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Regarding my role-playing article that I was working on yesterday... it's posted! Here. Much thanks to tanechigai for looking it over for me last night, even ( Read more... )

I'm inconsistent in posting these. But here's my reading response for this week, featuring Susan Slyomovics (and the Moroccans) and Talal Asad.

It's 2:30 in the morning and I just finished this. So if it doesn't make sense and it's overall incoherent... ^_^;;

( Moroccans as grounded human rights advocates )

Need sleep... need to get out of soaking wet clothes...

But, hey, I finally sat my a** down and wrote something. Three hours for 596 words (woe), and it's not even good :\

( Immigration and ESL )

Went to the Ellis Island Museum today. It was half-spontaneous: I needed to go before Thursday for an assignment, but hadn't planned on going today. Well, I did, and it was an entertaining trip.

My thoughts, which may or may not be turned into an article...

( A Trip to Ellis Island )

So I wrote a reponse to the Times Online article on the effects of religion that I briefly ranted about in this post a couple of days ago. My article is more aimed against Gregory S. Paul's methodology than on the Times Online article itself, and there's also a whole lot of personal ranting somewhere toward the middle/end ( Read more... )

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to all! Whether you're currently eating moon cakes or asking: "What the heck is mid-autumn festival," you're a lucky winner! I come bearing a story, a legendary and magical story. Claim your prize behind the cut...

Title: Chang Er, the Moon Palace Mistress
Genre: Myth/legend
Word Count: 606

( Chang Er, the story )

A flotsam and jetsam post today, with something for everybody. Don't believe me? Just look at the tags for this entry. Short of "reading notes" (which will resume regularly once fall semester starts), I'm touching on most of my regular topics here.

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It's Animal Crossing time! I was tempted, and I gave in. A total crack!fic written in the Animal ( Read more... )

So lately everything I write seems to sound like it came fresh off the press from some newspaper or periodic journal, and my muse doesn't seem too happy about it. That, and I have a lot of time, so...

Ziasudra's Drabble/Ficlet GiveawayAsk me to write something. Anything (within reason, of course). I'd prefer it to be of the fiction genre, though ( Read more... )

No custom f-locking here, since I'm pretty sure all of you HP-reading people have at least gotten to or near the end. If not, please exert self-control because there are HBP SPOILERS AHEAD.
(And if you're done with HBP and I haven't unlocked you for my Snape discussion post... oops! Let me know so I can unlock you.)

( Appointing Slughorn... )

The Curse of Life
Author: Ziasudra
Rating: G
Word Count: 371
Challenge: Written for the spoil_me_hbp Community Challenge.
Challenge Theme: Waiting
Disclaimer: Nothing in the HP universe is mine.
Summary: Long life was a curse.

Guess what? I'm posting this one here ^_^ (x-posted to the comm also)

( Read The Curse of Life... )