So it's getting on to that time, the days grey and strangely lit, the air so cold and so pure. You are certainly far more busy than you would like.

The year dies slowly all around you. It's time to read about an annunciation.

The Parable of the Shower.The angel of the LORD cometh upon you in the shower at the worst possible moment: one hand ( Read more... )

One more and then silence, but this short essay is too good not to recommend: The Face of the Other, which goes into why a face "reads" a certain way. Specifically, it examines the assumptions a viewer or reader brings to the image being viewed (and helloooooo fellow semiotics fans!). Very interesting, and related to a few other issues cropping up ( Read more... )

I have been somewhat remiss. Also slightly ill, but hopefully both those will change now that I am finally getting around to reccing The Full-Fraught Man:

troyswann has written a lovely, inward, quietly intense exploration of Colby and Charlie's changing relationship set right after the Season 3 opener. They're both still in the fallout from it, all that ( Read more... )

Dwah!! Forgot one, and a good one: one of my very favourite legends, as filtered through one of the most fun series I've read in quite some time:

Two, Side by Side: (Temeraire) This is the story of Hua MuLan and Lung Hong Dao, who fought in her father's stead for the glory of the Son of Heaven. Dragons! In with Chinese myth! Now all(!) someone ( Read more... )

In the spirit of bravecows's concentrated fic-rec effect, I am putting up a brief (very brief) list of my favourite Yuletide readings. This is by no means anything more than a representative sample of the awesome fabulouscakesness of this year's reading roster (A Wrinkle in Time! Temeraire! Coffee Prince! NOBUTA WO PRODUCE!!), but here, have a taste:

( Dinosaur Comics, The Curse of Chalion, Artemis Fowl, Watership Down, Narnia, and (newly) American Gods )

If, for some reason, you have not seen this piece of brilliant genius in a capella men's choir singing carol songs form, you really, really should:

Twelve Days of Christmas (Straight No Chaser)

Just ...keep watching. I defy you not to laugh. These guys are all quite wonderful, and so is their shining star of a choral arranger.

Happy 140th, my beloved, fractured country. Many thanks to you for your many gifts to me. *clutches passport, breathes deep, prepares to move borders ( Read more... )

Greetings, Internet denizens!

I have just finished watching Densha Otoko 電車男 (Train Man).

If you are reading this, so should you. I guarantee it's relevant.

( NO-SPOILER REVIEW: nerds do it all online )

After all the strikethroughs and baleeting and devolving and threatened mass migratings and then unbaleetings and appropriate grovellings that have characterised 6A's weeklong reign of terror, I think we need fic.

And china_shop delivers liek wo, people.

Anthropomorfic: Fandom/LJ.

It's very pr0nZalicious. Because really, what better response?

Good news, everyone! [/Professor Farnsworth]

troyswann has finished writing Real Boys (A Chip Off The Old Blog), which is dueSouth like you've never quite seen it before, and. And it is all kinds of FREAKIN brilliant ( Read more... )