until I was about 9, I secretly believed I could fly

That's too cute!

First, that my family and I were being chased by something we couldn't see, but that we knew was big and scary.

You used to dream about being on Lost?

Teppy's dreaming about boinking Plei again, I see.

Doesn't everyone?

Strange how those random co-workers look like Aliens.

Some of them? Not so far off.

For most of the first two trimesters, I had horrible pregnancy nightmares. They only got worse when I was on bedrest. I'd dream, quite vividly, that I was bleeding and had to go to the ER again, then would wake up and realize that no, not really.

Last night I dreamed I was with all the comicsverse writers I know, frolicking in a river before going back to the hotel for a slumber party, where I managed to oversleep and wake up late for my NST. Of course, after the misadventures of finding a car, I got to my appointment an hour late, only to discover that thanks to Daylight Savings Time, I was actually on time.

(In real life, I was 15 minutes early for my NST this morning, and they're short staffed, so it wound up not starting for another half an hour.)

Fun with The Guardian

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Under the headline "Reader, I shagged him." I had to click on it after that.

As the 150th anniversary of her death on March 31 1855 approaches, it is time to rescue Charlotte Brontë. She has been chained, weeping, to a radiator in the Haworth Parsonage, Yorkshire, for too long. Enough of Gaskell's fake miserabilia. Enough of the Brontë industry's veneration of coffins, bonnets and tuberculosis. It is time to exhume the real Charlotte - filthy bitch, grandmother of chick-lit, and friend.

How is the Princess?

How is the Princess?

Refusing to remove her foot from my ribs? Other than that, just fine. The NST looked pretty much like all the other NSTs, my BP was still stable, and there was no real weight gain for me since my Tuesday appointment, so it looks like I haven't had a sudden jump when it comes to the fluid I'm retaining.

Next week, she's officially considered term, so we start talking about the whens of induction.

It occurs that there has been a shortage of Pregnant PMM pictures.

This should not be.

Next week, she's officially considered term, so we start talking about the whens of induction.

Yay! I can't wait for her arrival.

I have a plot bunny involving a werewolf. Unfortunately, the only werewolf stories I'm familiar with are the Jossverse version and a YA novel I read about 5 years ago about a teen werewolf girl coming to terms with her place in the world. I think in her version you had to be born werewolf, not bitten.

So. I figure I need to learn the usual werewolf myth so I can figure out how to play with it for purposes of my embryonic plot. So what books/movies/etc. would y'all recommend as archetypal werewolf stories?