So tonight after work I went to see Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda (English title, Anthem of the Heart). I didn't know much about it, but remembered hearing the name and the arts centre was showing it, so I thought I may as well go.

( A bit spoilery. )

So snowbryneich and I went to see The Hobbit in IMAX at the Metro Centre last night, even though the interwebs had told us that the Star Trek preview wasn't showing there, and whee, surprise! It was ( Read more... )

Falling into the category of 'why Photoshop was invented', here are some Victorian steampunk Star Trek photographs.

I love the random shit you find on the internet.

...I was going to tell you about my weekend. And I will, because it was pretty cool. But have suddenly and randomly decided, instead, to treat you all to the complete text of the book that was my absolute favourite when I was but a wee kitten still learning to put together letters. Even then, it seems I was attracted to themes of adventure, ( Read more... )

Earlier today I found this song by saywheeeee. Linking to that post instead of the youtube video, for those who want to have a handy cheatsheet for the linguistic terms.

In the film version of my life, I want this to be the love theme. Seriously, I've been humming it all dayHousemate has had friends from Germany visiting. Switching between languages all ( Read more... )

My German is still way, WAY better than my French, and quite possibly better than my Welsh. Which makes sense, really, as it is my second language, and French is my seventh if you count dead read-only languages and fourth if you don't. I really love France, but there is a general ambient tension that come from being surrounded by a language you're ( Read more... )

Elementary Erotica is out at last! My writing blog has details on how you can win a free copy, and everyone else I hope you'll buy it. I've read all the stories and they're frankly pretty awesome.

This is my luck. I woke up today with a sore throat and the scratchy, nasty beginnings of a cold. WOE. I don't get ill often so I'm a complete wimp about it when I do.

And of course it's PANCAKE DAY, which means

1. PANCAKES FOR DINNER
2. I promised unholynotions to sing the pancake song in Welsh for her, and of course my throat is scratchy and icky. So it ( Read more... )

I don't know what the hell I was thinking--I have plenty of actual work to do in languages I'm working on now. But I thought, 'huh, you know, I haven't done any Old English in ages,' and sat down to look over some, and practise a little, and ended up with a translation of the first 55 or so lines of The Wanderer. If you don't know it, it's ( Read more... )

Yuletide stories that make me happy so far:

Making Light (The Dark is Rising, Will/Bran ( Read more... )