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Not a happy start to Christmas
My sister e-mailed me yesterday to inform me that my mother has died. It wasn't a huge surprise, as she was 94, and as she lived in Australia I hadn't seen her since she visited in 2005, so I had expected that it wouldn't really affect me too much. I was wrong. I was a wreck yesterday and I'm only just beginning to pull myself together. -
Drabble: You'd Better Not Kill The Groove
I'm still alive, and still writing, although rarely posting on LiveJournal these days. Glastonbury has inspired me to write a piece of whimsy, not really fanfic as such, which isn't suitable for posting anywhere else but I thought it a shame not to share it. A true 100-word drabble.
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Savage Beauty Chapter 12
After eighteen years, I have returned to perhaps the most insane of all my Buffyverse stories - and, considering that my other stories including Dojo Hard and I Am the Walrus, that’s pretty insane. It dates from before I adopted my present custom of using US English for fics based on US shows, games, and movies, and UK English only for British ( Read more... ) -
It's come home!
I'm not going to do a 'Your girls took a hell of a beating' post because they didn't. It was a knife-edge affair and victory was by the narrowest of margins - but it went England's way and football has come home at last. -
And again the Lionesses roar!
Gustavus Adolphus, Greta Thunberg, Greta Garbo, Ingmar Bergman, Stieg Larsson, Benny, Bjorn, Agnetha and Anni-Frid, Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg, Alfred Nobel, Avicii, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Bjorn Borg, Dolph Lundgren, Jenny Lind, Alexander Skarsgård, Per Gessle, Marie Fredriksson (RIP, sadly missed), Carl XVI Gustaf, Magdalena Andersson... can you ( Read more... ) -
June 2019 rides again... only more so!
Henrik Ibsen, Morten Harket, Edvard Munch, Edvard Grieg, Trygve Lie, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Kjetil Aamodt, Sonja Henie, Trude Mostue, Sigrid, Fridtjof Nansen, Roald Amundsen, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Crown Prince Haakon, Jonas Gahr Støre… Can you hear me Jonas Gahr Støre? Your girls took a hell of a beating! Your girls took a hell of a beating!
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Topical Ukranian song
Here is a Ukranian symphonic metal song from 2015 which is very apt right now.
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3 Lionesses on the shirt...
Henrik Ibsen, Morten Harket, Edvard Munch, Edvard Grieg, Trygve Lie, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Kjetil Aamodt, Sonja Henie, Trude Mostue, Fridtjof Nansen, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Erna Solberg… Can you hear me Erna Solberg? Your girls took a hell of a beating! Your girls took a hell of a beating!
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If I ruled the world...
...fanfic writers who describe characters as 'viscous killers' or who refer to someone smiling a 'viscous smile' would be thrown into a swimming pool filled with treacle.
And those who refer to 'lightening bolts' would be pumped full of helium. -
Blue Planet 2
Did anyone else watch 'Blue Planet 2', see the 'Bobbit' metre-long carnivorous worm, and think "Even that would be a better mother than Molly Weasley"? The episode was full of creatures more intelligent than Arthur Weasley, too, and I don't just mean the cuttlefish and the octopus; even the microscopic algae inside the coral polyps would have ( Read more... )
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