quick sundries

[rm]

The last two Art of Manliness newsletters have been about how to make the perfect cup of coffee (Monday) and loss, grief and manliness (today). I am not even kidding. Hopefully bodlon is laughing as hard as I am.

Preliminary Dragon*Con schedule with no way of knowing if I am scheduled against everything I care about. It's causing me HUGE angst. Which is really dumb and irrational, especially since everything I care about -- totally people I've seen at cons eight-billion times before, and the ones I haven't are totally the ones I'm not going to wind up scheduled against. Blargh blargh blargh.

Patty heads out to family stuff tomorrow. I'm pouty because I'm sooooooooo enjoying being home with her.

Woah has there been a spate of great Torchwood fic posted in the last 48 hours. Good times.

Oh hey, Gary Russell will be at the next DWNY thing.

Comments

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

All the best Cons happen in the States, sigh. Though our local ones are pretty nifty as well :)

Any particularly good Torchwood fic you can rec? I need a distraction...

Yeah, I snatched the icon.

[miep.livejournal.com]

recs?

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

The last two Art of Manliness newsletters have been about how to make the perfect cup of coffee (Monday) and loss, grief and manliness (today). I am not even kidding.

Hidden Ianto fans at TAoM?

[herself_nyc]

Can you recommend anything useful to read about women passing as men? Especially in the early 19th century, by any chance? Thanks!

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I think it's some sort of law of conventions - anything you really want to do will be scheduled against the other thing you really want to do.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Scanty Particulars: The Scandalous Life and Astonishing Secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria's Most Eminent Military Doctor

It's a bio of someone who was either a woman living as a man, a transman or an intersexed individual -- it's not clear both because of the lacking historical record in places and the lack of use of current identifiers. Anyway, the life story is fucking ASTOUNDING the book began as a dissertation, so it has a lot of academic references of use. There's a good chunk in the middle that talks about the ideal of male beauty at the time (which was basically "woman with a brain") and how that made it somewhat easy in some ways for a woman to pass. There's also a lot of stuff on the history of women passing as men to join the military and why this stuff happened and how people got away with it.

[herself_nyc]

Fabulous, thank you.

By the way, are you still interested in the possibility of a forming a writers' grp? I'm really trying to make this happen for fall.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yes... I've just had... turmoil. But things are starting to slow down (only one more big con trip for 2009, yay!)

[santousha.livejournal.com]

Woah has there been a spate of great Torchwood fic posted in the last 48 hours. Good times.
Any stand out you can point me to?

[rm.livejournal.com]

http://ukcalico.livejournal.com/294869.html

http://mondschein1.livejournal.com/106072.html
(this is light, not perfectly written and mpreg, but I really enjoyed it, as it has moments that really nail human nature).

http://electrictoes.livejournal.com/278536.html
(also in the flawed but interesting category).

There was another one, and I can't remember who wrote it now -- someone on my friendlist that was just a character study, Jack/Ianto in bed being half asleep thing that I loved.... will link if I find again.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I knew that a certain amount of that stuff was going on, but glad to hear someone did an in-depth research into it - thanks for the rec!

[rm.livejournal.com]

scroll down for recs in comment

[rm.livejournal.com]

scroll down for recs in a comment to someone else

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I love that book.

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the 2nd and 3rd story on there, 3rd especially. Flawed in some ways sure, but kind of, I like the innocence of it, I think. Wish I could write something like that for a change, but thanks for mentioning them, I would have missed them otherwise.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I have been laughing like you would not believe. Seriously. Oh AoM. Stay classy and don't ever change.

We will make D*C work. With sticks if necessary.

And which comms are you sourcing fic from these days? I'm feeling like the reccing bug is back...

[rm.livejournal.com]

torchwood_three believe it or not. I found a few gems yesterday -- worth a read anyway, although they aren't quite TWH ready for prime-time.