So, kind of late to the game with this and really shouldn't be spending my diminishing free time writing this up (sister's crazy wedding in India coming up, deadline for first dissertation chapter, panic all around about future job prospects....), but I finally got around to seeing the first Iron Man movie ( Read more... )

I've been LunaSphere on FFN for a while, but when I decided to set-up a fandom lj account, that handle was already taken, and so I settled on a Latin version of it (...what can I say, I'm not very good at coming up with usernames, and I'd just taken a hellish intensive Latin course) and became spheralunaris.

But now it seems the old lunasphere account on lj has been ( Read more... )

Kind of random, but I just wondered if anyone had thoughts on this. Why is it that two of the most vocal animal-human characters, Mr. Cat and Duck, end up as animals but two of the least vocal and most animal ones, piano penguin dude and Ms. Goat, end up as humans when the story ends? It seems like such a strange reversal since we think of complex ( Read more... )

Oh, stupid thoughts running through my head at 2 am after spending way too much time reading. I honestly paused a minute and thought about this.

Maybe, Drosselmeyer was a grad student, a scholar at university taught by the ancestors of the bookmen who chopped off his hands. And he studied but was never good enough (way to transpose my own anxieties ( Read more... )