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Getting the RL complaining/exhaustion out of the way first: The family spent five hours in A&E last night after my mother had an alarming series of seizures. She also apparently has a kidney infection. She's still in hospital.
This makes this the fourth weekend in two months where shit didn't stop happening. If we weren't in A&E here, we were in A&E the next county over, or we were in my Granddad's one-month-anniversary mass wherein my mother promptly had a seizure, or we were at my granddad's effing funeral. It's getting to the point where I go into work Monday morning and my colleagues are afraid to ask how my weekend went, because chances are good I spent it in bloody hospital. Or, you know, at a funeral. And the month before that, we were visiting granddad in hospital. We practically have reserved effing parking at the hospital car park.
*crumples* Swear to any and all gods you care to name, there is very little I wouldn't give right now not to have to see that place again for ... well, years preferably, but even more than a week at a time would be nice. The county ambulance crews practically know our address by heart. We keep making jokes about frequent flier miles, but honestly if I have to see that bloody car park one more bloody time ...
Argh! Okay. Shutting up now, complaining done. *scrubs hands through hair* If anyone was wondering why I've been largely incommunicado the past while, ah, I hope that clears things up a little -_-;
Now. Moving swiftly on, and for something completely different - I'm watching OUAT of a Monday morning before I go to work. It's probably been one of the few consistent routines I've managed the past few weeks, and it's probably been doing more to keep me afloat than a TV show of such questionable quality should. *smiles crookedly*
And finally, to finish up with some random mythology, I recently came across this tumblr post showing the table of contents for what looks like a very tongue-in-cheek book on mythology. I recognise an alarming amount of the stories examined, I think -_-; "Odin Gets Construction Discounts With Bestiality", yes. "King Midas is: GOLDFINGER". "Abraham is Totally Cool with Stabbing his Kid in the Face", yup. Some I don't recognise off-hand, though, and now I'm curious. "Killer-of-Enemies and the International House of Vaginas"? Native American mythology sounds fascinating -_-; "Eshu Elegba Is Probably The Last Dude You Want Approving Your Friendship"? And it's been a while for Greek mythology, is "Friends Don't Let Friends Bang Cows" referring to Zeus and Io, or was there some other cow-related greek myths that I'm forgetting? (Lets be honest, there probably was. I'm guessing Zeus, though, because he was definitely your go-to guy for bestiality in greek myth).
In short? Mythology is where the original crack fic was born. *nods nods* And contained an awful lot of bestiality, for some reason ...
This makes this the fourth weekend in two months where shit didn't stop happening. If we weren't in A&E here, we were in A&E the next county over, or we were in my Granddad's one-month-anniversary mass wherein my mother promptly had a seizure, or we were at my granddad's effing funeral. It's getting to the point where I go into work Monday morning and my colleagues are afraid to ask how my weekend went, because chances are good I spent it in bloody hospital. Or, you know, at a funeral. And the month before that, we were visiting granddad in hospital. We practically have reserved effing parking at the hospital car park.
*crumples* Swear to any and all gods you care to name, there is very little I wouldn't give right now not to have to see that place again for ... well, years preferably, but even more than a week at a time would be nice. The county ambulance crews practically know our address by heart. We keep making jokes about frequent flier miles, but honestly if I have to see that bloody car park one more bloody time ...
Argh! Okay. Shutting up now, complaining done. *scrubs hands through hair* If anyone was wondering why I've been largely incommunicado the past while, ah, I hope that clears things up a little -_-;
Now. Moving swiftly on, and for something completely different - I'm watching OUAT of a Monday morning before I go to work. It's probably been one of the few consistent routines I've managed the past few weeks, and it's probably been doing more to keep me afloat than a TV show of such questionable quality should. *smiles crookedly*
... I actually didn't see the reveal regarding Rumpel and Pan coming. I should have, what with the blatant hints about his father going around, but I sort of thought it was going to be another tragic villain thing where his father was tricked by Pan into doing something horrible and how he was really like Rumpel at heart and Rumpel shouldn't hate him, because a lot of parents in this show have that going on, and then ... Then, nope, it was just some straight up 'I sold my son to a shadow demon in exchange for youth and immortality, because I'm a dick'. Which ... Okay, yeah, that's oddly refreshing. So Rumpel's dad was pretty much like Jiminy/Archie's parents, then? Though he did at least try to set Rumpel up with some decent caretakers first, so there was that. Still. Pretty much just a straight-up dick who sells/steals/kills kids, including his own, to gain youth and power. Alrighty then. Here's hoping Rumpel or Charming or Emma get stab-happy with him then at some point. Or Regina. I'll take Regina frying him either.
I suspect it will be Rumpel or Neal, though. If Pan's going like Cora, it'll be family that kills him, I think?
Also, and side note, I am loving Regina in Neverland, between this episode and the last one. She is hilarious in a snit (her flipping out at Rumpel over 'amateur hour' last episode was the best thing) and awesome in mama bear mode. And Emma, actually. Emma and Regina, and lets-casually-cause-an-eclipse, and the whole mutual 'We are getting our fucking son back or else' that they've got going. Interesting, too, how Regina this season is basically Rumpel in S1/S2. You really can tell that she was almost his daughter at times.
In summary, though? Henry has THE most effed up family. Especially at the grandparent and great-grandparent levels. Paternal line runs through an abandoned kid who (eventually) grew up to be a petty crook, to the Dark One, to Peter bloody Pan as a creepy child-stealing demon. Birth maternal line runs through an abandoned child who grew up to be the saviour, to a pair of grandparents who were variously a shepherd & a princess, a false prince & a bandit and a cursed king & queen, up to incredibly abusive step or false parents and with a sideline into Charming's ever-so-charming brother. Adopted maternal line goes through an abused child who grew up to be the Evil Queen, to a heart-stealing literally heartless woman who once dated the Dark One and managed to horrify even him by ripping her own heart out rather than love him.
And now the poor kid has just been tricked into ripping his own heart out and handing it to his child-stealing demon of a great-grandfather. Because Henry's life sucks. Seriously.
And this show is weirdly addictive for something as thoroughly questionable as it is. *grins sheepishly*
I suspect it will be Rumpel or Neal, though. If Pan's going like Cora, it'll be family that kills him, I think?
Also, and side note, I am loving Regina in Neverland, between this episode and the last one. She is hilarious in a snit (her flipping out at Rumpel over 'amateur hour' last episode was the best thing) and awesome in mama bear mode. And Emma, actually. Emma and Regina, and lets-casually-cause-an-eclipse, and the whole mutual 'We are getting our fucking son back or else' that they've got going. Interesting, too, how Regina this season is basically Rumpel in S1/S2. You really can tell that she was almost his daughter at times.
In summary, though? Henry has THE most effed up family. Especially at the grandparent and great-grandparent levels. Paternal line runs through an abandoned kid who (eventually) grew up to be a petty crook, to the Dark One, to Peter bloody Pan as a creepy child-stealing demon. Birth maternal line runs through an abandoned child who grew up to be the saviour, to a pair of grandparents who were variously a shepherd & a princess, a false prince & a bandit and a cursed king & queen, up to incredibly abusive step or false parents and with a sideline into Charming's ever-so-charming brother. Adopted maternal line goes through an abused child who grew up to be the Evil Queen, to a heart-stealing literally heartless woman who once dated the Dark One and managed to horrify even him by ripping her own heart out rather than love him.
And now the poor kid has just been tricked into ripping his own heart out and handing it to his child-stealing demon of a great-grandfather. Because Henry's life sucks. Seriously.
And this show is weirdly addictive for something as thoroughly questionable as it is. *grins sheepishly*
And finally, to finish up with some random mythology, I recently came across this tumblr post showing the table of contents for what looks like a very tongue-in-cheek book on mythology. I recognise an alarming amount of the stories examined, I think -_-; "Odin Gets Construction Discounts With Bestiality", yes. "King Midas is: GOLDFINGER". "Abraham is Totally Cool with Stabbing his Kid in the Face", yup. Some I don't recognise off-hand, though, and now I'm curious. "Killer-of-Enemies and the International House of Vaginas"? Native American mythology sounds fascinating -_-; "Eshu Elegba Is Probably The Last Dude You Want Approving Your Friendship"? And it's been a while for Greek mythology, is "Friends Don't Let Friends Bang Cows" referring to Zeus and Io, or was there some other cow-related greek myths that I'm forgetting? (Lets be honest, there probably was. I'm guessing Zeus, though, because he was definitely your go-to guy for bestiality in greek myth).
In short? Mythology is where the original crack fic was born. *nods nods* And contained an awful lot of bestiality, for some reason ...
