Academy of Armitage Studies -- the Research continues

[Theresahollyinyourmind]

Welcome to our newest faculty building. Make yourselves comfortable and ignore the smell of paint. We cannot keep up with the demand for new premises.

Missy is the faculty rector, after all.

Oyster - I use DD's portable player. I set it up on the loo seat which is the perfect viewing angle as luck would have it, nice hot bath, candle on the windowsill, glass of wine - perfect (well almost...)

Lid, not seat, obviously...

It sounds blissful, MrsLNP. What about interruptions though? Or do you have another loo? Hope so.

Yes, we have another loo - and a lock on the bathroom door !

So we can't expect to see you tonight then!

But MrsLNP - what happens if you suffer some kind of RA-induced seizure whilst watching BtS? No one will be able to rescue you...?

Given some of the content in BtS you may have a point there Oyster.

Have actually got home and registered how much of a tip the place looks so may have to defer until tomorrow, when hopefully DH will be out and I can watch on big telly instead!

Better have the doctor on standby, even so. There could be serious consequences on a big telly.

I am not, not, not rector. My knowledge is so patchy - and likely to remain so, I refer you to various Strike Back discussions (passim) - that I am not qualified for the post. I am simply an enthusiastic student and probably over-keen on posting the gems I find in the basement. Besides, I thought we were an anarcho-syndicalist commune.

Perhaps we have been at cross-purposes about the extent to which I disclose my research interests. I thought we were discussing whether our significant others are aware of our addiction/affliction. Mine is. He knew that reading North and South had had a profound effect on me and that watching the dvd had raised that effect to the power of n (think of the French Lieutenant's Woman - she was lost from the moment she saw him). And then of course I dragged him off to the Old Vic. But I will not say anything to RL chums, as I have a Reputation For Being Sensible (fact is stranger than fiction, they say).

Lovely - This gallivanting is part of my campaign to get back to something closer to the life I had pre-parenthood, when I was actually Quite Cultured. It may not last.

Holly - Heretical thought, but the English Gents' muscle definition made Guy look a little under-developed.

Okay okay, Missy, you don't have to be rector though rectors never know everything I am sure, and your serious scholarship on N&S and related matters is awe-inspiring.

So however do you stop yourself from talking about your intense course of study to RL friends? I am supposed to be very quiet and straight-laced by the Limpopo community at large and yet I get these over-whelming compulsions to blab. Maybe I need a lowering mantra to calm my spirit. Maybe I should get a life. Quien sabe?

Guy underdeveloped? Well obviously I didn't see your English gents to see what was what, precisely, but I have never been a fan of muscle-y muscles. In fact too ripped and they're a turn-off for me. It's a fine line, I guess. Gizzy will do nicely.

For Missy: strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government.

I have just read the Clarissa fanfic which was pointed out to be my some of our students. I have not blushed so much in years. OMG, as the youth say!!! I loved reading it though; it was so nice to see Lovelace as a good guy.

Oh God, the realisation has just hit me that I have become someone who reads fanfic. Kill me now.

Serious scholarship? You mean a good rummage in the archive and a bit of third-hand jargon picked up from the review section of the Sunday paper?

As for not blabbing, I suppose I have my life compartmentalised (very unhealthy psychologically, I am sure). So have you, in the manner of Mr Hale, been holding public lectures in the Limpopo Institute on such themes as ?

I'm not a fan of muscly muscles, either - and you can see the pics on the website - but it was quite extraordinary to see how each muscle was working. Like a Renaissance anatomical drawing without (mercifully) the flaying.

Reading fanfic is fine Twigs, it's when you write it that you are truly damned.

TBH, some of it is quite professional, I have been looking at one by someone who seems to be a published writer and it's excellent.Mind you I haven't blushed at it yet.

Some fanfic is dire, but I reckon it's okay, they're having a go at being creative, which has to mean something. A lot of writers have started that way and gone on to be published authors.

I think I am relatively knowledgable, including the infamous Strike Back. My studies go back several years to a random purchase of N and S due to vouchers I needed to be rid of. Who knew what that would lead to? I do however keep my studies very much on the quiet, even from DH, although he did take note of me watching Strike Back, and may have realised. However I have no knowledge at all of the purely auditory materials, which I must address soon.

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Twiggy - That is why I don't go near fanfic. It is a vortex and, once sucked in, you may never emerge.

Is any of it really pure, Lovely?

The Poet lobbed into conversation today that North and South is now in Amazon's bargain bin for about tuppence ha'penny.

'Kill me now'

Twiggy not only are you reading fanfic you're quoting the actual play!

My finger's hovering over the 'buy' button on Venetia. Once you've killed Twiggy, come over here.

All serious scholarship boils down to just about that, Missy. Even in RL, IIRC. Reading a few journals and learning to talk the talk, and rummaging in the stacks for a few crumbs you can cobble together and give it a bit of spin.

Science may be different, but not entirely so if you remember the carryings-on during early work on DNA, for example.

Limpopians tend to tune out of lectures on most topics, fortunately. so so far I have got away with my witterings, but if I keep on they will Notice. RH has now finished so I am no longer tempted to ask them if they watched it, and N&S finishes this week. Will I be able to shut up about it all from now on? Watch this space

Does anyone speak German in the faculty, btw? There is a vid about Mr Thornton and chocolate, but the subtitles are a mystery to me

Speaking of languages. We can also improve our study of the French language at the same time as we brush up on Victorian social history.

Don't mention French, or Teri the fangirl will be here with her B&Q chat-up line

All the same, that was swoony. So now we know the immortal lines in French. I love the fact that he tutoyer'd her.