/considers making substantive post, or at least filling out that end-of-the-year meme

/nah.

Anyone else remember Bruce Coville's "My Teacher Is An Alien" series? Those books were the shit.

Everlastingly burned into my memory:

Three roses laid upon the bower
A scythe for he who cuts the flower
A crown, a dove, most noble race
Thy bones make sacred this dread place.

Why, yes, I've been obsessively watching Let's Plays while knitting Christmas/Hanukkah presents.

ETA: After reading House of Leaves, the Minotaur is just that much