[The subject line's from Rilke's "Portrait of My Father as a Young Man"]

How is it mid-January already? Tu b'shevat is this weekend, and we in fact have a crepe myrtle to plant, but with one of us recovering from his Moderna booster and the other still slogging through respiratory crap, and the forecast reviving the ululations of Panic Catfish, who ( Read more... )

My "marked for later" queue is outta control, but here are a few more fics I ended up lingering over this week . . .

( Little Women, Hot Goth/Himbo Witch/Fair Maiden, Miss Marple/Good Omens, Hilary Tamar, Twelfth Night (Edwardian), Addams Family )

Squee!

( my gift: The Traveler in Black )

A fic I've been sketching out just veered 180 degrees into a new direction, with a different cast from a different fandom. Aaaaaaaaaaah.

Here, have David Tennant extemporising on "Exit, pursued by a bear" for radio game Just a Minute.

Also in the happy entertainment category: MarnaNightingale's 2004 guide to what's possible on a motorcycle. The ( Read more... )

Second Journey (358 words) by Rimedio
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: xkcd, xkcd 1190 (Time)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Main female (xkcd), Main male (xkcd), Map Girl (xkcd), OFC
Additional Tags: Adventure, Journey, Art
Summary:
Some years after the events in "Time," the map woman sets out on a journey of her own.
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From 2012:

Light from the Lost Land (1536 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper, Welsh Mythology
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Gwyddno Garanhir, Gwion (Dark Is Rising), Arianrhod, Elffin ap Gwyddno, Lleu Llaw Gyffes
Additional Tags: Consentfest
Summary:
King ( Read more... )

From Yuletide 2019:
Come a Wandering (1347 words) by goseaward
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bran Davies & Jane Drew
Additional Tags: Christmas
Summary:
Jane and Bran, unexpectedly, years on.

Ribbons's note: A college Christmas party. Bran's friend ( Read more... )

From 2009: POEM (1056 words) by ishafel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: RPF - 20th-21st c Arts and Sciences
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Frank O'Hara, Edward Gorey
Summary:
Frank and Ted's excellent adventure. 1948

What it says on the tin. I basically start making squeaking noises every time I reread the opening:

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The Water-Horse (9707 words) by Thamiris
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Arthurian Mythology
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sir Gawain, The Green Knight, Bertilak de Hautdesert
Additional Tags: Slash, Drama, Mythology - Freeform, Arthurian legend - Freeform, Adventure
Summary:
In the year after the ( Read more... )

In 2015, Amanda Elanor Tribble created a number of Dark Is Rising illustrations for her art school portfolio, posting them to her under-stone tumblr account. It's worth paging through her whole tumblr, which isn't huge; my favorite is her train scene from Silver on the Tree. Click on the image to enlarge it, and then marvel at the composition and ( Read more... )