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8 years ago @ The Toast - Why Is Everyone Trying... · 0 replies · +38 points

For us lady-attracted types, it holds equally true for Marian. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE.

8 years ago @ The Toast - My Favourite Deleted C... · 0 replies · +4 points

I know I'm late to the party, but I just went and cross-stitched at a bar last night (there was an event, rather than me just bringing crafts to drinky-times), and I'm therefore halfway through a 'SMASH THE PATRIARCHY' cross-stitch. I wanted to make one that said 'Give me intersectional feminism or give me death' but I haven't had the time to sit down and design it yet.
I would definitely be down for 'Damn it feels good to be a spinster'.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Books That Literally A... · 0 replies · +1 points

CONGRESSWOMAN! (With her violet eyes.)
I read those books so often growing up. Some bewildered English teacher had to read a book review on Inca Gold when I was 12-13. I think I drew the Quipu on the front. I stopped reading after Flood Tide. I just didn't think that it and Shock Wave were quite as good as the older ones.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Books That Literally A... · 0 replies · +2 points

I LOVED Fagles, but I don't remember what translation First Year Classics told me to read (if any). I DO remember that I tried Penguin Classics (it was cheap! I was poor!) and hated it. Fagles at least read like the story was enjoyable, which is kind of a critical point with Homer. He is the Ancient Greek Clive Cussler! (Or Tom Clancy. Or whatever Boy's Own Adventure Novelist you enjoy.)
I'd say I should give Lattimore a go except 1) I'll have forgotten the name by the time I leave work and 2) I'm just about to go travelling/be adventurously homeless for a coupla months, so now is not the time for new projects.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Books That Literally A... · 1 reply · +6 points

You know, I *tried* Foucault's Pendulum, on the recommendation of The Last Guy I Dated (we both realised we were, er, not each other's preferences). And I just couldn't get into it.

Loved Name of the Rose, though. Maybe Pendulum needed more labyrinths and books for me to care? Although perhaps 33yo me would succeed where 18yo me failed.

8 years ago @ The Toast - WHY ARE YOU LONELY: A ... · 0 replies · +3 points

Me too.

8 years ago @ The Toast - WHY ARE YOU LONELY: A ... · 0 replies · +3 points

I would definitely buy that t-shirt, but the second half makes me think of an unexpectedly cheerful-sounding song by Fred Smith called 'Die Alone'.
(I get visions of the undertaker callin'/Telling me it's nearly time to go/I get visions of Joe Hannah/Eatin' a banana/But in the end you're going to die alone. [In the end you're going to die alone.])
Not sure if links work, but here's a YouTube version jic: https://youtu.be/8ZgfYTXu9bE
(My favourite version is the one he does with the Spooky Men's Chorale on the album Urban Sea Shanties, but that doesn't seem to be uploaded anywhere.)

8 years ago @ The Toast - Horrifying Children's ... · 0 replies · +12 points

I LOVE THIS VERSION. <3

8 years ago @ The Toast - Signs You're About To ... · 0 replies · +5 points

Someone mentioned on tumblr that Romeo + Juliet could've ended happily if Juliet had married Mercutio, and Romeo + Benvolio had taken a 'bachelor's apartment' right next door, and then Romeo + Mercutio high-five as they climb the fence to be with their loves.
I'm not aware of any Mercutio/Benvolio-ness in text, but boy did it make me want to rewrite the second half of R+J as a French farce.
And now with the above I just want to watch a series of Shakespeare tragedies turned into happily-ever-after queer dramas. (Storylines that also need a happy-ever-after would be Antonio. And while we're there can we make Shylock's ending less awful and anti-Semetic?)

8 years ago @ The Toast - Plausible Lines For Ab... · 0 replies · +5 points

WHY CAN'T I UPVOTE THIS MORE THAN ONCE.

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