From Cahill's Mysteries of the Middle Ages*, p. 21 of the hardback:

The human body, an iffy thing, easily undone, was yet the acme of the beauty of the cosmos.  No wonder that a male on the cusp of full manhood was the loveliest thing in the universe, repeatedly portrayed in statuary and fresco, "the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals," ( Read more... )

I'm having to do a timeline for the Opportunities-verse stories.  ::eyes the whole thing:: I would just like to say, "Plot, why do you love me so ( Read more... )

This article, reproduced in full below the cut for when I read this six years from now and the article is gone:

( No idea what I'm gonna do with it, but wow. )

My brain.  I made the mistake of working on the wrong story before bed, and sometime last night I woke up from a nightmare ( Feel free to skip the contemplation )

I mean, I was reading LotR fic before bed.  Why in the world did I dream of Rich Ryan, in full Victorian grande dame drag (seriously -- hairstyle, makeup, brocaded full length gown)... fighting someone else in much the same get-up?  And winning, I might add.  My brain, guys, is clearly a strange place!

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I just wrote 900 words of edda-based Red Skull poetry.  For Spook_Me.  I will grant you he counts as a mad scientist, and possibly even a ghost, but I'm still over here going, "WTF, brain ( Read more... )

...for reasons which will shortly become very apparent.  Pardon me, I'm still over here going, 'What the blazes did I just write?' On the other hand, a character I greatly dislike is back out of my head and no longer talking to me.  Mere words cannot express the relief, and please pass the brain bleach, or at least assure me that no, 3 PM is not ( Read more... )

I just got sorted into Slytherin at Pottermore. I'd like to say, "What?"

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Found over on Neil Gaiman's Tumblr:

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Or maybe that's 'What was I on?' so that I never do it again.

I was looking over Google's new Privacy Policy in fear that they tried to put that BS 'no pseuds' thing in place since this is now the 'all inclusive, all Google services' policy... and in checking my Google docs I found a document with a title I didn't remember.  So I opened it, to see ( Read more... )