Either the Mabinogion is getting more surreal, or I'm hallucinating

[felis_ultharus]

I was in bed with a fever most of yesterday. I tried my best to go into work this morning, but started throwing up. I left a message with one of my coworkers, but she didn't come into work either (her daughter has the same thing), so I got an irritated call from another coworker around 9 asking why I wasn't in.

I'm doing a fair bit better, now. I can get around, now, and even went down to Pharmaprix to get my allergy medication.

I only got 800 words written yesterday.

I did finally finish reading the Peredur cycle in the Mabinogion. Turned out that half the women Peredur interacted with (including the maiden carrying the Spear of Longinus, and the severed head that replaces the Grail in this version) were actually a shapechanging teenage boy in magical drag.

I'll let you make of that what you will.

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[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

Peredur was being stalked by a shapechanging teenage boy in magical drag? ...well, it could be worse, he could be forced to groom a giant. ;)

Poor dear *hugs* I hope you feel better.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Hey, I wasn't complaining. He didn't seem to be, either ^_^

After I read that, I went back through the story to see if any of the boy's disguises were the 8 million women who proposed marriage to Peredur. No such luck, but that would've been funny.

Thanks. I do, actually.

[sugar-spun.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon.

Magical drag?

It's my contention that all teenage boys are shapeshifters. They might even be Boggarts.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Could be.

I just called it "magical drag" because he was shapechanging into the form of a woman -- as in, "he's doing drag."

[em-fish.livejournal.com]

I only got 800 words written yesterday.

Shame on you. If a fever, chills, aches, fatigue, and impending upchuck are enough to keep you from writing 1,000 words, what kind of writer are you, really?

..Seriously, dude. You are like the Criss Angel of writing - that is an extreme stunt you pulled.

were actually a shapechanging teenage boy in magical drag.

Isn't that always the way?

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

"Isn't that always the way?"

Definitely ^_^

And I do feel bad about the writing. Besides, writing is a fundamental need for me, and an inability to write is as worrying as an inability to eat (which I also have right now).

You know all this already, but...

[em-fish.livejournal.com]

You can't write because your body is in crisis. The chills, fever, aches and nausea are causing you discomfort that is interfering with your ability to concentrate.
Please keep drinking fluids at least, if you can. Dehydration is a real threat, especially if you've been ralphing. Room-temperature liquids might be easier for you to handle than anything hot or refrigerated.
I know you are allergic to taking care of yourself, but this is important. People DIE of influenza, you know. Or it progresses to pneumonia and they die of THAT.

Even if the thought of your friends isn't enough to stir you, think of the brilliant novel you would be leaving undone!

Re: You know all this already, but...

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

And I'm still not entirely sure you understand -- when I don't write, just as when I don't eat or don't sleep -- that invites and worsens illness.

I have trouble making people understand this, but writing is basically a physiological need for me at this point.

Re: You know all this already, but...

[em-fish.livejournal.com]

As long as you don't get pneumonia or end up a shrivelled husk, do what ya gotta do, it's all good. {{hopefully-not-too-loathsome cyberhugs}}

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

If someone has not yet made a manga out of this, it's high time they did. I can't think of any modern art form in which a magical shapeshifting teenage boy in drag would be more... expected.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask if there any ancient Welsh slash out there. The ancient Greeks had slash fanfic about Achilles and Patroclus, so why not the Welsh?

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

Of course there is, at least now. By the Law Of The Internet, once you've thought it, someone has written it. Addenda a) and b) are "although it's probably misspelled and authored by someone who has never seen another human naked" and "but that doesn't stop someone else from getting off on it anyway", respectively.

Let us be thankful this idea at least kind of makes sense and doesn't hurt my brain, unlike the Merry-Pippin-Treebeard "treesome" one of my friends ran into, once upon a time.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Two I declined to click on were links promising slash fan drawings of Hagrid/Mad-Eye Moody, and Archer/Wrath.

But then, in an internet where I once stumbled across Who's the Boss fanfic, anything is possible.