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It's Not Personal...
I just have a toddler. The last few weeks are the first time I've been on LJ in over a year and it's overwhelming. I'm trying to bring what I follow down to a level I can cover in 5-10 minutes a night - and that means cutting a lot of friends and fiction communities.
Although I doubt that anyone cares - or will read this. :p -
Sometimes the internets fail us.
I went looking for fiction and/or thoughtful analysis concerning Isabella and Angelo in Shakespeare's Measure for MeasureI have come up short, again ( Read more... ) -
Fiction Roundup: Rose Regenerates
I've always had a soft spot for fics where Rose regenerates, so I've been bookmarking them for months (although I may have missed some). Thanks for the excuse to re-read them!
All stories are complete and at the author's journal/page, unless otherwise noted.
Set 1: AU after PotW
Carmen Sandiego: Old Things Made New (at teaspoon ( Read more... ) -
Fic: Loomed (crack!fic)
Title: Loomed
Author: codenamecarrot
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Martha, Romana
Rated: G
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: Sexual reproduction is as useful as the opposible thumb. Of course the Doctor does things the hard way
Spoilers: mild for 'Human Nature' and 'Family of Blood' (S3)
Notes: This probably needs a kicker make it truely cracktastic, but I couldn't ( Read more... ) -
Fic: roomba
Title: Roomba
Rating: 12 (All Ages)
Fandom: Only Human
Summary: It hits Tyler when he's sitting on the industrial carpet taking apart a Roomba.
Spoilers: all 20 minutes of it
Disclaimer: I have no claim to the characters or almost cyperpunk world they inhabit
Length: approx. 500 words
A/N I have things that are so overdue I'm asahmed to admit it. ( Read more... ) -
David Tennant reads Jake Arnott
Let's just say I am hopelessly addicted to his voice.
I was knocking around the 'net, looking for some of the audio work he's done when I found these (available at amazon.co.uk, links are to e-bay because they have cover pics):
The Long Firm by Jake Arnott (his first book), read by Jake Arnott, Jeremy Bulloch, Sandra Duncan, Richard Griffiths & ( Read more... ) -
May 1st
Is there a special word for the first if May? My mind pulls may-day fom it's depths. But the important thing is that my partner insists I finish We Have Liftoff by then so that he can read it. All of it ( Read more... ) -
We Have Liftoff: Poetry Source 1
THE VINE
by Robert Herrick
(from Hesperides printed 1648)
I DREAM'D this mortal part of mine
Was Metamorphoz'd to a Vine;
Which crawling one and every way,
Enthrall'd my dainty Lucia.
Me thought, her long small legs & thighs
I with my Tendrils did surprize;
Her Belly, Buttocks, and her Waste
By my soft Nerv'lits were embrac'd ( Read more... ) -
Refuge
Icon Meme, taken from time_and_chips
Write a drabble (100 words exactly) based on your current default icon. No changing it! Just write it as it comes; no beta-reading or mulling over. Any fandom or no fandom at all.
Loosely inspired by LabyrinthThe small, copper, soaking tub was the one thing that she would miss. It had the servants bath beat ( Read more... )