Dude, Azruhâr, you haven't talked to me in three frickin' years and now you want to tell me your entire story at once? Not fair! What the hell is wrong with you? I have a life! I have a family, a house and a garden! I need my sleep! I CAN'T TYPE THAT FAST! Seriously, slow down ( Read more... )

Caught Eragon yesterday on TV. Just as I had gathered, it was pretty much a shameless and unoriginal re-telling of Star Wars: A New Hope in a fantasy setting and otherwise everything you'd expect from a 15-year-old LARPer who writes the background story for his very first character. Mind you, when I was 15, I'd probably have written the same story ( Read more... )

Living in a veeery secluded place in a veeery small town in a veeery well-populated land of a coupla million streets, when the Google Streetview camera car scare went around last year I thought "Hah, they'll never come down my street anyway ( Read more... )

This is again mostly for the Tolkien fans (or the incurably curious) on my flist - the rest may want to skip this for major weirdness. Not for the faint of heart. May contain zombies and other dead people.

( So I have started to write my first story for the Akallabeth in August project )

SO we’ve been translating laws in Anglo-Saxon class, first (excerpts from) the Laws of Æthelbeorht and then (excerpts from) the Laws of Alfred the Oh-So-Great. And I, who enjoyed Law class in grade 10 (we were allowed to eat pizza in class!) but otherwise think all things Jurassic juristic are rather tedious, find myself fascinated by laws ( Read more... )

So ( Read more... )

Today at work I discovered they removed the exhibition photos in the corridors ( Read more... )

Dear brain,

You are supposed to work on your term paper. No, the literature is not supposed to give you plotbunnies about how Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the result of a bet between Maglor and Daeron whether the (Middle) English tongue could be made into something beautiful or not. Sheesh. Even though it would explain why the author of the ( Read more... )

This is just for my amusement, and to feed the plotbunnies. No further implications are meant, although you are, of course, free to amuse yourselves with this, too.

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The cooperative principle:Make your contribution such as is required at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are ( Read more... )