Imaginary Gardens

So basically this happened and then this and I'm just freaking out because good things are happening at the wrong time.

Also have a fanmix:


Back Cover, Track List and Zip

Quote of the Day: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

A half-read book is like a half-finished love affair.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
The Avengers: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* "Forever", Firelight

Good gods, I haven't written here in a long time, and what's worse is that I've had a post and LotD ready - well, constantly being added to - for a week now but just can never seem to get around to doing anything about it besides that. So here, have some post. There's a lot of whining and moping and aaaahing which may explain why I'm not writing much or doing anything at all.

Or you could skip to the photographs, fanart and links. Whatev'.

So, yeah, I'm not dead. Again. ( Read more... )


Chicago photos: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8


More Fanart, A Softer World Remixes: ( Read more... )


Quotes of the Day: EM Forster, A Room With a View & John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light,' he continued in measured tones. 'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I’m in love with you.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Richard Siken, "Snow and Dirty Rain"

The internet exploded over the FBI's crackdown on Megaupload as well as on the SOPA and ACTA. See collected Tumblr posts about it here. Some are informative, some are reactive, and some are just the internet coping. The internet is sinking. Key posts are Whoa, guys, they just shut down Megaupload and arrested a bunch of people., I know that everyone wants to be witty and make an impact when they post about SOPA/PIPA/ACTA, and they mostly talk about the things they won’t be able to watch or listen to, but it’s much more serious than that., What is ACTA, Anonymous Goes On Megaupload Revenge Spree, Fake new megaupload: Megavideo.bz, used by Anonymous, Black March campaign, Breaking News twitter


In other news, sechat made a fanmix for Time is Running Out because she is awesome.


Someone Must Get Hurt

Irony, we has it.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Jon Stewart

It's been ages since I last wrote a proper post. Weeks, even. Hoenstly, there's not been all that much going on, and what has is either work-related or stuff I'd rather not remember. ( Read more... )

I read this post by Tumblr's crowleyismyco-pilot (who is awesome) on the why behind her love and adoration for all things Mark Sheppard (except possibly it wasn't this post but one like it or maybe I just can't remmeber things anymore), and has finally pushed me into writing about something I've been meaning to write about for a while. (Except, of course, I realize now that I've already written about it all here). ( Read more... )

In other, fannish, news:
- Ringer wins all the things, including my heart.
- Torchwood: Miracle Day was an excercise of meh-ness concluding in one final burst of "oh no you di'n't" (with a little bit of "Care Bear Stare saves the day, again" facepalming).
- Doctor Who's "The Girl Who Waited" broke my heart into a million little pieces.
- I'll be missing Supernatural's 7x01 next week, which means that a) I get to wait two more weeks until Ye Great Emotional Car Crash, b) I'll get to watch 7x01 and 7x02 back-to-back, and c) I'll be gone when the internet implodes. None of this is actually good.

Quote of the Day: greygirlbeast, here

My head is all fire and fucking molten nails this morning. I am the Good Ship Righteous Fucking Indignation. My threshold for douchebags will stand at zero for the foreseeable future. We're talking hellfire-and-brimstone Old Testament shit. Today, I am the nastiest pirate ship that ever plowed the Seven, and we're out for blood, and there will be rape and pillaging and cities will burn, just because.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* "Have You Heard" Thea Gilmore

Meme: 30-Day Original Story Development Challenge ( Day 10 )

Quote of the Day: Joss Whedon

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Jane Wagner

Went out with my mom and dad today in the afternoon with a mission: to buy shoes. (We've got this thing where if we pay more than N on a single receipt, we get tax exception. The "pay more than N" thing is new and unusual and wasn't a requirement in other countries. What can you do?) And lo and behold! Shoes were had! Two pairs! This is like a miracle with a cherry on top. So I can has shoes.

Then we had ice cream and how sad is your fruit when the melon ice cream is better than your morning's melon? I'm not going to complain much, though, 'cause we've been snarfing down mangoes like crazy and they've been delicious and straight from Pakistan, sold by Pakistanis over near what we all call "the ethnic market" but has an actual name. Sadly, though, mangoes season is over until around September. Curse my undying desire for tropical fruit!

Then there was a bra shopping - I'd been wanting a summer-appropriate bra for a while, and we happened upon a yarn-and-thread-and-socks-and-bras-and-pijamas-and-so-on shop, which has a name in Spanish and Italian and I'm damned 'cause I can't remember it at all, and what do you know, bras were purchased! In fact, the same style bra as the shop lady - who'd been having a cigarette break - was wearing, and the same brand as I myself was wearing (and it was pretty awesome that the lady knew which model it was just from my bra strap), which is the same brand that makes my mom squee because it is just that good. (Said brand is Simone Perele, by the by.)

Tomorrow we're going to Anguillara which we've technically already seen, although that was a raining-heavily, try-and-make-out-the-lake day where we arrived, had a cuppa, and left. But tomorrow's going to be splendid, 'cause we're having lunch with my ex-superivser - the really awesome one from my internship volunteer thing. \o/

I've also caught up on the flist. I still have a load of SPN tabs open, but hey, something's something. There's still this week's supply of Tumblr to wade through... Damn it, Internet! Why you so full of stuff?


Quote of the Day: Brown Bird

Every day is like a war between the will to go on, / And a wish the earth would spiral into the sun.

Video of the Day: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, June 28, 2011: "Oh, for Fox Sake - Stewart Eviscerates Stewart" ( Read more... )

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Firefly: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Anon. or uncredited

Just a quick note to say that a) I ain't dead (yet) although b) I'm mentally exhausted, what with i) workworkwork, ii) socializing zomg, iii) multiple language use. Seriously, on Monday? I got home and just collapsed on the floor for a few hours in a mental coma.

So far, so good, though. Sure, I'm not into the complicated work part of it yet - mainly reading - but at least the mind-numbing fear is gone. Monstly.

Here, have some links I haven't had time to look through beyond the vague, "gee, I wish I had the time and energy to read this".


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Firefly: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Anon.

Most of what I would like to say about the season finale of Supernatural - or rather, the Epic Breakup of Cas'n'Dean and How Castiel Went Batshit - but most of that's been said better in the quotes below. There are two points I want to add, however, and I'll direct these to Dean - fictional character that he is regardless - directly. ( Dear Dean )

Quotes of the Day: euclase & dream7790, here, lovemedoj2, here, Friedrich Nietzsche ( Supernatural Season Finale SPOILERS )


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Bobby, Supernatural

I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave the retelling of today's adventures - with photographs! - to tomorrow and instead leave y'all with a fanmix of songs I put on repeat (why penguins? because, that's why) and links from Monday and Tuesday. Now excuse me, I need to get some shut-eye to wake up in the wee hours to catch the last metro due to Yet Another Goddamn Public Transportation Strike (National Edition). Argh.




Back Cover, Track List, and Download Link


Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
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Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* 412 Ways to be Killed by the Penguin of Death (WARNING: contains mild peril), Number 23

When Google Fails Me: I'm setting up a pdf of a selection of my stories for my supervisor, and working through author's notes, adding links and so on. In one chapter of a story, I reference a metaquotes - or possibly a comment on a metaquotes, which, yay.

ultra_lilac: People should never be baked into pies, you monster! The pastry overpowers the delicate bouquet of flavours in human flesh!

Goddamnit, I can't find it on the internet to put in the url. This is driving me crazy! (Yes, I am that nitpicky.) I figured out that the quote has to be older than December 2005, but any googles give me only my own post about it. So after having skimmed through half of 2005, I'm going to start at the begininng (2002) and head on from there. I will find it even if it kills me. Grr.

Sickle's Rant: How to Feel Underappreciated with Just Two Brief Emails: ( Read more... )

Sickle's Review of Charlaine Harris' Grave Sight (Audiobook), Chapters 1-4 ( Read more... )

Sickle's Review of The Land of Painted Caves, Chapter 1: ( Read more... )

Sickle's Review of Grey's Anatomy, "Song Beneath the Song" (7x18): ( Read more... )

Sickle's Review of Paranormal Activity 2: ( Read more... )

Meme: 30-Day Fandom vs. Personal Meme:

Day 17: Character you would never put your close friend in a room with, unless they had done something to make you really hate them. ( Read more... )

Day 18: Character you most think would make a great parent (father if you are female, mother if you are male). ( Read more... )

Day 19: Listen to the last ballad you remember hearing. Which character does it most remind you of? ( Read more... )

Day 20: Pick three favourite characters, each of them apearing currently in a different fandom. One of them has to be killed off from the current fandom you like them in, one of them has to become the star of their fandom, and the other has to be written out completely to never have appeared at all. You decide. ( Read more... )

Day 21: Character you'd most like to be for a day. ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day: kambriel, here

Let the things you've suffered, endured, survived show.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Human Target: ( Read more... )
Misfits: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
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Random: ( Read more... )


* Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse