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She doesn’t relax anymore. Hasn’t in nearly a year. She can’t relax and let down her guard without becoming vulnerable. Nor can she keep up the break-neck drive of creative frenzy to take in the calm of the day surrounding her. If that happens, she starts to think. To feel. Remember ( Read more... )

He’s working on a pair of socks, one at a time but at least he’s moved on from double pointed needles to working with two circulars instead. Nothing’s going to fall off the needles as he moves the yarn around and with socks; it’s just so much easier to look at the whole thing. But really, the best part about this pattern (it’s toe-up) is that he ( Read more... )

As a small child he played with any toy that captured his fancy be it a truck or a doll, a dinosaur or a glittery pony. There were dresses and strings of beads and floppy hats with flowers along the brim in his chest of make believe clothes. He could just as easily be the cowboy or the white knight as he could the pretty princess or the fairy ( Read more... )

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He’d be a púca of course. Absolute púca, no human DNA to retard his abilities. He’d have more than the wide, ever-dark and Other Folk eyes of his people, the ever so equine looking irises and pupils that caused people to gawk and stare. He’d be able to do more than just ride any horse he chose to mount. He would be able to inhale and utter the ( Read more... )

Over the course of a year and a half, I have played or written a variety of characters. Some of them stay more active (typically the original, non-fandom characters) because I have more I want to say about/with them. What I write and when depends largely on my mood. Some are completely gonzo and others are deeply, emotionally damaged. There are ( Read more... )

Name the five most obscure things you know, and tell us why or how you learned them.1. I know what Breaker Street's song "Queen Bee" is really about. And since I love watching fans argue over which one of them is right and why everyone else is wrong, I'm not going to tell anyone just what Da was writing about. Hah. Since Da wrote it, you think ( Read more... )

The numerically and socially strongest Gaeltacht areas are those of South Connemara, the west of the Dingle Peninsula and northwest Donegal, in which the majority of residents use Irish as their primary language. These areas are often referred to as the Fíor-Ghaeltacht ("true Gaeltacht") and collectively have a population just under 20,000.-- ( Read more... )

He snorts derisively. Come on, this is lame and frankly wasting his time when there is work to be done. "Am I a meat eater or a plant eater, ja? This is what you must ask me? This? Now? What are you, some sort of mental simpleton. Get. OutAnd out they go, leaving the tall, lanky man to hunch over his drafting table once more, straight edge in one ( Read more... )