I feel like a sticky post is in order since this journal has been around for a while and is likely to be around for some more time.

I'm not actually marprelate. I'm applegnat, and I used to write Tolkien fic before small fuzzy aliens descended on me one spring morning, chewed my brains out, offered me a job and a move to a different city. The only fic-writing I do ( Read more... )

So, do lots of people read Dudley fic? I've been writing one.

You know, this was not the fandom participation I had in mind when I began lurking here. *tries to write yummy slash and fails, gah*

It got a bit out of hand so I cut it short, but I think I might take it a little further some other time. It was really the title that did it for me. :)

( i sing the dobby electric! | G | 465 words )

Am I thoroughly mistaken or is Voldemort really Eminem? The similarities between the two are astounding. They're both white-trashey. They both changed their names to more sinister, threatening - um, yes - sinister, threatening scramblages (Marshal Mathers became crunchy candy, Tom Riddle became a cartoon mouse. No, wait. A cartoon mouse!) And then ( Read more... )

Having just finished ficcing about her, I'm curious to know what others think about Tom Riddle's mother. I performed a couple of quick searches on "Tom's mom," "mother of Tom Riddle," "Marvolos" and so on, and didn't find anything whatsoever ( Read more... )

I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.
- WB YeatsYou gave 'moral courage' greater meaning and true ferocity. Farewell, Arthur Miller. Here's hoping that your brave new worlds will be as glorious and conflicted as the ( Read more... )

It's amazing how sometimes an exam can be better than you expect it to be. I didn't know that could happen. And it's the paper I least expected to like at the beginning of the year but - Restoration Lit has begun to grow on me. :)

Anyway. Post a piece of poetry in your journal if you should see this.

The MapLand lies in water; it is shadowed ( Read more... )

Martin Marprelate was the name used by the anonymous author or authors of the Marprelate tracts. These were raffishly satirical anti-episcopal pamphlets circulated illegally in Elizabethan England in 1588-89. Who 'Martin' really was, no one knows. Suspicion cost a Welshman, John Penry, his life: he was hanged in 1593; other suspects included Edward ( Read more... )