Thanks for the link, Sophia. I've passed it along to my niece.
Glory: Lesson number one, Vampires equal impure! Spike: Damn right I'm impure, I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow!
'Dirty Girls'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Calli - May 18, 2017 5:14:49 am PDT #24598 of 28222
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
juliana - May 18, 2017 7:49:43 am PDT #24599 of 28222
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
From what I understand, a lot of the European version of Mongol history is wildly inaccurate. I haven't studied it in depth, but I find that plausible (even trying very hard to set aside my deep-seated Mongols! My people! bias)
Correct. Much like the European/American version of Vikings-as-ravening-berserkers, or the mental picture of Medieval peasants wallowing in their own filth. I blame the Victorians (mostly because it's fun to say).
(M is most probably descended from Mongols, as well, so I get the My people! reaction.)
Toddson - May 19, 2017 7:13:28 am PDT #24600 of 28222
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In re Vikings, I remember several years ago someone teaching a college-level course in medieval Scandanavian history (yes, Vikings) found that at least one of her students had done a search and found a site by Viking recreators (not the SCA) and had used that as their primary source for a report ... it did not turn out very well, since they were not as accurate as one would wish.
Connie Neil - May 19, 2017 7:19:12 am PDT #24601 of 28222
brillig
Should have gone with the SCA, we regularly publish pamphlets with full documentation. One of them at least was used as someone's Ph.D. dissertation.
-t - May 19, 2017 8:05:39 am PDT #24602 of 28222
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
::Fistbump of Mongol solidarity with M::
Dana - May 23, 2017 8:11:46 am PDT #24603 of 28222
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
bennett - May 23, 2017 9:31:54 am PDT #24604 of 28222
Thanks, Dana.
smonster - May 23, 2017 3:41:00 pm PDT #24605 of 28222
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Purchased! Thanks for heads up.
hippocampus - May 23, 2017 4:28:35 pm PDT #24606 of 28222
not your mom's socks.
He just yelled "TESSERACT!" from the other room. That was a little unnerving.
Should you go check to make sure he's still there?
ILU Jess
Dana - May 29, 2017 8:10:29 am PDT #24607 of 28222
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Barbara Hambly's Darwath trilogy (ebooks) is on sale today for $3.99. Should apply to all retailers.