People not already watching metaquotes and who are preferably not at work really need to read this post about loving language... a little too much.

The actual OP is a metaquotes about fanfiction as literature's version of a team sport, which is an intriguing concept, but what I'm linking is this thread of win and glee about what constitutes "real" writing.

Move your drinks far away from the keyboard before clicking.

Clever sarcastic people with keyboards make my world go 'round. Worksafe, but some language in the comments.

Via nycdeb I do so love clever sarcastic people with keyboards.

Hamlet, done Facebook style

Hamlet and The Queen are no longer friends.

svilleficrecs has a very interesting essay on Rose vs Martha. I didn't think the issue could be discussed neutrally without character bashing. I was wrong. This isn't about who's a better *person*... This isn't about who's a better, more effective, healthier for the Doctor or more reliable companion... This isn't about who's a better feminist role model... ( Read more... )

ihasatardis has such high volume that it's hard to keep up, but this? Is a work of sheer genius no matter what ship you sail in fandom. Spoilers for Last of the Time Lords.

Fic Rec: Gingerbread Houses by dark-aegis. Jack's POV on ( do we still need to spoiler cut for Utopia? )

seti_drd has an amazing set of link recommendations up today, including a jump to the world's cutest polar bear. Two that I'm going to pull forward into my LJ for sheer brilliance and You've-Gotta-See-This-ness:

Dead Ringers Torchwood parody Not worksafe. Dead hilarious.

Skating. Mozart. Another one for the music geeks, and otherwise impossible to ( Read more... )

Have you heard about "Conservapedia," the conservative answer to the uberliberal, anti-Christian Wikipedia?

No, seriously. Google it. But while it has started out with the noble intent of saving a nation's children from "Darwinism" masquerading as a tested scientific theory and British spelling, it didn't take long for people to get their ( Read more... )

MARCELLUS
Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again!

BERNARDO
In the same figure, like an azure cabinet.

MARCELLUS
Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.

BERNARDO
Looks it not like a casket? mark it, Horatio.

Vworp!

Pharyngula has a link to some of the most righteous and hilarious bumper stickers I've ever seen.