Dear flist, I need some help with wording! You know how in the Middle ages peace was sometimes ensured by the sides exchanging valuable people for a time, kin of the king or sometimes even the successor to the throne and such. What is this person called, the one being exchanged? We call it, quite literally, a guarantor for peace, but I can't for ( Read more... )

What does June feel like in London: spring or summer?

Must a person have been sorted into a certain house in order to become Head of it in Hogwarts?

I'm busy calming myself with fic-typing. No, it hasn't helped any so far. :spreads bread-crumbs for muse:

Okay, so I read something today that had me shut my comp down and just shudder there for a a few minutes. I called a friend to calm me down, and we struck a lengthy discussion but didn't quite manage to come out on the same page there. And I kept wondering, so maybe you an tell me what YOU think, dear flisters ( Read more... )

I have developed the charming habit of sleeping the morning off, and now I have infected the entire family with it. It's kinda fun, you know, getting up at 12.30 and being the first one awake :g ( Read more... )

Erm. No, never mind I was supposed to be studying BioPhysics for that pesky little exam waiting for me just past the mid-point of Jan. :hangs head: Does everybody get attacked by insistent plot bunnies when they have boring but important work to do? :is already 1k into it ( Read more... )

On the one to ten scale, how pretty is the name Miriam? I like it, but, as it turns out, my taste for English names is not exactly an English' taste for them. Any suggestions for prettier M-beginning names if that one is thoroughly horrible? The girl is younger that Harry & Draco by a couple of years. Parents are foreign but have lived in England ( Read more... )

Tell me an adjective that means 'always following the rules, never doing something beside the ordered, no imagination, no self-thought, harsh and by the lines ( Read more... )

You know, I've been doing some mind note-taking of late, because fic writing flows best when you actually have something else to do, and I discovered that I really, really need someone who has studied medicine in the UK. Or if not, the US. Someone who won't mind terribly if once in a blue moon receives e-mails like "how do you call that in English ( Read more... )

Now, of the two bones making up the structure holding the upper limb to the thorax, one is the clavicle or collar bone. The other is called in Latin a scapula - that triangular piece to the back. My question is - is that the shoulder blade? Or is the shoulder blade the horizontal protuberance going from the shoulder tip towards the neck? I am ( Read more... )