sheafrotherdon was in a car accident last week that bruised her up badly and totaled her car.

She's put up a donation page to help her cover the costs of a new car that insurance falls short of, and is offering ficlets in return. Help her out?

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I don't have a new manicure to share, because I'm still wearing this one. In fact, I literally just took another picture of this one so that you can see what it still looks like 8 days later.


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Cassie's been a girl scout for 3 years and this is her third Girl Scout cookie season. They've just added the option to sell cookies online, so any of you who are deprived of local girl scouts have the option of buying through her page ( Read more... )

Hey, another post!

I've been meaning to tell you all that I created a tumblr this past semester, ostensibly to collect all the things I find online that I want to show my translation theory students. I'm calling it "tonightteatee" as a reference to "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut", which is one of our early readings. (ETA: Because our class number is 290T. ( Read more... )

Hi all! In the midst of learning and writing about the Kaffeterkreis--the salon of young women in Berlin who anonymously wrote their own, subversive fairy tales from 1843-1848 (and one of whom married Wilhelm Grimm's son), I take a moment to signal boost the first pseudo-academic fic that one of my own students just uploaded to the AO3:

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From here:

Two handguns were recovered from the scene. It was not clear if other adults were injured, the official told WNBC's Jonathan Dienst. The official had no information about any children being hurt at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

I read the Hartford Courant's article first, and the comments there just had me sobbing. Knee-jerk pro-gun ( Read more... )

Good morning!

I have things to do today, including but not limited to: a haircut, dropping off documents at the mothership to be made into a packet for my Winter Study class, and parent-teacher conferences as Cassie's school. So I'm not sure how much I'm going to be around today, and I wanted to signal boost this plea from
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via thanatos_kalos, whom I adore:

Benedict Cumberbatch as Telemakhos in a Radio 4 adaptation of the Odyssey.

OMG, totally makes up for the fact that I'm going to have to show Troy just to rant about it.

Someone, please, ask me to translate my icon. Please?

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And there's voting!

ICYMI, Jim Hines has had, in the past, a series of posts subverting the kinds of ridiculous contortions women on fantasy covers are put into--by doing them himself. It's been a really clear proof of both the sexism and the anatomical wrongness involved in those poses. (See also The Hawkeye InitiativeThis month, Hines decided to ( Read more... )