This Friday's fannish5 is pertinent to my interests! "Describe or invent five fannish drinking games." This is like a dream come true for me. No really. 1. I already told faded_lilac about this on Facebook, but a Kyle XY game where you drink every time Kyle's face is adorably confused would be really pretty great. It would also be challenging; you would have to be fairly attentive...

First, I direct you to Wm. Shakespeare's Five and Twenty Random Things Abovt Me . "1 Sometimes I Feele so trapp’d by iambic pentameter... Does that make me a Freake?[...] "12 I keepe my Stashe hidden in our seconde best bedde. Shhh. Don’t tell the Fyve-Oh." (Mystery of the second-best bed solved at last!) Second, elanor_x has links to snarky recaps of the Twilight series (with insider's...

* ... watching a breath-taking ballet performance of Prokovjev's Romeo and Juliet suite at the theatre. * ... witnessing the Christian Social Union's attempts to cope with their worst regional election results in Bavaria since the 1950s. * ... receiving a postcard from erised_dream and nerhegeb , who are currently spending their belated honeymoon in Ireland. * ... discovering...

Circles in the Water , by lareinenoire . The first tetralogy from the perspective of Cecily, Duchess of York, a character who never appears on stage until Richard III , but who must surely have been devastated by the events of the first three plays. The Late Innovation; or, Forty Times in Open Streets and Houses by angevin2 . A hilarious take on what might have become of the players...

Because I need something to get me back in a writing mood. Post the first line from your 25 most recent fanfics and try to find a pattern. I'm throwing in two from my original fiction epic, as well. Because that's where I really need some inspiration. 1) "After the battle, the Aurors took Draco’s parents into custody and took him down to the Ministry for questioning. He passed most of the...

So angevin2 ran The Great Post-RSC shaksper_random / thisengland Histories Ficathon and Lovefest. And if you like Shakespeare's history plays AT ALL you should check it out now now now, because it is fantastic. (Full disclosure: I was supposed to write for this, and I didn't finish my story on time; I'll post it here when it is done.) Individually fantastic things: An...

GUYS. Look ;; In related news, my paper on Shakespeare fanfic got accepted for publication. I guess that means it's time to put together that filter for the thesis, huh? -- Gil Side note: LOVE to my amazing writer. That was just what I wanted. WOW.

AAA. I am already panicking about my story for THE shaksper_random / thisengland POST-RSC HISTORIES FICATHON AND LOVEFEST. What if my story is not clever enough? Well, okay, I am not worrying about that, because everyone else participating is so very clever, but I am worried that my jokes will not be funny. Also a little bit about the clever: I spent...a significant portion of today...

I'm getting a quote from 2 Henry IV tattooed on my ankle this upcoming Monday (in Stratford!!!), and since my last tattoo was just text, I'd actually like an image incorporated with this one. My first thought was a rose, and then I thought maybe a Plantagenet flower. Anyway, I'd like to ask you lot what you think about it. I'm open to any suggestions (except kingly portraits. I love Hal but not THAT...

Blah. It was briefly nice here, but now it's hovering around complete humidity, and I have an elaborate system of pulleys and ropes to keep my windows shut against the wind. But! Two awesome things. [Bad username: http://community.livejournal.com/shaksper_random/39027.html] POST-RSC HISTORIES FICATHON AND LOVEFEST Okay, so I failed, and did not point this out earlier, when sign-ups were still...