https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bullypulpitgames/night-witches - this company makes a computer game about the Night Witches regiment. I don't play computer games, but it's Night Witches - I went to read. ... and now I am thinking. Specifically, ( Read more... )

http://firecat.dreamwidth.org/791082.html - comparison table for four translations of the same poem. Which led me to look whether I can find how it sounds in Polish, to feel which rhythm is better, and, when I couldn't find it, to try and read the original myself (stupid idea ( Read more... )

This made me squee happily: a network of old ladies is looking after Sherlock Holmes (crossover with everything, and I am so not sure I caught everyone, but)

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I love 'Then and now' photo comparisons, and this post has some neat ones from the history of Saint Petersburg (one 'then' is even from 1908.)

http://retro-piter.livejournal.com/442914.html (more here).

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This is really awesome: - an Avengers AU set in 1878 steampunk USA. With bonus art.

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The most amazing mess of an opinion about manners - and yes, I see what kind of a site this is, but it's not unique in its opinion, is it?

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"...if the skeleton does turn out to be that of Richard III, it will hopefully prompt us to reassess not only Richard himself - we’re thankfully beyond seeing physical disability as some sort of evidence of a twisted soul - but the reputations of both Shakespeare and, especially, More ( Read more... )

Apparently in a right mood I will read fluff about anyone. Including Loki.

But. This. Loki, reading Midgardian children's books:

He'd been alarmed enough at the depiction of the fate of parentless children on Midgard, to the point of concluding that abduction to another realm under a false identity was far from the worst thing that could happen ( Read more... )

I have a cough. I am really tired of that damn cough.

In other news: this article about why poor people have the habits they have is fun and understandable, but. One thing threw me out of it ( Read more... )

I don't usually follow USA election coverage, but isn't this kind of demented? Also kind of insulting to just about everyone - Pinterest users, scrapbook keepers, people who can read novels about experiences not quite related to their own...

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