DR. FELL
Dante's first sonnet from La Vita Nuova. He saw Beatrice Portinari across a chapel and he loved her at that instant and for the rest of his life. But then had a disturbing dream -

ALLEGRA (reading from text)
Joyous Love seemed to me, the while he held my heart in his hands, and in his ( Read more... )

1)  Colonial slash?

"Stamford Raffles was at the romantic edge of this Enlightenment quest, seeking in the rustic Javanese or highland Sumatran the noble vestige of once-great civilisations. Soon after arriving in Penang in 1805 as assistant secretary and commencing his study of the Malay language, Raffles became intimate with Dr John Leyden, a ( Read more... )

"I Don't Want to Wait" by Paula Cole really shouldn't have been the Dawson's Creek theme song.  Now all the AMVs set to it are: Dawson's Creek, Titanic, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, the O.C., Lady Diana (?), Harry Potter, Naruto, and Narnia. Granted, it's a sappy-sounding song, but read the lyrics. None of these fandoms comes close to deserving ( Read more... )

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This is "Running Up That Hill", the Placebo cover of the Kate Bush song. There's a lot of interpretations for what this song means, which is apropos given that there are many couples in Ilium with a variety of problems and situations. I think the factor that binds them is that they're the new generation of Ilium, a generation that's completely ( Read more... )

I need to dedicate this song to Andromache (and Acmon ( Read more... )

A strange thought I had.  Maybe the reason I relate to Walk the Line couples is because I myself am prone to overthink things, to be analytical and eccentric and obsessive-compulsive, and to have intense emotional problems that go along with my neurotic personality, so I understand the Walk the Line man, but most of the time, at least with my ( Read more... )

You know that your fandoms have a theme when you've favorited four videos to the two same songs: "It's Been Awhile" - Staind (A great angsty but decidedly un-emo song, by the way) and Linkin Park's "In The End".

Law & Order CI
X-Files

Law & Order CI
X-Files

After the exciting revelation that many people also think that Detectives Goren and Eames would ( Read more... )

the honest and not being just a hopeful idealist G/CC songlist. it takes balls not to idealize. usually I say, "ooh, this song is so cute, it's G/CC!" but you know that's not always true. Oh, yeah, and this also applies to Acmon and Andromache, for obvious reasons.

CC 1. "Samson" - Regina Spektor - I loved you first, I loved you first

G 2 ( Read more... )

I daresay my most heartfelt writing when I was in middle school was the stuff I never showed anybody. Not the X-Files-inspired first book of Musings of a Young World. Not the short-lived series Tarren Country. And certainly not the short stories written for class assignments about girls who had to save endangered tigers or survive in Kalimantan ( Read more... )