Hahah so disregarding personalities and going completely by the simplest interpretation of aspect:

John <-- Manwe
Rose <-- Varda (if you want to emphasize the Light of the Stars)
Dirk <-- Aule (Really the best fit of all of them)
Jade <-- Yavanna (she, and the Space aspect, have strong ties to imagery of vegetation and biological generation in a ( Read more... )

Okay!
So, Ancient China lasts up until the fall of the Han Dynasty,
Late Antique China everything up until the Sui ascendancy, or possibly the Tang.
Medieval China lasts through the Tang dynasty.
Under the Song Dynasty we see the first Chinese Renaissance* and the first Early Modernity.
The Mongols/Yuan defy my attempts at hackneyed periodization.
Ming ( Read more... )

Reading Homestuck fic. Premise is post-Scratch, trolls and humans have switched species and planets for one last all-together game of SBurb/Grub. But they keep their memories.

This means Karkat and John can properly commence a mixed human romance/kismesis.

Also, human!Karkat pays a visit to Santa Cruz and eats ice cream at Marianne's. Which was ( Read more... )

I can't believe he's going to backtrack again.

We're almost rid of her. Why can't they just split up? They're obviously mutually unhappy. It's been a slow-motion disaster for years.

So close.

Annatar among the Oliphaunts; or, The Day the Mumak went to War.

The Goblins sing like Landsknechten.

How appropriate.

1. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus and Hippolyta preside over a mythic, ancient Athens. If we have to date it, sometime around 1210 BCE ought to do.)

2. The Two Noble Kinsmen (Same reign, and I kind of want to place it first, partially to begin the whole cycle with an homage to Chaucer, partially so that Midsummer can comment on the matter of ( Read more... )

Upon rewatching the New Line FOTR, a quibble comes to mind: surely they'd have an oil-lamp to spare in Minas Tirith with which to light the archives? It's one thing to be fallen from your former glory, and another entirely to bring an open torch into a room of dry, ancient, and irreplaceable documents. Or is there something about parchment that I ( Read more... )

1. Jersey (the center, however you define it)
2. Coimbra (and the Botanical Gardens at the University there)
3.The dammed reservoir at Dohuk
4. A cafe in Estacada
5. The closest tree to the Gooselake, by Ulan-Ude
6. The first foothill of Mount Zlatibor
7. Hotel Casapueblo

The west continent is Hellas/Europa. Galbadia proper is Laconia or maybe Mycenae/Achaea. Dollet is Athens. Timber is a mix of Corinth and Messenia.

Balamb island is Naxos (or maybe Crete).

The east continent is Asia Minor. Esthar is Lydia or even Syria/Palestinia, considering the salt lake. The mountain range bordering it on the north is the ( Read more... )