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The way the days are blending together right now is not helping me remember to post regularly.  I really do have a poem for every day of April, honest!

We left off with the importance of the name you give yourself.  La Sirena y el Pescador, by Elisa Chavez, looks at the power taken by those who claim to speak for you, particularly when you cannot speak directly for yourself.

Not all differences in translation are that problematic though.  Matsuo Basho's Frog Haiku has many different translations into English because parts of it do not have equivalent words.  The various translators use different methods to evoke the tone and "feel" of the original poem.

That leads us to the ultimate in poetry style disputes: Haiku vs. Limericks!  (Don't worry, we'll get to sonnets later in the month.)

I love this idea!  However, I think you could do Midsummer Night’s Dream if you start and end the play outside (or next door, whatever) and use the large, labyrinthine coffee shop from Tempest for the woods.  Bonus points if the mechanicals do Pyramus and Thisbe as if it were set in a coffee shop!

Coffee shop AU, except the original media’s setting is otherwise largely unaltered – it just has a coffee shop in it now, or the nearest remotely plausible equivalent.

I read Marine Biology when I first saw an ad for The Summage Solution.  I greatly enjoy the Parasol Protectorate series and many of its spin-off, but I wanted to try the shorter story before getting the full-length novel.  I tore through Marine Biology and eagerly went to buy The Summage Solution, only to realize that it hadn’t been released yet.[sniff]  In addition to the Delicate Sensibilities Warning, I would add that this series may be addictive.

Rejoice, Gail fans! Secret Project SAS is finally revealed!

The Sumage Solution is Miss Gail’s first self published novel and is continuation of Gail’s short story Marine Biology. It is first book in her San Andreas Shifters series and will drop July 18, 2017. Just in time for Comic Con! The Sumage Solution stands alone but if you want a taste of the Universe and understand why the pack moved to San Francisco, Marine Biology is a good way to find all that out.

Blurb:

Can a gentle werewolf heal the heart of a smart-mouthed mage? NYT bestseller Gail Carriger, writing as G. L. Carriger, presents an offbeat gay romance in which a sexy werewolf with a white knight complex meets a bad boy mage with an attitude problem. Sparks (and other things) fly. Max fails everything - magic, relationships, life. So he works for DURPS (the DMV for supernatural creatures) as a sumage, cleaning up other mages’ messes. The job sucks and he’s in no mood to cope with redneck biker werewolves. Unfortunately, there’s something oddly appealing about the huge, muscled Beta visiting his office for processing. Bryan AKA Biff (yeah, he knows) is gay but he’s not out. There’s a good chance Max might be reason enough to leave the closet, if he can only get the man to go on a date. Everyone knows werewolves hate mages, but Bryan is determined to prove everyone wrong, even the mage in question.

The Summage Solution 

is available for preorder for Kindle on Amazon, and links to preorders for pdf, mobi, epub, iBooks are available on Gail’s website.

Marine Biology

is also available RIGHT NOW for a whopping $0.99 USD on Amazon, and through a litany of other publishing ways ( pdf, mobi, epub, iBooks) through Gail’s website. Marine Biology was originally published in The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance 2, a collection of paranormal romance short stories.

DELICATE SENSIBILITIES WARNING!!!! 

This story contains M/M sexitimes and horrible puns. If you get offended easily, then you probably will. The San Andreas Shifter stories contain blue language, dirty deeds, and outright admiration for the San Francisco Bay Area. Not for the faint of heart (mouth/tongue/etc.).

Sad but true.

This is a brilliant advertising campaign!

I don’t really believe in the luck thing, but it’s a very cute kitty.

This is the lucky clover cat. reblog this in 30 seconds & he will bring u good luck and fortune.

Congressional funding for this program is running out, so it will be suspended. The free COVID-19 tests will no longer be available for people in the US as of September 2, 2022.  I you haven’t already ordered your tests, do it soon!

people in the us if you haven't already ordered your 3 sets of covid rapid test kits to be sent through the mail yet, do it now because they're ending the program on September 2nd 2022

I’m convinced that this is Antler Guy and Neighbor Steve’s favorite show.  They never miss an episode and spend the entire last season with a box of tissues on the couch between them.

An old and homely grandmother accidentally summons a demon. She mistakes him for her gothic-phase teenage grandson and takes care of him. The demon decides to stay at his new home.

Spreading the word in case this helps someone.  Stay safe!

hey so protip if you have abusive parents and need to get around the house as quietly as possible, stay close to furniture and other heavy stuff because the floor is settled there and it’s less likely to creak