When tweelore asked me to translate one of her fanfics into Russian, I didn't hesitate. It gave me a chance to do something I don't really get a chance to do all that often - translate something into my native language ( Read more... )

That was a close one ( Read more... )

Ever since the news broke that David Bowie died of cancer, I've seen countless heartfelt tribunes. He touched so many people in a deeply personal way. Reading it all, it's hard not to feel moved ( Read more... )

I don't really have a whole lot of time today, so I'm going to make this simple.

Happy Birthday, tweelore. May this day bring good presents and great company.And thank you for all the help  and support you've given me over the past two months. It means a lot.


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Today marks the 17th anniversary of my arrival in United States. I don’t really have much to add to a post I did last year… Well, except one thing.

As I wrote last year, there were some pretty sizable gaps of my my knowledge of American culture until tweelore came into my life. I was quite unsocial, resentful and not all that interested in going outside my ( Read more... )

Last night, I dreamed that tweelore was doing a Youtube webshow... in blackface. And with black fur on her hands. I think she was supposed to be some kind of alien in a black leather trenchcoat.

When I pointed out that people might have a problem with it, alliancesjr defended Lore, because she had a creative vision and we should all respect it, damn it ( Read more... )

As of yesterday afternoon, it has been sixteen years since I arrived in United States. Sixteen freaking years. The sheer scale of that number is staggering. Has it really been that long? In some ways, it doesn't feel like it. In others... oh boy, does it ever ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, tweelore

Now, I know how you feel about birthdays. And I can magine how you might feel about this birthday in particular. But I would still respectfully argue that this is an occasion worth celebrating. Over the past decade, you've met some great people, seen more than a few interesting places and had lots of great things happen to you. You ( Read more... )

The Chick-Fil-A fast food has been in the news a lot lately. The company has been known to support to right-wing, socially conservative causes. But that didn't bother too many people until last week, when company president Dan Cathy told a reporter that he was "guilty as charged" for supporting the "biblical definition of family unit."

Conservative ( Read more... )

 I had a weird, action-packed dream where alliancesjr and I had to rescue tweelore from the clutches of evil Min, The dream had some awesome visuals (Rocket Bears of Soviet Republics of Michigan!), some odd moments (snow in the middle of July) and some anti-climactic moments (so the army of evil robots was actually... cartboard?). But the thing that really stuck in ( Read more... )