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Writing and Work
What's the worst thing about writing for you? Yesterday, a Gunslinger Girl story I'd planned ages ago suddenly popped back up with a working plot. I was unable to plan work, pray, make tea or even finish the Claymore story I'd unblocked that afternoon, but just had to write the wretched thing. Today I got into work late, wrote during my lunch break ( Read more... ) -
Bad news at work
NMR broken again, after another burst water pipe.
As the instrument that tells us what we've made, this effectively bars progress in the Chemistry Department for anything up to a month. Beginning of yr 2, it was a minor break from work; beginning of yr 3, I'm not sure if I shouldn't start worrying and hopping around.
Even worse, the department ( Read more... ) -
Swallows and Amazons
Just watched a musical of Swallows and Amazons at the Old Vic, Bristol. All the Blytonesque 'lashings of ginger beer' ethos, with the imagination and spirit of Peter Pan and lot of self-consious humour.
The sets were rather good as well, with a trolley, wooden prow and mast being used for the ships, combined with a stagehand splashing water over ( Read more... ) -
Anime Music Videos and update
Haven't posted here for ages. Still slogging away at the PhD, despite fires, floods and liquid nitrogen explosions, eldest younger brother a bit ill but seems to be enjoying work at the Baptist Library and Crisis centre while he looks for Lifeguard/teaching work.
Pranesh, my best friend in Loughborough, seems stuck with returning to India when his ( Read more... ) -
Noir fanfic: A Little Princess
Title: A little Princess
Series: Noir
Rating: K+
Characters: Mireille, Odette, Larent, Chloe, Altena, Intoccable
Summary: Even in Mireille's happiest days, darkness was never absent
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Europe holiday and musings
A bit late about posting something on my Europe trip with Phil, a friend from secondary school. We took in;
Berlin (A bit like Gotham city)
Prague (A bit like Disneyland, with more beer, a club converted from a church, and a supposed murdered orphan buried under the square)
Cesky Kremlov (A small town with lovely roofs and windows, and a castle with ( Read more... ) -
Fanfic: East and West, part 2 of 2
Title: East and West, part 2 of 2
Characters: Riza, Roy, Dr Marco
Universe: Fullmetal Alchemist, first anime
Word Count: 2002
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Suicidal thoughts, PTSD, death, minor anime spoiler
Summary: The conclusion of Riza Hawkeye's experience of Ishbal
Notes: More Royai and less violence than the first part (link to 1st part here), hope you ( Read more... ) -
FMA Ishbal fic: East and West 1 of 2
Title East and West
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Rating NC-17
Universe: 1st Anime
Characters: Riza, Roy, Kimberly, Gran, several OCs
Summary: 'Even I would be executed for the things I did', What Riza Hawkeye did in Ishbal
Warnings: Violence, genocide, swearing, lovers of Hawkeye read at own risk
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Cumbria murders
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10219655.stm
At the age I was when Dunblane and Columbine happened, they were distant events that took years to sink an impression into my worldview. My first thoughts when I heard the radio this afternoon were that it couldn't possible have happened in one day, but it did, and already has its own wikipedia entry ( Read more... )