I was reading MVP by cesperanza yesterday, and then mecurtin's thread about it, and the whole time I had floating around in the back of my mind a quote by General George Patton that was on the door of my thesis supervisor's office when I was at varsity, namely:

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
To me, this ( Read more... )

Okay. I accept that the dominant slash pairing that came out of Troy was Hector/Paris. I do, I really do. It's not my bag, but if it's yours that's fine by me. Honestly. I judge noone's fun. Have at, with my blessing.

But you *can't* say your fandom is the Iliad, or that that's where you got your source material from. It isn't. You didn't ( Read more... )

The various incarnations of Superman aren't completely consistent with each other, on this point any more than any other, but does anyone know (or have a vague recollection of knowing) any more than this:

Clark Kent is Kal-El, son of Jor-El, of the House of El (every incarnation ( Read more... )

I have desperate questions in need of answers, and can think of noone I'd rather ask. Questions one to three are a word association test of sorts - I want your first impulsive answer, not what you learned in CLAS 204 to be *correct*. Please feel free to expand/debate/challenge me in the comments, but give me your simple answer in the poll space ( Read more... )

Another Friday night, another viewing of the Troy preview, another apoplectic fit. My dear friend, flat mate and fellow film buff (let's call her Bachelor of Commerce and Administration) is sympathetic because she *is* my friend, but finds it impossible to understand why I get so upset. Since we went to a graduation party afterwards for one of my ( Read more... )