If you want documentation that you liked Shakespeare's history plays before it was cool, you could always go sign up for that ficathon I've been running for the past five years. It's pretty much consistently a font of awesomeness.

Time is running out -- signups close on Friday!

Ian Holm as Henry V, 1964.

Okay, picturing Richard Armitage as a dwarf is weird, but the casting for Bilbo is uncanny.

HISTORIES FICATHON III IS LIVE!

This year, it includes:

• Sex!
  
• Death!
  
• Undeath!
  
• Robots!
  
• Sex with robots!
  
• Meta!
  
• Springsteen!
  
• Chaucer!
  
• Wagner!
  
• Pirates!
  
• AND SO MUCH MORE!

I love my tiny fandom SO MUCH.

when you use the word "knighthood" and it sounds like a penis euphemism.

This post by seperis has been making the rounds of the old flist, and if you were in fandom about ten years ago at least some of it should be familiar. I got into fandom when I started college in 1997, and a great deal of it is recognizable -- I remember reading all this fannish meta and wondering who the hell these Jim and Blair people were that ( Read more... )

The lovely gileonnen is doing a ficathon focused on Shakespeare's Greek and Roman plays. This is the second year it's been done -- last year's generated some wonderful fic! So if that is the sort of thing you are into, you might want to go to ides_of_april and check out the signup instructions.

I went to Borders today and bought the following books:

+ Mort
+ Hogfather
+ Small Gods
+ Guards! Guards!
+ Witches Abroad

I was going to get Wyrd Sisters, which got the most recs by far, but they didn't have it.

I have no idea why a simple trip to the bookstore and the grocery store should be utterly exhausting, but I guess I have a lot of ( Read more... )

So, barring something that may turn up in the not-too-distant future panning out, I am likely, what with the lack of teaching and finishing of dissertation, to have a semester of relative leisure ahead of me. And while I plan to spend some of it on job-hunting things and publications, I also want to, you know, actually do some leisure reading for ( Read more... )

Zachary-Quinto-narrated audiobook + surprisingly good audio editing = HILARITY. This would not really be all that funny in text, but it is INCREDIBLY funny in audio. Also really really NSFW, so, you know, be advised.

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1:42 is where I DIED.

The college at which I teach is holding auditions for American Buffalo next week.

Every time I walk past one of the posted announcements I am stricken with the temptation to attend in order to say "Hello! Have you a need for a Norwegian nobleman to wait for bodies to be carted out?"

I don't think I'm being unreasonable here.