First of all, faris_nallaneen linked me to Ben Franklin's synonyms for drunk. What's your favorite? I'm torn between "It is Star-light with him," and "Seen a Flock of Moons," (how celestial!) and "Been at an Indian Feast" (um, not the ones I've been to...), and... "Sir Richard has taken off his Considering Cap." SO BEEN THERE. Or there is a certain succinct ( Read more... )

Why do I do these things to myself? Why ( Read more... )

I have just read the most spectacular Merlin fic. Seriously. If you like Heyer, and you like Merlin, you must read this story IMMEDIATELY. Written for camelotsolstice, it is note perfect, it is light, bright and sparkling, it is perfectly Merlin and perfectly Heyer-ish Regency. I would never have imagined that these two voices could be combined so seamlessly and ( Read more... )

Item: Lord Peter Wimsey.

Sadly Dorothy Sayers wrote Lord Peter mysteries of a finite number, and then moved onto religious plays, and Dante of all things...[and I say, wasn't one infernal poet enough??? I ask you. When the world could have been blessed with tales of Lady Peter (nee Miss Harriet Deborah Vane) and the Wimsey sproglets in WWII to say ( Read more... )

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First, not really a Rec, but collected for the Fun of It:

untitled heyer erotica [My Lord Robert aka My Lord Rule]/My Lady Annabel aka Horatia]
Author: Rosanne Goodwins
The Convenient Marriage[Het. Explicit. Pornographic ( Read more... )

I've been in something of a funk lately.
I don't know why. There's no very good reason for it. But I suppose that's the way of funks.

I'm sure you guys all heard about this. I kept imagining the resulting discussion in high levels of government.

Deputy Chief of Staff: "Okay...You're not going to believe this, but we...uh...mailed some missile parts ( Read more... )