The poll options are what they are due to book availability, so making suggestions of academic/British sources will not help in the short term. Although I did get to read Jeffery Farnol's Great Britain at War, which was a collection of his contemporary accounts of the war effort as a journalist, and fascinating on multiple levels. Anyway:

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If James Hathaway were going to play/sing a song to entertain/distract/soothe a very young child (old enough to learn/sing/repeat/ask about any lyrics he includes), what would he play and/or sing ( Read more... )

Random icon is random, but probably also sort of suitable. Especially if the power in question is non-writing inertia.

View poll: Tell me what to write, Internets.

This entry was originally posted at http://dira.dreamwidth.org/606288.html. There are currently
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So I have the day off (hooray municipal furlough days), and I already ran errands (translation: bought chips, cereal, and booze in anticipation of
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So, one of the ways in which I am a ginormous nerd is that in the last couple of years, since I started keeping track of what I read, I have started assigning myself goals for the books I read--not just a number of books, but within that a number of non-fiction books, a number of books of poetry, a number of books published in the current year, and ( Read more... )

So around January 2002 I went to see The Fellowship of the Ring with thelionforreal, who was at that point possibly already a part of the Popslash=>Lotrips migration. I had already been resisting seeing the movie for a month or more because--I realize this will not make any sense to anyone, okay, but there it is--I had come across a Theban Band manip of Aragorn ( Read more... )

I am on what could be Day 13 of a streak of writing at least 750 words every day, thanks to 750words.com - apparently all I needed was a sticker chart and some funny statistics! Hooray, positive reinforcement for nerds. (Every day it analyzes my writing and two days out of three it tells me my writing is mainly concerned with Death. Including ( Read more... )

1) Hey, so remember when I did a whole bunch of polls for the Fanon Horrible Childhood Showdown, and then it was Christmas and I never mentioned how that turned out? Yeah.

The winner of the winners' bracket (UNSPEAKABLE TRAUMA): to the surprise of no one, Severus SnapeAnd the loser of the losers' bracket (Cheer up, emo kid!): Jess Mariano, from ( Read more... )

Draco Malfoy and Jim Kirk have gone down the pub to bitch about how their childhoods WERE TOO unspeakably traumatic. Han Solo and Spock have shrugged off the whole silly competition, cheered up, and gotten on with being emo only occasionally and when it serves their purposes ( Read more... )

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