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Got this from dolmir_k and scribblinlenore: Pick a fandom (or many fandoms!), and tell us something that hits your hot button. Be as specific as you like.

First of all - for any fandom - my biggest kink is for heroic action; especially when it's slash; when one character does something unexpected and uncharacteristically heroic, especially if they do it for love.

My second biggest kink is touch, especially if described in detail.

( Smallville )

( The Professionals )

( Highlander )

( Horatio )

Those I see in dreams...

I had a dream about rosiespark. In the dream, she had come to visit me in Ottawa. (commodorified would like that too.) Guy Gavriel Kay had also come to Ottawa, and was doing a reading from his new book, the one whose subject he has not yet divulged. Unfortunately, my dream did not divulge the subject either, but it was a great reading!

Then I learned that rosiesparrk was going to Toronto and then directly back to Malta and I wouldn't be seeing her again. I was so disappointed, I woke up.

rosiespark, have you had any dreams about Ottawa lately?

Quidam...

Tonight I went to see Le Cirque du Soleil show "Quidam". I think I watched the whole thing with my mouth open in amazement.

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Impossible to describe any of it, because it was such a world of wonders. Indescribable. They make an evening's entertainment out of doing the impossible, and making it beautiful.

My favourite were the acts shown above, each of which grew in amazement as it continued. The Adam-and-Eve balancing act by Asa Sokol Kubiak and Jérome Le Baut was called "Statue" and I've never seen anything like it. The man-in-a-hoop act which opened the show, they describe this way on their website:

An acrobat becomes master of his own domain from within a giant wheel consisting of two metal hoops joined at six points and measuring over six feet in diameter. In a display of strength and agility, he rolls, turns and spins while nonchalantly performing somersaults and twists. Artist(s) currently performing the act: Cory Sylvester and
Shayne Courtright.

I don't know which performer I saw. Describing the act in words demeans it. It's all light and motion and human flight.

That is not to ignore the other parts of the show.... All of them theatrical, clever, and startling. Some of them funny, some sexy. Beyond the skill involved, it's a masterpiece of staging. The artistry is amazing, because the whole thing is so creatively conceived, so much a combination of costume, lighting, music, motion, colour and idea as well as human feats of dancing, acrobatics, and flexibility. The gentleman behind me kept muttering, "Unbelieveable." It was. Perhaps they have invented the anti-gravity stage, but haven't told the rest of the world about it yet.

A literally breathtaking show.