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I suspect this may be the happiest thing of the week! Seriously, I love these photos. You can see that the kids are taking it really seriously! Beautiful ( Read more... )

I was planning to get Work (TM) done, but then I made the mistake of following a link to the Stand Still. Stay Silent webcomic and now I CAN'T STOP READING HEEEEEELP. ladyelleth, this is all your fault ( Read more... )

As always. Applied for four jobs. One job called back and want me to do sample work. Yay? Autumn is coming in so the garden is crying for me even louder than usual. I unearthed a tater troll and desperately need to make a picture book about her. NaNo? Mission Self-sufficiency is still far from being accomplished but still in progress. The weekend ( Read more... )

Today's XKCD wins my heart for various reasons.
I might consider adopting this approach whenever I hear someone else propagate the "medievals believed the world was flat" myth in the future...

Speaking of The Silmarillion, there's a Silmarillion Fandom Opinion SurveyIt's quite useless, to be honest, as it is extremely limited and only addressing ( Read more... )

... nur, um bei Chantalismus kommentieren zu können.

Ich mein, die schlechten Witze machen sich quasi von selbst. "Feanor-Elias, hör auf, die Galadrielle an die Haare zu ziehen!" - "Der kleine Feanor-Elias möchte bitte SOFORT aus dem Kinderparadies abgeholt werden!" - "Feanor-Elias, du sollst nicht immer den Finn-Noel schubsen!" - "Feanor-Elias, ( Read more... )

Random fannish squee moment of the day, via ladyelleth.

Escrick sapphire ring's mystery history sparks meeting

LOOK AT THAT RING. THAT IS CLEARLY A STAR OF FËANOR. Well, very nearly. Very very nearly. 7th to 11th century? WELL MAYBE MAGLOR LOST IT.

Say, mirien, would you say you can replicate something like that? I mean, it's a genuine historical find, so it ( Read more... )

Found via ladyelleth.
A short article about the discovery of the remains of a female Austrian metal worker... from 4000 years ago.

Of course, that sort of knowledge is even harder to come by. For all the gender bias in written records, at least there's written records ( Read more... )

discovered via spiced_wine: Akinator the web genieIt asks you questions you can answer with "Yes", "No", "Don't know", "Probably" and "Probably Not" and tries to figure out what character or real person you're thinking about ( Read more... )

(discovered via Elleth.)

The 22 rules of Storytelling, according to Pixar#1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes ( Read more... )