First of all, faris_nallaneen linked me to Ben Franklin's synonyms for drunk. What's your favorite? I'm torn between "It is Star-light with him," and "Seen a Flock of Moons," (how celestial!) and "Been at an Indian Feast" (um, not the ones I've been to...), and... "Sir Richard has taken off his Considering Cap." SO BEEN THERE. Or there is a certain succinct ( Read more... )

~ I saw the deleted scene from Return of the Jedi that was up on youtube for a nanosecond. Eeeeep! Darth Vader was all "come to the dark side, Luke, we have cookies!" while Luke FINISHES HIS LIGHTSABER. THERE WAS CANONICAL ON SCREEN LIGHTSABER CONSTRUCTION. Eeeep.

~ a baby liger with a simply enormous head.

~ magnetgirl wrote me a song...! About the Doctor ( Read more... )

~ Lots of posts re: the fanfic issue. Particularly interesting to me are hilarious comment threads on f_w, the moment when Scalzi chimes in (I love that blog, man), smirnoffmule here, on fanfic as a formal structure, sarahtales here, on emotional responses and Why They Are Okay (incidentally: go read her The Demon's Lexicon as I find it to be a really awesome book that ( Read more... )

First of all, thanks to mellacita! I ♥ my snowflake! I can't believe I got one! Thank you so much! It really made me smile.

*Sometimes, you need a little xmas giddyness via rm. Oh, Ten. This link is kind of a smiffle(smile+sniffle=smiffle, right?)

*Distant Reading -- the chatter of a century, distilled from novels digitised, and thus made searchable. I ( Read more... )