LINKDING

<blockquote>Geoffrey reaches for the nearest shelf, throws a conveniently placed bowl of fake fruit at Darren, and then gets to his feet and walks out of the prop closet with his lit cigarette held too-tight between his teeth as Darren yells, “You can hurl wax bananas at me all you bloody like, darling, it doesn’t change that I’m right and you know it!” (a few snapshots of Darren and Geoffrey: The College Years)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Amaresu – I really hope this doesn’t cause wank, but if Mary_Suep had been talking like this about me behind MY back, I would want to know. I really hope this doesn’t Ruin Yuletide for you, or anything. You know that if she HAS made a mockery of your request, or failed to post a completed fic, you can report her to the mods, right? char-big hugschar- A concerned nonnie and fellow REAL Ghost Soup fangirl</blockquote>

<blockquote>"It's only a story, Xury," said Téo gently. "I know it is a story, " Xury replied with wounded dignity. "I am fifteen, not five. But do you see why she is so important to us? She never quit. No matter what was flung at her, she kept on. And eventually she won. There are worse stories, Téo. Like the story that sings loudly, 'You are alone, enslaved, helpless and without hope, and thus it shall be forever.' That is a terrible story to believe in."</blockquote> ➤ AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

<blockquote>Matilda turns hacker, impresses Tony Stark, and fails to be swayed by Charles Xavier.</blockquote> ➤ THIS FIC IS BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT

<blockquote>Child Ballad 32 is a loathly lady story. The only popular version I know of is Steeleye Span’s “King Henry,” on Below the Salt. I have had this album for well over a decade, and occasionally I found myself wondering about the monstrous lady in the story, and even more about King Henry, who agreed to kill his horse and hawk and hounds to feed her. I don’t know that I’d easily forgive someone who forced me to kill my dog. This had been kicking around in my head for the better part of a decade, and then I was privy to a very odd conversation in a bookstore about people with extreme forms of body dysmorphic disorder, and then I drank a lot of coffee and drove for about forty-five minutes and “King Henry” came on the CD player and I went home and wrote the story in one long jag, which probably explains a few things about it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In another world, Geoffrey Tennant is a man haunted. No, wait. In another world, Geoffrey Tennant is haunted by a very specific ghost. This Geoffrey Tennant sticks to generalities, thanks.</blockquote> ➤ the tone and the voices and so forth are absolutely perfect, and if postcardmystery errs as usual too far on the side of sparse to the point of things being occasionally incomprehensible, at least for this fic it works

<blockquote>It's acting as if it's made its choice for a new king," Telemain said. Indignation coloured his voice, as if he were personally affronted that the sword had dared do something unexpected. "But it can't be - Mendanbar is clearly, well, still alive.</blockquote> ➤ In which the Enchanted Forest becomes a republic. I CANNOT EVEN

<blockquote>Days off are really challenging when you're a Strong Female Character. Dang, Susan can’t even go out to pick up the newspaper in the morning without posing strategically in her action negligée and punching out the mailman.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The cast and crew of Horrible Histories CBBC takes the piss out of Gay and Lesbian history. Sketches include: “Internatyonal Man of Myfterie”, “The Lesbians who Don’t Do Anything”, “Henry Bollingbroke Doesn’t Like Dick”, and three new Savage Songs!</blockquote>

<blockquote>Ms. Frizzle has always enjoyed the third grade.</blockquote>

<blockquote>What it says on the tin.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When the people of the Milky Way Galaxy first heard that God's Final Message to His Creation was being displayed, in thirty-foot-high letters of fire on top of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains in the land of Sevorbeupstry on the Planet Preliumtarn, third out from the sun Zarss in Galactic Sector QQ7 ActiveJ Gamma, the Jews of the Galaxy were among the first to seek it out.</blockquote>

➤ Anthony Bourdain (of A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines) does Narnia.

➤ In which Eames was Calvin as a kid! sequel: The Physiological Response to Absurdity http://ae-match.livejournal.com/133332.html