On the off chance that I am not, in fact, the last person to know about this: Until March 5, all Cambridge Journals content published in 2012 will be available for free.

I think you know what you must do.

You have to register an account, but that's it. I haven't tried it myself yet, but
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Hooray! I got a fandom stocking! With all the pictures of horsies I could ever want! Also wolves! Also fierce and wolfy art of a soldier from Frontier Wolf! (I'm sensing a theme.) A Frontier Wolf story where Alexios and Hilarion don't play micatio! Tale of the Five/Eagle of the Ninth fic, with Cottia and Sunspark! Kirk/Spock amnesiafic and a pile ( Read more... )

Guess who has a 13.3" MacBook Pro! Oh oh, that would be me! It is very shiny, the screen is far brighter, and it seems to be able to pick up seventeen local wireless networks rather than two. The trackpad scrolling is going to take some getting used to ( Read more... )

Item the first: I wish to thank motetus for the Christmas card that arrived in the mail today. I hope you put the art up somewhere eventually because it is awesome. Marcus and Esca are full of awww -- seriously! There are ducklings! -- and the Star Wars art is... memorable. (lysimache thanks you as well, although I am not sure this is what she was expecting Q/O ( Read more... )

So lysimache (♥ ♥) just brought me the very bestest present from the used bookstore: A. R. Burn, The Romans in Britain: An Anthology of Inscriptions.

Why is this awesome, you ask? Let me present to you a section from chapter 3 ("The Northern Wars and Roman Scotland"), pages 102-3:

( A BRIGANTIAN SOLDIER )

ARMY AU: 116,867 WORDS AND I AM DONE DONE DONE WITH A DRAFT AND I REALLY KIND OF RUSHED HEADLONG THROUGH THE LAST TEN THOUSAND WORDS AND THEY NEED SERIOUS EDITING BUT I DON'T CARE BECAUSE RIGHT NOW I AM DONE WITH A DRAFT AND I HAVE BEEN WRITING THIS SINCE MARCH.

Okay, so today lysimache bought me a bunch of books on Roman Britain and I have already ( Read more... )

Apparently people want to podfic my Eagle fic lately. Squee. So, um, in case anyone would like to listen to someone else reading some words wot I wrote, please enjoy the following links:

So yesterday,
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Courtesy of awarrington, a link to The Eagle shooting script. With deleted scenes and alternate ending.

( Blithering squeefully... )

I got my Yuletide assignment! It is made of awesome! Squee ( Read more... )

For the past couple days I've been a little bit obsessed with the music of Movits!. They were on the Colbert Report a few weeks ago, and then I totally forgot about how I wanted to buy their album on iTunes until a couple of days ago. But I remembered, and it is awesome ( Read more... )