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[metonomia]

Happy New Year, and all that jazz!  I went with my friend and her cousin to see the Space Needle fireworks, and we ended up right underneath it, so much that I actually got a bit of falling firework debris in my eye, and they were WONDERFUL, just really gorgeously done.  So that was a nice start to the new year (though, really, I still mentally

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[pencildragon11]

My response to your recs went like this:

Ooh, TWHF fanfic! of Psyche! *opens tab*

OOOOOOOO CHRETIEN DE TROYES FANFIC WITH FOOTNOTES. MUST READ. *opens tab*

ZOMG EXETER BOOK FIC ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING EVEEEERRR IN ALL OF FANDOM HISTORY WITH QUIBBLY TRANSLATOR FOOTNOTES ZOMG I MUST PRINT THIS OFF AND SAVE IT AND READ IT AND TRANSLATE IT FOR MYSELF AND EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

[metonomia]

I KNOW RIGHT?

It has been a super glorious year for the classicist/medievalist segment of fandom (I think there are actually a lot of us - and okay, I'm including myself even though I don't have a degree yet).

The Exeter Book one is just ASTOUNDING. And I went ahead and read the translation without working it out for myself, bc I just won't have time to do that for a while, and it is GORGEOUS.

[pencildragon11]

YES YES YES.

And I'm including myself as a classicist/medievalist fan. Doesn't mean I have to be an expert or anything, just a fan, right?

I LOVE THE EXETER BOOK ONE. AND I BABBLED AT MY DAD AND TRIED TO EXPLAIN THE AWESOMENESS AND HE JUST WENT HUH?? AT ME.

[heliopausa]

Thanks, Meto! I'll look forward to several happy hours avoiding the current fairly brutal heat and, if I can, get to the airconditioned library to read these! :)

[metonomia]

My pleasure! I've had a lot of fun with the archive this year - normally I just read mostly what other people rec, so it's been fun finding my own faves.

(I will also be flooding you with mythology/fairy tale recs soon, too)