Zombie!Nietzsche

I always inwardly chuckle when I hear my professor talk about Nietzsche's "posthumous notes"--I always imagine zombie!Nietzsche writing The Will to Power. Am I just being weird about a phrase which is standard throughout (the relevant species of) academia, or am I the sane one and I should use some clunklier phrase like "posthumously-published notes"?

This is Totally Just a Placeholder for Actual Thoughts

carmarthen has a post here where she refers to this post by kalpurna and she (for both values of "she") talks about romantic friendships. And this made me think about the romantic parent-child relationship Ari sees in her reading of Matilda and the romantic sibling relationship I see in my reading of The Parent Trap (more about that when I write my yuletide letter), and about the overarching concept of non-inherently sexual--but eminently sexualizable, as Ari and I both make that jump more or less without thinking, and I guess my main point in this post is that maybe there is a jump there, and there is a trans-category "romance" which isn't inherently sexual--romance in general. (And my mind goes back to my Yuletide letter again--how does this relate to the Carmen/Player dynamic in WoEiCS? canon?)

Taken as granted that we as--I want to say "slashers" but that's not even a term with which I really identify (I'm a femslasher), but as those of us who do this highly sexualized fanfic thing kalpurna talks about in her essay, who inhabit this queer female space (he says, being neither queer nor female)--use sex as a metaphor for emotional intimacy, would it be accurate to say that, at heart, what it is we are doing is sexualizing "romance"? (And how does hatesex/antagonistic relationships fit into that paradigm?)

Linguistic Descriptivism on ABC News

Only two minutes long, but a lot of fun: this webcast takes a look at "how idioms get their spellings (and meanings) reshaped into new variants, sometimes to the point of meriting dictionary inclusion" (in the words of interviewee Ben Zimmer, writing on languagelog here). The pairs it examines include vocal cord/vocal chord, free rein/free reign, and shoe-in/shoo-in.

It involves cartoons (who are, apparently, ventriloquists).