"SPAAAAARTA!" Man, that never gets old

[transemacabre]

remix17 and I were discussing this clip from the "300" movie:

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remix17: omg xerxes isn't blinking D=
mississippienne: hes a god, biotch! gods dont blink!
mississippienne: they have slaves to blink for them!!!
remix17: he also has silky smooth skin
remix17: like a baby
mississippienne: yesssss
mississippienne: and hes like 8 feet tall
remix17: he's all "bask in my glow"
mississippienne: the real xerxes really was loony tunes
mississippienne: herodotus, the ancient greek historian, tells of an incident where one of xerxes' bridges was destroyed in a storm
mississippienne: so xerxes had the ocean lashed to punish it
mississippienne: he LASHED THE OCEAN
remix17: ....
remix17: that is brilliant
remix17: xerxes is so zemo
mississippienne: he is!
mississippienne: thats why i love him
mississippienne: hes totally my type
mississippienne: of, uh, fictional character
mississippienne: also, check out how when xerxes goes in for the vaguely gay shoulder rub, leonidas just stands there, as though waiting for a massage
mississippienne: *giggles*
remix17: "mmmm fighting is so tiring..."
remix17: omg he does
remix17: he was all expecting it
mississippienne: "xerxes' jewelry... so sparkly... hypnotized..."
remix17: look at leoni...leo...whoever!
remix17: omg his acting
remix17: so contrived
mississippienne: awwwz
mississippienne: i heart leonidas
mississippienne: hes adorkable. hes this badass warrior king but he jokes and fools around and gets massages from 8-foot-tall god-kings and makes funny faces
mississippienne: and his abs! his pecs! his, ah, presence!
remix17: i like his cape
remix17: it looks really comfy
mississippienne: its his pimp cape
remix17: "ITS HARD OUT HERE FOR SPARTAAAAAAAAA"

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Comments

[kirke-novak.livejournal.com]

Never seen the movie (yeahyeahyeah, I know, abomination!) but this scene? PIMP! I was expecting Xerxes to go 'I shall be the king and you shall be my queen.' That whole kneeling dialogue? Oh, please, we all know what they were REALLY talking about.

[transemacabre.livejournal.com]

The way Xerxes wanted Leonidas was sick. Xerxes was totally naming their future children already. He even gives Leonidas one last chance to "kneel" during the final battle. There's also cute scene where two Spartan warriors flirt while stacking dead Persians. Only in 300 could this be considered romantic.

[kirke-novak.livejournal.com]

...oh great. Now I want to see some really hot Xerxes/Leonidas slash...

Only in 300 could this be considered romantic.

And in The Authority. Come on, how many times were Mindy and Apollo flirting with each other while kicking heads off? A lot, that's for sure.

[swordslady.livejournal.com]

I decided against my better judgment to try and watch this clip even though I'm on dial-up. Well, it's loading for the first time, thus stopping and jumping and generally choppy, and I have no idea what's going on, but it's all just hilarious facial expression after hilarious facial expression!
Also, I'm finding Leonidas hot, but not in the "omg hottness!" kind of way. My brain's having trouble possessing that, but when my family gets it on DVD, I'm still totally stealing it and putting it with mine.

[remix17.livejournal.com]

It's the beard. It's manly yet reserved, thus quietly erotic.

[obliterati.livejournal.com]

I'm curious about the Victory Tree quotation you posted the other day.

[transemacabre.livejournal.com]

It's Triumph Tree, ed. Thomas Owen Clancy. See if your local library can order it for you.

[obliterati.livejournal.com]

Whoops! Brain very tired, making many mistakes.

It's killing me that I never thought to look around more in Scottish literature.

The poem you posted, I wrote the same thing last year with very different syntax, it's freaking me out very much and your name is very similar to someone who knows of my interest in the Daeleighs, and who has played with my head online before. It's all very curious. This is a very strange thing to be saying publicly but there are people out there feeding me bad information and false quotations, and then in the middle of that there's a poem from a Daeleigh! And your name! Is it okay if I react strangely?

I saw your post and was suspicious of the poem, but then the sources for the book you mentioned are so numerous that now I'm believing you, but I have to find this book!

What made you interested in this subject? I'm curious also about the Daeleigh clan as a kind of pseudo-royalty, beside their being writers. Is the King of Ireland now King of Chicago by mistake? We all have a common ancestor apparently, myself being descended from the Daeleighs, and that is extremely interesting, from a scientific viewpoint at least, if not an historical one.

I'm so tired. I should just shut up!

[transemacabre.livejournal.com]

I assure you I have never heard of you before, never read your poetry, and I have no interest in playing with your head. That you kept asking me over and over about this poem kind of weirded me out. I suggest you get Triumph Tree from the library and settle your doubts.

[obliterati.livejournal.com]

Will do! Thanks! It's a very timely and personal subject, thank you for your patience!