Hello wonderful soul!

This, this is the year that my Yuletide letter placeholder gets filled in on assignment day week month?! -_- *crosses fingers ( Read more... )

Once I start...

I miss the early days, when playing Pokémon was pure fun. I was participating for the first time in a massive fun and funny cultural trend, I wasn't taking it seriously, and I was having fun.

Hoe do you fight getting addicted to things that are designed - by clever, creative, well-informed people - to be addictive ( Read more... )

This country ( Read more... )

Friends who live in on near Dublin or Edinburgh, go see one of these exhibitions for me! You have one more week: Turner watercolours in midwinter (January only, every year!)

I only found out last week, or I could have tried to invite myself to
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Lately it seems like the only time I ever watch movies is on airplanes.

* On the way out I watched Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. I enjoyed it less than the first one. I felt like almost everyone, but especially the villains, was putting on their worst acting forward, as in a backwards competition. It doesn't help that there were basically ( Read more... )

Squee! I got a wonderful story in my tiny, tiny fandom! Might not make sense if you don't know the game Submachine, and it contains spoilers up to and including Sub 9. But also, there's a cat's perspective, and clever observations about humans, and some fun with etymology and the Egyptian pantheon.

Nine Lives Theory (2732 words) by Anonymous
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The linguistic triumphs of being an ESL immigrant: there have been a few people so far who've reacted to the information that I'm from Romania with a peculiar surprise: "Oh! I wouldn't have guessed it, because you're quite light! All the Romanians I've met have been dark[er ( Read more... )

Since I want a break from fighting with technology (Dreamwidth's lack of direct image posting, I'm looking at you; LiveJournal's still-a-bit-painful process, you're also being side-eyed), I'll just direct interested parties to two tumblr photo posts:

A Goat (and Cat and Sheep and other animals) Story, non-fandom specific yet very Finnemorean in ( Read more... )

November may not have started yet, but Fireworks Season has (in the UK).

It is, as a guy on the Vote Now Show put it, that time of the year when all of Britain celebrates a failed revolution, The Day When Everything Stayed Exactly The Same ( Read more... )