Meta: oh how I wish I was a trinity, pt.1

Being a productive member of fandom, at least (assiduously not writing term papers). I've got meta!

A lot of this is runoff from my film theory course last term, in which I realized that we're throwing all sorts of words around without any idea what they mean. Bits have since straggled in from my thinks about h/c and idfic and Kristeva, through the twin lenses of my current work on Shelley!cest and the Boy's book.

( so that if I lost a part of me )

I'll pick this up later, when I have more time. Right now, there's some Shelley calling my name.

oh, I almost forgot

For my own dearest Will, on his birthday - all the love in the world, and more, which your own love-letters are best able to reflect.

come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.
Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,
Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
O, I have bought the mansion of a love,
But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold,
Not yet enjoy'd: so tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them.