when designing dragons, there's a fine fine line between "terrifying" and "ridiculous".

[from the diary of Melkor, 213 F.A.]

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While I'm sitting here procrastinating starting on my Silm40 War of Wrath art, lemme share another amusing (well, I thought it was amusing) bit from Tolkien's biography.

Sooo he's in his 70s now and retired and unexpectedly wealthy and people are willing to publish pretty much anything with his name on it so his chances of having the Silmarillion ( Read more... )

I have been out of academia for so long that I have forgotten how to do citations ;_; Send help.

Then again, I don't think I've ever felt the need to quote a song in an essay for academia. I once did quote Monty Python's killer rabbit scene for the Shibboleth of Elizabeth I essay*, but quoting Meat Loaf in an essay (or is it just a shipping ( Read more... )

Soooo I have no internet for a week and the world goes batshit. Again. I'll assume that the batshit didn't happen as a direct consequence of my offlinishness. I'll also assume that enough has been said about the batshit so I don't have to try and sum it up now ( Read more... )

Eruvision Song Contest.

...
*facepalms*
Screw this, I'm going to bed.

*creaky old Maia voice* So this is what they call the Ainulindalë these days ---

That moment when you mean to use the "like a moth drawn to the candle" imagery in an Age-of-the-Trees fanfic set in Valinor and realise it doesn't work. Moths die in candles because they mistake our artificial lights for bright lights in the sky, particularly the moon. BUT IN THIS SETTING, THE MOON DOES NOT YET EXIST. Instead, we have two very ( Read more... )

Schönes, stabiles Schilf, mindestens 1,20m lang, trocknet schnell, rottet kaum?

( Bilders unterm Cut )

... I'm just incredibly, absurdly busy. I try to keep up with the f-list, but most of the time I don't have enough dimes* to comment, let alone type up an entry of my own.

So, while real life (TM) holds me firmly in its claws, have two shots of the kids. (Sorry if you don't like kiddy photos.)


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Super Abschiedsgruß heute: "Wenn nix is, dann schöne Feiertage und bis nächstes Jahr!" Kam von dem Typen, der zweimal jährlich die Was-auch-immer-Werte in unserer Pflanzenkläranlage kontrolliert ( Read more... )

(VarroaGate is not actually a political thing, but to me, it sounds like Watergate or Nipplegate, i.e., like some kind of political scandal. Perhaps in a beehive, it is? Maybe there is a special OH NOES VARROA waggle dance ( Read more... )