STOP. YOU'RE FIRED. GO HOME, TENTH MONTH OF THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR, YOU ARE DRUNK. OFF YOUR FACE. JESUS. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY SOMEONE TO CLEAN THIS UP. 

Persephone has gone down to the Underworld, and I am freezing my tits off. ...uh by which I mean I hope everyone had a happy Mabon if that's their thing. Team Judaeo-Wicca is now going to gear up for Simchas Toyre, and then take a nap until Halloween ( Read more... )

This is just me dropping by to say that I'm happy -- I'm most content in my own skin -- and learning every day that if there are memories that keep coming back to hurt you, the best thing to do may be to find yourself someone to help you overwrite them. The past is starting to feel like the palimpsest and not the story of me. I can't help but think ( Read more... )

This comes by way of Ellen Kushner's Twitter and Malinda Lo's tumblr and by winding roads to a comment chain in the Printz contender blog (for YA books).

Basically, a commenter said -- and it didn't start out inflammatory, but its casual, callous tone was worse to me -- that there were "too many" same sex relationships in a book, and that same-sex ( Read more... )

How many shall pass away and how many shall be born,

Who shall live and who shall die,

Who shall reach the end of his days and who shall not...

The wrong people die. It's always the wrong person who dies. When I get to that line in the unetaneh tokef, I think of my brother-in-law (the one I never met); I think of how immeasurably angry I would be, if ( Read more... )

ETA: I have scads of Renaissance music -- bring on the shaums, bring on the citterns, I gotcher branles and gaillards right here -- why is Kit Marlowe so seemingly partial to Florence + the Machine? Inexplicable.

Now I have four projects going, because that's completely appropriate. Do I ever finish anything? Hahaha, that's funny.

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It's so versatile. As in, Really, do we have so flimsy a community that we would really turn and start devouring ourselves over things that really should be clear cut?

Otherwise known as, I always want to think the best of authors, I really do, but some people are really and truly just assholes who should not be allowed a piece of the big, sticky ( Read more... )

I was working on a poem when I learned that Adrienne Rich had died. The fact of this is going to stick with me.

I don't think I accepted myself as a poet until last year, though I have been writing (and winning things for) poetry since I began to write expressively in English, around age nine. So -- a long time. Oy. But in high school and college, ( Read more... )

From asakiyume, sovay, erzebet and others! This looks very subversive and cute and diabolical and interesting.


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