this whole literature-quoting-thing into chapter 3 of La Musica. Yes, about ten months after chapter two, I finally know what to write in chapter three. It -might- just get written.

even in a tank if Hellstrom somehow contrived to shut Landa in one for a moment's peace.
I wish I could write crack!fic. I have to imagine Landa in the tank, yelling helplessly and threatening to do horrible things to Hellstrom once he gets out, while Hellstrom sits on top of the tank, reading the newspaper, and smirking smugly.

The Australian ads for that show have a narrator with a disturbing tendency to pronounce "Lightmann" as "Eichmann."
I think he'd disapprove of one of Lightman's employees ... named Eli ... ;) Now I'm trying to figure out how someone could possibly pronounce "Lightman" as "Eichmann". WTF.