Matthew Lewis' The Monk
I started reading The Monk (which is available for free on Project Gutenberg) on long subway rides about a week ago, after finding out that this book is one of the prototypical Gothic bodice-rippers....
View ArticleAs The Komnenoi World Turns, S3 E1
As 1198 rolled around, the marriage of Alexios III's daughter Eudokia was crumbling into sad ruins. She had been married to Stefan Nemanjić, the heir of the kingdom of Serbia, for several years, and...
View ArticleFic: California (Django Unchained, Django/Broomhilda/Schultz)
Title: CaliforniaPairing: Django/Broomhilda/Schultz (One True Threesome)Rating: T for TeenWarnings: For a Django Unchained fic, this is pretty safe. References to rape, slavery, and war.Summary: And...
View ArticleKiwi English
I'm trying to watch some of the Spartacus TV series, which is filmed in New Zealand and stars a whole buttload of Kiwi actors, and I'm totally befuddled by the dialogue. No matter how much I strain,...
View ArticleFamous people I've met at work
I work in Manhattan, and due to the nature of my job we've had several famous people walk in, or people I think are cool, anyway.Dylan McDermott: very handsome in real life, very nice.Taye Diggs:...
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As The Komnenoi World Turns, S3 E2
Back in Constantinople, calamity followed rebellion followed scandal. As Choniates tells us, the empress Euphrosyne became obsessed with fortune-telling and in her "mad delusions and excessive zeal"...
View ArticleOde to the Fanbrats I've Known
Bitch and moan and whine and wankBlowing up like trailer-park crank!You're the reason we got a bad reputationTweeting porn to celebs on TwitterChasing 'em around Tumblr and FlickrThey stand less of a...
View ArticleSaracen zombies and the specter of incest
Discovered a fascinating tale, told by the Iraqi poet and qadi al-Tanukhi (died 994 AD), which contains not only a sort of zombies (?!) but also a lurid tale of incest, and I thought, Self, the people...
View ArticleCopyright disclaimer on Les Miz fic?
Y'all, is it really necessary to put a disclaimer on your Les Miz fic acknowledging that you didn't invent the characters and that you don't make any money from it? The fucking book was published in...
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RIP Justinian II (c.668-711)
I'm embarrased to admit that I missed the 1,302nd anniversary of the death of arguably the most badass Roman/Byzantine emperor of them all, Justinian II, this past December. Well, it's the thought that...
View ArticleThings I will eyeroll if you put it in your fic
1. Fishing-for-compliments. "Omigod, this fanfic is so bad, I'm sorry, I shouldn't even be posting this!" If you say something like that about your own work, you know what? I'm gonna believe you. Yeah,...
View ArticleEntitled Asshole of The Day
A Tumblrite shoplifts beer, gets drunk, then goes back to shoplift a DVD from Walmart and gets caught. Now she's asking everyone to donate to pay her fine, because... um, she wants your money.Wow,...
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Jesus Fucking Christ
A thread about fetuses (surprisingly enough, not abortion-related) got fairly wanky on FFA, and a nonny added something to the discussion that actually made my jaw drop.How can you say, even in jest...
View ArticleNotable descendants of Genghis Khan
I've been doing some research on the intermarriage policies of the Mongol Empire, based on the work of Zhao Qingzhi, and all I can say is whoa~. The Chinggisids were almost as inbred as latter-day...
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Hallelujah! Cesare/Lucrezia scene from The Borgias leaked!
BIG SPOILERS if you haven't watched any promos or live under a rock or something and don't know anything about Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia.OH LAWD! It looks like they are going there. As approximately...
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CM Punk at Wizard World NYC!
~OH SNAP! CM Punk will be at Wizard World NYC in June! I applied to be a volunteer for the con, in hopes of stalking getting to see him from afar. Look at this sexy piece of ass, can you blame me??
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STEEL PANTHER! \m/
Got to see Steel Panther in concert last night at Irving Plaza, and they blew the roof off the place! It was so much fun, just as I'd hoped it'd be. My ex opened for them a few years ago, and had only...
View ArticleScariest Bad Guys of Wrestling
My biased listing of the scariest bad guys in pro wrestling. This is very much an indication of what I consider scary, and should not be taken as an authoritative list. Some great heels -- such as Jake...
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