brief update

[jazzfish]

The Tough Guide to Regencyshire: "ODIOUS -- Use this word with great care. Despite its repulsive meaning, its sense is invariably affectionate, and if you find yourself calling a gentleman not related to you odious man, you have marked that person as your EROTIC MATCH. There will be nothing for it but to give in to their advances in the end -- after a suitable amount of WITTY SPARRING, of course." --esp. for idoru and lizthefair.

The Master Plan: "With such precipitous drops in contempt towards the government, someone needs to step in and prove how totally incompetent the public sphere really is."

Ezra also explains Fair and Balanced: "That's a 3 to 1 conservative advantage and, I wouldn't say this if it weren't true, Maddow is wiping the floor with them."

The Google We Really Need.

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About the only thing of import I've been doing lately has been affecting a bad Irish accent in ndkid's Nobilis campaign. [Wolfe Tone O'Brien, born April 24, 1916, Dominus of Blue and [owing to circumstances beyond anyone's comprehension] Sphinxes.] Oh, and working with watercolors in Design Lab. Blergh. I can understand that other people produce gorgeous works of art in watercolor, but for me it's just a muddy mess.

And now off to a Latin test. (I'm solid on things that aren't vocab, but not being solid on vocab makes it hard to translate effectively, y'know?)

Comments

[anterus.livejournal.com]

Arr, I wish I could take Latin and Italian here... But I don't really have the time. It's a damned shame

[idoru.livejournal.com]

.:giggle

"Meanwhile, the entry on Conduct ends:

But while you act as you wish, despite the disapproval of those with PROPRIETY, without damaging your character, beware doing anything that may cause your EROTIC MATCH to give you a thundering set-down^OMT, for it is bound cast you into the hips^OMT, if not give you a freakish distemper^OMT. If this should last for more than a few days, it will be time to own up that you do indeed cherish his REGARD, and possibly that you have loved him all this time^OMT."

[idoru.livejournal.com]

[[All the better because i've read a fair bit of Austen, something-fewer-than-five Heyers, and many a Regency knock-off. i tend to prefer my romances a bit racier, with more personality. It's not that i am all BODICE RIPPER YESSS, PLEASE MAKE WITH POORLY-WRITTEN SEX SCENES NOW; it's that i like my romance novels to make me actually laugh out loud [at the snark] from time to time.]]