THE "i've always wanted to tell you" MEME

BATTER MY HEART.

This is an overdue PSA and people probably already knew, but I'm going out with ( Read more... )

Duncan Jones' Moon is the best film I've seen all year. It was made on a microbudget of $5 million but still looks amazing. (To compare, this year's new Transformers film cost $200 million to make and looks like a child blowtorching lego models for two hours straight.)

It's like watching a film beamed in from an alternate reality where George ( Read more... )

Fucked up my Renaissance exam painfully! I'm so close to the end, though, I actually don't care.

I do actually love John Aubrey, the biographer. His Brief Lives included things like:

PETRIFICATION of a Kidney.- When Father Harcourt suffered at Tyburne, and his bowells, etc, throwne into the fire, a butcher's boy standing by was resolved to havea piece of his Kidney which was broyling in the fire. He burn't his fingers much ( Read more... )

That meme that's been doing the rounds. 3 characters from my favourite books-- guess which one. Etc.

#1: Miss Fabian, Miss Lester, Delores. Lolita, guessed by the persistent ( Read more... )

Ceasefire ( Read more... )

Darkness
Byron

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
( Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; )

This goes out to all the medievalists on my flist: can you recommend any good books that combine study of medieval literature/society with queer theory or readings? I've got Dinshaw, Pugh and Burgwinkle (BURGWINKLE what a name) on stack request. Alternatively-- and I realise this is really hazy, but at the moment I am just randomly googling search ( Read more... )

A Divine Image
William Blake

Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.

The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.