You could call this my ~serenade to Melina Marchetta's novel, On the Jellicoe Road. It started out as a character-by-character playlist, but then I thought, hey: why not let their whole entwined story play out in all the songs?

Cue me wasting a whole afternoon on a giant five-parter fanmix.

(...I think I may like the cover best of all.)


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A few quick thoughts on Game of Thrones S2

(spoilers for all aired episodes)

( the night is dark and I ship Arya/Gendry )

“It was almost noon as we set out to find the body of a dead kid named Rachel Brower…”

( Have gun will travel, reads the card of a man. A knight without armor in a savage land... )

Mmmmm, so during the Hunger Games movie, I was filled to the brim with bread.

( Hunger Games, happy Hunger Games... )

This is the most beautiful post in the world.

Fuck appreciating literature, people. Love stories. Love wordplay. Love a deliciously delivered anecdote, a razor-sharp joke, a ripping yarn, a swashbuckling hero who fights for justice or a lost intellectual who takes bloody vengeance into his own hands; love tales of kings and queens and wizards and ( Read more... )

Augh. My heart actually physically hurt reading this, you guys:
Though I hadn't seen him in over twenty years...

It just. Makes me think of time. Memory and losing touch and reconnection, how surreal it all is sometimes. And loss. The way that stories can tell the truth so much, sometimes, that it aches.

And this part:

It’s easy to forget how ( Read more... )

+ *Luke Skywalker voice* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!Well, damn! Here I was believing all these years that my hair was just too thick to stay put in those braid loopies. And wondering where the hell Leia hid the tufty ends of her braids ( Read more... )

^Madeleine L'Engle

+ I just heard that Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes is going to be made into a movie, as is Madeleine L’Engle’s Camilla. I wonder if this is going to be a new trend: classic slice-of-life YA books getting turned into movies. I mean: the movie studios are still snatching up the rights to Paranormal Romance novels, aren’t they? And I think ( Read more... )

So, universe, I honestly could not care less about Glee and it’s “storylines” anymore. (A few weeks ago, I got curious and read one S3 episode summary...and I backed away wanting to punch the Glee Wikia.)

But but BUT:

holy exploding ovaries, Mike ChangHurrrrr. I don’t usually get especially excited over an attractive dude putting on eyeliner, but ( Read more... )