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nostalgia recs #4: Strangeness (TDiR/Highlander) & La Traque ... (French, HP/kitchen sink)
From 2001, over at fanfiction.net, there's a short (1203 words) fic by Gunbunny that features Bran/Will and Methos that still makes me laugh, both because I'm amused by the Methos-Will dynamic ("You've been reading too much science fiction again") and because Bran really doesn't want to hear about who was shagging whom back in his parents' day: ( Read more... ) -
if you're looking for a tennis player to cheer for...
Anyone know what channel/time sherlock is on in Australia tonight!?
- Andy Murray (@andy_murray) January 2, 2016
This entry was originally posted at http://bronze-ribbons.dreamwidth.org/399538.html. I see comments at DW, IJ, and LJ (when notifications are working, anyway), but not on feeds. -
"a liquid thunderbolt"
[Subject line from Mary Jo Salter's "Alternating Currents," a long poem (12 pages) about Helen Keller, Alexander Graham Bell, Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes, and more, dedicated to the memory of Jeremy Brett; in A Kiss in Space, 1999]
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Gashlycrumbly Holmes
Just spotted these cards over at Etsy and thought of some of youse...
http://www.etsy.com/listing/90230259/mycroft-holmes-and-di-lestrade-handmade
(Happened to visit the shop because an acquaintance tweeted about the artist's new baby squid ( Read more... ) -
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Note to self:
Do your best. Give others the benefit of the doubt.
Other people's hangups = their loss, not yours.
Good things happen when you encourage others.
(Some of the perennial kerfuffles have got me down. Hence reminding myself what has served me well over the years.)
And on that note, some recent and upcoming pleasures:
- I totally ( Read more... )
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Memphis, warmup
[The second half of this is a cross-post from chrysanthemum.In Memphis to watch some tennis (volunteering for the tournament = free pass to the matches I'm not working). I don't expect to do much this week outside tennis and work (I just realized I actually brought along more paperwork and reference materials than clothes); fortunately, the hotel ( Read more... )
