I'm translating Brokeback Mountain for class as some of you might know and there are a few phrases I'm not 100% about. Like this one:

Both Jack and Ennis claimed to be saving money for a small spread; in Ennis's case that meant a tobacco can with two five-dollar bills inside."...claimed to be saving money for a small spread" does she mean they're ( Read more... )

Ok, another one.

"Yeah. I made three f*ckin thousand dollars that year. f*ckin starved. Had to borrow everthing but a toothbrush from other guys. Drove grooves across Texas. Half the time under that cunt truck fixin it. Anyway, I didn't never think about losin. Lureen? There's some serious money there. Her old man's got it. Got this farm machinery ( Read more... )

I'm translating Brokeback Mountain for school and I can't really picture what she means here:

"...his smile disclosed buckteeth, not pronounced enough to let him eat popcorn out of the neck of a jug, but noticeable."That part I bolded? I know what buckteeth are and all that I just don't understand how (or why!) you'd eat popcorn out of the neck ( Read more... )

If you were a rather stern mother with an exceptionally unruly child (in your opinion at least) and it was your child's first day of school, what guidelines would you lay down? Like 'always do what the teacher says', that's pretty obvious. 'Be polite' is another. What more ( Read more... )

Totally unrelated to just about everything going one in the universe as a whole but ( Read more... )

Want to read some good Heath/Jake RPS? Try Twenty Seconds by flashpastboi. So far it's 6 chapters and I'm waiting anxiously for more. Yes, a guy that writes fic with angst and sparks and heaps of emotions. Who'd have thought? *g*

Not disrespecting guys, this is just the first male fanfic writer I've come across that writes like... well, a girl. No, that' ( Read more... )

Was a bit busy yesterday, resulting in me not posting anything for the first time in probably weeks. But I did get some good news. My story, Drowning got nominated at The Fang Fetish Awards in the Best Non-Spuffy Slash category. Yay!
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I just saw Brokeback Mountain.

I thought I'd share with you a few of the poems in that book I mentioned yesterday, Puerilities, because if anything warms your heart it is this. Appreciating pretty, probably not yet legal, boys beauty. (I only photocopied a few pages which is why so many are by the same author)

( A pic and some poems )

Ok, now you're gonna laugh at me but ( Read more... )