I recently came across this in a fic I was reading:

Digging into a file sitting on the top of a stack, he immersed himself in the details of a rather viscous string of burglaries that more often than not left the sleeping families tied up in their beds.

I can't help but picture a row of cocoons with a huge spider hovering in the background!

I just got a nudge from Celeste, and I guess I needed it. Almost two years??? Sheesh! The truth is, I've been mostly out of the Anitaverse for a while. I still read the occasional fic (mostly yours, Celeste!) most of my fic reading, and I do still read a lot, has been in The Sentinel fandom ( Read more... )

First of all, the wedding was lovely. It was worth all the effort I put into it. Johanna looked beautiful, and the happy couple took off for Italy on their honeymoon. I settled happily into my fall routine, working on new jewelry during the week and selling it at the museum on the weekend ( Read more... )

I know, it's been a loonnng time since anybody heard from me. I've been a hermit since the spring. Almost nobody in RL has seen me either. But I just came back from Pennsic, an experience guaranteed to shake me up and roust me out of my cave ( Read more... )

Well, my foray among the rich and horsey turned out to be a complete bust. I did indeed do the steeplechase, and there were a lot of people there, but there were also seven people selling jewelry, and that was far too many for the room. I didn't lose money, even made a bit, but not nearly enough to justify doing such an expensive show again. I'm ( Read more... )

You just never know where the next opportunity will come from. This week I got a call from a customer from the Brandywine who wants to get me involved with the local polo-playing horsy set, and it looks like I'll be selling at the local polo league games this summer, and also at a steeplechase next month.This whole thing pretty much came out of ( Read more... )

Gakked fromceleste_506

You Are A Hornbeam Tree


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I haven't posted anything in a while, mostly because I've been in a mood where I don't really have anything to say to anybody. Hermiting, hibernating ( Read more... )

This is Fan Fiction Appreciation Week, and purely coincidentally there has been a really excellent and wide ranging discussion of the subject on prime_liquor, the Poppy Z Brite fans' LJ community. There was a post in that discussion that expresses very well why we like it, or at least why I do:

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Today is Valentine's Day. But more than that, it's the first anniversary of my involvement in this strange online world I've come to love ( Read more... )