FOX IN SOCKS, PRINCE OF DENMARK
List of CharactersFOX, Prince of DenmarkKNOX, FOX's friend and fellow studentGHOST of FOX's father, former King of DenmarkCHICKS, officers of the watchSUE, Queen of DenmarkSLOW JOE CROW, King of...
View ArticleA DANDY PRINCE AND A FLAPPER PRINCESS
I think I've got a pair of new favourite TSQ-IV illustrations, sharing place with Christian Birmingham's "At the Court": these rarities by Ekaterina Volzhina.She recreates "The Snow Queen" in the Belle...
View ArticleOTHELLO - IASSIO SMUT/LEMON STORY
Just an Iassio smut story I found on the Web and would like to post. For, having already found some awesome TSQ-IV illustrations, why not round it up with my queer Shakespearean OTP?OTHELLO - The Way...
View ArticleLIFE WITH THE COMMON COLD
LIFE WITH THE COMMON COLDIt's far worse at night.When your nose feels like it's full of cotton.When it hurts when you breathe in through your lips.It hurts when you swallow as well.It's a ruthless...
View ArticleCERVANTES - LEFTIES/ZURDOS
NOTA BENE: The man who wrote this play lost his sinister hand in battle (fortunately, like 90% of the human population across the ages, he was right-handed, and thus, his works are known and praised in...
View ArticleUN ZURDO Y UN JOROBADO: DE AVELLANEDA
Una negra (sin ánimo de ofender: sólo cito al autor) sordomuda, un cojo, un zurdo y un jorobado... En resumen: personajes marginados en las Españas del Siglo de Oro, se dan cita en el breve paso...
View ArticleHOUSE OF LINEAGES - CALDERÓN
More lefty jokes from the Siglo de Oro. I mean, I am not offended by lefty jokes (or carrothead jokes, or freckle jokes, or mannish woman jokes) from the early modern period; in fact, I find them funny...
View ArticleGENTE HECHA AL REVÉS
Un joven Francisco de Quevedo, en el Sueño del Infierno, cuando un demonio le presenta a los zurdos:Estaban tras de una puerta unos hombres, muchos en cantidad, quejándose de que no hiciesen caso...
View ArticleTHIS WINTER'S WESTEROS FAIRYTALE
THIS WINTER'S WESTEROS FAIRYTALE:WHILE THE SUN AND MOON ENDUREAfter "The Queen Beyond the Wall" and "Not Today!", our blog will host a third Westeros fairytale for Christmas (this is becoming a...
View ArticleON MY OBITUARY FOR GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS
Inspired by thirstfor glory, on the field of battle quaffedinstead death's bitter draught.Thus read the words that grace this site on every 6th of November, as obituary for the Hero King of Lützen.But...
View ArticleTSQ-IV RETELLING - LANCE x BOBBI
Another fanfic TSQ-IV retelling: this one with Bobbi Morse as the princess and Lance Hunter as the prince.And this one is redoubtable as well!It wasn't until she got to the convolvulus that learned...
View ArticleCAPERUCITA ROJA - ROALD DAHL
CAPERUCITA ROJAsegúnROALD DAHLTraducción de Sandra DermarkEn cuanto a don Lobo Ferozle entró un día una gazuza atroz,llamó a la puerta de la Yaya.Al abrir, vio la buena ancianacolmillos como...
View ArticleRETURN TO BREITENFELD - 23RD OCTOBER 1642
RETURN TO BREITENFELD - 23RD OCTOBER 1642A decade after the death of Gustavus Adolphus:Christina was no longer a child, but a maiden, soon to wear the crown.Sweden was once more a great military...
View ArticleLEFT-HANDERS AT NOBLE ACADEMY
PS. Left-handers at Noble AcademyThis is a little Easter egg about Go! Princess Precure that I wanted to pop in somewhere.The following students are confirmed to be left-handed:Towa Akagi, née Daylight...
View ArticleOM MIN BLANDADE HÄRKOMST
Here's another Shakespearean treat: a poem based on lines of Troilus and Cressida about what it means to be a third-culture individual (furthermore: from mixed ancestry of two enemy countries). The...
View ArticleWHAT ARE YOU IN THE DARK?
This rhetorical question is clearly not bereft of meaning.What are you in the dark, when all you can see is pitch black and looks exactly the same, when no mirror gives back your face?After all, in the...
View Articlesådana, som ständigt grät över en sorg, som de inte kunde ge namn
"Åter hade hon somnat in, och åter hade hon drömt, att hon stod på taket av sitt hus och såg ner på den stora gården, som var vid som ett torg. Och se, gården var full av alla de människor, som voro...
View ArticleLE CHAT DE LA MÈRE MICHEL
This is a new post cycle on folksongs, a project that I had shelved for a long time.Maybe it will be the theme of this year's Dermarkian advent calendar (a song for each day, except on Xmas Eve: when...
View ArticleMAHOU TSUKAI REVIEW: START OF DARKNESS
Let Liz explain:Isaac explains that he's got no male students.Maybe-classes are gender seggregated-wizarding schools are seggregated (i.e. there is an all-guy school as well)JUNE: It's a plane?KAY:...
View ArticleRINGSTETTEN TROPES
RINGSTETTEN TROPESCharacter appearance, personality, and backstory:The Beautiful EliteGorgeous Period Dress/Costume PornNice Hat (oodles of cavalier hats, and, later on, tricorns).French Braids of...
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