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dangermousieI am in the middle of Steven Saylor's "Catilina's Riddle" as recommended by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
queenofthorns It's very good (much better than the "spoiled jazz baby meets shell-shocked WWI vet in Singapore" book by Emma Drummond I tried reading prior which almost killed the brain cells), and my Catilina love continues to burn strong.
Also, yesterday night I was cranky, tired, and with a headache. So I popped in the one thing guaranteed to make me feel better: The Peacekeeper Wars. Maybe it's the skeptic in me, but I couldn't believe I got the payout I did for following Farscape...wow.
I love watching John and Aeryn together. Their UST has turned into RST and they haven't lost one bit of their edge or wit or watchability. There's still plenty of angst from other sources, and they still kiss and quip and fight and burn up the screen. Only Crichton is more relaxed and comfortable in his skin now that he has Aeryn for good, and Aeryn is a bit more warm and laid-back now that she has John. We've seen the RST Aeryn and John before, in DD and IA (though boy, how it ended!), and there they also didn't lose an iota of interest. It's their interactions and their characters that keep them fascinating, not artificial barriers thrown to stop them.
The scene that makes me awww and laugh and just turn into a puddle of goo? It's a really little one. Aeryn is giving birth and Crichton brings a knife, and Aeryn, pretty out of it goes: "Good, now we can cut it out!" to which Crichton replies, patiently and calmly "it's for your clothes" to which she goes "right," sounding insanely disappointed. I love how he can always keep his head when he knows she needs it, in the middle of birth or a battle (and how S1 Crichton would have flipped) and how Aeryn is strong and focused and having John's baby!! *gets almost overwhelmed by squishy bunnies* And then the wedding, truly shotgun (I am amused by how narrowly little Crichton escaped being a bastard, and by how different the fire zone wedding is from the elaborate one Crichton thought of in Dog with Two Bones), and the melty moment after she's given birth and they have that amazing kiss when:
She: Can you do something for me?
He: Name it.
She: Can you get us out of here?
He: Done.
And then the music plays and they come out, guns a-blazing, Aeryn with the baby in a make-shift sling and shooting and guuuuuuh...Bonny and Clyde got nothing on them. And of course it is not "strong man protect little lady" as she is shooting her way out as well, and minutes later saves him from the Scarran psychobitch that kept hunting him for ages.
I just love it because in Farscape women are allowed to be equal and strong and complex and fucked-up and warm and this is not seen as denigration of the hero. It's just the hero is just as complex and interesting and strong as the heroine. Guh again.
Crichton might be my POV character, but just like him, I adore Aeryn.
Never did I think I'd get such a wonderful payback.Oh, and D'Argo. Not dead, not dead, not dead
In highly amusing Bollywood news, apparently tapes have surfaced which link Bollywood heartthrob superstar Salman Khan (pic for those interested here) to the mob. And by link, I mean "he calls his girlfriend and threatens her and repeatedly describes in detail his hand in glove mafia relations and involvement." All this, despite being told by her that the lines are tapped. I guess he didn't get popular based on his brains. Well, he is still good beefcake, so that bothers me little, even if it is true.
queenofthorns It's very good (much better than the "spoiled jazz baby meets shell-shocked WWI vet in Singapore" book by Emma Drummond I tried reading prior which almost killed the brain cells), and my Catilina love continues to burn strong.Also, yesterday night I was cranky, tired, and with a headache. So I popped in the one thing guaranteed to make me feel better: The Peacekeeper Wars. Maybe it's the skeptic in me, but I couldn't believe I got the payout I did for following Farscape...wow.
I love watching John and Aeryn together. Their UST has turned into RST and they haven't lost one bit of their edge or wit or watchability. There's still plenty of angst from other sources, and they still kiss and quip and fight and burn up the screen. Only Crichton is more relaxed and comfortable in his skin now that he has Aeryn for good, and Aeryn is a bit more warm and laid-back now that she has John. We've seen the RST Aeryn and John before, in DD and IA (though boy, how it ended!), and there they also didn't lose an iota of interest. It's their interactions and their characters that keep them fascinating, not artificial barriers thrown to stop them.
The scene that makes me awww and laugh and just turn into a puddle of goo? It's a really little one. Aeryn is giving birth and Crichton brings a knife, and Aeryn, pretty out of it goes: "Good, now we can cut it out!" to which Crichton replies, patiently and calmly "it's for your clothes" to which she goes "right," sounding insanely disappointed. I love how he can always keep his head when he knows she needs it, in the middle of birth or a battle (and how S1 Crichton would have flipped) and how Aeryn is strong and focused and having John's baby!! *gets almost overwhelmed by squishy bunnies* And then the wedding, truly shotgun (I am amused by how narrowly little Crichton escaped being a bastard, and by how different the fire zone wedding is from the elaborate one Crichton thought of in Dog with Two Bones), and the melty moment after she's given birth and they have that amazing kiss when:
She: Can you do something for me?
He: Name it.
She: Can you get us out of here?
He: Done.
And then the music plays and they come out, guns a-blazing, Aeryn with the baby in a make-shift sling and shooting and guuuuuuh...Bonny and Clyde got nothing on them. And of course it is not "strong man protect little lady" as she is shooting her way out as well, and minutes later saves him from the Scarran psychobitch that kept hunting him for ages.
I just love it because in Farscape women are allowed to be equal and strong and complex and fucked-up and warm and this is not seen as denigration of the hero. It's just the hero is just as complex and interesting and strong as the heroine. Guh again.
Crichton might be my POV character, but just like him, I adore Aeryn.
Never did I think I'd get such a wonderful payback.
In highly amusing Bollywood news, apparently tapes have surfaced which link Bollywood heartthrob superstar Salman Khan (pic for those interested here) to the mob. And by link, I mean "he calls his girlfriend and threatens her and repeatedly describes in detail his hand in glove mafia relations and involvement." All this, despite being told by her that the lines are tapped. I guess he didn't get popular based on his brains. Well, he is still good beefcake, so that bothers me little, even if it is true.
