[reposted by permission of author, FL user "irtehkinkylol ( Read more... )

The simple truth is that going back a year in time will also move you a light-year away in space. This resolves the usual grandma-murdering paradoxes; you will never affect "the past" at your start coördinates because even travelling at light speed you won't get back home until the moment you left, but you can use your "time"-travel machine to ( Read more... )

Some of my creative writing can be difficult to follow due to the expectations I have of the readers' vocabulary and cultural background. It is regrettable; when I write something I do not intend my style to be an impediment to meaning, but rather a tool for packing it more densely. I feel especially bad when I have written something for someone ( Read more... )

Three Proverbs of NegationAbsence makes a heart grow fonder ( Read more... )

a report on My Summer of Love

My Summer of Love is a movie I watched ( Read more... )

"One day Odysseus wandered hunting at the foot of the mountains of Delphi, when he met on his path two maidens who held each other by the hand. One had hair like violets, transparent eyes, and solemn lips; she said to him: 'I am Arete.' The other had languid eyelids, delicate hands and soft breasts; she said to him: 'I am Tryphe.' And together they ( Read more... )

"grzyb przełknął gwóźdź a znicz wzburzy trzcinę"
bezkształtno-myślna chmara ścierw spółgłosek
śpi i śni, zło-zielona, dniem wzgardziwszy;
by wszystek szpiku z kciuka dzwięku wyssać.

Oh lord, so much to do, so little time. Which is why I should not be writing...

New, easy-to-use mnemonics for the abbreviated planet list:

But I totally am.
( cut because smutty mnemonics are the easiest to remember, duh. Except the last one, which is pretty clean )

I may often speak of my affection for goats, those most feline of herbivores, but it's an abstract sort of love, without role-models or ready-made metaphors. The beat of their hard hooves and the music of their silly bleats will always have a different energy, one which can never replace the love I have for cats. On a day like today, when my ( Read more... )