linndechir | GUNF August!

So much August in one day! Beautiful pictures you've posted, and Salt wasn't SO horrible. His English is adorable and the part is relatively small. They almost talk about him more than you see him :\

Maybe go see it if you want to listen to Angelina speaking Russian with an atrocious accent xD;

August's English is adorable indeed. So is his French, btw, he has a really sweet accent.

Oh God, my Russian isn't all that good, but I guess even I will notice an atrocious accent if there is one. I just can't stand Jolie's face. I always feel the irrational urge to punch her. ;)

I'll be honest with you and agree with the above comment, but the only reasons I went to see the movie, were my crushes on August and Liev Schreiber. They were both fantastic and August was so incredibly adorable in it!

Dilemma! I want to see August being adorable! But I don't want to see a) a crappy action movie, b) Angelina Jolie. Silly August, why couldn't he have picked some other movie to be in? *sigh*

GUUUUUHHHHHNNNNNFFFFF! Thank you. A couple of months ago I posted some August finger/smoking kink pics on my LJ because I was going through withdrawal pains. Mezza Fredda was ecstatic. ;-)

I miss August so much. I feel the same way about "Salt" as you do. I really don't want to pay money to see him for only 15 minutes or so. I already went through that with "Woman in Berlin", but at least that was a good movie (and I rather fancied the Russian officer, even though he was no Gusti.) Have you thought of torrenting it? It's probably available, although likely a low quality camcorded in the theater or with Chinese subtitles or something. You know how new-release torrents are. ;-)

That bottom picture is one of my favorites, too. I call it "August with a Smile and a Cigarette."

Thank you for this much-needed dose of beauty. :-D

Most of these pictures are old anyway, but I wanted to repost them. GUNF indeed. August looks so dashing in black. In another recent post on the augustdiehl-comm there was a picture of August with sunglasses. ^^

But I don't want August in crappy quality. ;) I'd watch the movie in a heartbeat if it weren't for Angelina Jolie. I don't mind going to the cinema for mediocre movies (I think I said that before, when we talked about popcorn ;)), but I do mind watching a movie with an actress that annoys me so much. Well, maybe it won't be too bad.

You call that a smile? I call that a smirk. A Dieter smirk. But maybe that's just because I adore the word "smirk". ;) Either way I agree, it's probably one of the most beautiful pictures of August out there.

Those pics are oldies but goodies. I wish August would do more English-speaking films, but I think the combination of his unusually beautiful looks and his German accent have Hollywood flummoxed. They're not much into the unusual here in sunny California, unfortunately.

You're absolutely right. That IS the Dieterchen smirk. I stand corrected. ;-D

Did I already squee to you about August speaking French in that weird movie I once saw?
Yeah, unfortunately Hollywood mostly likes boring-pretty with a relatively neutral, mainstream (very ugly) American accent. *grumble* But, to be honest, I'd rather see August playing the main character in a good (or at least decent) German movie than see him say three lines in a crappy Hollywood movie.

Glad I could convince you. I think "Dieterchen smirk" is a wonderful description of his face. *pats her own shoulder and gets crushed by her own ego* -.-

Oooh, what movie was that where he speaks French? What's his accent like? I think Waltz's is good.

"I'd rather see August playing the main character in a good (or at least decent) German movie than see him say three lines in a crappy Hollywood movie."

Hear, hear. I couldn't agree with you more. I'd rather see him in ANY European film, period, than something stupid like "Salt".

The only problem with the Dieterchen smirk is that some people overuse it in their fanfics. There's one girl on fanfic.net that has him smirking in every paragraph!

August does have an accent when he speaks French, his French isn't as good as Waltz's. But it's not a cliché German accent, it's actually rather sweet. And I say that as someone who usually cringes at foreign accents. The movie is called La Petite Prairie Aux Bouleaux/The Birch Tree Meadow. I don't think I watched the entire movie, it really wasn't interesting. I just skipped through it for August's scenes, tbh. And I can't remember for my life where I found the download. :/

Well, it's not like European films can't be crappy, too. They're just differently crappy. But at least they don't have Angelina Jolie.

Mhm, whom do you mean? I don't really follow the IB fandom on ff.net. From what I've seen it's mostly crap, and the good fics are mostly by the writers who also post on LJ.Please tell me people don't write Mary Sue fic about poor Dieterchen? The boy so obviously hates women. oO
And his smirk is hard to resist. I probably have him smirk more often than I should. ;)

It would be hard for most non-French people to have as good an accent as Waltz's, I imagine.

Indeed, there are plenty of crappy European films. I like what Waltz said: "In the USA they make films as art and sell them as commodities; in Europe they make films as commodities and sell them as art."

You can rest assured that I have yet to see any sentimental, Mary-Sue-like hetfics about Dieterchen. The few hetfics there are have always featured an appropriately nasty and misogynistic interpretation of our boy--smirks and all. ;-)

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I think I said it before, but when I watched IB for the first time I was in the cinema with two French friends of mine, who were very impressed. Obviously Waltz does have an accent, he doesn't sound like a native speaker, but he's pretty good.

One of the reasons I rarely watch European movies. Mediocre films can be fun to watch, but mediocre films that pretend to be intelligent and amazing and OMFG ART! are just unbearable. At least American movies admit that they're crap.

Dieterchen in hetfic is in itself so OOC, it breaks my brain. But we've talked about that before, no reason to repeat that. I'm still reassured that so far nobody had him fall in love with a Jewish girl who just happened to be so gorgeous and SPESHUL that Dieter gave up all his beliefs to save her (and while he was at it, he also joined the Basterds and helped kill Hitler and generally redeemed himself because his SPESHUL girlfriend made him realise how evil the Nazis were).
Just typing this hurts. ;)

Waltz in general has a very good ear for French, I think. But--and I know we've discussed this before--no one does a better job than our dear old Christopher Lee.

Gusti made such a strong impression in IB that I think it's hard for ANYONE to picture him falling in love with a girl and out of love with the Gestapo. Nope, as I said, his het romances (at least those I've read), just like his romance with Landa, are all twisted and fucked up. :-D

I'm always torn between not being impressed by people who speak French well (because I learnt it very fast) and being impressed by them because they learnt it without living there. ;) Anyway, you're right, nothing beats Christopher Lee's gorgeous French. I was so disappointed that his German doesn't sound all that great. :(
(If it reassures you - I have no desire whatsoever to call Christopher Lee "Tophy". More a desire to call him "sir" and feel that it's still not respectful enough. ;))

Well, I thought the same about Landa, but apparently there ARE crappy Mary Sue stories in which Landa falls in love with a girl and turns into a good guy. There's nothing I put past het shippers. :P (Tbh, there's also nothing I put past slash shippers, before you hit me. But I am always under the impression that at least in most of my fandoms (I know it's the other way around in other fandoms), the het shippers are usually even more delusional idiots than the slashers. Present company excluded. ;) But really? "omfg Eric and Sookie have such chemistry!" "omfg House and Cuddy belong together!" I always wonder if they watch different shows/movies.)

I agree with you about "sir" still not seeming respectful enough for the great and grand Christopher Lee. Only "Lord" would do in my opinion, but he hasn't been made a lord yet. And if anyone dares call him "Tophy" or "Topher", I'll do what Luis Buñuel said he used to do when he finally got completely fed up with Salvador Dali: "comb the cafés of the Montparnasse looking to slap him in the face."

Oh, Landa was a shoe-in for crappy Mary Sue stories, are you kidding? There are so many teenagers out there in love with him it's unavoidable. Worse than the Landa Mary Sue fics are the Christoph Mary Sues, especially the ones that have the writer's alter-ego picking up Christoph, taking him home, fucking him, and of course having him fall in love with her for ever and ever. Those are actually painful to read--I do so as self-punishment (not the good kind) only.

I appreciate that you have excluded said present company from what is an entirely accurate assessment of most hetfics. You'll be pleased to know that not only does my Landa have tons of gay sex in my "het" story, but he's just as capable of nastiness as he is in my slash stories. And my female character is a woman close to his age who's had quite a past herself. They're both suitably fucked-up and angsty. My heroine even had a BDSM relationship with an SS guard when she spent some time in a camp for smuggling. In fact, that bit in the story has proved so popular that I'm writing a separate BDSM pornfic just with those two characters.;-)

You should do that. Thinking of that, I need to see more movies with Christopher Lee slapping people around. People with beautiful hands just should do that. ;) Have a Dooku icon.

All I'm saying is: if somehow you manage to break Landa's character enough to insert him in a Mary Sue story, I don't see why you shouldn't do the same with Hellstrom.
I am now trying to forget about this, all right? I'm so happy I'm not a teenager anymore - I spent years being ashamed of my age, at least I don't have to do that anymore. ;)

I haven't read your het fic, and you know that I won't. But I am of course aware of the fact that there are good het fics out there, well written, in character, and probably hot if you're into that kind of thing. There's good het like there is good slash, and bad het like there is bad slash.
What I meant is rather the following: most (exclusive) het shippers always complain about how slash is OOC and only exists because insane slash fans want the two hot guys to have sex. In some cases that's of course true. But there are many slash ships out there (especially in my main fandoms) that are very IC, that make a lot of sense, that are really a great continuation of the characters' dynamics in canon (at least if you can admit the possibility of them being gay/bi). Many het ships, however, even in canon, seem to be based on nothing but "we have a hot woman, we have a hot man, we need a romantic relationship in this, let's put them together" or "our main character needs a love interest, let's have him fall in love with the first random hot woman around, even if she's a boring twat" - even if there's really no reason why these two should be interested in each other (at least interested in more than just a quick fuck because the other one is hot).
My point being: most het ships are way more out of character than slash ships. Good slash fics usually try to explain why these two men are attracted to each other, because they always feel the need to justify themselves. Many het shippers, from what I've seen in the few fics I've read and mainly in the many meta discussions, don't do that. Their ship just IS, no matter how OOC it would be for one or both characters. Most het pairings (both canon and fanon) have strictly no chemistry. If they have, I'm the first one to admit it, even if I don't personally like the ship. I think Firefly's Mal/Inara is one of the most interesting pairings out there, because they really HAVE chemistry. Every scene of them is full of eye sex, of suppressed longing; it's a relationship between two equals who know that they'd totally fuck up if they ever got together. I wouldn't want to read porn about them, but it's a ship that even fascinates me. Most het pairings are based on nothing but the remote possibility that every heterosexual man on the show could get together with every heterosexual woman on the show. Again, many slash ships do the same, but I feel that there are just more slash ships that make sense, character-wise, than het ships.

Thank you kindly for the Dooku icon. If we were to round up all the actors with nice hands who should slap people around, we'd have a veritable SlapFest. Just think of it: Christopher Lee, Liam Neeson, Mark Strong, Michael Fassbender, August Diehl...oh, and let's throw in Heydrich for good measure, since no one else in all history has ever had more perfect hands for this purpose. This would make a nice follow-up to our little fantasty of joining Schellchen in the long line of people outside Heydrich's office door just waiting to be slapped around.

Oh, I'm well aware you won't read my hetfic, and I don't mind. Heck, you don't even read my slash fics!! And the one where a 30-year-old Captain Landa picks up a 16-year-old Dieterchen for sex in a dark alley is so wildly popular, although I'm also quite fond of the one where Dieterchen fucks Archie in the back room of La Lousianne. Dieterchen is just so delightfully nasty in that one, spanking Archie and calling him a limey slut, etc.

That said, I couldn't agree with you more that there are tons of slash pairings out there which seem somehow made in heaven (or just our fevered little brains). There's no question, for example, that Landa & Dieterchen belong together, even though the two of them never interact with each other in the film and don't even really appear onscreen at the same time, except from a distance when Goebbels and the lot are leaving the cinema after their preview viewing). Anyone who thinks slash is OOC is nuts. There are centuries of literature celebrating male bonding--it's a literary tradition, for goodness' sake. Not to mention the fact that male bonding in Greek history was quite authentically slashy. I'm surprised that people would ever consider slash OOC. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I don't like most OFCs in hetfics because too often they are very young, twattty girls who somehow sweep the characters off their feet. I don't mind some of the IB hetfics which feature Shoshanna/Hellstrom or Shoshanna/Landa, because these are always in character and always twisted and fucked up. And the Bridget/Landa and Bridget/Archie hetfics are usually quite witty as well as in character. But overall, I agree--there are far more slash pairings that make sense than het pairings, and they're all part of the romanticization of the male bonding experience.

Well, that's great, no? It means that next time Heydrich has no time to slap Schellchen around, Schellchen can go to one of the other guys on the list. Even though it wouldn't be the same, of course ... because nobody can replace his beloved CHEEEEEF. ;) (icon of Mark's hands, to fit the subject)

Come on, that's unfair. I've read most of your slash fic. Or at least quite a few. I actually finally wanted to read your student-Dieterchen fic a while ago; I might just do that later today. For some reason I always think of stuff like that when I'm busy, not when I'm online and have time. As for the others ... well, I think I told you that I just wasn't a big fan of your Dieterchen characterisation in the one fic (it was Silent Night, I believe), which is, again, not a real criticism but just a personal preference. As for the Hellstrom/Hicox one, I guess I overlooked it. I don't really know, I always have twenty tabs open with fics I need to read. It's like you with movies you download - I think, "oh, I need to read this!" and then I end up reading other things, or doing completely different stuff. It's nothing personal. I'm always behind on my fic-reading.

Exactly. Some slash pairings are basically canon (Holmes/Watson), others are so obvious that they could just as well be canon, and sometimes, as you said, two characters are just made for each other (Landa/Hellstrom, or my favourite Forgotten Realms pairing Entreri/Zaknafein - they never met in canon, Zaknafein actually died before Entreri was born (which is not that much of a problem in a fantasy world), but their characters just fit perfectly together). And sometimes it's just fun to figure out how two apparently incompatible characters could work together - not for the admittedly hot porn, but for the characterisation. The porn is just the cherry on top. My first multi-chaptered fic was an apparently insane attempt to bring two characters together who hated each other's guts in canon - and not even in the love-hate-way, but pure hate. Unsurprisingly, it all ended tragically with everyone alone and bitter.

But I think it's not only about the characters themselves, but also about the way their shippers see and write them. There are some het pairings that could probably make for amazing fics (I'm talking about canon characters, not OFCs), but many of their shippers don't seem to bother with making them interesting. Many of my slash pairings are not obviously made for each other in canon, but I always try to create a story for them in which their relationship makes sense. Many het shippers don't seem to bother with that. Even if they don't torture us with Mary Sues. Their only explanation is usually, "they have such chemistry, they obviously belong together!" If a slash fan says that, people tell them their slash goggles are on too tight.

Speaking of that ... I generally don't like OCs. I still can't believe I wrote an OC myself once, and one I adore on top of that. But OCs that are really just self-insert? *insert puking*

Again, since you like interseting het pairings ... you should definitely have a look at Firefly, if you've never seen it before. Not only is it possibly the best sci-fi show ever, but it also features several interesting, complex female characters and therefore interesting shipping possibilities. And tons of slash possibilities as well, mind you. ^^ And the original "I'll be in my bunk." It always cracks me up to see everyone using that phrase without knowing where it comes from.

I think Schellchen would insist that anyone who slaps him around be in SS uniform. Which will all the participants in our SlapFest would make for one very beguiling scenario. We haven't seen either Mark or Liam in SS uniform yet, have we? *rushes to message Machiavelli with more photoshopping requests*

It's funny that you should say that about Dieterchen in "Stille Nacht". That was my first Landa/Hellstrom fic, and Dieterchen in it seems to bear more than a passing resemblance to Dieterchen in parts 1 & 2 of "La Musica delle Parole"! ;-) My Dieterchen is entirely different in the other two stories you mentioned. I especially love the jaded, cynical Dieterchen in "One Evening in Nuremberg". I hope you'll read it and comment on it.

For me the slash pairings are always about the porn, but they do have to make sense. They can't just be randomly thrust together. There's more of that in the slash fics about the Basterds themselves (why Donny & Utivich?) You, Zoi No Miko and Nariel are my favorite slash writers. I won't pump up your ego further by gushing over how much I love your writing. I also love how raw Zoi's stories are, and how authentic the male voices and physical descriptions are. At first I thought she was male because her porn reads like so much of the gay porn written by men. The voices are very authentically straightforward, masculine and raw; there's very little introspection or angst. Mark Simpson and I were recently discussing women reading and writing slash--we met on Facebook, which I've found a wonderful place to meet other published authors. It's really come a long way from the silly little social site it once was. Have you read any of Mark's books? "Anti-Gay" is great. He was on a radio show with Jake Arnott recently, and afterwards I asked him and he very kindly agreed to ask Jake if the mirror scene did indeed appear in the original telecast of the BBC adaptation of "The Long Firm". So let's hope we get an answer to that burning question!

I'm not wild about OCs either, for the very simple reason that they usually aren't as interesting as the characters from canon. And I agree, too many writers don't make any effort to make them so. They're just too absorbed with projecting themselves into their OCs. Now what OC did you write and where is that story? I must know!

Firefly--I'll have to torrent it. Anything that would come up with something as witty and now universally used as "I'll be in my bunk" is well worth watching. And I'm always interested in good female characters. That's one of the reasons I've always preferred Tarantino to Scorsese (whom I value more as a film scholar than as a director, although he has made good films.) Tarantino writes wonderful women, and Scorsese has admitted he could care less about women characters. I find it very ironic that Scorsese finally won his best director oscar for the film that was least like a Scorsese film!

Liam, I don't think so. Mark ... yes, we have seen Mark in SS uniform. I think it was one of his very first movies, he's only in it for three minutes or so (which I haven't seen), he's all young (30-ish), and unfortunately we don't get a good/any look at his boots. Also, unfortunately it was an English movie, so it doesn't even have Mark speaking German. *grumble* Buuut, go here for the pretty pictures of young Mark in SS uniform: http://community.livejournal.com/mark_strong/63544.html

I don't really remember much about the fic, tbh. I just remember that I somehow didn't like the dynamics between Landa and Hellstrom in that fic, even back when I first read it and wasn't so much against my own La musica!Dieterchen. Also, I remember, more clearly than I remember my objections about the characterisation, that your style in that fic was a bit too florid for my taste. Not florid as in bad, but florid as in not my cup of tea. And I'm apparently one of the few people in fandom who actually took the whole "don't like, don't read"-thing to heart, so if I know that someone writes stuff that's not my thing, I don't read it instead of whining about it. ;D Anyway, I can't really give you any intelligent comment on Stille Nacht, because I barely remember details.
As for the young!Dieterchen-fic, I read it yesterday and will leave a comment in a few. I can say already that cynical Dieterchen was what I liked best about that fic.

Well, the porn ... I don't know. Sure, the porn is fun, it's hot, but generally the porn I imagine myself when seeing a hot slash pairing is a lot better than 90% of all written porn. I can't say I read fanfic for porn, except when it's exceptionally well written, or when there's some unusual kink (like my asphyxiation fic, or that amazing fisting fic I linked you to recently). Tbh, I skip porn half the time when I read fanfic. Most porn is, at best, boring, at worst, unsexy because of a bad choice of vocabulary, or general "put A into B"-descriptions. I want angst, and I want introspection, and I want characterisation, and of course I want them to have sex at some point - but unless the sex is amazingly well written, I'll just skim through it. I'm a lot more interested in how two characters get together, why they're attracted to each other, why they decide to sleep with each other even if they shouldn't for whatever reasons ...
What I find a lot hotter than straightforward porn is stuff like innuendos, flirting, hints, descriptions of details like smell (I'm using that example because a friend of mine wrote a rather hot ficlet just about Hani's (Body of Lies) smell) ... And angst. And characterisation. Fic without characterisation is just sad. ;)

Erm, no, never heard of Mark Simpson. But you know I rarely venture outside fandom in these matters. ;) But, of course, I'd LOVE to know if there was an original mirror scene in the BBC adaptation.

Mark Simpson is a delight. He's a total renegade in the gay "community," He hates the whole community thing as much as the rest of us. For some reason most of the authors I correspond with regularly online are gay men, mostly in the UK. You'd probably love Mark; he looks like an Eastender thug.

I'll comment separately on the Landa/Hellstrom/Haupsturmführer/Rent Boy fic since YOU'VE ACTUALLY READ AND COMMENTED ON IT!!! HOORAY! You may have noticed that the style in that one was not nearly as florid as "Stille Nacht." My style in general is usually not so florid.

I read fanfics pretty much for two reasons only: the porn, and to scout out young writers. So much of it is so bad that when I find a good one I always give encouragement as well as my beta/editing skills when requested. I love to beta people's English translations from German or Russian because I really enjoy working with the original langauge to ensure that the translation is as close as possible to the original. It hones my editing skills and improves both my Russian and German. But outside of the IB canon, I only read fanfics by writers I like. I now prefer finding original stories with Reich settings, preferably RPFs. Since Machiavelli sent me the swimsuit photo of Rommel I'm lusting after him even more than I already had been, so she very graciously sent me a link to an RPF.

And I'm still trying to find again that crazy slash fic about the British officer with the life-size Heydrich doll. I think he and Max Aue may have been separated at birth.

What, no squee about Mark Strong in uniform? ;)

Yep, I agree, the style in that fic was a lot less florid, and I found that much more enjoyable. I don't have a problem with florid writing in itself (although I think that it works a lot better in German than in English), but I can't stand florid writing in porn. It just all ends up sounding somewhat like purple prose. I'm not talking about your fic here, but about these writers that write porn like sex is some sort of religious/metaphysical/spiritual experience with exploding stars and shit like that. Seriously? I wouldn't want anyone to explode during sex. That sounds positively dangerous. So, yeah, bad fics like that have put me off florid writing in porn forever.

Heh, I rarely read fics for fandoms I don't care about, even if I like the writer. I have yet to find a single fanfic writer who is so amazing that they could make me enjoy a fic about characters I don't even know. Of course I enjoy good writing in fanfic, but I mainly read the fanfics for the characters - because I know that I could find even better writing elsewhere.

.... I don't even want to know ... oO

Will my icon serve as my SS Mark squee? ;-D

Seriously, I replied to your comment before viewing the link, that's why no squee then. But here you go: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I think these are now officially part of my absolute favorite photos of Mark.

Ah, writing sex. In slash I like it as raw as possible, in het I like it a little more romantic, although I'm not at all adverse to raw het sex. In fact, the raw het fics I like are usually filled with awkward grammar and syntax errors and loads of dirty language (they're usually written by non-native English speakers) and I find the roughness to the writing has a certain amount of charm. It reminds me of the gay collections of the Straight to Hell chapbooks, which are purportedly based on actual experiences.

Yes, I find it difficult, too, to read fanfic about characters I don't even know--unless they're played by a pairing of actors who interest me and written by a writer whose work I enjoy. Like your Blackwood/Coward fics. I haven't even seen the movie yet, but I have read your fics. Now is that silly of me?

oO indeed re the lifesize Heydrich doll story. From what I remember of it, however, it was rather decently written. ;-D

Oh, how Landa would squee about SS Mark ... The ego clash, the overdose of BAMF-ness ... Mhmmm.

I don't think they are my favourite photos of Mark. He doesn't smoke on them. ;)

Oh God, grammar and syntax errors in fic are bad enough ... but in porn? Big turn-off. People who are too stupid to get the difference between "its" and "it's" should not write porn. It's doesn't get much unsexier.

I never think it's silly to enjoy fic. ;) And I never think it's silly when people enjoy my fics. I don't know, characters played by actors I love might actually get me interested, yes, but generally I have trouble with fics about characters I don't know. Fanfic usually presupposes some knowledge about the characters, their shared background etc. While that's not a big problem for side characters like Blackwood/Coward, or for a pairing like Landa/Hellstrom with no common canon background, it's a real problem with two characters who have dozens of scenes together. Fics with summaries like "this happens right after the scene in episode X" ... are just not fun to read when you haven't seen the scene. ;)

I repeat: I don't think I want to know. ;)

Good point about the lack of smoking porn in those Mark photos. Still--GUUUHHHNNFFF!

I agree with you about two regular characters in a fandom. I like Hugh Laurie and the character of House, but I almost never watch the show so it makes no sense for me to read fanfic about it. On the other hand, I love Zoi No Miko's slash so much that I've read her Inception fics even though I haven't seen the film yet! Although it certainly helps that I know who's in it.

I see you brought back one of my favorite of your Heydi icons! That one is so you I was sorry to see it disappear for a while.

I still need to watch Endgame. Apparently Mark is taking smoking porn to a new level in that movie, from the caps I've seen.

Funny, because I've actually seen Inception and still don't want to read fic about it. Partly because most of the fandom ships a pairing I find completely and utterly dull (Eames/Arthur), partly because even for the pairing I'd find interesting (Cobb/Arthur) I'm not sure what kind of fic I'd want to read. Certainly not straightforward porn, but I don't know what else I'd want. It's not a movie that makes me want fic, it's weird.

Heidi, Heidi, deine Welt sind die Berge ... oh fuck, that mental image gives me a headache.
I love the icon, but I prefer to be careful about who I use it with. Don't want to get bitched at by idiots who will think I'm an evil Nazi.

I've only read Cobb/Saito and Saito/Robert, the latter with super-hot Daddy kink which pushes my buttons until they positively break.

I understand about that particular Heydi icon. It just so perfectly fits you, but is probably much better kept for only those of us who know you well. ;-) That's probably my second-favorite photo of him, and I like that you managed to get two icons out of it - especially the loooong-fingered handkink one. ^^

Mhm. Not too enthusiastic about that. But then again, I'm not really enthusiastic about anything right now. ;)

Heydi ... I will never get rid of the mental images and the matching music ... *cries*
What's not to love about his hands? :D I'm glad there are a few really beautiful pics of him, considering that many other pics are not exactly flattering.

Not to worry. Nariel called me to task for that one and I'm now referring to him as "Reini" like the rest of you. Not as funny & inventive, but less likely to cause brain lesions with accompanying convulsions in my friends.

I'm convinced that this photo is one of the reasons my Hey- Reini doll comes with two pair of hands, the utilitarian pair with the clenched fists and the pair with nice, long, straight fingers. Somehow 3R knew and understood the handkink aspect. ;-)

I will have to thank her for that. ;)

How could anyone look at Reini and NOT understand the handkink? ^^

Correct, as always. The handkink is just so key to his appeal. Long fingers, long--you know what I mean. But even if the association weren't true, the fingers alone are too magnificent and I'm sure were more than capable. ;-)

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Haha, my OC ... is a funny thing, really. Pretty boy goes by the name of Dyon, and only appeared in a single one-shot I wrote for Forgotten Realms, Coming to Terms (on ff.net). He's a high-class prostitute, and actually he's only there because I needed to figure out how my favourite FR character, Artemis Entreri, became the unrepressed guy I wrote him as in some of my fanfics - very distant and reserved, but not shy or embarrassed about his sexuality - despite the fact that a) he was abused as a child (in canon) and b) he comes from a very conservative society which would consider that it really, really isn't manly to get fucked. Dyon only ever appeared in that one fic, and he wasn't really much of an interesting character there (although people did like him). He really was just this nice, gentle, gorgeous guy who managed to put poor Entreri at ease. The fic was only about Entreri and his thoughts and feelings. I never wrote Dyon again, but I came up with so many stories and ideas for him that, by now, he actually is a really complex character in my mind.
Technically I also write another OC, also in a FR-fic. However, he only appeared in the last chapter of a fic I wrote back then. He was supposed to be really important in the sequel, but the sequel never got written.

Firefly is amazing. Like everyone, I can't believe it got cancelled after one season. It's full of wonderful characters, both male and female. You know that I couldn't care less about female characters and that I'm usually very relieved when there aren't any, so it's really a compliment when I like a female character.

You'll be happy to know that I am now torrenting the entire single season of Firefly. Did you get a chance to download and watch Ich Bin Die Andere? It's worth it for naked Gusti, who has a very cute, soft-looking arsch, although it's a rather crazy movie about a woman with multiple personalities and family secrets and MAJOR daddy issues. Of course Gusti falls in love with her. x-D

I' m happy to hear that, yes. ;) I hope you'll find time to watch it soon, it's worth it. I have yet to find a single person who has seen Firefly and did not love it.

As I said in some other comment: downloaded yes, watched no. I doubt that I'll get around to it before next week. Oh, but btw, I finally got around to watching a couple of episodes of Mad Men. I believe you mentioned the show to me once or twice? And another friend of mine also told me how much she loved it. So far ... yeah, I like it, but I'm not sure how interesting it will still be after a while. The main character looking hot and bored and smoking all the time is of course beautiful eye candy, that helps. ;)

Downloaded--now it's just a matter of finding the time to watch it, although I'm pretty darn curious, so it shouldn't be too long from now.

Mad Men is actually the best television show in America right now. If you have an interest in American culture in the 1960s--and all the upheaval that took place--it does have some intelligent and interesting insights to offer, particularly with regard to the changing role of women. Not to mention that it's beautiful to look at--and not just for the gorgeous John Hamm (who is refreshingly relaxed and articulate in real life). The period detail is so precise that the prop mistress shops regularly at vintage stores in and around LA--she even got the keychain for Don's car, which is perhaps overdoing it, but the careful attention does pay off.

I also like the show because I spent four years as an advertising copywriter and loved it, and the show is set during what's generally acknowledged as the golden age of American advertising, and in fact focuses on some very real campaigns of the period. The show is so cleverly done that even the commercials which appear during the broadcast are tied into advertising concepts and history. In fact, there's one campaign that produces its own mini-mad-men adverts set in the same period, with two sixties ad men discussing how best to sell the product. They're clever, but ironically, they're not good advertising, since it took several of the commercials for me to remember what the product was!

So, any Firefly progress? ;)

I really find the show interesting, exactly because of the period detail (and, yeah, the delicious smoking porn). However, I'm not sure how long I'll stay interested. It's not the kind of show that makes me watch everything there is in just a few days, but more a "one episode a week"-show, I think. ;)

Nope, it's all downloaded, but I'm too sucked (double-entendres, anyone?) into Gusti now that I've finally gotten The Ninth Day.

Mad Men is practically solid smoking porn. Also cocktail porn, especially martinis. But it's especially period detail porn. I couldn't believe that they went to the trouble to get the right keychain for the year and model of Don's car--and you hardly ever see it.

It's definitely a one-episode-a-week show. You need time to absorb and digest each episode. It's not a series that moves at a rapid clip but you will find yourself sucked into it--especially for John Hamm - GUUUUHHHHNNNFFFF!

OhGod, the Ninth Day. Such a disappointment. The script writer ought to be shot. No one cares about that stupid priest, we want to see more of the Gestapo officer who's not just Gusti and therefore hot, but also a much more interesting character. And the shitty plot, argh. But still worth watching, don't worry.

A friend of mine also recommended ReGenesis to me, mainly because of the possible slash pairing in it. Apparently my shipping Lightman/Loker in Lie to Me convinced her that "arrogant genius with an equally genius, but hero-worshipping boytoy he can kick around" is just my kinda thing. I have yet to watch it, though.

"arrogant genius with an equally genius, but hero-worshipping boytoy he can kick around" - This is ABSOLUTELY just your sort of thing.

I am so behind on my film-watching that it isn't even funny any more. :-(

GUNF August!

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