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Izhilzha's FanFiction Sticky Post
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Happy birthday, Kerravonsen!
Thinking of you and wishing you a happy birthday and a splendid year to come. I know I'm not around LJ much these days, but you remain one of my fandom and creative Christian role models in this world--I'm so glad to know you. -
Happy birthday, Mistral....
...I miss you.
I didn't need the birthday notification, Livejournal, but I love being reminded of a woman who was such a beautiful, strong, steady influence on me here in this space. Thank you for that. -
Sad news yesterday, everybody
You've probably all seen this, but I'm quite saddened by the passing of Stephen Furst, aka Vir, aka maybe the best character on Babylon 5
Great remembrance from the folks at Nerdist. -
Women's March L.A. (and elsewhere)
I took the subway to downtown L.A. this morning with some friends to march for women's rights and human rights. You guys, it was amazing--so many people came out, and there was such a positive, supportive atmosphere to the whole thing. People were being courteous and gracious and helpful and kind and peaceful, and there were hundreds of thousands ( Read more... ) -
Merry Christmas!
A little late for most of the world, I realize, but I know I've been absent from this space and wanted to come back to wish everyone a happy holiday and a blessed New Year ( Read more... ) -
Having the courage to look at the world one's own way
Thought courtesy of Flannery O'Connor's essays on writing: it is the artist's job to look at the world and write what she sees, whether that is a mirror of society or connections between human action and some greater truth. She cannot write what people ask her for, nor what social pressures attempt to impose on her, but what she actually sees. That ( Read more... ) -
10 Books to Read in 2016 -- Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor
There is in God (some say)
A deep, but dazzling darkness; As men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear;
O for that night! where I in him
Might live invisible and dim.
--Henry Vaughan, from “The Night”
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10 Books to Read in 2016 -- Lilith by George MacDonald
I've read MacDonald's work throughout my life, from his fairy tales and Phantastes through his realistic novels and even his sermons and essays. I hadn't read Lilith yet (I think I picked it up in a library once and was put off by the creepy atmosphere). I totally thought it was written before Phantastes, but the Internet tells me it was written ( Read more... )