Late to the party, as always

HYPOTHESIS: The reason the creature known as the "rabid fangirl" seems to take a completely skewed vision of canon as opposed to the "regular fangirl" is because once they fixate upon a character and/or pairing, they will skip ahead through the pesky burdensome things known as "plot" and "other developments" just to see the sole part they are interested in. Should there be gaps that cannot be avoided, the overactive "rabid fangirl" imagination will proceed to take dramatic bits and pieces from OTHER canons she follows (such as from daytime/drama TV, where one cannot fast-forward unless it's a recording), vague spoilers read from other sources, and cobbles things together in order to maintain the fantasy.

(... man, why couldn't I have written such long-winded and overly-mincing things when I was trying to do my actual lab writeups, huh? :<)

This is to say that I read pretty much all of Earl Cain why did it get translated as "Count"? Is this some nobility title thingit I'm unaware of, that they're the same rank? over the weekend, started on Godchild, and sort of ... found myself ... skipping. TO THE VERY END, though I'm now going back and actually reading-for-plot. XD; it's this unfortunate habit I think I picked up from my dad -- when he picks up a new book, he reads the first page, then the last page, and then commences regularly from start to finish. I, I like knowing how things resolve! T_T Unfortunately, with Godchild, I feel like I lost a lot~ of context, so. A more careful reading is now in order!

On the other hand, Cain and Riff sort of remind me of what Frodo and Sam* would have been like, post-Quest, if you know. They'd had an uncomfortably co-dependant and desperate relationship that definitely crossed borders of proprietry in the "Victorian England" setting and probably they never did anything, but it's that sort of "if it even occured to them and social boundaries didn't stop them, they would" kind of thing.

... I seem to have this thing for "improper" master-and-servant relationships where the servant is physically stronger/taller/more stable(?!) than the master, and the master is probably more dependant on the servant than the other way around. SEE ALSO Haruka/Kantarou.

Now all I need are some really crappy diagrams drawn on graph paper, and I will have a MASTERPIECE the likes of which I never turned in to my professors in lab. Ahahahahah.

*When I was very small, and I'd read Lord of the Rings for the first time -- in a time before I even knew boys could like boys or girls could like girls (I was maybe six or seven at the time?) I was always very very DDDDD: about how Sam and Frodo ended up. Then I got older and I discovered slash and honestly with those two it sort of twigs me but at the same time some six-year-old part of me says but WHY did Frodo have to go, why couldn't Sam have gone with him RIGHT AWAY? Rosie could come too! --that sort of thing.

ETA because I was just reminded while wandering into the kitchen one of my roommates has an amaryllis plant that has, in just the last week, shot up signifigantly. It was sort of like I'd just sort of completely forgotten its existence, because it had been there for so long, unchanging -- just a bulb in some dirt. But a few nights ago, while I was making dinner and washing a few dishes, I looked up, and it had gone SPROING! From out of that bulb now sprouted two long green stems, with a pointed oval bulb at the end of each.

"What the hell IS that?" I asked.
"That," said one of my roommates, completely deadpan, "is a dildo plant. Look, see how there's two of them? They're snuggling."

CAN YOU TELL I'M BORED. :<