guys you really need to read this fic about Winchicanos, omg omg eeee
lass was like "this looks like something you'd like", so I read it, and IT IS SO MUCH

Comiendo Entra la Gana by almadeamla - R, gen

Sana sana her mother sang to her in her childhood, sweetly rubbing her fingers over Mary’s cuts colita de rana, si no sanas hoy, sanarás mañana. She ( Read more... )

it has.... been a while. heyyyyy! *blows kisses*

1) gold_bluepoint is the most wonderful talentedest girlfriend with the most adorablest Sam&Dean art for this year's SPN/J2 BigBang! I have not yet read the fic but it's sitting on my ipod, waiting for a commute which will surely come. In the meantime, gaze upon cuteness. Warning, cuddles ;)

2) lettersandliars asked for ( Read more... )

LOLOL YAAAAY ( Read more... )

I'd like to complain for a minute about how Robert Bly's translations are just really dumb.

I'm looking particularly at his Lorca translations on www.poets.org, because I was looking for Lorca poems for motherlessguns. I saw his and went :\? and then saw the originals and to his went >:/. Just, no. He does some interesting stuff, not all his choices are ( Read more... )

I took a break? an unintentional one :( but I wanted to share this with y'all, it is one of my fave songs.

EL HOMBRE QUE BUSCABA EL SILENCIO EN UNA HOGUERA - Leusemia
acoustic version
album version

quick translation by me:
The man who sought silence in a bonfireI walk grazing the close silence ( Read more... )

Yesterday I crushed a big hobo spider inside, and today I crushed an earwig that was crawling down my arm while I was sitting here on the couch, and I almost squashed another huge hobo spider in the recycling bin before I went, "you know, that's probably not worth sticking my hand out and risking missing. I'm just going to close the lid and hope it ( Read more... )

Porque te vas - Jeanette - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ckdkg1xCw - from the movie Cría Cuervos, which is a classic and so strange and sad ( Read more... )

I had that feeling again. Where I was reading someone's lj, looking at someone's pictures on facebook, watching someone speak, looking out the window to see someone riding their bike by my house, talking to the girl behind the register at Starbucks, and I suddenly felt that I could really fall in love with that person so hard. Not could like, Oh ( Read more... )

Just yesterday I was saying, Gosh, I shouldn't sign up for any more 'athons, because then it will all pile up and I'll get tired and start feeling obligated and it'll get put off and all go wrong! And then today I was saying, Gosh, Hetalia fic is all so happy but I really want to see some of the hard spots of history written about, after all it's ( Read more... )

Why is Lorenzo Olivan so clever??? He compares a door and a flower and then uses language that describes different things in relation to each depending on the way you take it! and it is SO HARD to translate!

En un mar sin salida,
se abre una blanca puerta
como una rosa blanca
que se cierra al abrirse
y va a dar a lo negro.

transliteration:
In a ( Read more... )