They have called this day the Eleventh of March! And whomsoever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain, you will stand at tiptoe when e'er you hear the name again, and you will get excited at the name March the Eleventh ( Read more... )

So, there's now a 30 Days of Fanfiction meme. I have decided that I am obviously awful at thirty-day-long memes, but I have decided to treat it as a regular, one-day sort of meme and just provide you guys with a GREAT HONKIN' REC SET right now:

( Here thar be recs. )

So, today is the 11th of March. Which, to due South watchers, is a day with meaning. Ish.

So why did my mother write me yesterday to wish me a happy early March 11th and to say that she would buy my parking permit for me in celebration? See, she literally wrote this: "Happy March 11 (tomorrow). My March 11 gift to you is to buy the *&$&# permit ( ( Read more... )

1) Ray Kowalski has said "Home again, home again, jiggety jig" in two of the fics I've read tonight, and I find that very reassuring, as it was starting to seem like I might be the only to one to say that. Often ( Read more... )

Two brief thoughts brought to you by my procrastination from working on my thesis:

1) I might kill the next person who calls Ray Kowalski "Stanley" in a story. It might be my biggest fanfiction pet peeve.

2) I wrote a fic that was nearly 10,000 words long. About Beaches. It follows that I can write an essay that is 9,000 words long about ( Read more... )

For those of you who like me have read Academic Punk too many times, you might be interested to know that my thesis' working title is a "A Tangled Postmodernist Web ( Read more... )

Longtime readers might be aware that I have on occasion been confused for my father's wife (or, worse, for my sister's mother -- she's thirteen). My dad, hopeful soul that he is, likes to take this as a commentary on his continuing youthful charm, rather than as the assumption of midlife crisis that it probably is. I like to believe I'm classy and ( Read more... )

I just watched Better Than Chocolate. Then, as is my wont, I IMDbed it.

"Why is this link clicked?" thought I. "Why did I care who Wendy Crewson is?"

And then I realised that, holy shit, the mom from Better Than Chocolate is the fucking BOUNTY HUNTER in due South.

Weeeeeird.

ETA: UM, the first four credited people in the movie have ALL been ( Read more... )

I got my sister the complete due South for Christmas. NOW I REAP THE BENEFITS.

(Okay, I have my dS with me anyway, but I probably wouldn't have thought to watch it right now. I love this show.)

I'm watching Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and have a sudden urge for Benton Fraser+Marilyn Monroe fic.

HE WOULD HAVE RESPECTED HER OKAY. THEY WOULD HAVE PLAYED CHESS. RAY WOULD HAVE BEEN BAFFLED AND JEALOUS (of both of them) UNTIL HE REALISED THEY WERE ONLY GOOD FRIENDS.

Um. The end.