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Link to my land at Archive Of Our Own:

My stories at AO3


Link to my WIP Faculty fic novel:

High Contrast


My stories range all over the map ratings-wise, so be sure you're reading something you want to read. :)

Fandoms include The Lord of the Rings, The Faculty, Star Trek (TOS and AOS), and Penny Dreadful.


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Farewell, my love.



17 years was too short a time.


Lullaby little cat, wherever you're at
May you lie in the sun and be loved by someone
May you curl up and rest, with a quilt for a nest
May you run, may you leap, and be young in your sleep.

-- Garrison Keillor

The protests from Hollywood have reached my area. I can hear the crowds and the honks from the cars over on Sunset about four blocks away. Now it's a bit fainter, I think they're headed downtown on Sunset.

Damn, I wish I could join them. I wish I could at least walk up there and give 'em a supporting holler. If I were ten years younger...

Such times we're living through.

Whoa, a huge noise. Many voices in a big shout. Something happened. Man, I hope no one got hurt.

But the country's on the move, and who knows where we're headed? At least it feels like a logjam has broken - people are out and angry and reacting, and how pissed they are you can gauge by their willingness to do this while the health stakes are still so high.

What I'm wondering is, how angry will people still be in November? What will happen between now and then? Five months is a long time when things are this crazy.

Hope everyone's staying safe.

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So I watched the movie "Tolkien" last night, and it brought out in full relief what I find so frustrating about most biopics, and that's how unnecessary so many of them are. Take this one, for example. There really isn't anything extraordinary or unusual about his life. He was an orphan, he fell in love, his guardian said "you must wait til you're an adult". Then he went to war and survived (his friends did not). Then he came home and became a professor, got married, had some kids. Nothing about any of that deserves a whole movie. The only thing that makes it interesting is the fact that decades later Tolkien published some amazing stories that appear to have been influenced by his personal history. But other than a couple of anecdotes he related, there's no way to know exactly what influenced him in what way, or whether its influence was direct, or anything else. Tolkien himself said he detested allegory and tried to avoid it whenever he caught a whiff of it, so claiming that the flamethrowers became dragons, or that his personal batman was the reason he wrote Sam Gamgee, is spurious.

And what's really maddening on that score is the things we DO know were direct influences - like his future wife dancing for him on a picnic, which gave birth to an enormous part of his legendarium in that instant - are treated like little throwaway moments, while the film is busy extrapolating HUGE MEANING out of stuff that's iffy at best and a flat out fabrication at worst. AND the film is shy about naming names or doing any direct attribution, so unless you already know his story, you're left wondering what's so important about, say, the steams and smokes rising above the battlefield that the director feels he has to keep hammering home how ugly it all is. It's just so fucking hamhanded and clueless and CLUMSY, I couldn't figure out why anyone would have thought this film was a good idea.

ARGH



And how are all of you?
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Take a listen to this. Oud player Ahmed Alshaiba gives a Middle Eastern spin to a beloved soundtrack classic:

Watch on YouTube

The Gael from The Last of the Mohicans


It's so fascinating to hear the effect when taking music of one cultural type and transforming it into music of another. This reminds me of what Loreena McKennitt did to God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen. Just lovely.

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dianapeaceful has uploaded another beautiful video:

Watch on YouTube

讚佛偈 (Praising the Buddha)


This is one of my favorite YT channels. Lots of wonderful calm, meditative music, with lovely images to match. I use the music on this channel to calm and center myself, especially when I'm in the kitchen. It helps me infuse loving energy into whatever I'm making.

Enjoy! )O(

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Was over at Pagiba just now reading some capsule reviews of Netflix shows. (I don't get the streaming service, but it's interesting to hear what's on.) In one blurb about I Don't Belong In This World Anymore, this:


... while Elijah Wood continues a streak of oddball indie roles designed to ensure that no one ever finds him sexually appealing again.


HA. I love it. (I didn't like that film. To be honest, I don't like most of the movies Elijah is doing these days. I'm deeply tired of "quirky" films, myself.)


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Did you know there was a theme song for the film War Games that was never used?

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War Games - Crosby, Stills, and Nash


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