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dit-dit-dit on your mobile phone [Interview 5]
Bachtiyer & Gulchera, Tajikistan
FORMALITIES
Tajikistan declared independence from the Soviet Union in September 1991. The original Soviet invaders were Bolsheviks, who sought to attack the English holds in India by expanding to the south. The British thought it would be a good idea to go northward, from India/Pakistan through Iran and the Caucasus ( Read more... ) -
this is just old sorcery [interviews no. 1-4]
Much love to fly for the new icon. :)
I just finished the first batch of NaNo Interviews! Some of them had bits that were too good not to share (even more love to alwaysawriter for her help, because she'll probably see her own answers).
- Military Family
"The best thing is knowing that my dad's out there, fighting for our freedom. It makes me feel really proud. ( Read more... ) -
sackcloth and ashes.
I've switched my Livejournal layout to German and it's getting progressively angrier at me--I thought I might update, even though I haven't done any interviews yet (for shame!) and haven't really done anything but make banners.
They're cheery, though. Color is a good thing--maybe it will hide my PhotoShop-noobishness.
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if you burned 'em all together you'd be closer to the truth.
I liked the prompt for today--"Why'd you pick your username?" I was random-articleing Wikipedia, and found a bunch of random stuff for titles (that's where Abkhazia, Resolute came from). The Little Red Book was Mao Zedong's famous whatsit--it's not actually "Little Red Book" in Mandarin, but Americans don't know any better, and I thought it was ( Read more... ) -
haligh, haligh, an awful lie.
Apparently, I missed my doorway to heaven-- (The Decemberists + Senator Obama) Sam = !!!!!!
If you'll pardon the math, goodness gracious, I am weeping. But! My Amazon shipment should be here soon--apparently it's in Des Moines, and should get here Tuesday. What is this? I could just go drive out and get it and be back before lunch, but no. That is ( Read more... ) -
she had no heart so hardened.
O King, listen unto my desires; for though I be young in years, yet am I old in prudence, and I will do nought that is not fitting unto thy slave.
I really love the idea of epic poetry--the Táin Bó Cúailnge sounds like a fascinating, rollicking story, but in actual fact it is really boring. This is the same with The Iliad. I would rather listen to ( Read more... ) -
zendagi migzara
d-_- Apparently it can wait. Among the Infidels [pending title if I don't rip Western Eyes] just added another protagonist--a boy, I think, also a pending Persian. Since I'm me and can't do anything without making fun of it, I thought it would be interesting to have alternating points of view, based upon America's pride and America's greatest fear.
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americana tropicana.
Some random updates, because I feel the urge for rambling.
A LIVELY CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO CORPSES:
Finished! It kind of exploded--I'm left now with figuring out how to explain my vagueness and all of that. I love the world that I set it in, though. I ramble about the awfulness of fantasy all the time, but dark-dirty-twenties inspired-alternate- ( Read more... ) -
FLASH/fail.
So, I fail. I need to not have my plot epiphanies at 2:30 in the morning, when I have to go to school at 7:00. -_-
Anyway! Abkhazia= 2,305 words of strangeness, and I love it so much. It's in the same format (sort of) as Sparrows, but feels more like giving birth. Sparrows was done mostly when I was too sick to care, which, in some strange way, made ( Read more... ) -
various projects planned.
I thought I'd take the time to do a brief[ish] update on my myriad projects, just because I can. ^_^ Also, it might actually be motivational. You never know, with rambling.
THE PARKING LOT SPARROWS
Synopsis: quietly gay Iranian boy is pwned, death-wise, in a supermarket parking lot. Less CSI, more of an angsty whodunit.
I'm just beginning on the ( Read more... )