Out of the blue, a Very Senior Colleague and Generally Eminent Person in his field has just come into my office and had a very silly conversation with me about the prettiness of the boys in Troy and the general shortness of their skirts. (Although I haven't seen it yet, these are undeniable points ( Read more... )

I'm still here, though barely ( Read more... )

Ahem ( Read more... )

lobelia, after her holiday encounter with a sheela na gig, kindly made me this gorgeous genital-flaunting icon. I flaunt gratefully in her direction ( Read more... )

The Great Wen is all Woolfian and blossomy ( Read more... )

Please ignore this repost of an old fic. Some bizarre LJ error had occurred and the formatting had gone funny, rendering it illegible, and I couldn't think of anything to do to repair it except re-post, as I wanted it to be available on my journal, if only for ease of access for the poor remixer who got me ( Read more... )

Further to various recent conversations with orlisbunny and lobelia321, and the faint but unmistakable sound of People Moving On - also of made_up quoting Oscar Wilde on the ridiculousness of the emotions of those we have ceased to love - it occurred to me that LOTR may not last forever as a fandom. The films are out, the premieres are premiered, the Oscars are bagged, ( Read more... )

It hadn't occurred to me that remixing was going to be REALLY HARD, as well as endlessly interesting. Went to sleep last night having decided which fic by my assigned author to remix, then woke up in a tangle of sheets and realised I had changed my mind in the night. And suddenly, I desperately wanted to smoke a cigarette on my balcony, although I ( Read more... )

TITLE: ‘Third Astronaut and Fourth Cop’ (LotR RPS ( Read more... )

I feel uncharacteristically cheerful today. This might be

(A) because I expended my quotient of gloom by talking to 100 hungover people about incest in Faulkner at 9 am, or

(B) because everyone's favourite item of facial hair, eyebrowofdoom, made me an icon involving hobbit stubble and dirty glances and suggestive microphone usage. Or ( Read more... )