ode to joy

Ode, by Arthur O'Shaughnessy

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.


I've actually been working on this story for a while, and am only now starting to post it, having determined that it's Not Going Away. My obsession with Ryuuki remains at unreasonable levels. And I am the very first fangirl of Kanshou and Bakuya, although I apparently have spread the infection to majochan. And now she is doing thoroughly awesome things with the swords herself, I am Very Pleased. I command you to bug her for more Battousai AU.

May 24: ( Saiunkoku, Demon Hunter AU: A Single Step )

This is going against my better judgment, and I doubt I have the ability to do this justice . . . but all the cool people have done it, and I want to be a cool person:

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudocanon. OCs, AUs, multiple characters, anything is fair game. As per my usual contrary self I reserve the right to answer requests with whatever perversity I see fit. Or take away your rum.