You Know The Furies Made Orestes Hallucinate His Way Through Silent Hill.

[rionaleonhart]

I am supposed to be reading the 1799 Prelude and one of its later (and much, much longer) revisions this week. I have been neglecting this somewhat, because dude, three essays, The Prelude can wait (NO, OBVIOUSLY UPDATING MY LIVEJOURNAL CANNOT, ahahaha oh dear I'm such a bad student), but I found this part at the beginning of the 1799 version and felt compelled to share it with you:

Sometimes strong desire
Resistless overpowered me, and the bird
Which was the captive of another's toils
Became my prey; and when the deed was done
I heard among the solitary hills
Low breathings coming after me, and sounds
Of undistinguishable motion, steps
Almost as silent as the turf they trod.

WORDSWORTH IN SILENT HILL, YOU GUYS. I shouldn't be allowed near, well, anything. Is there anything at all in my life that Silent Hill hasn't crept into somehow?

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

Well, I wouldn't be able to write it, because I've already sent Richard into Silent Hill once and doing it again would just be cruel. AND TOTALLY NOT JUST BECAUSE I AM RIDICULOUSLY SENTIMENTAL AND THE PREMISE ALONE MAKES ME WANT TO CRY. Woe!

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Wait, when did you send Richard into Silent Hill.

And the premise makes me want to cry, too. But the story would be so brilliant!

[rionaleonhart]

In my Top Gear and Silent Hill crossover fic! WHICH IS IN topgearslash, OH DEAR, I SUPPOSE YOU'LL HAVE TO JOIN IF YOU WANT TO READ IT. WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, YOU MAY AS WELL POST THE RICHARD-HAMMOND-AS-A-LESBIAN-COUPLE FIC, RIGHT?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

No, I can hold out! Must resist temptation! Even though I've obviously been doing a crappy job what with all the comment-fic and suchlike.

[rhosyndu.livejournal.com]

*heavy breathing* Join us, come to the dark side...

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I NEED TO SETTLE MY ETHICS ON RPF, FIRST!

Or face an irresistible temptation like two Richard Hammond goes to Silent Hill fic. That is if one featured poor dead Oliver. That might crack me.

[rionaleonhart]

OH NO YOU BLOODY WELL DON'T.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Look, if I keep having ethical wibbles about this, and go join Topgearslash, then I'm likely to annoy people and make a jackass out of myself. So, unless I sort out the ethics, I shouldn't join, and should try to avoid cheating with "It's just comment-fic." On account of that leads to more guilt, behaving in a way I'm not sure of my own ethics on, and me being annoying at others.

[rionaleonhart]

Well, I can understand that; I was fairly unnerved by the entire concept of RPF before I got into Top Gear, and I still can't go anywhere near heavy real-person angstfic. Because it is weird.

Er. Apart from the Silent Hill crossover, in which, obviously, I wrote real-person angstfic. Because, well, it's not easy to write a Silent Hill crossover without including, y'know, angst.

I'd offer to e-mail it to you if you really wanted to see it, but if you have qualms about RPF in general I'm not sure you'd be terribly at ease reading it.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I'd probably feel a bit guilty, but I read all your stuff, love it to pieces, and feel a bit guilty anyways, so no difference there.

Lj claims they gave me an lj email address, but I have no idea how it works. Do those work?

I still think you could do a viable Top Gear/Silent Hill crossover in which their tendency to destroy things would ironically save them by letting them break Silent Hill and escape. Mostly because I saw the polar special, and saw that you can put James and Jeremy in a car in an intensely dangerous environment with a gun without anyone being killed. And it would be hilarious and angst-free.

[rionaleonhart]

I thought LJ e-mail addresses were only available to paid users, and all they'll do is direct the e-mail to the address you get comment notifications with anyway. My e-mail address is in my profile (I don't want to say it out loud in case the spambots find us); send me a quick e-mail (so I know your address) and I'll send you the fic.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Aah! Spambots! Will do!

I'm the strange person sending you a rambly email about how I'm not named Amy.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I thought the impossible temptation would be fic with two Richard Hammonds.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Er, I gave in and did that one already. So it's out of my system.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

But you did him as two lesbians! And it wasn't even porny!

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

He makes good lesbians, and I don't like writing porn!

[rionaleonhart]

I want you to know that 'He makes good lesbians!' is pretty much my favourite thing that anyone has ever written.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

He does, though. In the sense of he'd be good lesbians, not in the sense of him having a lesbian factory.

I have no idea what James May would be like as two women, for some reason. And I find the mental picture of even one female Jeremy Clarkson somewhat alarming (and gigantic; my brain refuses to shorten her); two would have me diving for a blast-shield.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

"I don't like writing porn!"

I saw a comment on nostalgia_lj's LJ that says you do!

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I didn't write that for fun; I wrote it out of spite.

Besides, it wasn't porn. It was a description of a woman's head with a brief and discreet mention of her chest. No porn-associated body parts were named, no other people were mentioned, and no sexual acts were specified.