Poems for American Lit

I have American Lit at 9:30 tomorrow morning, so I'm doing the readings... and it's all poetry. I'm not really that big a fan of poetry, though, so I'm sort of just skimming. I found one that I kind of liked, though...

From She Had Some Horses

III. Drowning Horses

She says she is going to kill
herself. I am a thousand miles away.
Listening.
            To her voice in an ocean
of telephone sound. Grey sky
and nearly sundown; I don't ask her how.
I am already familiar with the weapons:
a restaurant that wouldn't serve her,
the thinnest laughter, another drink.
And even if I weren't closer
to the cliff edge of the talking
wire, I would still be another mirror,
another running horse.

Her escape is my own.
I tell her, yes. Yes. We ride
out for breath over the distance.
Night air approaches, the galloping
other-life.

No sound.
No sound.

written by Joy Harjo

GW Fic

People have pointed out that I'm far too Gravi-centric lately, so I've gone back to my roots (a little) and, yesterday, during class, I wrote a Gundam Wing story.

You heard right. Gundam Wing. My original fandom.

Anyway, the story has been posted and I've been assured that it's not crap, so you can read it, if you want. Obviously no one is going to force you to do so. ^.~ The ficlet is rated R-ish, simply because I felt like it and because there are some yaoi themes. *shrug*

After the Fact

Booster to Endy!

I have known endaemion for longer than I've actually known her, apparently. ^_~ We met once upon a time in girl scouts (don't go into shock. Yes, we were both girl scouts) and neeeever talked to her again until high school, where I learned she was uber-cool and proceeded to stalk her. (Or something.)

Leilla is the person who got me into Gundam Wing. She is also the person who got me into Gravitation. And Fake. And Fruit's Basket. And Greenwood. And... Well, the majority of the anime that I'm into. ^^ I probably never would have written fan fiction if not for her, since Lissy's stuff tended to scare me. O_O And then, of course, there's Storm Constantine and Poppy Z. Brite, who I never would have read if she hadn't let me borrow the books!

Aside from introducing me to most of my fandoms and forcing me into fanfiction (^_~), Leilla is the shiznit. She's a fantastic writer, a very talented artist (with all mediums, so far as I've seen), and really just a super person. She has a tendency to call me at weird times (y'know, like when I'm sleeping or not there?), but that's okay. When we do end up talking, I always leave the conversation grinning and giggling my head away. My dad doesn't like her much. My dad can go stuff it.

When I first started to fence, I didn't want to do it alone, and Leilla was the one who signed up to take lessons with me. ^_^ She decided it wasn't for her later on, leaving me to my doom, but I probably wouldn't have gone to Slayton House for that first lesson if she hadn't been there. ^^ (I'm not a chicken. I'm just stupid.)

The penguins in my mood theme? She threw me links and kept badgering me to change the mood theme until I finally got off my lazy ass and did it. And it t'was a good idea. Sure, there's no angry-looking penguin, but no one loves an angry penguin anyway. Leilla also started kinky_pinkers, the Truth or Dare community, and she's co-creating the web-comic Swizzle Stick (although she hasn't given me any new pages *shakes fist*)!

Endy wrote a Gravitation m-preg story simply because I made the off-hand comment that I'd never seen one with Yuki (or any Gravi character, really) in it. She freaked me out with that plus-sign thing over at Gurabite but then had the awesome idea of co-writing a story. That's going well and everyone involved is really enjoying it, even if it sometimes hard to make daily updates. ^^

Creative, funny, talented... Really, there's nothing not to like about Leilla. And I could say so much more about her... but then the penguins would get jealous. ^_~

Brandy's Booster!

ladynight doesn't update her journal often or check her friend's page on a regular basis, so I was super-surprised when she asked for a booster. Granted, she has a lot to deal with on the real-life front, but... *shrug*

Brandy and I don't talk as much as we used to. The two of us have our own groups of friends and they don't often interact or anything. We still IM each other every once in a while and I have gone over to her place to steal cookie dough on more than one occasion. ^_~ She kicks butt.

The two of us met at a frat party. She was drunk (even though she kept insisting that she was just fine) and tried to claw out idontcare03's eyes out for "touching her man" more than once (LOOONG story), but I was one of several people who helped walk her home that night. She stayed with Emily, under the pseudonym of Danielle Carter (Emily's roommate) because she couldn't remember where she lived. The most fantastic of quotes from that first semester comes from that night... "Hey, Brandy, what's your name?" "DANIELLE CARTER! *woot*"

I soon learned that drunk and disorderly was Brandy's normal state. (KIDDING, sweetie! ^_~) No, honestly, she was a real sweetie. She got involved in some bad things during the end of the first semester and the beginning of the second, but she pulled through and she always had a fun drunk story for us. ^_~

Brandy is now a frat boy (we don't ask) and doing well at FSU. She's a math major, which is something I could never be (math is icky), and she's really smart, even if she doesn't believe it. She doesn't have the best luck with guys, but I'm confident that she'll find the most perfect guy for her in no time flat, if she looks in the right places. ^_^