2015-02-17

dragonyphoenix: Blackadder looking at scraps of paper, saying "It could use a beta" (Blackadder)
2015-02-17 04:07 pm

Fic: Share and Share Alike 2.0

I'm taking some of my stories and rewriting them to improve them. I've spend a couple of hours expanding on Share and Share Alike, which I'd originally kept as a pure drabble.
Note: Xander is watching a Babylon 5 episode, “The Parliament of Dreams”

“After we're married, half of your money will be mine.”

What the hell? Anya could see he was watching the tv. Couldn't that towering pile of wedding magazines keep her busy for at least one episode? Xander clicked up the volume. - How's your aunt? - How's your brother? I can't believe I'm going through all this with you again.

“Xander.” Anya yanked the control out of his hand and muted the volume. “Were you listening to me? Once we're married, half of what’s yours is mine.”

Yeah, and half of what's yours will be mine.” The control was right there, lying on the couch between them. Knowing better than to pick it up, Xander stared at the tv and added in the muted dialog. - Will you follow me into fire? Into storm? Into darkness? Into death?

Anya's magazine hit the coffee table with a heavy thud. “That's not fair. I worked hard for my money.”

“And my job's a picnic in the park?”

“That's different.”

“It always is honey.”

So I get to keep my money?”

Nope, once we two become one, it's share and share alike.” Oh God, unless … unless she caught on to prenups before the wedding. Before she could read the terror on his face and ask what he was thinking, Xander grabbed the control and turned on the volume. - Taste of it and be not afraid. For I am with you to the end of time.

dragonyphoenix: Blackadder looking at scraps of paper, saying "It could use a beta" (Blackadder)
2015-02-17 08:32 pm

The Book of Miracles

In 1552, a curious and lavishly illustrated manuscript titled Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs appeared in the Swabian Imperial Free City of Augsburg, then a part of the Holy Roman Empire, located in present-day Germany. It exorcised, in remarkable detail and wildly imaginative artwork, Medieval Europe’s growing obsession with signs sent from “God” — a testament to the basic human propensity for magical thinking, with which we often explain feelings and phenomena beyond the grasp of our logic.

This unusual Roman manuscript was recently discovered and published for the first time as The Book of Miracles.

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dragonyphoenix: Blackadder looking at scraps of paper, saying "It could use a beta" (Blackadder)
2015-02-17 09:55 pm

Reading the OED

I just picked up Reading the OED: One man, One Year, 21,730 Pages.

Abluvion (n.) Substance or things that are washed away.
Chances are you have never stared at the dirty bathwater washing down the drain and wondered, Is there a word for that? but now you will forever be cursed with the knowledge that indeed there is.

Hee! I'm definitely looking forward to checking this out.