I got the idea from likeadeuce to flip the first line meme around and do last lines. So here are my last 21 closing lines. They're from the same fics as in the first line meme.

( last lines )

Which I got from lareinenoire and likeadeuce: post the first lines of your last 21 fics.

I got a bit confused about what I wrote when because a) I am a sloooooow writer so this list goes all the way back to Yuletide 2009, and b) I post stuff in quite a few different places (lj comms, AO3, my writing lj) at different times. So whatever.

( here they are )

Stolen from basically everyone on the flist. Fic index is hereGive me a number and I'll answer the question ( Read more... )

Ganked from various people, most recently jsburbidge:

1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few words of the first 20 songs that come up that do not give away the name of the song. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones. [I've put titular giveaways in some of the less recognizable songs, because seriously, I have ( Read more... )

Apparently neither depression nor awkwardness at work nor casting news about new BBC productions of Richard II nor general and particular horrors all over the world cannot pull me out of lj silence, but memes can.

You know the drill: ask if you want a letter, and post five songs that start with it. oursin gave me S.

Stella celi, by Walter Cooke, ( Read more... )

Day #21: An overrated play

I think I am going to be iconoclastic today. I mean, I suppose this is the point of the question, since by design it asks us to explain why plays generally considered among Shakespeare's finest are not really all that great.

So I am going to go right for the controversial answer: I think Hamlet is Shakespeare's most ( Read more... )

Things I do not want to do:

• Grade papers
  
• Wash dishes or clean my fridge
  
• Post about What That Anniversary Means To Me
  
• Post about how totally depressed I've been lately

So instead I will return to the 30 Increasingly Non-Consecutive Days of Shakespeare meme. I know most people decided "adaptation" means "doesn't use Shakespeare's words," but I figure ( Read more... )

Day #18: Your favorite dialogue

Oh man, this sort of question is ALWAYS SO DIFFICULT. I think that I will go with my first instinct on this, which is the meeting of the rebels in 1 Henry IV 3.1. It is just so beautifully put together, and the characterization is so effective: Hotspur's utter pissiness against Glendower's bluster, Mortimer's ( Read more... )

Day #17: Your favorite speech

I talked about Richard II's prison soliloquy on both Day 1 and Day 2, so I think I will do the lazy thing again and post performances of it. Even though I have never seen one that completely nails it, these are all really good, so perhaps if we put them into some kind of hypothetical dramatic centrifuge we would get ( Read more... )

Day #16: Your first play you saw

I saw bits of Zeffirelli's Hamlet in middle school, and remember thinking that this Shakespeare thing seemed pretty neat, and we watched his Romeo and Juliet in class when we studied it, but the first one I saw onstage -- which is really the best way to see Shakespeare, though it is sadly nonrepeatable -- was A ( Read more... )