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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
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7:43 pm - Belated Christmas thanks
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To the following kind and generous people:
To ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) harpnfiddle, for a beautiful little Teneriffe lace butterfly.
To Una and her mother, for a plush bathrobe that nearly makes me swoon every time I put it on.
To helwen, for a curious and very effective little "lotion bar" that looks like soap and becomes shea butter hand lotion when rubbed between the palms.
To arionrhod, for a lovely flower arrangement with balsam, juniper, and a snowglobe.
To the anonymous fandom writer who fulfilled my request better than I could have imagined.
To everyone who sent me a holiday card and brightened my living room with reminders of friendship.
To Todd and Barbara, for a wonderful book on the Middle Ages.
To bronze_ribbons, for a curious, elegantly quirky little book on the little-known and fascinating aspects of travel in Italy.
To all my friends, here and out in the world, for being you. *hug*
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| Friday, January 2nd, 2009
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10:14 pm - Even more Snupin Santa recs
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10:02 pm - Snupin Santa recs
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| Monday, November 17th, 2008
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10:54 pm - Snupin Santa fic is done
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| Sunday, October 19th, 2008
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11:36 pm - Commission work from Karasu Hime
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| Sunday, October 12th, 2008
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7:24 am - Princess Bride meme
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When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.
(after long description of Count Rugen's eyes bulging out and face going black after he has a coronary):
It was disgusting, unless you liked that sort of thing.
Inigo loved it.
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| Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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6:50 am - Natalie Tena interview
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| Thursday, August 21st, 2008
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11:39 pm - Obligatory Naked Daniel Radcliffe Post
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| Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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11:32 pm - My new favorite silly comic
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| Friday, August 15th, 2008
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6:16 am
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Is it terribly cynical of me to think that the studio has pushed back the release date of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince because the movie isn't coming together so well in the studio and they're taking the extra time to re-edit it?
In short, could it be that they're delaying it because it sucks and they're hoping to save it in post-production? Because otherwise this move makes zero sense economically.
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| Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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9:57 pm - Torchwood fic
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| Saturday, July 19th, 2008
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9:30 am - Harry/Slughorn picture
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Am I the only person who thinks that this picture looks like Slughorn is asking Harry for something rather dirty in exchange for that bottle of Felix Felicis?
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| Thursday, July 17th, 2008
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8:07 pm - Fan art!
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| Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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7:24 am - LivelongnMarry
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I was high bidder on two auctions (for fics by celandineb and mnemosyne_1, and have accordingly made a $200 donation to Mass Equality, the Massachusetts organization that works to preserve equal marriage here in the Bay State.
I did in honor of an anonymous woman who killed herself in the 1950s. She was a good friend of my aunt's who evidently fell in love with Betty and told her of her feelings, and Betty (a lifelong homophobe) reacted so violently that the woman committed suicide. $200 isn't much, especially when measured against a human life cut short. But it's the only way I can think of to balance the scales, since I'm the last person left who knows the story.
So - may my donation help preserve marriage equality in Massachusetts, and extend it to out of staters (they're working to repeal a 1913 law that prevents non-residents from marrying here should gay marriage not be legal in their home states). There has been enough tragedy.
UPDATE: The Massachusetts Senate voted to repeal the 1913 law today. It now goes to the House. Governor Deval Patrick has already said he will sign the repeal legislation when it comes to his desk.
God, I love my state.
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| Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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10:11 pm - Message for my fellow Snupineers....
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Psst. Head to ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) lupin_snape and contribute prompts to the Fantasy Fest. I did, and I feel so much cleaner and purer and more holy than I did before.
*looks angelic*
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| Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
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9:55 pm - This poem always makes me giggle
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| Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
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7:19 am - And in the department of "gratuitous and senseless changes"....
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The sixth Harry Potter movie is reportedly to begin with the Millenium Bridge collapsing in a Death Eater attack.
Just one tiny little problem: the book takes place in 1996-1997. The bridge wasn't begun until 1998 and wasn't completed until 2000. I'm sure they'll call it something else, but anyone who knows London will recognize the bridge instantly, and a lot of them will wonder just what is going on.
*claps very, very, very slowly*
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| Sunday, June 29th, 2008
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8:43 pm - This is not a surprise
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| Saturday, June 28th, 2008
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7:48 am - Question that has been bothering me for quite some time
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It strikes me as rather odd that JK Rowling's web site frequently wishes a happy birthday to characters that are dead. So far she's honored *both* Weasley twins (dead and alive), Snape, Lupin, and now Dobby the elf.
Am I the only one who finds this uncomfortably close to those "wishing you a happy birthday in Heaven" advertisements honoring loved ones who've died thanks to disease, car accidents, gang shootings, etc? It's her web site and she can do as she pleases, but wishing a happy birthday to someone who is dead creeps me out a bit.....
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| Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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10:43 pm - Seven interests meme
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blpaintchart asked me to explain seven user interests, so here we go...
1. The Middle Ages - I have been enamored of the Middle Ages since my mother, wishing to broaden my cultural experience, gave me a copy of Ivanhoe when I was ten or eleven. I read it, loved it, and proceeded to major in medieval English literature and history in college. Now I'm in a medieval recreation group and one of the top five people in the world on medieval quilting, and that and a dollar will get me a cruller at Dunkin' Donuts.
Also, I think JRR Tolkien had something to do with it,
2. The SCA - The Society for Creative Anachronism is the world's largest medieval and Renaissance re-enactment/recreation organization. We're devoted to "the Middle Ages as they should have been," without the Black Death, pogroms, crusades, plagues, rats, poor sanitation, etc. Although most of us are in it because it's a lot of fun, a surprising number of SCAdians are experts on various subjects ranging from textiles to literature to armory.
I've been involved for nearly twenty years, and am currently the Minister for Arts and Sciences of my beloved home group, the Barony of Bergental (western Massachusetts). I am a proud member of the Order of the Laurel, the Society-wide peerage for excellence in the arts, and hold the equivalent of a knighthood for my work researching and recreating pre-1600 European quilts.
Again, that and a dollar....
3. Quilts - my obsession since I was a senior in college. I LOVE LOVE LOVE quilts, whether 14th century Italian trapunto work, 19th century American calico, or the Exploding Star I pieced and have yet to quilt. Quilts are beautiful, practical, and have a long, rich history going back around 2,000 years. I've already made provisions in my will for my research to be donated to my alma mater when I go to the Giant Fabric and Batting Store in the Sky.
4. Travel - I love to see new places, especially places where Something Happened. See America (and Europe!) first, and all that. There's nothing quite like *being* in a famous place to give a sense of who lived there and when and why.
5. Nero Wolfe - the greatest armchair detective in literary history, Nero Wolfe and his legman/amanuensis Archie Goodwin are the main characters in Rex Stout's brilliant mystery series. The books are wonderfully written, frequently hilarious, and surprisingly risque. They also contain one of the very best portraits of mid-century New York, period.
6. Acoustic Neuroma - the bane of my existence. An acoustic neuroma, also known as a vestibular schwannoma, is a benign tumor on the balance nerve in the ear. Its most usual manifestation is hearing loss, while larger ones can cause facial paralysis, vertigo, and even death if they press on the brainstem. About half of them reach a certain size and never get any bigger, while the rest grow at the rate of about 2 mm per year. The ones that grow must eventually come out, while the stable ones can stay where they are as long as they're monitored via a yearly MRI.
I have a smallish one (about the size of a chickpea) in my right ear. So far it hasn't grown, and that's fine with me. Removing it would cause me to go permanently deaf in my right ear. As long as it doesn't get any bigger than it, it can stay where it is, as annoying as the tinnitus can be.
7. Slash - this will sound very odd, but originally I thought slash was ridiculous. That was back when I was a teenage Star Trek fan who thought the mere idea of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock engaging in pon farr together was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen in my life (look at all of Kirk's girlfriends! And non-reproductive sex is illogical, so clearly Vulcans can't be gay!).
Of course, what it really meant was that I was a naive, unconsciously homophobic little twit from the Midwest who had no idea what I was talking about (even though I still think Kirk was pretty straight. Spock, OTOH....). I was introduced to Harry Potter slash by a friend, really liked it, and, well...
*grins*
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