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Title: Le Ténébreux
Author: lesyeuxverts
Characters: Severus Snape, Lily Evans
Rating: R
Warnings: character death
Themes/kinks chosen: symphorophilia
Word Count: 1,095
Summary: " Je suis le ténébreux,- le Veuf, - l'inconsolé, Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie: Ma seule étoile est morte, et mon luth constellé Porte le soleil noir de la Mélancolie."
Author's notes: Huge thanks to bewarethesmirk for the beta, and thanks to the folks at the slashretreat_dc for the brainstorming help! I was heavily inspired by Nerval's El Desdichado, and this work owes a great deal to that poem (although I was very nearly distracted by the fact that he kept a pet lobster … but I managed to finish this in spite of that, so all credit goes to Nerval!)

( Le Ténébreux )

http://community.livejournal.com/hgss_digest/272550.html

Glimmer » by kiskax
Hermione Granger is dead, Number 6 has taken her place. Devoid of hope, she is a vessel for the men who come and go to dump their hate. Compliant suffering every abuse. Severus seeks memory and something more personal. Number 6 may die. violent/M-content
Chapters: 6

Iridescent Snow » by labRT2004
Tragedy prompts Hermione to make a breakthrough discovery, and Severus Snape grudgingly agrees to assist her. Things do not progress smoothly, but sometimes, it is merely a matter of seeing things in a different light…
Chapters: 9
Rated M

Married, With Sex » by bgn
The title is a pretty good summary. A lighter look at Snape and Hermione in various situations.
Rated: T
Chapters: 12


Paralyzed » by Anachronistic Anglophile
What if during Chapter 32 of Deathly Hallows 'The Elder Wand' , Hermione Granger made the rash decision to save Severus Snape? And can she deal with the aftereffects? Alternate ending for HP7, SS/HG.
Rated: M
Chapters: 17


Flattery Gets You Nowhere by alliean
A sad and lonely Hermione has had it with her boss Master Severus Snape's attitude and suddenly quits. Cue lots of Floo-letters, a drunken Snape and a very annoyed Hermione in a cat fur-covered vest-top. Rated M for a reason!
Rated: M
Chapters: 1
Complete

One Shots:
snegurochka_lee: Light as Iron, Singed as Pearl - (Harry/Draco, NC-17, *warnings*)
fancypantsdylan: Playing with the Headmaster - (Severus/Harry, NC-17, *warnings*)
torina_archleda: Together - (Severus/Harry, PG, *warnings*)
whitecotton: Mistake Number Four - (Severus/Harry, NC-17, *warnings*)
atypicalsnowman: His Color - (Severus/Lucius, NC-17, *warnings*)
faeryqueen: Little Miss Potter - (Severs/Harry, R, *warnings*)

Drabbles:
alisanne: Wand of Pleasure - (Harry/Draco, Ron/Hermione, PG)
janus: Shame - (Severus, G)
thesewarmstars: Anything - (Severus/Dumbledore, PG-13, *warnings*)
[Unknown LJ tag]: Serenity by - (Severus/Lucius, PG-15, *warnings*)
torina_archelda: Jealousy by - (Severus/Harry, G)
ellid: Justifying the Wolf, III - (Severus/Remus, Unrated)
fancypantsdylan: Quidditch Predictions - (Severus/Harry, R)
alisanne: Always Hungry - (Harry/Ron, PG)

Art:
wallflowergirl: All for you - (Remus/Sirius, NC-17, *warnings*)

Community News:
snupin100: Challenge 235 - Teeth
lupin_snape: Snupin Santa Contest - Stuff the Stockings!
severus_sighs: Author and Artist Interviews 2009

Newsletters:
dailysnitch: Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Hello, friends!

*clear cobwebs from corners*

This is just a quick note to let you know that I am planning on hosting Advent Drabbles again this year. For those who are new, please to be checking out the Welcome and Rules Post in which is outlined the idea behind this com as well as the fandoms we are currently accepting.

This community is open to all fandoms, so if something you'd like to see here is missing, all we need is for you to do is comment to that welcome post and I'll add it. I will also need to add any new disclaimers to our Disclaimers Post, so be sure to comment to that post as well.

This year I'll be adding a new tag: 2009. That's so we can keep track of this year's posts.

In a day or so (after Thanksgiving in the US - *glares at torino10154*) I'll be putting up this year's prompt ideas post (screened) so you all can give me ideas for prompts for this year's Advent Calendar. *g*

Also, I'd appreciate it you'd spread the word about the com. The more playing the merrier!

It might look like a bowl of pond algae to you...



...but to me it's a delicious brine for tomorrow's turkey!

For an 8-pound bird (multiply as appropriate, but my bird's 8 pounds):

8 cups vegetable stock
1/2 cup kosher salt
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1/2 tablespoon black peppercorns
3/4 teaspoons allspice berries
3/4 teaspoons chopped candied ginger
(For those last two, I substituted a little powdered ginger and a few cloves)
8 cups heavily iced water

Combine the vegetable stock, salt, brown sugar, peppercorns, allspice berries, and candied ginger in a large stockpot over medium-high heat. Stir occasionally to dissolve solids and bring to a boil. Remove the brine from the heat, cool to room temperature, and refrigerate.

To brine the bird, combine the cooled brine and ice water and place the thawed bird in the brine. Soak overnight o for at least 6 hours in a cool place. Rinse, pat dry, and rub with oil before roasting.

(I am also putting an herb rub on the turkey, under the skin, the recipe for which I will post when I make it :D).

I'm dropping out of my own fest, how pathetic is that?
Well, not entirely, I have a short fic finished which I'll post.
But the longer fic... there is no way that I could finish that without rushing it. I don't want to rush stories any more. It gave me a lot of trouble, made me all insecure (there's that movie that seemed to be similar in plot, but isn't, really), then I ran into a plot hole, one minor thing that stopped the thing from getting to a logical conclusion... and now I have all that, and now the time has passed.

Eek. I really don't know where this year went. I think my story has the potential to be decent, but not when I rush it. So I'll leave it, and hope to finish it, twist it, tweak it until it is how I want it.
Did I mention that I hate posting WIPs? This one will only be posted, if ever, when finished.
And before that, I'll finish my WIP of doom, which has been dormant long enough.
Sigh...

But: the Big Bang doesn't really need my entries, there are great entries coming our way, and wonderful art. So I'll most likely drop out of my photomaniping, too.

The starting pistol for the COOKING MARATHON has been fired. First out of the gate is: HOT CHOCOLATE ON A STICK.



Original recipe here, but it's very talky, so I condensed it:

Hot Chocolate On A Stick
8 oz. chocolate, preferably high cocoa-fat, like 70%. I didn't have that, so I tempered chocolate chips with a lot of butter.
1/4 cup cocoa (not hot cocoa mix, but baking cocoa, the powdered kind)
1/2 cup confectioner’s/powdered/icing sugar
pinch of salt

Melt chocolate over a double boiler (tempering if necessary). I never bother using a double boiler, I just melt the butter in the pan, turn off the heat, stir in the chocolate, and if necessary use low heat to get it fully melted.

Add cocoa, sugar, and salt and continue to stir until combined. It should be the texture of frosting. Pour chocolate into a ziplock bag and clip off the corner. Pipe the chocolate into your chocolate mold. In my case, it's an AWESOME IKEA ICE TRAY. Add a stir stick, which should stay upright with no trouble (I did some of mine tilty just for laughs). Place in fridge to firm up.

To use, heat milk or cream in a saucepan, pour into cups, and place one stir-stick in each cup. Stir until melted. OM NOM.

http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/25/wordless-wednesday-guess-what-8.htm

http://community.livejournal.com/hgss_digest/272354.html

WIP Fics:

From the Corner, by coffeeonthepatio
Rating: T
Summary: While Hermione, seeing her marriage is at a dead-end, moves back to her parents with Rose and Hugo, Snape finds he is no longer alone in his apothecary in Knockturn Alley - her name is Ophelia and she's four. And Ophelia's his.
Updated to fifty-six chapters

Glimmer, by kiskax
Rating: M
Summary: Hermione Granger is dead, Number 6 has taken her place. Devoid of hope, she is a vessel for the men who come and go to dump their hate. Compliant suffering every abuse. Severus seeks memory and something more personal. Number 6 may die.
Updated to five chapters

I Need to Breathe, by FirstYear
Rating: M
Summary: Snape survives the last battle,thanks to Neville & Hermione. Needing a guardian to see to his personal affairs, Augusta Longbottom finds a way to make sure she takes care of him. Au in that Snape lives.
Updated to seventeen chapters

Life after Death, by AutumnKiss
Rating: M
Summary: As JKR wrote it, Snape dies. He is rescued from limbo and charged with a simple mission. Or is it? SS is returned to a stunned world. Intrigued, HG sets out to learn more while SS slowly comes to realize that death was only the beginning.
Updated to forty-four chapters

Completed Fics:

Portrait of the Soul, by sylvanawood
Rating: M
Summary: Hermione Granger is Hogwarts' youngest Headmistress. Her first Welcoming feast doesn't quite turn out as expected.
Complete in fifty chapters

Artwork:

Now You Can Let Go, by Camillo
Rating: work safe

Title: All for you
Artist: wallflowergirl@IJ kath_ballantyne @LJ
Media: Photoshop
Characters: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: nudity
Themes/kinks chosen: clamps
Artist's notes: Sorry I missed my original posting. I contacted the mods and they said to post it today.


( All for you )

Did you notice I'm around more?
I've been reserving half an hour every morning to read the flist. I hope I can keep it up.


Off to work. Supervisors come in at eight.

Sam's Really Only Three Things About NCIS!

Spoilers for 7.09, ( Child's Play )

3a. Much as I love NCIS, I couldn't even come up with a 3a. It was just...there. A perfectly good episode but not especially entrancing this time round. Eh, we all have off-days. Last year's Christmas episode was genius, though, so I'm sure they'll pick up again.

One Shots:
ciraarana: Spoils of War - Harry/Ginny, Harry/Severus; also mentions Ron/Hermione and other canon pairings, R

Works In Progress:
slashpervert: Harry Potter and the Charming Prince - Completed, Harry/Draco, Adult

Drabbles:
alisanne: Cracked - Severus Snape/Kingsley/Shacklebolt, PG
severus_lies: Enthralled - Severus Snape, Charity Burbage, G
ellid: Justifying the Wolf, I - Snape/Lupin,
alisanne: Opposites Attract - Snape/Harry, PG
fancypantsdylan: Being Thankful - Harry/Draco, PG 100x3

Community News:
harry100: New Prompt - prompt 59
lupin_snape: Mod Post - Snupin Santa 2009

Newsletters:
snapenews: New Issue - issue 780

Various:
whitestar: Snupin Icons

If you have any links or tips for us, please let us know. Email us at potterprophet.ij@gmail.com.

Last day of work before a five-day weekend for me. HOORAY!

juniper200 linked me to a New York Times article this morning about finding help for mental/emotional issues when you don't have health insurance. It's a difficult subject, mental illness, and the article makes what might be considered some mild mis-steps, if only in perception, but overall it's useful. (I loled a little at "seek out the child psychologist at your child's school". I'm guessing this person has not sent a child to public school in quite a while.)

For those who are lucky enough to have insurance, you can also check out this article on getting treatment and the Mental Health Parity Act.

Anyway, it reminded me of some links I wanted to share from the last HR mailing that I got (the same one that recommended the webinars and caused the webinar plague of Canada).

One Day One Job: A blog about entry-level jobsearching for college grads.
Careers in Nonprofits: Because nonprofits are awesome!
Alltop: Everything ever about careers.
Vistaprint: offering free business cards, though you pay postage and they try to sell you everything else in creation while you're ordering. Still, the designs are neat. I got a set that proclaim me to be "Research, Administration, and Design" :D

How did the job fair go, anyway? Anyone get any bites from it?

... so I am existing mostly on facebook. These days most people have facebooks, and so - having seen this on a friend's wall there, 'm posting it here as well ...

'On Friday, Facebook will start using your photos in ads that will appear on the profile page of your contacts. It's legal and is mentioned in the fine print when you create your account. If you want to prevent this from happening, do the following: Settings, Privacy Settings, News Feed and Wall. Then...Facebook Ads, choose "No one" and save changes.'

...

http://community.livejournal.com/hgss_digest/272061.html

WIPs:

Correspondence by belle4life
Rated: MA
WIP, updated to chapter 10
Summary: A mystery admirer begins a correspondence with Hermione. When she learns who it is, they develop a friendship, which morphs into something more than that.

From the Corner by coffeeonthepatio
Rated: T
WIP, updated to chapter 55
Summary: While Hermione, seeing her marriage is at a dead-end, moves back to her parents with Rose and Hugo, Snape finds he is no longer alone in his apothecary in Knockturn Alley - her name is Ophelia and she's four. And Ophelia's his.

Glimmer by kiskax
Rated: M
WIP, updated to chapter 4
Hermione Granger is dead, Number 6 has taken her place. Devoid of hope, she is a vessel for the men who come and go to dump their hate. Compliant suffering every abuse. Severus seeks memory and something more personal. Number 6 may die. Violent/M-content

Hermione owns her own life by the-shiny-girl.
Rated: M
WIP, updated to chapter 17
Summary: Hermione is kidnapped by Death Eaters. Everything is taken from her, except her dignity. She is trying to keep her head high, but she's weaker with each day that passes. Can she trust her former Professor or will that trust cost her?

Hilltop Cottage by neelix
Rated: L
WIP, updated to chapter 7
Summary: After the war, Hermione needs a break. A small house provides more than the sanctuary she needs.

I Need to Breathe by FirstYear
Rating: M
WIP, updated to chapter 17
Summary: Snape survives the last battle, thanks to Neville & Hermione. Needing a guardian to see to his personal affairs, Augusta Longbottom finds a way to make sure she takes care of him.

Portrait of the Soul by sylvanawood
Rated: M
WIP, updated to chapter 47
Summary: Hermione Granger is Hogwarts' youngest Headmistress. Her first Welcoming feast doesn't quite turn out as expected.

The Professor's Discretion by Twelve Years in Azkaban
Rated: T
WIP, updated to chapter 5
Summary: The only thing keeping Hermione out of trouble and Harry Potter alive is the Professor's Discretion.

The Seven Year Wait by Atuliel
Rated: T
WIP, updated to 3 chapters
Summary: Hermione takes a look into the Mirror of Erised and finds something, or someone, she didn't quite expect.


Complete:

Bound to Happen by Lissa1011
Rated: W
Complete in 7 chapters
Summary: Jealous. Possessive. Endlessly devoted. Such words could easily describe a man like Severus Snape, especially in regards to his wife. Unfortunately, Snape finds himself in the position of shielding Hermione from the temptation of a hot-blooded and much younger man—himself. Yet another take on the Time-Turner premise.

Into the Ether by duj
Rated: C
Complete in 11 chapers
Summary: Dear Hermione, You must be surprised (and perhaps horrified) to be receiving a letter from your first-year Potions master twenty years after the event. If you have not Incendioed it on sight, I imagine you must be wondering why...

Resurrection Man by redskyatnight
Rated: L
Complete in 6 chapters
Auror Hermione is sent to investigate the appearance of a sinister creature lurking in some woods. Can Snape really be completely uninterested in the presence of an unidentified monster roaming the countryside surrounding his house?

One Shots:
leela_cat: At Spell's End - Severus/Harry; PG-13 *warnings*

Works In Progress:
azure_rosa: Standing Outside the Fire - finished with part 7/7 - Severus/Remus, Harry/Hermione/Draco; NC-17

Drabbles:
alisanne: TMI - Harry/Severus; PG
alisanne: Propositioned - Severus/Lucius; PG
dandru: Staying the Night - Severus/Harry; PG
torino10154: Recompense - Severus/Harry; PG-13 *warnings*
ellid: Justifying the Wolf, I - Severus/Remus; G
mailroomy: Cry me a river - Severus, PG

Art:
thilia: Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf - Harry/Luna; NC-17
tripperfunster: Va-jay jay - Severus/Harry; NWS

Community News:
severus_sighs: Declares Tuesday night Kink!Night!
draco100: Posted prompt 68 + weekly list of drabbles
lupin_snape: Talks Holiday art/icons for the community

Newsletters:
metafandom: Posted a new issue
longbottom_wkly: Posted a new issue
quibbler_report: Posted a new issue

Various:
accioslash: Ponders the Future of Snarry

Editor's Pick:
The links from metafandom posted in this issue.
They are a really good read for anyone writing, reading or wondering about BDSM or related kinks.


If you have any links or tips for us, please let us know. Email us at potterprophet.ij@gmail.com.

I have very few kinks, compared to most of fandom, but I will admit this: I have a thing for drunken sex. I don't know why. Not nonconsensual sex, eurgh, and it has to be a very specific type of drunk!sex, but when it's done right I am all over it.

AND THEN FOXY WROTE ME SOME. For me! So I'm recc'ing it. I'm recc'ing it hard. :D (Also I beta'd it, and it's a rule!)

Title: Pub Fiction
Rating: R
Summary: Jack makes sure Ianto gets home. Because he just can't drive in that state.

There's a cabdriver named Fozzie in it. Go on, you know you want to.

Title: Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf
Artist: thilia
Media: Photoshop 7, tablet
Characters: Harry/Luna
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Just smut :D
Themes/kinks chosen: Costumes!
Artist's notes: ♥ :D

( Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf )

http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/23/cornucopia.htm

The cornucopia, literally 'horn of plenty,' adorns the Thanksgiving table thanks to Greek mythology. The horn may originally have belonged to a goat, but Zeus used to drink from it as a baby. The story of Zeus' childhood says that his mother, Rhea, sent him to a cave on the island of Crete for safe-keeping in order to prevent his father, Cronus, from swallowing him.

• See Cannibalism in Greek Mythology

Sometimes it is said that a goat named Amalthea (various spellings) nursed the infant Zeus; sometimes that a nymph of the same name fostered Zeus and fed him on goat's milk. His nurse has also been named Adrasteia, which Timothy Gantz says may be another name for Nemesis, and Ida.

While an infant, Zeus did what other babies do -- cry. To cover up the noise and keep Cronus from finding out his wife's plot to protect her son, Amalthea asked the Kuretes or Korybantes to come to the cave where Zeus was hidden and make lots of noise by clashing their weapons.

There are various versions of the evolution of the cornucopia from a horn sitting on the head of the nurturing goat. One is that the goat tore it off herself to present it to Zeus; another that Zeus tore it off and gave it back to the Amalthea-goat promising her abundance; another, that it came from the head of Achelous, the river god, which the Naiads filled with fruit.

The cornucopia is most frequently associated with the goddess of the harvest, Demeter (Roman Ceres) -- as in the harvest song lyrics: "Ceres came with Plenty's Horn and showered wheat and golden corn" -- but is also associated with other gods, including the aspect of the Underworld god that is the god of wealth, Pluto, since the horn symbolizes abundance.

Woman holding cornucopia image © Clipart.com

Learn About the Cornucopia originally appeared on About.com Ancient / Classical History on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 09:53:31.

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http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/23/thesmophoria-greek-thanksgiving.htm

When the Underworld god Hades abducted the young maiden Persephone, her mother, Demeter, wouldn't feed the world, and so, winter came upon the land. When Persephone was restored, an elated Demeter gave the gift of agriculture to mankind.
The goddess Demeter was called Thesmophoros because she gave certain thesmoi 'laws' to mankind, and the holiday of Themophoria honors her. Learn more about the unusual customs of the ancient Greek fall festival known as Thesmophoria.
See

• Thesmophoria - Greek Thanksgiving
  
• In Aristophanes' comedy, The Thesmophoriazusae, a man tries to infiltrate the all-women rites of the Thesmophoria holiday.
  
• Persephone
  
• Demeter
  

Image of Demeter and Persephone © Clipart.com

Thesmophoria - Greek Thanksgiving originally appeared on About.com Ancient / Classical History on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 07:53:57.

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http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/23/myth-monday-medea-a-victim-and-victimizer.htm

When John Frobisher, the underling minister in the BBC science fiction Torchwood Children of Earth, takes a gun to his two daughters, and then his wife, and, after a pause, himself, in a scene set behind doors (rather like the offstage murders in Medea), the viewer's response contains pity rather than the outrage we all tend to feel at Medea's murderous action in Euripides' Medea. Frobisher is saving the children from what he considers a fate worth than death. Medea's motives are less pure, but maybe she is saving the children, too. Read more...

Myth Monday - Medea, a Victim and Victimizer (With Poll) originally appeared on About.com Ancient / Classical History on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 06:55:41.

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Title: Va-Jay jay
Artist: tripperfunster
Media:ink, pencil crayons
Characters:Snape/Harry
Rating:? I honestly don't know.
Warnings:Bad vajanatomy
Themes/kinks chosen:costumes


( Not work safe. duh. )

One Shots:
pre_raphaelite1: Alternatives - (Morfin/Quirrell, Voldemort/Quirrell, NC-17)
alisanne: Malfoy Mistletoe - (Lucius/Hermione, Severus/Harry/Draco, PG)

Works In Progress:
jordangrant: Owned - was updated with part 103/? (Harry/Draco, NC-17 *warnings*

Drabbles:
alisanne: Reminder - (Severus/Harry, PG)
lilyseyes: Sweet Kisses - (Severus/Harry, R)
alisanne: Too Good to Hide - (Severus/Harry, PG)
alisanne: Boggart - (Neville/?, PG)
alisanne: Dangerous - (Neville/Bill, Kingsley/Charlie, Severus/Harry, R)
enchanted_jae: Of Glistening Holes and Pulsating Organs - (Harry/Draco, PG13)

Community News:
snape100: Posted their latest Challenge

Newsletters:
dailysnitch: Posted their Satuday Edition
dailysnitch: Posted their Alastor Moody Special Edition
snapenews: Posted their latest edition
dailysnitch: Posted their Sunday edition

Various:
severus_sighs: Author and Artist interviews - Dementor Delta

Other:
angela_snape: Rug Burns - (Severus/Harry, R) (Drabbles,)

If you have any links or tips for us, please let us know. Email us at potterprophet.ij@gmail.com.

Chapter eight of Valet of Anize is up! Orphans, meteorites, and mine mysteries abound. You can find it here. Feedback welcome, as always!

btw, someone -- god, I've lost track of who, if it was you please tell me so I can credit you -- linked me to an article about organogenesis, which seems to imply that Carry's nuskin bandage may not be far off in our future.

Fascinating stuff, though I can't avoid thinking of it as wearing foreskins.

MY MUM SENT ME PEAPOD.

She is the best mother I have! :D



Sourdough bread, olive oil, apples, a GIGANTIC TURKEY BREAST, my favourite hibiscus tea, stuffing, dalmatia fig spread (omg nom), two small pumpkins, and cookies.

Guys, I'm going to brine the hell out of that turkey breast. I can buy the cooler tomorrow and put the turkey in on Wednesday and cook it on Thursday. And then eat leftover turkey for the REST OF MY LIFE. I can even make apple-onion stuffing!

Also, I love the Jamaica Tease Co. Hibiscus Tea, but I find them very weird. The "Jamaica Tease" phrase is branded everywhere on the bottle, but if you read the label or go to the website they are very proud of the fact that they use only the finest Mexican hibiscus tea.

Maybe they get it from, you know, Jamaican Mexico? Like the Dutch East Indies.

The pot from Jamaican Mexico must be amazing.

Title: Owned
Rating: Adult
Summary: The Malfoys have always been owned by the Potters. HP/DM. Deathly Hallows compliant although the epilogue is ignored.
Warnings: Slavery, dominance/submission, slash, angst, romance. Since this story spins off of canon, Harry's in a relationship with Ginny when we begin.
Disclaimer: Based on JK Rowling's Harry Potter works, the full canon except the DH epilogue. No infringement intended and not for profit.
Feedback: Yes, please.


---- This story is based on a prompt provided by lothy.
---- Latin incantation and translation provided by fabula_rasa.
---- Owned banner art by quill_lumos.
---- Thanks to triomakesmehot, quill_lumos, hogwartshoney and clauclauclaudia for the feedback and valuable comments.

( Continue Reading )

My leg feels better this morning! And miraculously I am not hung over from last night. (Uh, Jean, I totally meant to email you but then I fell asleep. :/ )

So I just made the MOST DELICIOUS OMELETTE EVER.

Here's how you do it:

Fry some bacon and set the bacon aside. (This is the traditional start of every southern recipe ever.)

Into the bacon fat put chopped up leftover french fries and onion straws (like onion rings, only not rings) from last night's meal.

Fry until crispy!

Add two beaten eggs. Cook. Flip! Sprinkle with cheese and then cook some more.

Consider briefly photographing it for your blog before being so enticed by the omelette that you go NOM NOM NOM instead. With bacon.

The recipes tag on this post is very much in airquotes. "Recipes".

http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/22/this-day-in-ancient-history-2.htm

On Friday, November 22, 1963, C.S. Lewis died. While Lewis is known for his children's Narnia series and writings on Christianity, he was a scholar trained in the Classics. Among my favorite works by Lewis is Till We Have Faces, which is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, which comes from The Golden Ass of Apuleius. In Apuleius' version of the beauty and the beast motif, Psyche marries the goddess Aphrodite's son and then violates the rules of that marriage. To regain her divine husband, she must perform four impossible tasks, including a trip to the Underworld. C.S. Lewis puts on a spin on the story by telling it from the perspective of one of the wicked sisters.

On the day of Lewis' death, JFK and Aldous Huxley also died.
Also see the Guide to Classical Literature's review of a biography of C.S. Lewis.

Apuleius © Clipart.com

C.S. Lewis Died on This Historic Day originally appeared on About.com Ancient / Classical History on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 at 07:53:37.

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Guess what I'm going to see next month? Has anyone of you ever seen it? I'm quite curious!