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[changeling]

Christ, I've barely thought about "my future wedding" in my life, particularly when I was little. Was just never important to me. I could never envisage spending so much of my time thinking about it... whether I was going to be alone forever yes (particularly recently), but the 2.5 kids and a Tarago? Not for me.

Soooo fucking tired. Had to lie to my father. I hate lying. Hate, hate, hate.


Alan Moore has just been deified in the pantheon of my mind. I read all of the first volume of "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (yes?) tonight, and it rocked my socks.

Sleep.

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[dreamling]

I didn't think much about it until I got engaged. I didn't think much about driving either until I needed to get my temps. I still don't have names picked out for children. (not pregnant) Some people have all these things figured out by the age of 12.

It's ok. I always realized that my future husband would have some input, and I always wanted those things we decided to come from both of us. We both had our ideals of a dream wedding, but we really didn't start dreaming until it was time to.

Until it's real, I have other things to dream about.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Agreed.
Little girls who have all their weddings planned out by the age of 5 (Monica from Friends types) just scare me, though...

[monnafrog.livejournal.com]

i just want to see the .5 kid running around in the front yard...

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I think he'd kinda hop...only having one leg 'n all. *grins*

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

"League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", indeed.

I'll lend you "Top Ten" next time I see you, if you're up for a bit more Alan Moore ;-)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

That would be ace, thanks so much!

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

By the way, I've now read "Allan and the Sundered Veil". Weeeeeird story.

Not something that really seems in character for Allan Quartermain, but it does fit the comic pretty well. I wonder whether we hear more about the Lovecraftian Great Old Ones . . .

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Dunno. I'm curious...

Well, I had to read it at breakneck pace, but I think you need to also take into account this is prior to his "Wahey! I'm a big crackhead!" phase.

It may still be out of character. *shrugs*

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Well, by "in character" I meant it doesn't really fit in with the rest of the Allan Quartermain body of work by Haggard.

On a bit of looking around though, it turns out I'm wrong about that.

The taduki stuff is definitely from the books, and hence past life regression addiction. Looks like the astral future time travel angle was invented for the comic.

There's quite a good breakdown of the references etc here:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/league1.html
Translations of the different languages used, comments on bits and pieces, etc.

This just gets better and better ;-)

On page 32 a letter is printed by a "Col. Sebastian Moran." Colonel Moran was the second-in-command to Professor Moriarty. Jason Tondro wrote this letter, and added that

Moran was referred to as "the deadliest man in all England," by Holmes himself, and was infamous for the stunt of hunting a tiger down a sewer drain. This fact gets convoluted with many others and slipped into the Moriarty mythos in the delightful poem "Macavity, the Mystery Cat," by T.S. Eliot. That cunning and evil cat is clearly based on Moriarty himself, and is even called "the Napoleon of Crime." The poem, of course, was put to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber in Cats.

hehehe.

Damn Alan Moore's good.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Motion carried.
Thanks for the link! I've just started looking at the site and it r0xx0rs my s0xx0rs. *grins*