February 2012
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40 weirdly intriguing questions...
1. What’s a question you’re afraid to ask? To whom?
2. What’s something you hide about your personality?
3. What’s something other people think about you that you don’t agree with?
4. How do you deal with criticism?
5. What’s the sweetest thing anyone’s ever done for you?
6. What’s the sweetest thing you’ve ever done for someone?
7. What’s something sweet you’d like someone to do for you?
8. Describe your favourite texture.
9. Which national or global tragedy were you closest to and how did it affect you?
10. Post a photo/draw a picture/write a poem (pick one) of a moment of personal significance.
11. Which fictional character would you most like to have lunch with and why?
12. Who would you say is your “anti” role model? Someone who serves as a warning rather than an inspiration?
13. What’s your least “politically correct” opinion?
14. What kind of underwear do you imagine Sherlock Holmes wears?
15. What’s one of the most difficult things you’ve ever had to do?
16. If you were an element on the Periodic Table, which would you be and why?
17. What’s the most infuriating thing your parents (or caregiver) do?
18. Which Disney Princess do you most identify with and why? Which is your favourite and why? And yes- ANYONE can answer this question.
19. You’re an Action Movie Hero. What’s your weapon of choice and the line you scream when defeating your arch enemy?
20. What’s the silliest fan theory you’ve ever come up with?
21. What did you think about before you fell asleep last night?
22. What’s the oddest term of endearment you’ve ever used or that someone’s used for you?
23. What motivates you in life?
24. What was something you used to enjoy, but was ruined for you? What’s the story behind that?
25. How do you think you will fare when the Zombie Apocalypse arrives?
26. Which mythological creature are you most like? Why? And if you could be any mythological creature, which would you want to be? Why?
27. Write a brief story about an actual adventure you’ve had.
28. Describe one of the most awkward experiences of your life.
29. What’s something that scares you about the future?
30. List 5 quirky things about yourself.
31. Describe your dream library.
32. What’s the weirdest item you’ve ever mourned?
33. If you could design an amusement park ride, what would it be like?
34. Do you have any “rules” about food?
35. What’s your opinion on age differences in relationships?
36. What’s something you want to do that you’d be embarrassed to tell other people about?
37. Describe a time/event in your life that you’re nostalgic for.
38. How do you approach social situations?
39. What is your ideal bed? Why?
40. Post a short excerpt of your life.
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indiscriminate fic reading
this is a text post to say: I have drunk several mugs of tea-spiked rum (… or rum-spiked tea, I think it was supposed to be rum-spiked tea but I may have failed at that) and am reading the AO3 ‘Homestuck’ tag indiscriminately
conclusions so far:
I did not mean to be reading this fic; I do not ship this pairing (unmentioned, because this is actually something I’m...
odieodie asked: :D?
Anonymous asked: blacknoise0410
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Leave a Tumblr user in my ask and I will tell you... →
(everyone else did this! I should do this now.)
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Homer Inc.: Edward Luttwak reviews a new... →
magpieandwhale:
I guarantee there are about five other people who will be interested in this, but guys, this review had me enthralled. It talks about translations of Homer into other languages, and redaction Library of Alexandra-style, and why we can rely on the Iliad as a historical source, and why the text is so freaking revolutionary, and just. The Iliad isn’t even the text of my heart...
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Gunga Dirk
paratactician:
sonnetstuck:
You may stick to comrades human When youre picking fellow crewmen For adventures that will offer no surprises. But in the wasteland mapless When youre helpless and youre hapless Buster you learn quick that mates come in all guises. Now in the blue pacific Where i roamed an isle horrific A-hunting of the capricorn berserk Of all my cronies fickle My best chum in a...
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Freeze Right Now And Take A Picture With Your...
cephiedvariable:
seerofsarcasm:
elvenflasher:
commanderzorkac:
pilts:
digitonicelectronic:
gamerconspirator:
liberathelight:
chiothefallen:
slowbromcgee:
sushiandpie:
teddypup:
shh no you’re handsome you bootyhole
meanwhile this is apparently the face I make when I’m sick
i look slightly grossed out/surprised
wonderful
…Acceptable.
I guess.
uuuuuuuuuh so pjs...
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Anonymous asked: I have had a ridiculous crush on you for about ever. What do you look for in a partner?
Anonymous asked: sorry to ask something you've likely answered before, but what's your area of study?
verbalhijinx asked: How is Chicago? This is Clare, by the way.
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byzantienne asked: are you still doing...
aeromachia:
aeromachia:
yes, I am still anglo-saxoning! unfortunately, we are doing hardcore set text work this term, meaning there isn’t so much time to look up interesting vocab and generally procrastinate with the dictionary
here are a few scraps for your pains:
herthbelig - ‘scrotum’, lit. ‘testicle-belly’
nacodwraxlere - the dictionary lists this as “gymnosophist”, which is weird...
Anonymous asked: Favourite kinks (for you, not for fiction)?
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Honesty Hour. Nothing is deleted. Ask anything...
(yeah, what the hell, I’m entirely annoyed with prosopography right now and need a distraction.)
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"Dreaming Awake", N.K. Jemisin →
Amazing blog post by N.K. Jemisin, specfic author and woman of color, whose books I really need to read.
Her explanation:
Explanatory note: This is an essay I wrote for the forthcoming anthology The Miseducation of the Writer — essays by writers of color on genre literature — to be edited by Maurice Broaddus, John Edward Lawson, and Chesya Burke. I’ll keep you posted on deets as they come.
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the websites I end up on when deeply frustrated →
immensely frustrated with day —> look up Uzbekistan visa procedures —> oh hey, this is easier than I thought?
Tashkent…
(operation: around the world backward, commence?)
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"The Girl Who Was Plugged In", James Tiptree, Jr. →
prunescholar:
byzantienne:
I’ve been rereading the biography of James Tiptree, Jr. — The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, by the exceedingly adroit Julie Philips. I have a great many complex feelings about Tiptree — beginning with a gut-level aesthetic approval of his work, the admixture of sexuality and horror and xenophiliac morbidity that characterizes his best stories — and progressing...
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"The Girl Who Was Plugged In", James Tiptree, Jr. →
I’ve been rereading the biography of James Tiptree, Jr. — The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, by the exceedingly adroit Julie Philips. I have a great many complex feelings about Tiptree — beginning with a gut-level aesthetic approval of his work, the admixture of sexuality and horror and xenophiliac morbidity that characterizes his best stories — and progressing onto a...
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Gil & I discuss Bowie, via RPF, with bonus History...
byzantienne: I have found a whole stash of RPF that is so alien to me it is basically AND THEN THERE WAS AN AU!; this is /so totally/ my reward later.
byzantienne: ... I am One Of Those People, aren't I.
gileonnen: If you are, then I really like Those People.
byzantienne: You know about thefourthvine at LJ, right? HER RECS POSTS
gileonnen: *darts over*
gileonnen: I am deeply intrigued by 1) c18 RPF and 2) What is even this thing with Pine/Quinto and Hemingway.
byzantienne: the thing with Pine/Quinto and Hemingway is fantastic fic. Also do you know the one where Zoe Saldana decides to become a film director (archiveofourown.org/works/114564) ?
byzantienne: yes, Virginia, I read RPF.
gileonnen: I tend to be uncomfortable with not!dead!people ... but you know, I can make an exception occasionally.
byzantienne: They have to read like fictional people to me. It's a weird Venn diagram; sometimes actor RPF is squicky, sometimes it's not. I could never read it if I followed the actor's real career, is the thing. If I read interviews? Unless the interviews are blatantly performative/deconstructive, see under Bowie.
gileonnen: ... and this is the part where I write you a Bowie AU, isn't it.
byzantienne: I would die of delight, I think.
gileonnen: (I really want the fusion fic where he's a Faceless Man in Braavos.)
byzantienne: OH MY GOD YES
gileonnen: Things I didn't realize I wanted until three minutes ago: David Bowie oeuvre/Song of Ice and Fire fusion fic.
byzantienne: If you can work in Ziggy Stardust I will love you even more than I already do. ( an example of why Ziggy makes perfect subject(s) for fic: archiveofourown.org/works/144366 )
gileonnen: Ohgoodness. That is exactly my kind of disquieting fic. (And it reminds me, of all things, of Richard II fic--performed self.)
byzantienne: /Yes/. Bowie is all about performed self, and what I love about that fic is that it shows one of the ways performed self breaks.
byzantienne: (breakage through fusion of narrators/narratives; i.e. /possession/ by the narrative)
gileonnen: YES. (Which is why Richard II, not Hal, who's more Thin White Duke anyway.)
byzantienne: there's a reason I love him, and the fact that he plays with THAT is it. (Hal is absolutely a Thin White Duke.)
gileonnen: I loved him first because he promised me a dreamworld if I'd only forget who I was. It was something of a recurring theme.
byzantienne: I ... I dare you to write Bowie-ouvre Histories plays with slippage of the idea of 'king'; all kings are Bowie and Bowie is no one at all but a vessel for the narrative function of 'king' and/or 'musician'.
gileonnen: Oooh, a /dare/, is it? Well, there's AU_Bigbang coming up~
byzantienne:
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obnoxious text post, with nail polish
Do you people ever have inexplicably horrible, panic-stricken, THE WORLD, IT IS TOO MUCH WITH ME days? Because that was my day, and it oughtn’t have been. (Especially as yesterday, I was kickass, and wrote a whole story in an afternoon. Not fanfic, otherwise I’d show you all.) I have also fucked my sleep-schedule all to hell, and think I exist on something like Kazakhstan time now. Go...
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January 2012
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odieodie:
byzantienne replied to your post: byzantienne replied to your post: i started…
oh god oh man oh god
ACK
RUN
RUN
FASTER
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Replace every one of the vowels in your URL with O
paratactician:
sunspeared:
darkybee:
grooseshair:
vieries:
shipanda:
shopondo
omfg
vooros
groososhoor
dorkyboo i love it
sonsporod
Sounds like a Soviet prison camp?
porotoctocoon
it’s 2.30am and I can’t stop laughing
bozontoono
horridly this feels exactly like doing my Old Church Slavonic homework
ALL IS ABLAUT
Anonymous asked: Which five books would you take to a desert island?
cephiedvariable asked: I would like to know about your favourite historical slash. I think we broached the subject once, but let's get in depth here.
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ask box aperture (science)
I owe many of you snippets of pornography, but I am in the library for the afternoon/evening and while the depths of my iniquity are, well, deep, they fail to reach the bathitude — that’s not a word, is it, damn, teach me to back-form from Greek — which enables me to compose The Sex in public.
So instead, as inspired by pT, who is doing the same: if you want to ask me things, I...
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why is the fucking autoresponder the only one who is vaguely okay emotionally
OH WAIT BECAUSE HE’S GLASSES
*gets incoherency and feelings all over this tumblr*
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Rose/Kanaya, grad student AU
For the purposes of this meme, please have the following, and note that this is now a WIP (I did not mean to get inspired for Rose/Kanaya comp lit theory wars and librarysex, but, WELL.)
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Her fingers are long and spindly on the pages of her book, perfect jade-laquered oval nails scraping the paper. You’ve been watching her since she came into the library, from within your Victorian...
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tumblr, make me write porn!
I have drunk a large mug of 1/3rd rum and 2/3rds green tea. I have more rum, and am in the process of drinking it without the intermediary of tea. I have had marvelous news.
There is only one thing to do now. WRITE PORNOGRAPHY.
Leave me characters and a scenario in my askbox. (Example: Jake, Dirk; mechanical assistance.) Essentially, pretend I am the kink meme, except, y’know, I reserve...
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one winter at a time
Four or five inches of snow have fallen in the past three hours. I was out in it, for a while. It’s so fast, how the entire world can become alien, transformed and strange and recreated by winter.
Winter’s my favorite season, always has been.
I checked my email when I came back inside. There was a letter there. (Today has been a good day for email, in general. I am learning to be a...
I ought not to have walked home.
current outside temperature: 6ºF/-15ºC
current state of my extremities: not sure, cannot feel them
current chagrin at prior gleeful pronouncements that ‘winter is coming!’: considerable
oh fuck so cold