I'M BURNIN INSIDE TO TOUCH YOU, BABY!!!!

[rispacooper]

Goodness I love Johnny Depp (Crybaby is on Oxygen right now...heavily censored...fucking Oprah. Though seriously, is there anything more ridiculous, or fucking hot, than Johnny Depp warning Allison that "orphans have special needs"?)

Quick note of importance. My apologies for freakout of the other day. I am good now. I am just...surprised is all. That people like my crappy writing. It amazes me. From now on though I shall direct all praise to Pooky, as she is really the one who made me write it.

Also...so far my biography of Marlowe from the library is so boring. I mean...I don't know what I was expecting-- like a Cambridge dorm room under the covers snuggle fest and handjob I guess.

That would be hot. Totally hot. Sexy and brilliant but poor undergrad and his equally poor bedmate shagging to pass the time, all the while Marlowe is in love with some snotty as hell rich kid who doesn't appreciate his education, and they hate each other, but stare at each other with a furious, panting kind of want, that just leaves Marlowe wound up and bitter and frustrated, screwing his roommate desperately. And it turns out his roommate is in love with him, worships him, but he doesn't know it. And...and...this would never ever happen but a girl can dream.

I feel like Pir8fancier. All it needs now is a super goth and intimidating professor with a preference for same snotty rich kid but a watchful eye on that troublesome Marlowe. Considering Marlowe was the only surviving son in his family, I guess that does make him The Boy Who Lived.

I would give such a story....3 dicks I think. Maybe 4 if the prof gets involved.

*munches honey roasted peanuts like a fiend*

Comments

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

What I imagine is the first encounter (first...heh heh) being almost entirely rage based,

Absolutely.

I think he actually is quite experienced at bowing before the unstoppable force when that or death are his only options,

This is well proven based on his ability to survive the voyage back to France with nary a whimper. God these St. Cyr boys have grit.

And maybe like Rene he sees the power in being "bottom".

James certainly has proven that. Am beginning to almost feel sorry for Rene.

But still, it would essentially prove every snobby thought about peasants (and black savages) correct, and make him even more superior, but burning with an answering rage underneath it all...

It's a relationship of much blood being shed. Grrrr.

You've convinced me. Write away. And I thought Rene/James was dark!

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. It's weirdly enjoyable to think about, isn't it? So very dark though. The kind of dark I usually read but don't write. It would not be romantic at all. Etienne, after all, has to produce an heir at some point. Marry rich and marry well. Ah...it's so dysfunctional...It would rival the saga, I think, and the Shang/Shanny lust and almost-rapes spanning over twenty years.

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

God, my ass should be so fired. I have done NO work today at my
job. NONE!

Now back to our regular programming.

Marry rich and marry well. Ah...it's so dysfunctional...It would rival the saga..

The same role that religion plays in the James/Rene dynamic (tension/conflict/angst/rage) would be one hundred fold here because (a) Rene is by virtue of his birth an outlaw, which in many respects makes him much "free-er" than James is. I saw James' earring as (probably) too symbolic, but really a physical manifestation of his throwing his hat into the pirate camp. James is now an outlaw. And, hence, as "free" as his conscience and morals dictates, but he really isn't beholden to any laws at this point. Piracy is in someways ultimately freeing. These boys have much more choice, actually, than someone like Etienne.

Our dear Etienne is not a "free" man. He will have to marry well. He will have to marry rich (especially after Rene sold off all the sugar. Sounds like ALL the furniture has already been sold to pay debts. Bet Papa St. Cyr is already ordering Etienne's wedding clothes and posted the banns). And I think Etienne would have nothing but scorn for any other world. How he tries to shoe horn Deniau into this world? I think Deniau seems himself as having choice of a sort as a pirate and what is he willing to give up for Etienne?

Dark you say? No fucking lie.

But, um, could you please, uh, finish James/Rene before you embark on dark Etienne/Deniau fic that will, like James/Rene, grab my imagination and NOT let go? Insert fangirl squee.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

well, off the top of my head, i would say, with his inclinations being what they are, and Louis (yes, XIV) not quite solidifying his power base at Versailles yet, there is something of a power vaccuum among the nobility. with the financial backing, that a wife would bring, there is room enough for etienne to become quite a ruthless son of a bitch. a pirate on land. raise the family up to the snotty ass heights that the saint-cyrs were before the Revolution. at the same time, etienne, like the ne ne, has a conscience, or at least a sense of honour. there are sisters to keep him in check, and then, of course, there would be the deniau to kick his ass.

i kind of picture deniau as with him at all times, in this way that others would assume was a servant/bodyguard/enforcer. unless of course they move out to the saint-cyr holdings in the caribbean...

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Since I am working overtime to payback ALL THE TIME I spent on the previous day's play on LJ, I feel only slightly guilty replying to this.

Query? Why is speculating about sex and men much more interesting than editing engineering? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Have you read Madame de Sevigne's letters and how eventually the daughter and her Count ended up bankrupting themselves with their rapacious desire for show? Although, the St. Cyrs don't seem like gamblers (how DID they lose their money?), if ne ne is any example. Control freaks do NOT equal gamblers.

then, of course, there would be the deniau to kick his ass.

Is that kick ass or kiss ass?

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

i have to say, the speculation about men and sex is far more fun than work. speculation is better than writing it, which is a big fat pain in the ass.

i would imagine daddy spent the money on the following: whoring, drinking, mistresses, probably other bastards, trying to match people who actually had fortunes in his looks and dress. french nobles weren't quite forbidden to work as english nobles were, but they weren't necessarily tied to land. the family was, i imagine, poor to begin with so daddy married etienne's mother and then promptly spent her fortunes. there's the property in the carib. but rene and mirena sucked up this year's profits for that, didn't they?

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Your typical French wastrel then? Silly woman married him for his looks (as Rene sounds QUITE fetching! and has his "look") and then he proceeded to run through her fortune. Was gambling as much of a vice in France as it was in England?

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

You know...if it was, I think they hid that info. I mean, England practically flaunted its gaming hells. France...well they mention it as a vice, almost a crime for people like Francois Villon, "gambler and scoundrel". But I believe the king enjoyed his cards, so then nobles would have had to play as a court activity, and for high stakes too, I bet.