Does anyone have favorite translations of the Odyssey/Iliad/other classical stuff? I've been really wanting to read more of that kind of stuff, but I have roughly zero idea of which translations are good or terrible. (This is a lie, i know of one 100% totally terrible translation of the Odyssey, and it is the reason i am asking this question.)

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I just want to ask everyone's thoughts on having separate names/journals/blogs for original fiction, and on linking/not linking those to one's fannish names or blogs.

(by which i mean, i have made a separate account for my original fiction, and i'm not quite sure if or how i should use it.)

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I have to make a 6-8 minute persuasive speech for speech class in like a week, and i have NO IDEA what I'm doing.

Or rather, I have several topics I could use, but none that I particularly want to use, and in the spirit of a true college student, I have decided to ask the internet for help ( Read more... )

I am feeling pretty alone and in a not-so-great headspace right now; my RL friends are all quite busy lately and I don't want to bother them, and I haven't been particularly inspired or interesting lately so I haven't been posting much here. But I just want to talk to people ( Read more... )

Goodness, I think this is the longest period of radio silence I've had on this journal in months! Possibly the longest ever. Eventually I will comment on everyone's entries and post all those lovely things I've been planning to talk about ( Read more... )

So, it appears I will (probably) be going to China this fall! For a year. Eeeeeeee! \o/ And also ack. But. Yay ( Read more... )

QUICK! Someone tell me whether I should ask for Janelle Monae - Works or Tiger & Bunny fic in my Kaleidoscope sign-up.

(Or possibly Natsume, but I feel like I shouldn't be asking for fic until I catch up on the canon. And I would totally ask for Sarai-ya Goyou, except I will be the only one offering it. Sob.)

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Can someone please start having an interesting discussion with me so I can concentrate on something other than how much it sucks to be on Day 3 of The Killer Cold From Hell ( Read more... )

Can I ask you to list all the Journey to the West analyzation/criticism/references/reworkings you know? I'm asking partly for schoolwork reasons, and partly for curiosity ( Read more... )

I probably shouldn't use this journaling platform as a place to ask ridiculously obvious questions that everybody else in the ENTIRE WORLD knows the answer to, but Google is no help and neither is my mom.

R-list, please tell me how citations actually work. I get the superscript-number-leading-to-footnote-with-source-info bit, but not what needs to ( Read more... )