cim's search for religious art for good omens icons brings you...:

mediaeval crack, the really good stuff, aka:

adam and eve with their faces made out of little writhing piles of naked miniature people.

eve's chin is made out of a couple having sex and adam's nose is a naked arse.  yes.  his nose.  is a naked arse. 

i am not making this up.  (irisbleu: Then again, in the unlikely event you should ever need to make a fuckface icon... )

neat.

mirabile_dictu has a short meta essay here titled "why read? why write? [why fanfiction?]"

i found it utterly fascinating and will be thinking more about it all day.  and i think she's really right.

And for a long time I would have told you that I read (and wrote!) RPS because I wanted more of them.

Having seen Serenity, though, I realize that's not entirely true. Yes, I wanted more LOTR, but what I really wanted was better. I realize that, at heart, I'm a tinhat and a tinkilt and a tin-everything. I read and write LOTR RPS because those silly men didn't pair up in real life. [...]

But they didn't. Just as Mulder never got with Krycek, nor Jim with Blair, nor Jack with Daniel, and my silly romantic tinny heart longs that they do. And that's why I read fanfiction. I want better.

sga vid rec

if i wrote you by lierdumoa is a lovely, slow and bittersweet gen vid of s1 sga (although with suggestions of some pairings, i think, if you want to look for them; they were all ones i liked).

just the other day in chat we were discussing vids and how rare really good vids to slow songs are.  i was thinking at the time that i'd like to see one.  now i have! 

i'm a long-time fan of dar williams, but would never have chosen her for this fandom.  the choice of song intrigued me so i watched it anyway, and i was astonished by the aptness of it and the bittersweet beauty of the whole thing.  the vid is gorgeous, and it made me fall in love with the song and with my show all over again.  she also uses not-so-commonly-vidded clips to great effect, which as i_naiad was saying makes a great difference.  (some of them i couldn't place; it's making me want to run off and rewatch season one.  well, the dvds should be here in a week.)  this vid even made me look charitably on season one elizabeth, who is mainly in the habit of irritating the hell out of me.