Dinotopia by James Gurney has been on my wishlist for ages, but I hadn’t bought it yet because it’s so much more expensive than the books I usually buy. And if I was going to spend that much on a book, wouldn’t it make more sense to just fork out a bit more for the hardcover? Or is that just being extravagant ( Read more... )

Dottie: Want me to kill him?
Peggy and Sousa: Do not kill him!
Dottie: Come on. It'll be quick.
-- from Agent Carter 2x06 "Life of the Party"
I find it fascinating when people make blanket statements about the dynamics of online spaces: "Facebook is this" or "Tumblr is that ( Read more... )

This is something of a follow-up to the list of my favourite fictional relationships that I made 18 months agoSome time ago, I read several discussions about the ways people respond to fictional characters and the ways in which people respond to other’s responses ( Read more... )

If the past becomes a land to voyage, how carefulle the journeyman must be. Will he not tread in a nightmare of uncertaynties? Be enmeshed in histories of which he knows nothing? Like a man coming suddenly to a foreign land and speking not the language...
-- from a (fictional) document quoted in The Box of Red Brocade by Catherine Fisher
Still don't ( Read more... )

My brother and I decided to procrastinate and so we watched movies. We started with ( Thor. )

Recently, I saw a link to an article - something about people asking to go to the bathroom they're bored.

I stared at this title, baffled. Why would people do that? What do they keep in their bathrooms? And why would they need permission? Huh?

Then I read a bit further and discovered it was actually about students asking to go to the toilet ( Read more... )

Every so often on Tumblr, I scroll past pictures of abandoned castles, airports and amusement parks. And sometime later, when I decide I want to show these pictures to someone else, I have no hope of finding them on Tumblr again ( Read more... )

peckish
moderately hungry
-- from Wikipedia's List of British words not widely used in the United States

So I have some things (ie. websites) open in tabs, because I guess I wanted to talk about them?

1. The final episodes of Once Upon a Time are “Second Star to the Right” and “And Straight On ‘Til Morning ( Read more... )

SO I WROTE A POST AND THEN MY COMPUTER CRASHED and I lost my most recent changes. Grrr blah argh.

Episode 98 ("Gratitude") of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries didn't remind me of its correlating scene in Pride & Prejudice. It reminded me of the train scene in the adaptation of North & South.

( What I'd like from the rest of this series, not that there is much left of it. )

This is really just me thinking out loud. If writing something down can be described as "thinking out loud". I'm not actually vocalising my thoughts, since I'm sitting here in silence ( Read more... )