I've been reading Sherlock Holmes like a lunatic lately. Talking about canon here, although I have been reading quite some fanfiction too. But oh - the short stories! They're just so entertaining and Sherlock Holmes is just brilliant and I LOVE IT SFM. I'm currently reading The hound of the Baskervilles, it's great as usual. The only story so far ( Read more... )

Random real life convo between myself and happybike:

Her: I haven't been able to find any good Holmes/Watson communities on LJ. Except for holmeswatson09
Me: Well, there's also cox_and_co
Her: *insert WTF face*
Me: Cox! With an X!

Cue: autumnsparkle and happybike disappear from view from laughter.

HEEEE.

But you can hardly blame me when she writes these gorgeous slashy things:

Dull tremor of the old secrets between us, the love, the things that only we had known, felt. Dancing in the witches' place. Can you deny it? Can you deny everything that passed between us?

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I tried to see him in the shadows of the room, and not it--the love for him, the ( Read more... )

"You have a light in you that's almost blinding. But in me there's only darkness. Sometimes I think it's like the darkness that infected you that night in the inn when you began to cry and tremble. You were so helpless, so unprepared for it. I try to keep the darkness from you because I need your light. I need it desperately, but you don't need the ( Read more... )

But he was only Lestat, as I've described him to you: devoid of mystery, finally, his limits as familiar to me in those months in eastern Europe as his charms. I wanted to forget him, and yet it seemed I thought of him always. It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I felt myself so vividly aware of him it was as ( Read more... )

I finally (!) took the effort to visit Pandora.com and woot, it's great! I discovered some very nice music already. The Six Parts Seven is nice, even though they only seem to have instrumental songs. I just need to figure out if it's even possible to save music somewhere, because thus far I only managed to listen to samples of the songs I ( Read more... )

"By lack of courage to do the things we really want, we often do what we almost want."

I'm reading a book called Duende - A Journey in Search of Flamenco (written by Jason Webster) and oh wow, it's amazing. It's about a man living his dreams and moving to Spain to find out more about flamenco and wow, I recognize a lot of myself in him. I didn't ( Read more... )

I watched Memoirs of a Geisha the day before yesterday and now I regret getting rid of my geisha-icon because it would have fit perfectly. What a beautiful movie! Oh wow. The book is the most beautiful I've read thus far and after all the negative reviews I was kind of scared the movie would be disappointing, but it so wasn't! The atmosphere was ( Read more... )

Okay so my Mission failed this Thursday (as expected, but there are more Thursdays and Tuesdays to come, hahah (a)), but to compensate I got a real treat that night in the form of spymommy, which was love times three thousand - she just has to be the most kick-ass character on a TV series ever. And I heart Victor Garber as well because he seems so ( Read more... )

I CAN'T BELIEVE that eMule has practically every episode of the 5th Judging Amy season EXCEPT the second one. Jesus. And why oh why do they only have Touched by an Angel up till season 4? And no Strong Medicine whatsoever? AARGH ><

The good news is: I did something useful today \o/ Though not enough. But the day hasn't finished yet.

And He must ( Read more... )