No, not those, those are my time-travel trousers

[sovay]

1. My poem "Taking the Auspices" is now online at inkscrawl. The rest of the issue is impressive, too—selkies, Catullus, cities in translation.

2. I still don't know that I'm going to see Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011), but I will take any excuse to read an interview with John Hurt, especially when he talks about weedkilling and Facebook: "I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast."

3. Counteract Orson Scott Card; help rachelmanija list queer main characters in genre YA. Also, write Hamlet slash.

4. Courtesy of someone I met, appropriately, on Sunday at Tea: chap-hop.

5. lesser_celery and I are starting Millennium (1996–99) tonight.

Comments

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

I! DON'T LIKE YOUR TWEED, SIR!

Thank you for introducing me to chap-hop. I... I think I'm in love. Skinny men with goofy facial expressions and British eyebrows, shirtless and wearing pith helmets? Gets me every time. *seeks out everything else by these people*

And on a much less fun front:

Oh, Orson Scott Card, no. Bigotry AND bad writing? He offends my senses in a specific and repulsive way. rachelmanija is an excellent antidote, and I think I may have a blow to strike in my own small way. Tell me what you think of this.

Back in 2004 at Viable Paradise, I wrote a story called "Johannes and the Dane" based on one of the instructors' plot bunnies. It's not the deepest thing ever, but I remember it as being funny, and it involves Hamlet/Horatio. (Dr. Faustus might take us into problematic predatory-gay-guy territory, and I'll have to check whether his role is offensive to present-day self before I go any further.) It later went the rounds of every magazine I knew and got turned down from all. Since then I've sometimes thought of making it free on LJ for a special occasion. To Hell With Orson Scott Card Day might be just that occasion.

[sovay]

I... I think I'm in love. Skinny men with goofy facial expressions and British eyebrows, shirtless and wearing pith helmets? Gets me every time.

It really is like someone created an entire genre for your id. Mazel tov!

*seeks out everything else by these people*

kenjari, upthread, provides a link to a marvelous rap about tea.

(Dr. Faustus might take us into problematic predatory-gay-guy territory, and I'll have to check whether his role is offensive to present-day self before I go any further.)

Please do post if it has not been visited by the Problematic Fairy. And if by some sad chance it has, I submit a formal request for new and shiny Wittenberg slash; bonus points if Mephistopheles looks in on the plot at some point and just wanders off, shaking his head.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

bonus points if Mephistopheles looks in on the plot at some point and just wanders off, shaking his head.

heheh.