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I wish everyone a good new decade (why limit it to just one year? I'm feeling ambitious right now). As today the authors of Yuletide stories are revealed, I can confess I wrote this:

Spinning Fate

Which is Ovid fanfiction as well as my attempt to write a subversive myth. Now, I had seen Ovid's Metamorphoses listed as a Yuletide fandom (sidenote: ( Read more... )

International Translation Day is celebrated every year on 30 September on the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator who is considered as the patron saint of translators.Ah, translations, the not bablefish type. I wouldn't be familiar with a third of the novels, plays, movies I am without them, not to mention the non-fiction books essential for ( Read more... )

Firstly, I changed my default icon again, since twinkledru created such a beautiful one of my favourite pair of sisters. Secondly, fernwithy wrote an intriguing analysis of how BTVS and HP use monsters as metaphors, here. (I also admire the way she dealt with a troll.) Thirdly, penknife posted the next chapter of "Fear the Rest", her great work-in-progress about ( Read more... )