and all the rest

etal @ ao3

[rozrozhollander]

Shane laughed, which made Ilya’s heart race. What if he’d never heard Shane’s laugh again?

[krakenartificer]

Higgledy piggledy, olden French bakery storing its loaves in a double-doored shed.

Inspector approaching the inner door op'ning to find a cow casu'lly licking the bread.

[etal-late]

Hockily mockingly

Ilya Rozanov

And his Shane Hollander

Dance on my grave.

Honestly thought that I

(Over-ambitiously)

Would resist, but the fic…

No-one was saved.

[pandioncristatus]

Higgledy piggledy,

King Ozymandias

rendered in stone with a

strident decree.

Says our dear traveller

(unsentimentally)

"All that remains is his

foot and his knee."

[pandioncristatus]

Some answers:

This is a double dactyl without the repetition restriction. It abides by all the other original rules.

The original double dactyl was invented by Anthony Hecht et al on November the 3rd, 1951, sometime in the afternoon.

The rules for the original double dactyl are as follows, quoting from Hecht's 1967 book Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls [bolding mine to indicate the repetition restriction]:

"The form itself, as it was determined that November day in Rome, is composed of two quatrains of which the last line of the first rhymes with the last line of the second. All the lines except the rhyming ones, which are truncated, are composed of two dactylic feet. The first line of the poem must be a double dactylic nonsense line, like "Higgledy-piggledy," or 'Tocketa-pocketa" (this last, of course, borrowed from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty). The second line must be a double dactylic name. And then, somewhere in the poem, though preferably in the second stanza, and ideally in the antepenultimate line, there must be at least one double dactylic line which is one word long. (Foreign languages may be employed, and indeed there is a hope that this form will restore macaronic verse to the dignity it has not enjoyed since the Late Middle Ages.) But, and the beauty of the form consists chiefly in this, once such a double dactylic word has successfully been employed in this verse form, it may never be used again."

[more-eels-please]

Fruits are for breakfast; refrigerate some of them. They'll be delicious for mornings to come.

Though I should let you know (exculpatorily) you won't be having them- I ate your plum.

[wyatthazy]

THE VERY FIRST STAR TREK SLASH FIC PUBLISHED

“A Fragment out of Time”, published in 1974. Kirk / Spock. page 1 page 2

I had to share it with you because I can’t stop laughing, and every time I reread it it just gets funnier and fUNNIER

[catbountry]

This fan fiction is older than the push-through tabs on soda cans.

[cylonqueen]

Your grandma wrote this on her Commodore 64.

[strike-team-delta]

I miss my Commodore 64

[stoplookingup]

Oh my dear, sweet children. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982. This was produced on a typewriter and probably mimeographed. And while it may seem funny now, it took more courage to write and distribute this than you will ever  know.

[athelind]

Reblogged for that last comment.

[gokuma]

respect your elders

[ohfreckle]

Children, in the olden days fanfiction was written on a typewriter, copied and sent by snail mail. Getting one one of those letters from across the world was every bit as exciting as getting a notification that your favorite writer posted a new fic.

[berlynn-wohl]

It’s been said before, but the fact that this fic begins with the dialogue assertion “We’re by no means setting a precedent” is endlessly amusing to me.

Diane Marchant changed all our lives. May she rest in peace.

[prokopetz]

The precedent line is especially amusing when you bear in mind that “A Fragment Out of Time” is not only the first Star Trek slashfic to be published in a widely distributed magazine: it’s believed by some to be the first slashfic of any kind to be widely published.

[ralfmaximus]

In 1974 it was illegal to send pornography through the USPS. So distributing fic like this via mailed newsletter was literally dangerous. And they knew it.

[etal-late]

this is MY cup. fucking FUCK San Francisco I say to myself, as I cycle uphill / put the bins out / wrap, stamp and post a parcel within a 12-hour window

[etal-late]

'Gay Messiah' by Rufus Wainwright

edits from @scenecapslady on ig

and the old images are from Fire Island Pines Historical Society and Meryl Meisler

[currysideplate]

Just making use of my free will

Inspo🖼:The Meeting on the Turret Stairs

[iressails]

meanwhile ilya is full body slamming shane into the boards in some kind of unnegotiated exhibitionist bdsm gladiatorial match via tumblr user slaygentford

[etal-late]

‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the miners

Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money

[etal-late]

Credit to @scenepackslady on ig for the... (nsfw) scenes

'Not a Virgin' by Poe

[handsywoman]

i would not leave you like that

[hayaomiyazaki]

Film poster for the 2020 Korean re-release of A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory.

[exhaled-spirals]

“You do not create a [literary] style. The style is you. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.”

— Katherine Anne Porter, quoted in Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations, ed. Joan Givner (via exhaled-spirals)

[etal-late]

Mi name’s jc And wen iz Ides I hed downtown To see the guys Brutus, Gaius- al mi frens! they got mi back until the end.