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I reached the Dostoevski section of Nabokov's Lectures on Russian Literature, and ho boy does he hate and scorn Dostoevski, so much so that every time he mentions him in sections about other authors he always makes sure to reiterate that Dostoevski is a mediocre writer and sentimental and he sucksI agree with some of his strikes at Dostoevski but a ( Read more... )

I finally reached something in "Glass Houses" I've been working toward for a long time. Also, GH is now over 940,000 words (according to Archive of Our Own). It's only the 6th longest fic on AO3 though.

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Last night the zip ties holding my trunk shut broke on the highway. I mostly didn't drive today because the bobbing, shiny piece in the rear ( Read more... )

Seeing The World's End last weekend made me go looking for Hot Fuzz fic, and I nearly died laughing at some sections while reading "Hard Cheese" (part 1 and part 2).

Angel rubbed at an eyebrow. "I suppose, just to get it out of the way...this really is just an eccentric local tradition, and won't turn out to be any sort of cheese-related ( Read more... )

I actually have a potentially more depressing read on Gary's life, one the creators might not have even intended, in The World's End. 'Cause I'm special like that. ( spoilers )

It's hilarious to me that as I was driving home from seeing The World's End, my iPod's Shuffle gave me "This Corrosion" by the Sisters of Mercy.

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Thanks to seraphim_grace I found out that Trinity Blood is being posting to mangareader.net, which led me to search to see if another TokyoPop casualty, Silver Diamond, found an internet home, which it turns out ( Read more... )