Look look! Someone posted a comic inspired by Reciprocity! Natasha gives Pepper disguise tips. (I particularly like the part where Natasha is like "Tap into your inner sloth." Pepper probably has not had tapped into her inner sloth since she was about eight ( Read more... )

While in Glasgow, I stopped briefly at the Kelvingrove Museum. "Briefly" is not really long enough to see the Kelvingrove, which seems to be a museum of everything ever, but I did have time to explore the exhibit about the Glasgow Boys, Glasgow's native impressionist movement.

And, of course, I got some pictures.

( E. A. Hornel's children in woodland settings )

I did at last venture out in the rain, and as often happens, the rain seemed far less oppressive once my umbrella and I were out in it. I rode the funicular to the top of Petrin Hill - and wandered from the funicular platfrom into an unsuspected rose garden, which I had almost to myself in the rain ( Read more... )

Hello again! I have had a most splendid day, and as the hostel computers are for once not jammed, I am going to tell you all about it ( Read more... )

"The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies." - George Eliot

I've been reading Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch, which I must confess to enjoying more than Middlemarch itself. I've always admired Eliot's literary goal of extending her readers' sympathy, but I find her hard ( Read more... )

I have a song to share! A song with a ridiculous yet awesome music video, because that is how I roll. Why is she riding a horse around the countryside wearing a giant dress and an awesome coat? Why is there a girl with dragonfly wings? Why is this song so awesomeOh hear me when I vow ( Read more... )

I am returned from Chicago! And I come bearing MANY PICTURES, because Chicago is super photogenic, although these mostly are not photos of the things that are supposed to be photogenic like the giant statue of Goethe wearing nothing but an artfully draped cape. Because that is just how German writers dress, apparently ( Read more... )

Earlier this week (back when the weather was still warmish and beautiful), my mother and I went to the Indianapolis art museum.


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There’s a new Disney princess movie coming out in November. Thus my Disneyriffic friends have been linking Disney fanart, and I have been sucked into the glorious world of Disney princess fanart!

My gateway drug: Costume Swap, which is pictures of the princesses dressed up in their prince’s clothes. I particularly like Belle, who looks so gallant ( Read more... )

Last week, I visited the House of the Singing Winds. Doesn't it sound like a place in a fairy story? But it's a real place, an artist's house on a hilltop where the wind blew through the screened porches and made the wires hum.

( A fairy tale place )