So. (Ok, I know I begin ever post with "so", sue me.)

So, I was trying to find my old SPN story that I started just because I remember liking the idea even though I have no idea what it's about anymore, and I found like a ton of half started season 1/2 SGA stories that I remember really wanting to write. This includes that random Uni Roommates au that I actually posted parts of and a complete ripoff of SG-1's 100 Days which I actually wrote something like 5000 words of already (and considering my longest story ever is 6000 words, this is saying something). So a part of me really wants to finish some of these, but another part of me is saying, "Oh Chel, you've been out of SGA fandom too long. No one even remembers Season 1/2 (and maybe 3? I don't even remember) anymore much less want to read about that crap. Please move on kthxbye."

Anyone on my flist still into SGA and think I should do these? Or, how about some other stuff that I might write?

Poll #1188434
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Which WIPs should I seriously consider finishing?

So a long time ago, I started watching Supernatural and then I got distracted by Torchwood right towards the end of Season 1, but now I'm back baby. After all, there's only so many times you can watch the same clips of Christian and Oliver making out in the gym before you have to move on.

(I lie. I can watch a thirty second clip of Christian and Oliver making out in the gym for hours and hours and still find it great. Thore Schoelermann's dimples > my short attention span.)

Anyways, Jensen Ackles' face is really confusing to me because it is both very very pretty and yet very very masculine. Like, I keep expecting the prettiness to overwhelm my attraction to him, but alas it has not happened. I can't for the life of me think of another pretty but masculine actor either. Gale Harold? Masculine, but I would say more handsome than pretty. Cillian Murphy? Very pretty, but not very masculine. Jensen Ackles defies my male attractiveness categorization.

Also, my mother (after watching one episode of Supernatural after which she got really scared like a little girl) refers to Dean as the good looking one, "something about his mouth" (personally, I say it's his nicely curled eyelashes), even though in general, we totally do not have the kind of relationship where we sit around talking about hot guys. I mean, we have, but not often, especially since when we were watching Brokeback Mountain, she said, "The guy who plays Jack (a.k.a. Jake Gyllenhal) is totally hot," (I'm paraphasing; this was in Chinese) and I said, "No, you mean Ennis," and she was like, "No, I mean Jack. Ennis is not attractive at all." At which point I dismissed her taste in guys as totally dismissal because Heath Ledger, though not my type, is totally hot.

My dad also called Jensen Ackles very good looking so apparently his prettiness enfolds my whole family. Even though everything I've heard about him makes me want to throw explicitly illustrated NC-17 RPS at him. I'm just saying.

( La la la does anyone have some Supernatural recs for me? )

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P.S. I just want to say Thore Schoelermann gets cuter everyday. Seriously, can we please import him to America? I will pay for shipping.

Today's VL clip has a bit of my current favourite kink which is Thore Christian speaking English! &hearts&hearts&hearts!

( Also, it could be just me but today's Olivia confuses me so much. )

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So Thore + English (OMG &hearts!) makes me want to mention that my biggest random pet peeve ever is when tv/movies have a very very western language speaking person try to speak mandarin. I mean, I was born in China and lived there till I was six and I speak mandarin and sir, that is not mandarin.

Like the other day, I was forced to watch Firefly and there's this one scene where the captain rambles off something that's supposed to be Chinese and I watched it at least three times and couldn't understand a syllable of what he was trying to say. And just when a character is suppose to be fluent or at least know the language well enough, it really takes me out of the reality of the scene when they just can't do it.

So here's thing thing: Chinese is all about short, concise sounds. Like you know how in English, you can have two distinct sounds in one syllable? Like the word 'well', there's a 'woo' sound and an 'ell' sound but it's just one syllable? Ok, in Chinese that would be two separate words. So for something like 'chen', in English you would have 'ch' + 'ang', but in Chinese it would all be together.

Also, you know how English has a natural rhythm of up and down intonation in a sentence? Not so much in Chinese. Our intonation distinguishes between words. (I could be wrong about this since I know nothing about linguistics, but I did notice that the boyfriend pronounced my name weird because he went down on one of the characters and I would be all, "But it goes up!")

In conclusion, please consider trying Japanese if you need an exotic Asian language for your alternative ratings-friendly words: I am told it is much more pronounceable by those who know nothing of Asian languages.

(<--- Because if anyone makes me want to talk about hair, it's Orli.)

So last week I got a new haircut that puts my hair at basically shoulder length even though after the last time I went shoulder length, I swore that I wouldn't go above boob level ever again. I lied. And literally while I was watching my hairguy remove inches (inches!), I had a very not-mini panic attack and thinking "bad idea, Chel, bad idea".

But now I kind of dig it for some reason. It's fun to shake around. Even though I have official bangs (a fringe, whatever) for the first time since possibly grade school, and no matter how much you tell me it's back, I totally still say it went out with the early nineties. (I disguise this with my still very cool side part.)

So: shorter summer hair cut: the cool sexy funky way to go or guys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses and who can't snottily toss their hair over their shoulders?

Also: change your haircut =/= change your life no matter what television tells us or when I dramatically pause in front of the mirror and then take a pair of scissors/a knife to my long flowing locks, I am a new person?

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In other tv crush news: Christian's hand's heterosexual freakout of OMG MAN PENIS 12 O'CLOCK and skipping to Oliver's shirt two episodes back was really cute, but that could be because I draw pink hearts around Thore Scholermann's dimples. Also, Jonas 'that Robin Hood dude' (don't know his real name) has a really pretty stubble. Um, and finally, dear AWZ, please please please stop making Roman a creepy villain guy just because Deniz is apparently straight now NO REALLY NO I SWEAR. Like seriously spoilers, WTF? I can't believe I'm saying this but *ahem* Igor is not that pretty. Roman, you have a medal: go flash it at someone shiny!

(And I'm ok with that.)

I don't really like making this kind of posts because sometimes I have something to say, but most of the time someone has already said it and more eloquently. And because I am generally a lazy sod. But there are some things I believe in (which may or may not come out in what I say) that might on principle make you not want to be friends with me.

( So this is what you should know about me (tl;dr). )

I am using a Lee Adama icon because the keywords are "side of the law", and a lot of what he says in that speech captures the spirit of what I believe in.

01. Firstly, words cannot express how utterly excited I am that gigitrek has written Roman/Deniz. Literally, I just sit here and make high pitched dolphin noises and then the boyfriends asks, "Is this about your gay german soap operas (plural guys, PLURAL) again?"

(The only possible response: "OMG, GAY! GERMAN! SOAP OPERAS! OMG!")

So I wanted Roman/Deniz fanfic so badly that I actually started writing it myself even though it's like all teenage angst. (My canon is a soap opera, IT IS NOT MY FAULT!) And I don't think I ever write stories that I really wanted to read; I just write stories that I enjoy writing if that makes sense. But yeah, I don't think I have wanted this badly to read fanfic about a couple since possibly ever. Brutus/Antony comes close. (I have reread babel's stories so many times it's ridiculous.) Apparently, the only Roman/Deniz fanfic that exist are in German, and why yes, I have googled translated them, and yes, badfic is basically completely unreadable when it's grammatically incomprehensible.

But again I note that gigitrek has promised, PROMISED!, that Roman/Deniz is written and now I'm going to be on the edge of my seat until it is posted. gigitrek = &hearts!

02. ( This post could have also had the subject G(default)IP but it just doesn't have the same ring as GGGSOP! In other words, I love Christian/Oliver so so much. )

03. So I ended up watching a clip of Luke/Noah only because it's talked about all over the place and I've come to realize that not only does America totally suck in terms of what is allowed to be shown on television, but the Germans also win with the hotness of their gay boys. (Brian Kinney does not count. Brian Kinney surpasses the hotness scale.) Get back to me when you can find someone that smiles as prettily as Igor or Thore.

04. ( Why I think Deniz is gay gay gay. )

05. P.S. So Deniz (and his dad) both wear guy necklaces, but it's ok because it's not at all fugly like Ianto/Gareth's. Plus, we all know Deniz is the toolest of all the tools so it suits him.

Apparently, I too have discovered German Soap Operas, even if it was more of the Roman/Deniz variety (thanks to gigitrek for pointing this out!) than Christian/Oliver. I stayed up too late hopped up on coffee hunting down clips, and then having weird dreams in wannabe German even though I think I know maybe three words of German which are: thanks, welcome and shit. Oh, and geist! And uh, volkswagon? You'd think reading all that Marx and Hegel would have had more of an academic impact on me, but mostly I just remember my ex-roommate shouting 'scheisse' when she was late. 'Ich bin' means 'I am' right?

(The guy who plays Deniz is absurdly sneaky hot. Like at first I was like 'eh', but the more I saw of him, the more I was like 'mmmmm'.)

Also, I've finally watched most of Life on Mars and a: I totally get why everyone was !!!!! about The Master on Doctor Who, I agree!, and b: !!!!! (c: would be that I have great love for Bowie that stems almost entirely from Labyrinth but now also makes an appearance when I start humming 'Is there life on Maaaaars?' in the lifts.)

So I saw some pictures of dear Gareth at Sex, Wales and Anarchy, and I might have *ahem* laughed a lot. A LOT. I mean, I know he did some very sexy things and sung some sexy songs and whatnot, but um, that facial hair is just not working for him. At all. Maybe it would have been ok if it was less 'dodgy random guy that's about to come on to you with a really, really bad pick-up line whilst thinking it's sexy' and more 'off-season actor about to finally be comfortable' (HI JOE FLANIGAN!), but yeah, there was a lot of giggling on my part. I think Gareth's face and I are now officially broken up. Even if he does make up for it with the reading of the gay sex.

In other news, how come I never knew Jamie Bamber was British? He literally went from like prat to SUPER SEXY in like the two seconds it took for me to process that it was his real voice. LEE LEE LEE! You kind of sound a bit like a girl on the show but in real life, you are way cooler!

In other other news, oh Paul Campbell (BILLY!). You and your Very Bad career moves and your completely dorktastic role in Nobody's Watching. So much warm fuzzy feelings!

ETA:

(Speaks for itself, don't it?)

I'm watching a whole lot of season one BSG lately even though I saw both season one and two awhile back. Let me just say, I liked this show a whole lot better when they were dealing with fleet issues instead of crazy love triangles/rectangles/pentagons or whatever they're on now. Although, the show basically peeked for me with Lee's little speech about how he stands for the law (OMG possibly my favouritest moment in all of television!) with a secondary spike when Tom Zarick (sp?) gives a totally Marxist speech about how money and labour-value are meaningless under the present circumstances and how they have to invent a new way of thinking. Yes! I wish BSG would stop and consider the validity of what he's saying instead of tossing it away in another 'Zarick makes crazy points because he is a power-hungry, media-craving dangerous bastard' moment.

Also, Billy reminds me SO MUCH of Ianto. Now, maybe I am just going through Ianto withdrawal right now but every time Billy comes on screen, my hearts warms up in the way it used to for Mr. Jones and I scream 'Billy!' and tell my boyfriend how much I love him. (The boyfriend's usual response: 'Who's Billy?') I wish there was a good, easily findable Billy/Paul Campbell picture so I can have a Billy icon instead of another Lee icon (possibly because aside from the whole 'side of the law' speech, Lee is kind of whatever for me).

Oh BSG, your awesomeness is still totally appreciated!

In other news, apparently Mr. Lloyd is coming to the states, but nowhere near where I am living. I feel strangely cheated that he's going to be in San Diego which is like my dream place to live and where I am trying really hard to get to. But I feel that way whenever anyone says they're going to San Diego. That should be me hoes!

Finally, I know television likes to make everyone and their grandmother's dogwalker's ex-wife fall in love with/crave the attention of/revolve their life around the main character because well, they're the Main Character and they're Important damnit! but can we seriously cut that shit out? Seriously! I used to like Nancy on Weeds, but if I hear one more person talk about how OMG SHE'S SO HOT, I will freak out. Listen: she's clearly not young and her lips do weird things when she talks and her voice has a monotone annoyance to it if you listen to it for a long time. She's pretty but in a quirky way versus a OMG SEXY MOMMA way so I really can't believe that everyone who meets her suddenly want to give up their whole life because of her pretty eyes. Also, if your kid got my teenage kid pregnant (OMG ON PURPOSE) right before she was about to head off to Princeton, then kicked in a window in my house, then STABBED me, I would do more than punch him once. I would beat the crap out of him, then call the cops, then think about hiring a hitman to take him out. So Nancy, stop making asinine threats when your child is the biggest asshole in the world just because he's your child. I think everyone wanted to punch Silas. You get no sympathy.

Dear flist, where is your dream place to live? As noted, mine is San Diego because I love the weather and I love the Pacific Ocean like I love the phrase 'soft, like snowfall'. Which is hell of a lot.

Keywords: favourite band: TOOL!

So I was talking to out_there, and then I realized I had no Gareth the Tool icons, only Gareth the Pretty ones. Took care of that, didn't I?*

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( OMG I am totally not as crazy as this makes me sound. I just have very random tangents in thinking. )

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ETA: I took this What is my lustsign? quiz thing and I got:

My Lustsign is Fire In The Sky. I am the lost artifact of the gods. I am a brutal sex machine, and i'm scared to kill my partner even when cuddling. My color is red, blood red. When i'm having sex, i bite, scratch, scream, cry, and i don't remember any of them. Fortunate ones, to whom i gave the opportunity to sleep with me are probably still crying "Oh my god!" and trembling with ecstasy.

which literally couldn't be more wrong if it tried. I'm like what Ianto Jones appears to be on the outside in bed: quiet, slightly sarcastic with a nice bit of passion underneath. But no biting, scratching, scream or crying. (Unless you ask me nicely. Then I still won't scream or cry.) But then, I think the lack of capitalized 'I's would probably be a good indication of the quality of that quiz.

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*All Gak bashing totally in jest! I am in no way trying to start an anti-Gareth revolution! (Even though he's totally a tool. But at least he's our tool? Or alternatively, at least it's really, really mockable! :))

La la la la, new layout! Surprisingly, elements I thought would be hard (like putting the header on top of the sidebar) was a lot easier than I expected, but then I spent like a million hours messing with font and spacing and whatnot. And I accidentally deleted the customization for the comments page/archive so :(. But yeah, I've been wanting to do a simple white layout for forever (even if I can't seem to let go of bright blue) so yay!

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I'm not usually a meme person but I really wanted to do this one:

1. My username is godofwine because it's my favourite song on my favourite album by my favourite band. And because all the other ones I wanted were taken. Ironically, I hate the taste of wine. And beer.

2. My names is little fangirl of love and orneriness! because that's what this journal is all about: random fangirl love and mocking. For the longest time, I had a Fight Club theme going and my name used to be 'I am Jack.' and everything was 'I am Jack's livejournal.' or 'I am Jack's friend's page.' but I finally changed it, and this seemed right.

3. My journal is titled Why is there so much talk about a (stopwatch*)?? because when I finally put up something for bio on the profile page, that was the first thing I thought of as a header. And it fits so well because OMG IANTO JONES! (The * is because my subtitle is: *will also accept: tape measures, in seams, and coffee.)

4. My friends page is called I haven't got (friends) anymore. because it's a Gareth quote that stuck. The way he said it just totally made me *squee* and go &hearts&hearts&hearts because there's nothing I like more than a dry remark said with a straight face. Oh the good ol' days...

My default icon is because it's pretty? I like boys who sing? (Although the keywords are: not here for his music which I thought was appropriately mocking.)

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I didn't get to watch Torchwood until this morning but OMG!

( Exit Wounds )

Ganked from sarkastic:

Empire Magazine's top 50 shows of all time: Bold if you've seen every episode, italicize if you've seen at least one. I'm also going to * the ones that I really, really want to see.

( I actually watch more television than I realized. )

So um, I disagree with this list like a lot. More than a lot. I think it's biased towards more cult-ish shows (and Joss Whedon), which I think would cause a lot of people to disagree with the ordering.

(Angel is one of the best shows of all time? Really? REALLY?)

Shows I think should be included: Rome, Weeds, Due South, Grey's Anatomy and random others before a lot (A LOT) of those. OZ! Oz should totally be on there. 30 Rock as well. Dead Like Me. Law and Order. Coupling even. OMG HOUSE!

And this isn't even based solely on personal preference. You'll notice no mention of Torchwood because I think Torchwood is a good show, my favourite show right now, but you don't watch it in amazement at it's quality. And I think the ways that I think it's a good show is not necessarily the reasons that other people think it's a good show. Also, I think it needs a bit more polish, and, how should I say this, better acting before it's up there for me.

So yeah Empire, sorry you fail in my book. But points for Red Dwarf. That was a neat show.

So I was spring breaking and my laptop broke, and for days I was without gmail and youtube after 11 when my parents went to bed in the room with the computer that allows such things. Woe!

(You can only fully appreciate this tragedy if you, like me, have just discovered The Mighty Boosh and then had it prematurely stripped away from you by your mother's laptop's company proxy. I consoled myself by reading lots of stories about Ianto's oh-so-delicate spleen heart instead.)

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Noel Fielding is possibly my favouritest person in fake life! I'd really like to keep him in my pocket for side commentary of everything that's happening. That would make life filled with 100x more rainbows! Simon Amstell can come too though he would probably lower the rainbow factor.

(Simon is probably going to take my last icon spot before I start chucking Gareth icons. I've never run out of space before. It almost makes me feel nostalgic for the good ol' days when I got the extra icons package and could fill the web with John Sheppard's pretty hair.)

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The boyfriend is trying to convince me to watch Firefly by saying it's just like Torchwood but with better plot. Then I informed him I hate plot and only watch Torchwood for the boykissing (and Ianto Jones!), but he ignored me and kept talking about companions and shepherds. Which just made me think about Firefly as a Doctor Who/SGA crossover.

He's also into The Sarah Connor Chronicles now, which makes him officially more in touch with my friendslist than me.

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I accidentally gained like five pounds of fat some time last quarter and am now vowing to not eat like boys ever again. And possibly exercise. Maybe. Is this how the bitter end of teenage metabolism comes? With non-fat lattes?

I'm also very seriously considering getting either a shag haircut or just doing it rather short. I've got boring straight Asian hair and I feel like I aught to do something cooler if I'm going to sit about and make fun of other people's fashion choices. (Btw, that necklace is still fugly.)

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I'm seeing Nada Surf on Friday which is going to be my first concert in absolutely forever.

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Dear flist, if you were a colour, what colour would you be? I am of course cobalt blue even though my favourite colour is green.

Dear Britain,

You win at life!

Love and kisses,
Chel

Seriously, I am watching Never Mind the Buzzcocks and it is totally the funniest thing I have ever seen. My parents thought I've gone mad. (And I felt ultra proud of myself for at least getting both the Sex Pistols and the Buzzcocks reference even though I have no idea about any of the other bands/people on the show.) Simon Amstell > Gareth David-Lloyd, y/n? ('You know everything? I like it!' &hearts)

I am thinking about the wiseness of only following British shows from now on because they are clearly more likely to make me point and go 'OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE HE SAID THAT!' and die in a fit of *squee*. The only problem with that (besides that I live in America) is of course I don't know any British shows besides Torchwood (&hearts) and Doctor Who (I watch, but I'm not in love). I have no idea what Skins is about except that the guy in it was not very fun and oh so young. On the other hand, the guy from Robin Hood was tres amusing so that's an option.

So anyone on the flist know anything good? Provided it's something I can actually get my hands on of course.

Eta: I was watching an old episode of Buzzcocks and then a preview of Countrycide came on. WIN!

So it has come to my attention that some people actually find Ianto's REALLY REALLY FUGLY necklace attractive. *Ahem* Yeah, no. The neck: very very lickable! The casual clothing ensemble: tres hot! The open shirt complete with little peeks at his chest hairs: mmm yum!

The necklace however can only be described as FUGLY.

But, in the fairness of trusting the internet has good taste, I present a poll:


This is going to be hard to do but ignore the prettiness of everything else and concentrate on the COMPLETELY FUGLY necklace. (Sorry, the cap is crappy but I trust everyone remembers this scene well.) Now remember Ianto's pretty pretty BARE neck.


Now answer this poll:
Poll #1160954
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Ianto's Pimp Chain: Fugly or the Fugliest Thing Ever?

ETA: I don't know why I misspelled 'immerse' with an e. I wish you can edit polls. I BLAME IT ON THE POWER OF THE FUGLY!

I did observe the no-posting thing on Friday though more in support of the fact that I don't like the whole removal of basic accounts than as an actual protest. That is, I'm simply saying 'I don't like this', I'm not expecting to change any policies or get in a fight with Six Apart (or whatever they're called) and I don't know anything about the anti-Jewish/anti-Russian associations that have been floating around (though I don't think the original idea at least had anything to do with that). In all, I don't really think it's a big deal if you did or didn't post. :)

So with that said, OMG NEW TORCHWOOD, POSSIBLY MY FAVOURITE EPISODE EVER (which kind of tells you what my priorities are in shows). Previously, my favourite was definitely "They Keep Killing Suzie" though "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" was definitely up there as well.

( 'Fragments' Reactions + Ianto Picspam, Yay! )

( OMG TORCHWOOD 2x11 YOU BROKE MY CAPSLOCK BUTTON!! )

Also, I just spent way too much time figuring out the details of the layout of the Hub and how it's changed since series one. Like how the old conference room is now the greenhouse and Gwen's old desk area is now the coffee station. OH SHOW! &hearts

ETA: fodian has good eyes! ( I have the magic of photoshop! )

I have been spending waaaaay too much time in photoshop lately and since I feel slightly (very slightly) dumb for having only Ianto/Gareth icons, I'm just going to post them instead. Yay!

8 total: 2 Jack, 2 Jack/Ianto, 3 Ianto, 1 Gareth

( Icons! )

Whoever thought it would be a cool idea to hand code their custom CSS instead of using the million and one pretty, already created layouts out there clearly needs to be shoot in the head. Especially if they don't, you know, know anything about CSS.

I swear, I was up till six in the morning trying to figure out what all their little parameters mean. This reminds me that I will never, ever change my layout again.

But at least I have Gareth's pretty face! And finally, no more Fight Club theme! I am Jack no more!

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Speaking of Gareth a.k.a. Ianto a.k.a. the only thing I talk about: I continue being contrary to the rest of my flist and actually liked "From Out of the Rain". Oh show, I don't require much from you besides seeing Ianto's face every five seconds and not making me want to slap half the main characters!

( Haha, don't worry, I didn't think it was a good episode or anything! )

ETA: I take it back! I can totally do Gareth's pretty face because this amused me so much! (Sorry, was too lazy to do a timed screencap, but you should totally see this live!)



Look! Ianto! With flowers! (I say they are totally from Jack from after the wedding! :D)

Eliot Spitzer makes me sad. I kind of forgot that he was governor, but I liked him a lot of Attorney General.

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I have spent a lot of time searching for this (and by a lot I mean five minutes in google) so I ask you: WHY IS THERE NO FITZGERALD/HEMINGWAY SLASH?? I mean, we have real life slash plays (plural! although I can't find the link to one that's called something like "Hemingway and Fitzgerald's Big Gay Adventure" -for realz!- and about them in Mexico or something) but no fic? You'd think there would at least be a RP of this out there somewhere, but alas no!

I mean, they have the literary love for each other, the great rivalry, the largely fictionalized gay accounts of their time together written by one about the other, even the jealous psycho wife who accused them of being gay for each other! (Not to mention the analyzed to death was he/wasn't he of whether or not Hemingway was gay.) How is their life not just bad fic right there?

Internets, you fail me!