1. My dad has been living in the US since the seventies. How is it that when I talked to him today he was unable to remember what Americans call mince? I think he should have gotten that down by now. (His dogs are unwell and are eating rice and ground beef.)

2. How in the world did I get over two thousand notes on a Tumblr post of scans of MA:A ( Read more... )

A question: Do other people have recurring fantasies of explaining the modern world to timetravelers?

(If not, I highly recommend it.)

Don't mind me, I'll be over here trying to figure out what to nom for Yuletide. Someone already nommed one of the fandoms I wanted but none of the characters I wanted. Hmm.

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For those of you who use Goodreads (me! me me!), how do you use your to-read status? Do you use it for books you actually have in hand and are going to get around to reading next? Or do you use it for books you want to read someday whether or not you own them? I ask because I have a giant text file of Books That Sounded Cool That People Recced ( Read more... )

Look. I made a Tumblr, because I got sick of checking individual Tumblrs for updates. If you are one of those Tumblr-using fen, feel free to add me. Or, you know, suggest awesome Tumblrs I might like. What might I like? I mean, come on, you guys know what fandoms I'm into. (Eagle? Eagle? Anyone ( Read more... )

I played this last year. Anyone want to guess what I wrote for Yuletide? People who know with certainty what I wrote are obviously forbidden to guess. I mean, okay, you can guess, I suppose, but it doesn't count ( Read more... )

I am having a lot of fun playing with Pinboard. It's like Delicious back when Delicious didn't suck. Now all I need is tag bundles and it will be perfection. Actually, I also need to find all the stuff that I haven't been bookmarking for the past month and a half after I gave up on Delicious. I have been doing a lot of bookmarking today, yes ( Read more... )

Hey fandom!

I am currently dumping my AO3 bookmarks to delicious so that I can have them someplace actually searchable, and in the process I was reminded of an XMFC fic I would like to reread. It was a Charles/Erik story where they got married, and it was *not* A Summer Day So Late in Coming by
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So this LJ friend o' mine, bigmamag, is just now getting into The Sentinel fandom. And she asked me for recs, because I think I'm the only fan she knows who was ever in TS. The must-reads and the "classics of the fandom," basically ( Read more... )

I see that today the Archive of Our Own has finally added the "download" feature to stories. Click on the button, get a story in HTML, PDF, Mobi, or Epub! Whee! Now my Kindle will have even more fanfiction on it ( Read more... )

So one of the fun facts that I assume most of you learned in, say, high school English class is that most (all?) of Emily Dickinson's poetry is in ballad meter (apparently similar to "common meter," the internet informs me). This would be alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter. You probably also learned that you can sing her poetry to ( Read more... )