If anyone wants me to answer any of these questions, comment with a letter and I'll answer it. Taken from more places than I could count without taking off my socks, both here and at Tumblr.

If you prefer me to talk about Tolkien or Sherlock or anything else, just make it clear. Otherwise I'll choose.

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According to juno-magic, today's six-setntence Saturday, when we're supposed to share six-sentence snippets from our WIPs. As it turns out, I have two WIPs, both involving Bilbo, and both through some quirk titled "In Living Memory." One's set in Rivendell on the return trip from Erebor, and the other is a tweenage Bilbo learning a bit of family history from ( Read more... )

I'm sick in bed today and could use some distraction, so I thought I'd try another one of those "ask me anything" memes. This time let's do it with Tolkien. Whether it's my fanfic, my thoughts on a Tolkien character or story, or a more personal question along the lines of why I've spent so much of my time volunteering with, reading, and writing in ( Read more... )

Juno posted an "Ask me anything" meme over at her LJ, about her story "The Resilience of Hope." (Do check it out.) I'm not writing at the moment, but if you know anything about me these days it's that I've gotten into the Sherlock BBC series ( Read more... )

Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (pics of fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics (with my skills I feel like this one falls more under 'trick'...), a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.). The more "houses" to visit the more fun it' ( Read more... )

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Over at LJ, someone posted a picture of various animals + Meyers-Briggs personality types:

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A comment over at FB reminded me of this, and it was good for a laugh. Thought I'd share.

( God hates figs!!! )

(Gacked from primsong)

I've put the ones I've read in bold, the ones I intend to read in italics. Feel free to keep the party going by doing your own version. My own added twist: ones that I've read and wouldn't recommend are struck through.

Novel

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor ( Read more... )

I'm actually more of a Platonist than an Aristotelian on most topics, but the questions they asked tended to focus on ethics and other issues where I think Aristotle is on to something. Other than that (and the seeming assumption that philosophy jumped from Aristotle to Kant), this quiz actually was pretty accurate.

Which philosopher are you?
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