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Neat Vid
This is so awesome! I don't even have words for it! The amount of effort and work and the sheer amount of beautiful costume design from fannish love in this video! Just perfect cosplay!
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The Silmarillion
As I ponder these elves, I'm thinking about what I would do if I were Peter Jackson and had the movie rights to the Silmarillion, which would be his next logical thing in five years or so. Compared to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, the Silmarillion would be a nightmare to film. First of all, there is no clear through plot. It's a bunch of ( Read more... ) -
A little housecleaning
I'm currently doing a little housecleaning on my lj. If I haven't heard from you in years, I'm going to figure we've either drifted apart, or you've changed identities and don't use this journal anymore. If you are in fact still reading, please drop me a comment! -
Sanctuary fic -- Abnormal
My Sanctuary muse has returned! This is for dbalthasar, of course.
James, Helen and Nigel friendship, set not too long after the 1910 sections of King and Country.
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Happy New Year, everyone! May your 2013 be bright and shiny! -
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Anybody local looking for a loom? Four looms for sale for $100 from TSA confiscated items. How in the hell you get a loom confiscated by the TSA is beyond me, but if you're local and looking for a deal, have a gander quickly. http://www.govdeals.com/ -
Predicting History
History isn't over. Despite loud proclamations twenty years ago that the end of the Cold War marked "the end of history" and the beginning of a time when everything would essentially be stable and the same forevermore, that hasn't happened, and it won't. The one thing we can be certain of about the future is that it will be different from today ( Read more... ) -
Serious Concern
It has come to my attention that the Organization for Transformative Works will be importing entire archives into An Archive of Our Own from other archives on the internet, beginning with the Smallville Slash Archive. (You can read about it here on their own blog ( Read more... ) -
Very interesting article about creativity and successful writing
However, being creative doesn't require being Mozart. Stubbornness and practicality play a role, too. Studies of grade school and college students indicated they owed their academic success to such characteristics as curiosity, self-control and what psychology professor Angela Duckworth termed "grit" -- even if they were of average intelligence.On ( Read more... )
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