Revenons a nos ragamoutons

[flemmings]

It's July, so we pick up the Three Kingdoms reading again. Our ragamuffin bully boys are being as unlovely as ever. Governor surrenders to Ma Chao, Ma Chao is furious-- 'You didn't surrender from sincerity but from necessity! Kill him and all his family!' Liu Bei: OMG Ma Chao is so kewl! I must have him on my side! I will blow sweetly in his ear and then he'll follow me everywhere! (Ma Chao learns nothing from having his own wife and infant sons and relatives chopped up before his eyes and dropped on his head from the city walls. Ma Chao does not learn, end story.)

Am currently in the middle of Liu Bei and smrterthanu being cheap and underhanded and oh so pleased with themselves about not returning the province they said they would. Go die in a fire despair, you smarmy little hoods. And I sooo look forward to the chapters where you do.

Paradoxically this all makes me feel better than I have for a month. So does returning to a fic. Yappari, I am a writer, even if an amateur writer, even if an unoriginal writer, even if a blocked writer; and I never feel properly at ease in my skin if I'm not writing.

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[incandescens]

By the way, I have received the Judge Dee. Thank you very much!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

How our post office loves the British Isles. Now if my new Judge Dee-- in English-- arrives as speedily from your shores, I shall be very happy.

[mauvecloud.livejournal.com]

Don't get the connection between July/month-thing and 3k :(

(Wives and kiddies are like clothings, brothers are like limbs ...)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I took a break from my book a month reading of same for the horror that was June, and now am back on track.

[mauvecloud.livejournal.com]

Ah. I was wondering about lack of 3k posts too. Things get interesting after Little Horse Chao. Up to Sima Yi's death, but it could be due to personal bias - i haven't encountered any manga/anime/game bishie-fication of Jiang Wei or Deng Ai or Zhong Hui that's cute enough.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Jiang Wei or Deng Ai or Zhong Hui

I devoutly hope these are characters I haven't encountered yet because the names ring no bells. But I bet they aren't.

[mauvecloud.livejournal.com]

if you're at ma chao vs. mengde chapters you prolly haven't, esp. the last two ... all three only get more screen time after the demise of zhuge liang