New rule: I am not allowed to sign up for any bookbinding class until I have successfully cleared the jewellery stock box so that it can either be my bookbinding box or contain my jewellery-making stuff (which will involve getting rid of some of my hoarded crap). This requires Jess to photograph things and me to list them ( Read more... )

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It turns out if you go to a quiet room in the library you can get a lot of work done very quickly, even if you have a headache, because the internet isn't there to distract you with nonsense. A++ reference library.

( rambling about book )

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MEME TIME

So, that meme where you name a character and I tell you three things about their sex life? That was a good meme. Let's do that.

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The book I am in the research and development (with optional swearing) stages of is about four people who destroy each other’s lives because of moments of bad judgement and inability to reconcile desire with acceptability; it’s also about classism, sexism, racism, colonialism, and homophobia; it is about the way that one can, in attempting to avoid ( Read more... )

Contemplating the major protagonists in the Magicians book I realise I've represented four social classes rather by accident: the ambitious underclass, the noble working class, the nascent liberal middle class (who, in the manner of liberal middle classes, is not as liberal as he thinks he is), and the fading aristocracy. the instinctive love ( Read more... )

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How The Tattooing Began

Speaking of tattoos, I need to steal some handwriting for a specific phrase. Also I'm starting work again at 9.30 on Monday morning, same place as last time. Anyone who therefore fancies dining with me after 5pm at Mamsuka on weekdays is welcome, because I intend to abuse the dicks out of that delicious place.

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What shall I lose this year? I think instead of thinking of it as hacking off pieces each year until there is nothing left of me, I should think of it as pruning the bush to promote new growth. I certainly don't think I'm actually becoming less of a person (only in the winter, when you get half-measures and a lot of grumbling ( Read more... )