So, during the 20 minutes before I left for church on Sunday, I may have committed this
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I've just stopped by the Commuter Lounge after class, and we've done Frankenstein. Now the prof wanted to focus on the slippages and fallibilities inherent in the various levels of framing devices, but I'm actually more interested in the transparencies. We found plenty of examples of said slippages, places where the narrators may be less than ( Read more... )

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Title: Requiem at Reichenbach
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Rating: PG
Summary: It is as if the whole universe were set in motion to bring us to this moment, Holmes.
A/N: Written for yuletide. The version of this story in the Yuletide Archive (and the corresponding comments) can be found here.

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Apparently, this year--i.e. the first year I've signed up for 3_ships--is the first year that 3_ships will be disallowing incest. Which means that Simon/Kaylee/River threesome I was so looking forward to requesting is out. Sad ( Read more... )

Apparently, Terry Pratchett once wrote a fanfic (or at least imagined himself as having written it) "setting Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in Middle Earth; the rest of the kids loved it, because a class of thirteen-year-old boys with volcanic acne and groingal longings is not best placed to appreciate Miss Austen's fine prose. It was a really ( Read more... )

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( Five Things River Wishes Jayne Could Understand/Accept, and/or Five Things She Hopes He Never Will )

I don't usually rec things on my flist, but I'm enjoying this too much not to make sure everyone takes a look: bookishwench is writing Jayne Eyre, transporting the Firefly character to early nineteenth-century England and forcing him to dress up in drag. Oh, too much fun!

(I haven't read Jayne Eyre but general cultural literacy means I pretty much know/am ( Read more... )

I just typed "Lupin" instead of "Dupin" in the essay on "The Purloined Letter" I am writing. Fandom has eaten my brain, and it isn't even my fandom!

Anyway, speaking of detectives, I watched the Veronica Mars repeat on last night. I don't know why I'm not feeling the love for this show, but I know one problem is that I'm simply not interested in ( Read more... )