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First up, I read this awesome post by S. Jae-Jones entitled "Let's Talk About Sex(ual Tension)" earlier today, and man, is it a good one. It is, after all, all about the yearning.

Second, I read Tessa Gratton's most excellent short story "Three True Things" over at the Merry Sisters of Fate blog, and I am madly, deeply, swoonily in love with it ( ( Read more... )

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I'm totally cheating today. I'm going to give you a full summary of Measure for Measure tomorrow, but today, I give you two scenes involving a novice nun named Isabella (pretty and clever and sister to a man condemned to die) and Angelo - proof that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (as my high school history teacher used to ( Read more... )

1. Just had a delicious Italian meal with friends at Nunzio's, an eatery located in Collingswood, New Jersey. A bit spendy, but extremely tasty, and it was good to catch up ( Read more... )

Today, a fairly lengthy poem, much of which I've tucked behind a cut so as not to overwhelm the friends' lists of people viewing this through Live Journal. I hope, however, that when you get a 10-15 minute window of time, you will come read this poem in its entirety, for it is a marvel of construction (written in accentual verse - two or four ( ( Read more... )

It's Wednesday, and Wednesday means Shakespeare. Okay, technically I believe it means "Odin's Day", and is in commemoration of that Norse God - I defer to everflame (aka Tessa Gratton) to know that sort of thing for sure. But here at Writing and Ruminating, I try to provide a bit of the Bard midweek ( Read more... )

Today's poem is a lovely one by Tennyson, who was retelling a medieval story about the Lady Elaine of Astolat, who dies of unrequited love for Lancelot. The poem is a significant variation from the original source material, in which Elaine meets and falls in love with Lancelot, who deigns to wear her token (and her brother's armor) in a jousting ( Read more... )

Last week, when I did my posts about Macbeth, the charming and talented Tessa Gratton made some particularly astute comments on one of the posts about Macbeth and how she relates it to Othello. And so it came to pass that I propositioned her. For a conversation.


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The quote in today's icon is from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. After spending time writing LOTR-based filk songs this week, it seemed the appropriate icon for today's post ( Read more... )