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massive fic roundup post
So, I am still here, and have been writing a bunch of stuff, I just forget to post about what I'm writing in the moment! Histories Ficathon XV reveals were today, so this seems like a good time to do a roundup. But first, thanks to MossGrownTowers for my awesome giftfic, Shakespeare & Co.. Yay for fic about the Lord Chamberlain's Men hanging out ( Read more... ) -
random musings about 2 Henry VI
So, I wrote Henry VI fic about Cade's rebellion, because I think I'm going to take my first shot at teaching (3/4 of) the first tetralogy this fall, and apparently fanfic is one of the ways I think through things before teaching them? At any rate, it's stunning how timely that bit feels. I think I went in thinking "oh, this is going to feel really ( Read more... ) -
Well, *score*...
Apparently, Word of God dovetails ... eerily well with my own far-future fanfic. Right down to the use of the phrase "Our Man on Jackson's Whole," and no, I don't know whether to be elated or freaked out :) -
Happy Shakespeare's birthday!
I wrote really long Shakespeare-hanging-out-with-Ben-Jonson fic to celebrate. (Also, from earlier this month: Chaucer and Shakespeare hanging out with their daughters, and writing the Wife of Bath's Tale and All's Well, respectively.) This is all instead of doing revisions on the Chaucer article that I should have been working on this whole time, ( Read more... ) -
grumpy Shakespeare-authorship journalism rant
AARGHH GUARDIAN STOP BEING STUPID!!!
Admittedly, The Guardian is often stupid about Shakespeare, but it's usually in ways that are at least entertaining, like suggesting, on the basis of a wildly out-of-context reading of Sonnet 76, that he preferred pot to the fancy designer drugs of his day. (N.B., "weed" in this poem does not actually mean ... ( Read more... ) -
Shakespeare-related ramblings, both fannish and professional
So, it's a new semester, but I've barely met my students yet, because between MLK Day weekend and the ice storm, there haven't been any F2F classes for nine days. I hope this doesn't make things too weird when we finally meet again. I always feel like those first few weeks are delicate, while classes are finding a vibe that's going to last for the ( Read more... ) -
Yuletide recs
Lots of fun stories up this year! A few I've particularly enjoyed:
The Death of Sven Hjerson Poirot; longer, plotty whodunit with a terrific Ariadne Oliver voice.
An Invigorating Life. This is ... well, hard to describe, but sort of fix-it fic for Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, picking up on the touch of magical realism that's there in the ( Read more... ) -
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Happy 400th First Folio anniversary, everyone! Without John Heminges, Henry Condell, and the work they put into preparing their colleague's works for publication, we wouldn't have about half of Shakespeare's plays, including a bunch of the famous ones: Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest, ( Read more... ) -
more fannish stuff
So I wrote some more Elizabethan theater RPF (Vanity, in which Richard Burbage's idea of a suitable activity for a date is to drag a whole bunch of people off to look at paintings of skulls), and also got around to posting a bit of really old Vorkosigan saga fluff that had been sitting on my computer for ages (In-Laws, Ivan-and-By banter, post- ( Read more... ) -
yet more new fic
So, I wrote some new Shakespeare fan-stuff, because apparently this is what I do these days instead of a) getting ready for Week 2 of classes; b) writing that article I'm supposed to be writing; c) getting started on the extremely complicated side editing gig I've been offered (but don't yet have a formal contract for, so I guess not getting too ( Read more... )