Friends, it’s The Brit here! (Have you noticed it’s usually me?!) And you know, I love a bit of drama! When I was a teenager, my English teacher mentioned that you could tell a lot about a person by the colors they wear. Black, she said, was all about drama. A few days later, a classmate pointed out that every day since, I’d worn black from head to toe.
Anyway, it’s lines like the following that liberate my drama queen! They snap me out of my need to be quiet and avoid cliche! I want to roll around in lines like these like a happy, liberated pig. They’re from Louise Fuller’s Returning for His Ruthless Revenge, in which Gabriel is more than a tad upset with Dove:
"What heart? Dove Cavendish didn't have one. She was a living, breathing Snow Queen with ice in her veins, and even now the memory of that conversation with her father burned him——almost as much as her beauty dazzled him."
Yes! Let’s be dramatic! Let’s have FUN! Let’s have Snow Queens (capitalized!!) and ice in veins, duckdammit, and memories that BURN and beauty that makes it QUITE a lot harder to see what’s in front of you!
Does ice cream have similar JOY in it? Well, yes, but it doesn’t agree with me. On the other hand, after those marvelously dramatic lines, I admit agreeing can be pretty boring.
Unless it’s Phish Food. Because I DO want Phish Food to agree with me. It’s the marshmallow, you know?
Have a great one, my friends!
Romancey Pants 