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Thank you to everybody for the awesome birthday wishes! :D

Camping was wonderful! It was relatively low key, as this was more a romantic getaway than anything else, but we got one damn good hike in and a few smaller ones. Mostly we just hung around the campsite, talking and being silly and enjoying our very comfortable tent.

And spontaneously LARPing.

No, really. Freeform, spontaneous LARPing. (Live Action Role Play, for those who may not have heard the term before.)

I used to LARP a lot. And honestly, what I did (and we do) isn't even really LARPing, it's just that sounds so much better then 'playing pretend'. No system, no rules, just whatever we feel like.

We ended up doing this from afternoon Saturday until...well, we don't really know when we finally passed out but it was probably between midnight and three. Man, I haven't done that in years. When we first started, I didn't even think about it. All of a sudden, Danni's calling me by a character name and the crazy loud family across the way with a dozen kids and hardly any parental supervision were...you know, I don't think we even decided what they were. Just some sort of unknown threat and there was an epic battle outside and we were hiding in the tent.

By the time we fell asleep...well, we'd broken like three worlds and plunged everyone into chaos. Good times, good times. And she realized that the way to get me back into this without feeling self conscious or awkward was to just start with no warning or preamble.

We got in mid-afternoon yesterday, and I kind of crashed. I wrote a fuckton in bed, and then had pizza and watched Zombieland with

nijawial. Good movie! I was honestly impressed with it. I see what people mean about the gore in the beginning, but where this was a very dark comedy, I didn't mind very much or consider it entirely unnecessary. It was a pretty good set up to get us introduced to the main character, honestly, and set up exactly what the world is like after the zombie apocalypse.

I randomly feel like I seriously need to write some HBC fic today. I've been neglecting Valyn terribly, and at this point he's nothing but a shiny ball of angry jealousy. Silly Valyn, you haven't been replaced. You'll never be replaced! I just keep adding to my ever-growing stable of pretty, blond, young noble heir-types with emotional problems, daddy issues and an inability to deal with women normally.

...that is such an insanely specific type. O.o

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"Playing pretend" (or LARPing, or whatever terms people like) is underestimated. Most of what people do is just "playing pretend" anyway; we ought to get to pick what we're pretending at sometimes, I think. :D

Sounds like a lot of fun!

You know, that's a very good way of putting it. It's not like I don't normally do the same thing in my head at least 65% of the time. :D Now I just do it out loud with company! And it was fun. :D

omg, it was your birthday and I missed it! Happy SUPER BELATED birthday, Fey! ; A;

LARPing is so damn fun. :D And is done way more than people are willing to admit.

IT IS OKAY! We really didn't make a big deal out of this year. :D THANK YOU!

It seriously is. Hahaha, that makes me feel a lot better!

AHHHH Happy birthday Feyling!! I was gone all weekend and missed it! :( Hope you had an awesome time camping, though! :D The LARPing sounds AWESOME! XD

Also dklfgjdklfgn Valyn. GOD I HAVE MISSED HBC! I was just thinking about that the other day too, hahaha. HE IS STILL LOVED! <3<3<3

IT IS OKAY! Not a big deal was made out of it this year. :D I had a low key day. IT WAS! Holy crap, man! And luckily Danni is as gung ho about just smooshing fandoms and OCs and everything else together in one giant mash up as I am!

I KNOW! We actually were talking about him over the weekend! One of my current characters is...basically Valyn with less balls, and the opposite emotion problem. He can't not show what he's feeling, no matter how hard he tries. I went over similarities once and was disturbed. Same problems with feeling useless, treated the same by their fathers, same equivalent station, same problem of being compassionate and kind in a political society that really isn't, same issues with women, same storyline where he's thrust into the wilderness with crazy people and no idea how to handle himself or exist outside of his father's house. Even their house colors are the same.

And then, RANDOMLY, Danni and I were working out backstory for a ridiculously minor character, and she basically came up with a situation that is so similar to Valyn and Shadow that it's not even funny. (Personal body servant since they were both young teenagers, only friend/one who understands, undercurrents of Epic True Love, etc etc.) Without ever reading the book, so I had to tell her all about Valyn.

He gets to join in the LARPing fun. :D

But that's why he's been feeling very jealous, and is in need of some attention.

Ahahaha, awwww. The similarities are eerie!

And Shana says go have hot sweaty sex with Shadow, you'll feel better. ;)

THEY ARE! And they're both tall, slim, trained in both magic and sword, with long pretty blond hair and extremely aristocratic features.

Hahahaha, that is always a good way to cheer Valyn up!

Shana says the thought of Valyn having a twin out there somewhere is rather terrifying.

And she agrees. And says she'll try not to turn into a shiny ball of angry jealousy to take his place. ;)

It kind of is. But he totally has an inter-dimensional twin! (And the whole thing is terribly ironic, since Valyn's canonically a twin!)

Valyn says she can come, too. He's very depressed and needs lots of cheering up.

Yes but his twin is sadly FML. XD

Shana says Ooooh, threesome? She's all in on that!

That's because Valyn got all the good genes. There wasn't anything decent left over for poor Ardeyn. All he got was an epic love of boobies.

Valyn says yes, that sounds like just what he needs. Preferably a few rounds.

Shana suggests celebrating Fey's birthday with sex. one round for every year she's been alive, hahaha. ;)

That's...a lot of rounds! Valyn's not sure he could survive that much!

Shana says oh, she's sure he could. XD

Valyn would like to know just how much stamina Shana thinks he has! He's more than happy to try, of course, but he'd hate for Shana to find herself let down.

Shana says between Valyn and Shadow, being let down is the last thing she anticipates being. She has faith in them. ;)

Valyn says perhaps he should take a quick detour to the library to refresh his memory on potency spells. :D

Shana looks intrigued and says ooooh, they HAVE those? We could go for a dozen MORE then! :O

Valyn says he assumes so, since he had to end up a twin somehow, and it sure didn't happen naturally. There's bound to be magic to...increase virility. Or something along those lines. It simply wouldn't hurt to look into it, at least.

Shana glees and says she'll help him search. XD

Valyn says that if that's the case, he doesn't imagine they'll ever make it out of the library!

She says they can take advantage of all the surfaces there? ;)

Ah, plunging the remains of humanity into a dark abyss...more than once. That sounds awesome. Also, Zombieland is a good way to top off that sort of pretend-playing.

Apropos of Zombieland, have you read World War Z? It's seriously...it's terrible. Not in the Stephanie-Meyer-God-who-published-this-shit sort of terrible, but a sweet-Jesus-oh-the-humanity-I-cried-a-little sort of way. Terribly awesome.

write some HBC fic

Oh God, please do. This day moves closer and closer the epitome of suck with every passing minute, and the mere hope that you might maybe possibly be writing HBC fic soothes my agony.

Yup! It's always fun. :D As long as the doom doesn't last and nobody dies permanently. Next on the list is a plotline where everyone slowly succumbs to this bizarre madness that starts to infect the base world where most of the action takes place.

I have not! I'll have to look into it!

Well, I'm definitely in the mindset, but I am rather uninspired. INSPIRE ME SO I MAY EASE YOUR PAIN! )

World War Z (http://www.amazon.com/World-War-Oral-History-Zombie/dp/0307346617/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271121077&sr=8-1). If you are comfortable giving your address to an Internet-stranger, I shall send you my copy and pass on the love. Books are sort of expensive when there's rent to pay.

Hm. I am currently in the midst of a follow-up to the birthday fic in which Zed and Valyn are actually not at odds and have come to an "understanding" (if you know what I mean), and conversely am also writing a post-Elvenbane weird Shana/Shadow/Keman threesome-ish thing (and an angsty companion piece to that that's just Shadow/Keman being friends). So there's all my brain spillage.

HBC fic would be awesome! That fandom needs more love; I miss Valyn. As does Raine. XD

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