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The neverending story? Metatext in Princess Tutu episode 17
This post started out as a comment that I intend to post on Mark Watches later today, when Mark and his commenters discuss Princess Tutu episode 17 (Crime and Punishment).
I tracked down the source of a page of German text on a book Fakir reads in Ep. 17. Drosselmeyer didn't write it. Neither did the Princess Tutu screenwriters. ( Evidence is behind the cut, along with awful Google Translate German translations that I'd love help with. ) -
A lost reflex of the Tam Lin tradition
In the traditional ballad of Tam Lin, as you know, Janet goes out into the wood of Carterhaugh, the terrain of the fairy knight Tam Lin, and Tam Lin impregnates her. Later, on Hallowe'en, Tam Lin is cursed to be the Fairy Court's tithe to hell, and only Janet can save him because of her power as Tam Lin's lover and as the mother of his unborn child ( Read more... ) -
And then Sauron conquered the world. The end.
[Forgive crossposts; I posted something like this to FB.]
I am rereading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in eight years or so, now that the memory of the films has faded and I can enjoy the books as books again. Right now I am about halfway through Fellowship, and I am puzzled ( Read more... ) -
(apologies for repost) internet powers, activate!
I don't know kythryne, but I do know people who know her, and I have a number of contacts in upstate New York, so I'm copying this post over from gileonnen's journal.
Originally posted by kythryne at internet powers, activate!
Okay, people. I need you to take this viral, and fast ( Read more... ) -
This is in no way what I should be writing.
I took an evening off from end-stage dissertating last weekend to read a novel, Mira Grant (seanan_mcguire)'s Deadline. I would now like to babble about conspiracy theories relating to Deadline, but I have explicitly told the person with whom I would normally babble about conspiracy theories not to read the book. (I liked the book very much. You might like the ( Read more... ) -
Wicked girls saving themselves: Cat Valente's Deathless and A Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland
I suspect that most of my friends can be divided into two groups: the friends who'd be delighted by Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making and the friends who'd thrill to Cat Valente's Deathless.
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Oberon's children are heroes
If I had to have deadly, productivity-killing insomnia last night, at least I had the perfect book to entertain me while I wasn't sleeping. Seanan McGuire's fourth Toby Daye book, Late Eclipses, showed up on my doorstep yesterday morning ( Read more... ) -
Miching mallecho: it means mischief
Seanan McGuire's half-fae San Francisco investigator Toby Daye solves approximately one mystery per book, but she lives in a world with plenty of mysteries left. This post, which I began writing months ago but have been saving until muchabstracted finished the series, begins to guess at some of the hidden mysteries. Expect major spoilers for all three published ( Read more... ) -
Review: Galen Beckett, The Magicians and Mrs. Quent
Last night, I dug myself out of a pile of ungraded papers, closed the file holding my unfinished chapter draft, and went to the bookstore. This was certainly a foolish and ill-conceived decision, which I do not regret overmuch.
As you may discover from my syntax, I've been reading Regency pastiche again. ( Book review behind the cut )