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Academic language
Some thoughts on conventions of academic writing ( Read more... ) -
Movie watching journal!
[I am keeping a movie journal! Comment if you want to be on the filter. :)]A few years ago, orlycadan and I had a project to watch all of the Disney Animated Classics in order. We left off at The Rescuers, meaning we saw several decades of both classic and unknown Disney flicks. Some old Disney is really, really BIZARRE, either in awesome ways ("The whale who wanted to sing opera at the Met") or WTF ways ("When a bear loves a bear ( Read more... ) -
Larps, 2013
1. Be Not Afraid. (Vericon, Cambridge MA.) PC: Raphael. Angsty angel is angsty. <3 ( Read more... ) -
Seven Things Meme: Are videogames art?
Muahaha, you probably forgot this meme even existed! (I did, whoops.) But now I am back on the wagon! I am now presenting the third installment of the seven things meme, in which sandmantv has asked me to comment on ( Read more... ) -
Oh hey larp post!
Right, happy new year everybody! I was totally in some larps last year which I will document for posterity, shamelessly copying silkspinnerEx Ignorantia (PC: Professor Jill Kingsley.) Aka Miskatonic University. Really fun!! Ran at the same time as Persona at VeriCon; hope someday to try that too ( Read more... ) -
Seven things meme: fire
This is part of the seven things meme, in which sandmantv has asked me to comment on ( Read more... ) -
Meme!
There is an LJ meme going round in which people are asked to post seven short essays about topics of interest. If you would like, comment on my LJ and I'll give you seven topics of your very own! Or else feel free to comment without me giving you topics.
sandmantv gave me the following list ( Read more... ) -
I'm the third person on LJ to say this but...
I defended my PhD thesis! I passed! :D
cimartin, ophblekuwufu, animangel, and KV all came to the defense, which was pretty awesome. (They and thekinginyellow also watched me do a practice talk the night before, so they must be kinda tired of long-distance reflexives by now ( Read more... ) -
I can make a larp list too!
2011 Larp List! Whee, I have been (or will be) in many. Perhaps in my soon-to-be-post-thesis life I will consider writing or GMing one. I want to be as cool as silkspinner and mikevonkorff someday ( Read more... )