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Easter Fun with Taxidermy
An 1898 article from The Strand features an old-fashioned holiday handicraft:
Dressing up dead birds in little outfits
More Victorian decorating with deceased fellow-creatures:
Animal Furniture, pt. 1
Proof that dead pets can be useful as well as ornamental.
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Eight Weeks to a More Charming You
A 1959 ad for the John Robert Powers charm school:
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I Dream of Mary Sue
Last night I had a full-blown Mary Sue dream so pure and true it brings tears to the eyes (what sort of tears, I leave to the discretion of the reader ( Read more... ) -
Fic Rec
Sisterskin, by lilacsigil
Ginny/Bellatrix, NC-17
magnetic_pole recently made a post about the challenge of writing strong, believable women characters, and I commented that I like to see characters who are strong without being invulnerable. lilacsigil does a great job of doing just that with Ginny in this story.
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Fun with PhotoSuite
I was looking over an old hard drive, and I found this icon. Like her bosom friend Helga, Rowena is a retouched Vigee-LeBrun painting. She is available for adoption if anyone would like to use her.
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So, I was goofing off this evening and made some icons out of old magic show posters. I don't have dates for these, but they're mostly 19th-century.
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Two Victorian Tales
Some forgotten stories, transcribed from old volumes of The Strand.
A Tragedy in the Air by J. Laurence Hornibrook, the 1893 story of a repressed enmity between two women that results in the death of both.
A True Ghost Story by the Countess of Munster, the 1897 story of an "alluring fascination" between two women that transcends the death of -
Heroes Flashfic
A couple of ficlets I wrote for the past two heroes_flashfic challenges.
Gravity
Eden, Mr. Bennet, PG-13.
For the "Daddy Issues" challenge. Angst!
Transparent
Peter, "Claude," PG.
For the "Temptation" challenge. Humor!
I've been enjoying "Supernatural" more and more lately, but "Heroes" is still my current TV favorite.
