It's been 16 years (zomg!) since I wrote this post about how if German universities were like lj world (as it then was), Goethe/Schiller would be an incredibly popular pairing, listing some letter quotes as to why. The fannish world has turned quite a lot since then, and over the weekend, I saw there's now a neat assembly of fanfiction to choose ( Read more... )

My assignment this year was also my first Star Trek: Discovery story. As my recipient's prompt had only been "anything about Michael Burnham and L'Rell interacting, other than non-con", I first was planning on a future fic set in the TOS era or after, but quickly backed away from that idea. The chance of getting thoroughly jossed by new canon ( Read more... )

My Sleepy Hollow marathoning has arrived at episode 4, wherein the operetta Germans
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...that's what the town of Rudolstadt calls itself in their publicity. The mayor in his welcome speech at the opening ceremony for this year's PEN Club conference used it at least four times. The reason for this is basically that Schiller fell in love with two sisters here, one of whom he married (the other one was already married, unhappily, and ( Read more... )

Poetry month means a lot of people post poems I've never read before, which can be a great pleasure. Today, I spotted a charming one which is called Jane Austen and John Lennon in Heaven, and is about precisely this ( Read more... )

Egypt: wow. Aside from everything else, though, it reminds me again of the innate hypocrisy and contradiction of the West regarding the Middle East. We'd like you to be democratic and free, sure, but only if it can be guaranteed your freely elected goverment will be pro-West and above all secular; otherwise, we'd rather keep the pro-West despot in ( Read more... )

Time Magazine made Mark Zuckerberg their person of the year, and I only now got around to reading the article in question. Which left me mostly wondering just how much he paid for this, because as image restoration goes, this is so much over the top that it really says just the opposite of what he presumably wants it to ( Read more... )

Word to the wise: do by all means book a seat instead of just buying a ticket without reservation if you're travelling by train from Frankfurt to Munich. I did, and was very glad about it, as the train is currently crowded like hell with people standing in the aisles ( Read more... )

Firstly, more vid recs:

Terminator movies/ Sarah Connor Chronicles:

Land: this one is epic, using the multiple timelines premise from the show and the time loop premise from the movies to fantastic effect, matching footage from both. Sarah, John, the time loop of John's existence, and all the possibilities.

Star Trek:

Swing: this vid is ( Read more... )

From londonkds

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

historyMy great passion. Well, one of them. I grew up in a town which wasn't just over a millennium old but also had avoided being bombed during WWII, which means an incredible amount of history in ( Read more... )