okay

Am reading 1602 annotations rather than working on my midsummer_santa story.

Quote from the notes on the first issue:

I feel that it is my duty to add that we should remember, before judging the era in regards to its view of female ability to govern, that there was particular cause for this attitude in this period -- besides the fact that women are, in general, more emotional then men, even in today’s post-industrial, feminist societies. The women of the time were not as schooled as the era’s men and did not seem suited to governance. Moreover, the physical circumstances in which women lived -- including the use of corsets and the like that contributed to female fainting spells and the use of make-ups containing lead (a theory also applied to the ancient Greeks) -- may have contributed to a lack of female intellect or rationality.

I have no comment that would properly express my feelings on this.

(It's 90 degrees out; I think my sister should take me to Plaid Pantry so I can buy soda pop or ice cream.)

link to poll!

Stealing a link from tzikeh -- go here to fill a poll on an idea for a new due South community.

Quote from pipsqueaky's entry:

[T]his has prompted some discussion about possibly creating an LJ community for the express purpose of watching and discussing one dS episode each week, as if the show were currently airing. The comm would be very newbie-friendly - although long-time fans are certainly welcome to participate as well! - in that any mention of future episodes will be clearly marked and placed behind a cut, so you won't have to worry about being spoiled. It would be a great way to bring both old and new dS fans together and "relive" the show, so to speak.

So, yes, go ahead and mark down and let them know if you'd be interesting in participating or not.

ETA: You know what, here's another link just for extra measure! I'm not especially invested in Fraser/Vecchio as a couple -- it's not a squick, but I don't seek it out either -- but this does not change the fact that this entry of silviakundera's is the cutest thing ever. <3.

my very favorite benton-bob dialogue ever

Fraser: Oh, great.

[his dad is sitting on his bed]

Robert Fraser : Move over.

[Fraser shifts, making room for his dad to lie down beside him in the twin bed]

Robert Fraser: The eyes are the first to go.
Fraser : Hmm?
Robert Fraser : You start to miss things that you used to be able to see. Worse still, you start to see things that aren’t there anymore.
Fraser: Well, I’m not seeing you, I’m dreaming you. Would you move your shoulder?
Robert Fraser: Are you asleep?
Fraser: I’m dead to the world.
Robert Fraser: Are you sure?
Fraser: I’m a log.
Robert Fraser: You don’t look asleep.
Fraser: Well, I am. So, if you wouldn’t mind, I could really use a decent night’s rest.
Robert Fraser: Oh.

--from "The Edge", [due South transcripts]

greeting cards! no, really

Someone on my friendsfriends page linked to this greeting card line, which I just spent a good amount of minutes browsing through and adoring. Coincidentally, this is the card I gave fox1013 for her birthday last year (yay), but I've never seen any of the others before.

I have to say, though, that this one and this one remind me of stumbledhere, these two of annakovsky, and this of estrella30. And of course this one is the plot of eighty million slash stories.

Other ones I adore: lies; baby; mind games; stone tablet. (Actually, this last one reminds me of Kovsky, too, but that's only because I imagine the card written in one of her crazy ancient language. Right alongside the stuff about Orlando Bloom being king of her heart.)