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Dear Yuletide Santa
Dear Yuletide Santa,
Thank you so much for writing for me. I really will be happy with anything you've come up with, but if you're like me and prefer some prompts and general likes/dislikes, I've expanded a little on my requests below.
( Meine Liebe ) -
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Happy Birthday, Fabu. -
Characterisation and Canon
Further to a discussion elsewhere as to what counts as OOC, it struck me that there are a number of approaches to writing fanfic, each of which aims to a have a different relationship to canon, and that there is little point discussing appropriate characterisation without considering ( what the story is trying to achieve. ) -
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"The philologists held that their language was preserved in its purest form in the desert. Moreover, the speech of the desert Arabs abounded in marvellous lexical rarities and both poets and lexicographers went out hunting for these. For instance [...] bahlasa means 'to arrive suddenly from another country without any luggage'.
Robert Irwin, ( Read more... ) -
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Happy birthday, white-hart! -
Cyclone Nargis
I've only just heard the terrible news about Burma (Myanmar). Ten to fifteen thousand dead, according to the BBC, four thousand according to the New York Times. I always say when asked that you can't compare countries and pick a favourite, but then if I'm being honest I have to admit Burma is the most beautiful country I have ever seen, and the one ( Read more... ) -
An end to Poetry Month
Girl With The Dark Hair
Anon, trans W.S. Merwin
Girl with the dark hair
If you are asleep, be warned:
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Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods
Ulysses
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Princes
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
( I cannot rest from travel: I will drink ) -
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from The Harper's Song For Inherkhawy
Egyptian, trans John L. FosterAll who come into being as flesh ( Read more... ) -
Your length in clay's now competent
from The Devil's Law Case
John WebsterAll the flowers of the spring ( Read more... )