Er, if you follow me on Tumblr at all you will maybe understand a bit more to what ridiculous effect Tangled has taken over my soul. I don't always -- um, usually -- get so completely heart-bound up in a movie, and certainly not so quickly; what is this sorcery? Anyway, precious little of my fannish ramblings ever see the light of outside-my-head, ( Read more... )

Right before we left to visit the grandparents (which is to say far later at night than I should have), I watched The Wolfman, which I've been wanting to see for a while, what with, you know, werewolves being sort of A Thing with me, although I realised recently that I haven't actually read or watching anything that is a) decently werewolf-centric ( Read more... )

Oh, internet, lately you are making me really sad.

It seems as though no matter where I may be roaming through the interwebs, I'm pleasantly enjoying myself until -- wham! -- suddenly I stumble over a spike of anti-Christian vitriol.

And then I just sit there and feel... not angry, or even very offended -- just really, really sad.

Yes, it bothers ( Read more... )

Um, you guys? I think that once I get used to it, I'm going to really love this essay thing. (It may take a few years, but hey.)

Anyway, trying to thrash out my analytical essay, the subject of which, I have decided, will be comparing and contrasting Tam-Lin's Janet to modern fantasy heroines, specifically Meg Murry (A Wrinkle in Time) and Buffy  ( Read more... )

Ah, how nice it is to plan a quiet, merry Christmas at home. I know, I know: I am old before my time: in this, and many other things. (GET OFF MY LAWN!) But the relatives with whom we usually spend Christmas and I have rather different philosophies about the holiday (and about nearly everything else, really, though we get along excellently), and ( Read more... )

I use you, O patient flist, to mentally draft my application essay. Which I am still trying to narrow down -- I think I want it to be a sort of manifesto for my planned career (and therefore my educational goals), both as a writer and as a librarian. I have all of these really amazing things that I want to do as a librarian, things that being a ( Read more... )

I have been thinking about clothes a great deal lately. Not merely because I am a Girl and rather fond of the stuff -- I had a brief struggle with being a Geek Girl and yet being so terribly fond of clothing (though not Fashion as such, as the fashion industry frightens me rather a lot, as does spending inordinate amounts of money on the stuff) -- ( Read more... )

Blah. Have been feeling physically and mentally tired and sort of demoralised all week... things keep springing up and strangling me because I avoided them or put them off or just cos they're there, and then Black Friday kind of threw my entire body schedule out the window. Yeah, Black Friday was fun-- in a way, it sort of was, as a surreal ( Read more... )

It's a tired, quiet sort of night. I managed to recapture a little of the magic of early this morning -- sitting outside on a fallen stone bench beneath the apple tree recording harmonies for "Lullay Lullay" while the sun set and mist crept across the moon was beautiful, and also! my hardcover copy of Sunshine came this morning, exactly in time, ( Read more... )

Autumn is coming; I can smell it and taste it. Today is fey and wet and windy, and the tree I can see from my window is half orange already. The apple tree is heavy with fruit (and occasionally with cats, as Willow loves to settle on one of the top branches and smirk down at the world), the geese are flying, and I am lighting more candles than is ( Read more... )