Happy New Year! Hope you have a better one than Sir Gawain!

My new year was great, as was my christmas, until about half an hour ago.

...which is when I found out that AKOTAS is ending.

:( :( :( :( :(

OH MY GOD MORDRED

...it's a fair cop.

Oh Mordred, you make me want to cry :(

Agghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

So, I've been spending all my lj time lately on the I Like Doctor Who project and have thus been completely ignoring my regular journal. If anyone's still reading me, I apologize. In brief ( Read more... )

Happy New Year's, one and all! If anybody challenges you to a mutual decapitation contest, don't do itHad a huuuuuuuge Japanese feast today with the fambly (including the baaaaaaaaaaaaby), then watched "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." That was...narratively difficult to follow ( Read more... )

So I finished the Hobbit today! Have you guys ever stopped to marvel that a book like that - a fairy tale for children and High Fantasy at its best - includes both Geopolitical Consequences and the Common Cold? When do you ever see disease in fiction that isn't plague? Give me an example of "and then this character was a bit under the weather ( Read more... )

Oooh, haven't done one of these for a while!

Circleville: Tonight we're going to go see the marching bands at the Circleville Pumpkin Show. WHEEEEEEE. Also the pumpkins.

The Hidden Goddess: Been reading The Hidden Goddess by M. K. Hobson. It's the sequel to The Native Star, set in AU 19th century America. It is extremely Deadlandsy. So ( Read more... )

If yesterday was "Talk Like a Pirate" day, does that mean today is "Maraud Like a Rhetorician" day? I am really looking forward to that...

Yesterday's xkcd made its point extraordinarily well ( Read more... )

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Me this morning: Wow, I'm up on time! Look at all these hours I have to be productive and generally awesome!
Me now: Why did I just read over a hundred and fifty strips of Arthur, King of Time and Space!? (admittedly, cuz it's awesome)

On the other hand, there was an issue I'd been feeling ornery about, and then I rediscovered this strip and it ( Read more... )