From 2011, a lovely Will/Bran Christmas season fic by Ash. Veterinarian is a good look on Bran, as is laughing at Will:

In the Bleak Midwinter (7085 words) by Ashura
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Bran Davies ( Read more... )

Altogether Your World (9554 words) by Slantedlight
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Bran Davies, Will Stanton (Dark is Rising), Jane Drew
Summary:
Will Stanton has been watching for years, and now it seems ( Read more... )

From 2001, over at fanfiction.net, there's a short (1203 words) fic by Gunbunny that features Bran/Will and Methos that still makes me laugh, both because I'm amused by the Methos-Will dynamic ("You've been reading too much science fiction again") and because Bran really doesn't want to hear about who was shagging whom back in his parents' day: ( Read more... )

The recs:

[series]
Four Cups of Wine and related stories by borealowl

Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings for Part 1: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), some OCs - Character
Additional Tags: Pesach | Passover, I ( Read more... )

Having wrapped up a big GOTV mailing a few hours ago, I am pulling together an odds-and-ends letter to my friend Rae, which means being amused anew by some recent commentary on D. H. Lawrence, who is one of the reasons I chose not to specialize in modernism for my MA (having realized I couldn't abide the prospect of teaching or discussing his work ( Read more... )

https://copperbadge.tumblr.com/post/629642225411850240/ruth-bader-ginsburg-was-born-in-brooklyn-in-1933

“What’s your name?” he asked, crouching to get on eye-level with the little girl who had been patiently waiting behind several taller, pushier people.

“Ruth,” she said shyly, offering him her autograph book.

#CaptainAmerica #RBG

And, via my gal Rooo ( Read more... )

(and yes, they're a real team)

Thanks to lomedet's rec, I gobbled up most of the Superstition hockey RPF series while on vacation last week, and have not only dipped back into it daily since then, but also scrolled through the author's entire series-related tumblr to catch bonus snippets. (Although I will confess to skipping 1.5 episodes about a ( Read more... )

Because of pesky logistical challenges such as limited days off and mortgages to pay, another summer will likely go by without me getting myself to the Stratford Festival, even though the poster and headshot for Macbeth had me paying attention (not so much the side shot of the couple -- what a difference angles and lighting make), and even though I ( Read more... )

"Brinksmanship," by
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[Subject line from All Creatures Now, a standard from my madrigal-warbling days. Now is the month of maying and all that.]

A pawful of notes:
( about tennis, fandom, and eggplant souffle... )