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a) BRMC's Live In London DVD is on sale. If you pre-order from the band's website, there's an immediate download of the audio files. I have no words for what the live version of Aya does to me. Just. Yeah. I'll be... over there. *waves helplessly*

b) Vacuuming, dusting, dishes are done. Laundry's mostly done.

c) 100 pages more read of Aftermath. I could pretend that I have something profound to say about it, but mostly right now I'm pondering how very small the world of punditry, analysis, and journalism is, given all the comments from other folks whose blogs I follow. Interesting to read Rosen's analysis of the surge in Iraq, and of Petraeus, and compare to previous authors' opinions.

d) Instead of writing my yagkyas exchange fic, I spent the day pondering a GK Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves AU.

I can feel you judging me, and all I can say in my defense is that Alan Rickman was AWESOME in that movie.

And that you know you'd read a thousand words of shenanigans involving swordfights and ambushes in the woods if it included Brad blowing into Nate's ear when he's about to win the archery contest.

e) Gabe Saporta's love for Mikeyway will never cease to entertain me. He encapsulates everything that drew me to bandom bands, back in the day, before I realized bandom even was a fandom.

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[lunatics-word.livejournal.com]

THIS AU. ME WANTS IT.

(I don't even have my YAGKYAS assignment outlined yet...)

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I started out thinking Brad was Robin, right? But then I decided that the crusades were JUST what Nate-who-wanted-to-grow-up-to-be-a-Spartan needed, so *he* is the Robin Hood equivalent. And Brad's Maid Marian. I am ridiculously amused by this switch in roles, where Brad's not the one off fighting for a decade while Nate pines at home.

Anyway.

(I have an outline. But I'm still kicking around the mechanics and POV. Am procrastinating, b/c I enjoy the thinking and planning more than the writing, which is sometimes often like pulling teeth, for me.)

[lunatics-word.livejournal.com]

LOL, this has to be an instant winner.

I love planning and I really enjoy it, which is sad, because when I get to writing, I go all 'oh whatever, this idea sucks anyway'...

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Brad's stuck at home, taking care of things, and the locals *depend* on him - he's really good at making do. His trusty manservant, Ray, helps him get around the Sheriff (aka, Schwetje) and his obsequious little ferret of a deputy, Griego.

Nate, well, he wasn't a hellion, exactly, but he always wanted to be a soldier. The crusades *called* to him. He snuck off with a troop of the Lion-Heart's soldier when his family visited London, and he only comes home when he realizes that the crusades will *never* be won, never be over. Gunny Wynn comes with him, because he doesn't know what to do if he's not at the side of the snot-nosed brat he found being utterly sea-sick down in the hold with his horse, on the crossing from Dover.

Nate doesn't like what he sees when he gets back to Pendleton.

He maybe accidentally gets off on the wrong foot with Griego. Well, it's not accidentally. Griego shouldn't've challenged Nate when he was on *his* family's land, and he definitely shouldn't've threatened him. Nate's spent nearly a decade fighting, and he's got no patience for bullshit.

He doesn't kill the stupid fucker, at least. But he makes a mortal enemy with his insults.

He heads to the cathedral, but Bishop Ferrando gives him some bullshit story about his dad defying a royal decree (which, ok, he can believe his dad would do if they were stupid; it's clear that the land and its inhabitants have suffered, and his dad would feed those for whom he was responsible before he'd worry about the tithe or about punishing a starving family for slaying one of the king's deer) and his lands being forfeit.

He sneaks out the back of the Bishop's chambers when he hears the clank and shuffle of boots, accompanied by a voice he already recognizes, to his dismay.

He heads to Brad's. Brad's parents were friends of his dad. They'll be able to shed some light on the situation.

The Sheriff's been trying to convince Brad, whose parents died a couple of winters ago when the winter was particularly harsh and pneumonia hit the community hard, to support him, rather than remaining neutral in the local barons' fight to remain loyal to Richard or to revolt and support young John.

Brad's having none of it. But he knows how to work things, especially with Ferrando riding the fence, to keep things going for the people who live on his land and work for him.

He's missed Nate - and he's a bit resentful that Nate ran off when Brad wasn't there to join him - but he's also that little bit angry that Nate's upset the balance he has ever so carefully established, with his grudge-match against Griego. Griego is never going to forget the insult and indignity, and it was witnessed by a handful of the Sheriff's men.

It's Nate, though, so Brad forgives him. He *always* forgave Nate when they were kids, always followed him, even when doing so earned him a week without access to the stables, or extra nights of Latin lessons.

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