Revisiting and visiting John Donne's verse brought more than one not usually anthologized to my awareness, but the most stunning to date, I think, would have to be his second Elegy, aka "The Anagram", which starts in something of the vein of a more Xtreme "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"* and rapidly goes downhill - or somewhere, into ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: Medievalists and History Majors are warned that further reading may be hazardous to your mental health and/or respiratory systemOkay, we finally get to the Good Stuff in our review of this example of bad history and worse sex writing, skipping about a hundred pages of prolonged sexual tension as Rose evades Dragon's efforts to ( Read more... )

So we got to open with a bang, in which we learn just what a boring jock how awesomely awesome Mister Dragon is, and how enlightened-for-his-age he is, too! He pulls out (which we learn is a fool-proof method of contraception) in the medieval version of "carries a condom & doesn't have to be nagged about it." He has his very own khitmatgar (handily ( Read more... )

Okay, here's the beginning of The Dragon Lord by Connie Mason, 2001 (which actually has fairly well-executed cover art for the subgenre - it might have looked halfway realistic, iff the artist hadn't shown the hero wearing full plate (I put it as mid-16th c., but I might be wrong; no helmet is shown) for a story supposed to be happening in the ( Read more... )

And the industrial-strength bleeprin? Read and signed the insurance disclaimer? Put all drinks and cats far away? Okay, abandon hope all ye who enter trainwreck here - this is for tlachtga, and anyone who needs a bit of bawdy hilarity to counter the shadows right now.

It's badfic rather than bad fanfic, because it's original stories with ( Read more... )