I love Halloween. I also love October, November, and December, particularly November--it's a month of writing things, these days, which is pretty cool. I still haven't decided whether I'm going to sign up for NaNoWriMo (shut up, I still have five hours and change here in Pacific Time), because one the one hand I'm swamped but on the other I just had a radical idea to alter the foundational premise of what I fondly call "the millstone" fantasy novel. Decisions, decisions!
I've done a veritable ton of things this weekend, about which more anon; in the meantime, some posts I liked, mostly writings of various sorts.
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copperbadge just wrote Never Leave a Trace, a White Collar magic AU (R, OT3, long-ish). It's perfect for today, absolutely perfect.
mousagetes posted Anne Sexton's "Loving the Killer" in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
poetry this morning. Another apt and creepy post.
recessional just posted Preparation (from The Apocalypse According to C), a Calvin & Hobbes apocafic AU. YES!
melannen has a post on the Rally for Sanity and/or Fear, which was evidently awesome. She also has a post on (among other things including a mockup of the Voynich manuscript, which you can try to decipher) Reformation Day and the ELCA, which is the denomination of Lutheranism that has a place in my heart, since my undergraduate institution is a college of it and so many of my friends are members, converts, and pastors-in-training of it. It saddens me that many members of the ELCA are unable to accept its decision to welcome same-sex partnerships, and that it may well lead to schism soon. M's post includes the Presiding Bishop's video for the It Gets Better project, with a transcript.
I don't know what Martin Luther would have said about any of this (though I know what I hope he would have said), but I do know that he was a pretty cool dude whose thought had a major impact on our civilization, and who served as an inspiration to many including George Fox, who founded my own sect of Quakerism. Luther advised people to "sin boldly, but believe more boldly still," and I approve of the sentiment. So on Halloween, I lift my glass of--coffee, I do have homework to do--to him, and to everyone. Believe boldly! In what, I leave to you.
I've done a veritable ton of things this weekend, about which more anon; in the meantime, some posts I liked, mostly writings of various sorts.
copperbadge just wrote Never Leave a Trace, a White Collar magic AU (R, OT3, long-ish). It's perfect for today, absolutely perfect. mousagetes posted Anne Sexton's "Loving the Killer" in poetry this morning. Another apt and creepy post. recessional just posted Preparation (from The Apocalypse According to C), a Calvin & Hobbes apocafic AU. YES!melannen has a post on the Rally for Sanity and/or Fear, which was evidently awesome. She also has a post on (among other things including a mockup of the Voynich manuscript, which you can try to decipher) Reformation Day and the ELCA, which is the denomination of Lutheranism that has a place in my heart, since my undergraduate institution is a college of it and so many of my friends are members, converts, and pastors-in-training of it. It saddens me that many members of the ELCA are unable to accept its decision to welcome same-sex partnerships, and that it may well lead to schism soon. M's post includes the Presiding Bishop's video for the It Gets Better project, with a transcript. I don't know what Martin Luther would have said about any of this (though I know what I hope he would have said), but I do know that he was a pretty cool dude whose thought had a major impact on our civilization, and who served as an inspiration to many including George Fox, who founded my own sect of Quakerism. Luther advised people to "sin boldly, but believe more boldly still," and I approve of the sentiment. So on Halloween, I lift my glass of--coffee, I do have homework to do--to him, and to everyone. Believe boldly! In what, I leave to you.
