Last night when I got home, my internet and cable were out again. TWC said it was an outage in the area. So I started a Middleman rewatch, which is enjoyable, and eventually the TV came back, so I watched the Mets win, but the internet was mostly out until about half an hour ago. I was able to download a beta email, so hopefully I will have fic to post tomorrow, as long as the internet cooperates.

In other news, as I said on tumblr yesterday, I'm reading Kate Elliott's Court of Fives and I'm enjoying it so far, but it is kind of a faux-Roman YA dystopia on first glance, which for some reason makes me want the Iliad redone as a YA dystopia featuring Patroclus being sent to the frontlines at Troy because of killing a man over a dice game, Achilles refusing to participate because Agamemnon promised him spoils and glory and then broke faith with him, Hector stepping in to protect his dumbass little brother, Paris, who thinks he's in love with Helen, who's betrothed to the older Menelaus, who gets his brother involved when Helen runs away, Helen being either everywhere or nowhere depending on who you ask (and possibly more than one girl posing as her so she can appear in so many different places), Odysseus the wily veteran who's been to war before and survived, and Diomedes as the only one who gets to go home happy at the end. Briseis starts out as Achilles' captive but ends up his spy in Agamemnon's camp. Also, no love triangle, just a three-way V-shaped relationship where Achilles is with both Patroclus and Briseis, and they become allies who don't sleep together. And of course, Patroclus eventually pretends to be Achilles and dies tragically, after which Achilles gets his rage on.

I haven't figured out yet what happens with Cassandra or Iphigenia, or if the gods are real/participate.

(Then there's the spinoff set X years later featuring Aeneas.)

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