THE RINGSTETTEN SAGA - CUES FROM WESTEROS
THE RINGSTETTEN SAGA - CUES FROM WESTEROSDon't focus on the obvious choices for leading characters. Take the stance of the Bifauxnen or the Ladette, the Strange Girl or the Perky Female Minion, the...
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MY SELF-GIFTS: SUMMER WISH LIST
This travel guide to Westeros, for about 20 euros, has been the first of my self-gifts for passing all of my exams with flying colours.On my foreign summer wishlist, the following stories are:1)...
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ANOTHER AUTHOR'S EAH/TSQ-IV OC
Hyacinth, né Zinnia, Flowers:Turns out someone else had the idea of making the prince in The Snow Queen an Ever After High OC. And it's an F2M trans guy (with the surname of a Reacher lovechild and the...
View ArticleSHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A NEW AUTHOR
This post deals with my fave Shakespearean characters and how they have impacted me. Long story short: I explain the character in shorthand (hashtag included!), what I admire in them and/or what has...
View ArticleBLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS... AND TOIL
Let's face it: we all remember old Churchill saying, during the war, that he had nothing to offer but "blood, sweat, and tears." But it was not that way. There was actually a fourth item on the list of...
View ArticleTSQ-IV (GDR): RAINER SCHWARZ
TSQ-IV (GDR): RAINER SCHWARZThis is a free East German retelling... Voice actors unknown.PrinzPrinzessinJa, er wohnt bei eine Prinzessin, im Schloss! Die Prinzessin hat ihn direkt von der Landstrasse...
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THE PAINFUL LIFE OF A LONELY EXTRAVERT
Again, this is about having to work in black and white as the translator I will be. Very few times will I be allowed to use colour in exchange for money. Very few (such "experimental") books, The...
View ArticleWAKE UP, KIRARA!!!
This is my Noble Academy Christmas Carol bunny, which I have had for a while...WAKE UP, KIRARA!!!CASTKirara Amanogawa (in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge)Towa Akagi, née Hope Daylight (in the roles of...
View ArticleTOWARELLA: EXTENDED VERSION
Since the School Play episode (ep 37) of Go!Princess Precure focused on the Flower Class rendition of Romeo and Juliet, I have made spin-offs detailing the making off the plays staged by the Ocean and...
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WIT AND WINTERFELL: MBT/ASOIAF CROSSOVER
What if... Sansa Stark lived Threnody Vey's life and vice versa?How would it unfurl for a badass wit to live at the Red Keep, and for a fragile court lady to adapt to military life, overnight?This...
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CATNIP - TSQ-IV FRENCH GRAPHIC NOVEL
From the French comic Coeur de Glace.Written by Marie PommepuyDrawn by Patrick PionAs an Easter egg, here's the TSQ-IV princess as seen by Amlagam.Reminds me of Savitri a lot.
View ArticleUPCOMING CATNIP (OTHELLO+TSQ-IV)
This summer up north, I found the Nicky Raven retelling of TSQ-IV (in Gothenburg, at the main public library) and Osada-sensei's Othello (in a Norwegian village library), of which I took a few photos...
View ArticleSPEAKING OF THE LEFT AND RIGHT...
...here is an excerpt from a post-modern deconstructive retelling of Jonah. I have chosen it because it refers to multinational companies and, referring to their world, attaches the corresponding...
View ArticleLA MÈRE DE L'OFFICIER
One of my favourite French chansons, about a young officer from the highest échelons of high society and his mother. Please take handkerchiefs if you are sensitive:LA MÈRE DE L'OFFICIER Un p'tit...
View ArticleTSQ-IV: IN ICELANDIC
Now that I'm typing from Reykjavik (back in Gothenburg on Thursday), I realize how strange a language Icelandic is. And, just to give you an idea, my favourite fairytale (though, to be technical, it's...
View Article1460 I: THIS IS MY LIFE / OTHELLO PARKOUR
OK, if you haven't got the title, that's Iago/IAGO in leetspeak. 1460. It's a number pun that, like "Reeling and Writhing", I may use in one way or another.So,This is my life: both parents with...
View ArticleTHE EYE OF ARGON
#EyeOfArgonDescribed as "the worst fantasy novella ever", The Eye of Argon is a story by Jim Theis, who was 16 when he wrote it. It's the tale of Grignr, a foul-mouthed barbarian warrior who is trying...
View ArticleTHE TRUE TUDOR STORIES BEHIND NURSERY RHYMES
Some well-known Anglophone nursery tales are actually Tudor-era Reformation and Counter-Reformation propaganda. And here are the gory stories behind those ostensibly innocent rhymes.SING A SONG OF...
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 ArticleREÐASAFN RARITIES
The title of this post comes from the Phallological Museum/Phallotèque of Reykjavik, which I have visited during this one-week Icelandic adventure (returning to Sweden tonight).It contains a Folklore...
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