It's been such an exhausting couple of weeks. I should really be continuing my cleaning right now but I just can't bring myself to get up. I've had exams (Greco-Roman history, English Lit, German and Latin) and terrible insomnia this week, and the week before I was depressed about missing Deepavali (Hindu Festival of Lights, the biggest Hindu ( Read more... )

Deepavali was on the 26th of October this year. :D


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So I've decided that whenever possible from now on I'm uploading a picture, with some relevance to whatever I think I'm going to talk about, before the actual wall of text post. I have so many cute or funny pictures and I might as well share them. ;)


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Look, alliteration! XD

Most of my writing recently has been almost wholly for role-play. Besides RP itself, there's incidents in the history of my characters, future what-ifs, dabblings in darker AUs, detailed nightmares etc. And this morning I was planning something focusing on Gabriel during the Ten Plagues of Egypt.

One of the things about my ( Read more... )

I tried posting this earlier this week but LJ ATE MY POST! After I spent ages uploading three quarters of the photos! >_< I tried again last night, something went wrong and for the THIRD TIME THIS WEEK I am attempting to share these photos.

Deepavali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, was on October 17th. The photos in this post are of the preparations ( Read more... )

It's 09/09/09! :D

Nine was considered a sacred number by many ancient mythologies/cultures. Most of them held both three and nine in high regard. The Egyptians had their Ennead, the nine powerful gods of Heliopolis. The Greeks and Romans considered nine a powerful and sacred number and some prayers were recited three or nine times. The Hindus have ( Read more... )

Found this at mythtickle.com.


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As I mentioned in my ealier post, I was taking some personality tests for my role-play character, the Archangel Gabriel. This result SHOCKED me.

So Gabriel, an archangel from Judaeo-Christian mythology, gets this:


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If you're a Good Omens fan and a Lower Tadfield Air Base (lower_tadfield ) regular, you might be familiar with that absolutely awesome role-play, neutral_omens . Well, a similar one is starting! It's calledlt_safe_house , and the premise is similar to that of neutral_omens (NO).

The NO role-play (RP) not only featured characters from Good Omens such as Crowley, Aziraphale, Adam, Brian, Wensleydale, ( Read more... )