Imaginary Gardens

Adventures with Italian Post: ( Not really that adventurous, but inlcludes gifs and love for mrscastielftw )


In other news, I made Supernatural fanart recently and not-so-recently and here's some of that: ( Read more... )

Also I was looking up recipes and read the following:

Brown the onion in the shortening, only to a golden color. Do not brown. (source)

What the fuck? Brown the onion but don't brown it? The just say sauté the onion, for the love of cooking.

Quote of the Day: Mycroft, Sherlock 2x01

All lives end, all hearts are broken: caring is not an advantage, Sherlock.

Links of the Day: Note: For Tumblr posts, the possessive is not necessarily indicative of who the original blogger is, but rather who (re)blogged it. I'll try to fix this in future LotD editions.
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Abraham Joshua Heschel

Yesterday's meet-and-greet at Organization went well, even if my brain flatlined a few times and I found myself unable to string words together without stumbling over them. Apparently talking to someone I don't know makes me forget grammar and vocabulary in any language now. The person I spoke with gave me some suggestions - basically just to email people directly involved in projects I'd be interested in, saying, "hi! I'm here! if you ever need anyone! hi!" - and will circulate my CV around.

Today there was a nation-wide transportation strike, which meant I woke up an hour early to catch the last metro and waiting outside in the cold until I could get in the office. I started writing an SPN fic while I was at it, because apparently I can't finish fics. *sigh* Then, to get home, I decided to walk the hour back instead of wait around for four hours for the metro to start up again for a brief shining moment, or try and squeeze into any available bus and take three hours to get home like last time.

The rest of the day I spent working on a variety of fannish projects and watching Dharma and Greg. I was going to watch Paranormal Activity 2 tonight, but I figure it's a touch too late for that now.

In other news, my right eyelid's been twitching on and off for the whole day now, and it's really annoying. The Internet says I probably need more sleep, less caffeine, or less stress, to which I say, fat chance.


Picspam: Misfits' Iwan Rheon guest starring in Grandma's House, and Simon Amstell crushing on him adorably: ( Read more... )


Meme: 30-Day Fandom vs. Personal Meme:

Day 13: Form of transportation from a fandom that you wish you had yourself. ( Read more... )

Day 14: Fandom home you wish you lived in yourself. ( Read more... )

Day 15: Fandom location you’d most like to visit, even though you couldn’t meet the characters. ( Read more... )

Day 16: Character you’d most like to steal underwear from. ( Read more... )


Quote of the Day: Unnamed Professor of Pharmacology, here

In the early 1900s, Bayer, the same company that makes your aspirin, advertised diacetylmorphine as the first non-addictive form of morphine. Today, we call it heroin.

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


* Common expression

German class sucked today. ( Read more... )

About the hormones, can I just give a "fuck you" to people who think PMS is a social construct? ( Read more... )

Sickle's Review of Repo! The Genetic Opera:

• It is awesome. (Trailer) I remember the crazy mad hype on fandomsecrets months before the movie came out, and believe be, the hype is totally founded. (Unless cracky science fiction dramatic slasher opera isn't really your thing - like my brother - then you might not like it.) It's rocking fun, the story is good (and easy to follow in that characters are well-introduced and get back-stories) and the songs are brilliant


• Speaking of, Zydrate Anatomy is still the best song there, although I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much is rapidly becoming my also-favorite.


• And speaking of Zydrate Anatomy, can I just say? Graverobber is made of unf.


• Anthony Stewart Head was spectacular. His singing - and yes, he does have an album out - his acting, everything. Oh man, I've missed seeing him. (This is why I need to watch Merlin, I know.) I didn't even have to choose between hopeing for him being Giles-like or him being Ripper-like. (And, um, Sexy Evil Voice is Sexy.)


• And again, speaking of Anthony Head, I didn't know his brother was Murray Head, of One Night in Bangkok. That is... Wow. That's a classic, that is.

Sickle Wields the Science Stick: On icanhascheezburger, someone posts a video: Fennec Fox Demands Love. Cue the "OMGWTF that's a wild animal, why is it captivity!" voices and the "it's totally domesticated, no worries mate, have some fallacies" maddness, and I back away slowly to shake my head (and Science Stick!) far from the drama. My references are all going to be Wiki because I have neither the time nor patience to pull up relevant journals and I am not doing a literature review to shake the Science Stick over the concepts of domestication, tameness, and similar. Deal with it. This shit got long enough as it is.( Read more... )


Videos of the Day: "Intervention", Margaret Cho ft. Tegen & Sara ( Read more... )
xxxThePeachxxx's Halle Berry, Blackness Confirmed ( Read more... )
"Time and Place", Last Dinosaurs - seschat, I thought of you five seconds into the music video ;) ( Read more... )

Meme: Good Things:

Day 19: I went for a walk, had ice-cream (coffee flavour of the gods and ricotta & blue berries of those other gods), and checked out the new Little Big Town toy store. Grabby hands were made at many things, because I am twelve. Or six, depending on the toy. (I *insert sarcasm* love how their gallery is really just headshot of Important People in the shop, as opposed to, oh, I don't know, their products?)
Day 20: ...I'm going to watch Castle The Secret Diary of a Call Girl tonight even if my alarm clock kills me tomorrow. Yays. Granted, it's officially Day 21 now (Approprite Icon is Appropriate), so Day 20 had... Rasberries with cream. Yes. That was the highlight.

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


* Repo! The Genetic Opera

Yesterday I played the ljdq.

Today I thought about the Stonehenge Apocalypse/Doctor Who crack fic and had all sorts of ideas about time travel and cybermen and the Winchesters and whatnot. Probably won't have the time or energy to write it till the weekend.

I chatted (in Italian!) with co-workers. Call I still call them that even though I'm a volunteer? Tomorrow I'm going to translate giant walls of text (i.e. the biography of Person) so that will make my brain go smush. On the other hand, since it's a Roman holiday on Tuesday, we're getting Monday off too. Whoot.

I failed at updating my CV or looking for a job or emailing NGOs or checking out iPhone reviewer blogs. *sigh*

Yeah, I got nothin'. Have some links.


Quote of the Day: Terry Pratchett, Jingo

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Stonehenge Apocalypse: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Depression: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* TPratchett, Jingo

I had a very unsettling dream last, night, which goes fantastically with the upsetting dream I had the day before. ( Read more... )

In other news, have some Italian music. Specifically, the music listed in my Italian book. ( Read more... )

Meme - 30 Days - Day 26 → Your week, in great detail: ( Read more... )

Quotes of the Day: Jim Valvano

To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
True Blood: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Ashes to Ashes: ( Read more... )
Nightmare on Elm Street (2010): ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Spanish proverb**
** Just not one I've ever heard before.

Supernatural "Dark Side of the Moon" Review: ( Flailage in three, two, one... )


Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )

* Dean Winchester, 5x16

Life: Productivity was reached! I'm half-way through making maps of all the lions showing their home ranges. Tomorrow, calculating areas and, hopefully, getting the maps presentable with all that fancy stuff like legends and titles and shit. I hope to get some writing on the discussion done this weekend, or at the very least stick on some error bars (stupid science). Oh, also? I was full of uncoordinated fail at Zumba class today, but eventually had fun regardless.

Nano: Pending. It's late, I've just had dinner and I want to mellow before getting down to it. Granted, I also want to continue the going-to-sleep-early thing, which is...not technically going to happen seeing as I'm past the "early" concept. But! Uh...Heroes, then sleep, and I may just say "Epic 'nah'" to Nano for today. There's the weekend, after all.

Video of the Day: Ask a Ninja - "What's the difference between ninjas and crazy people?" ( Embedded )

Links of the Day:
Random Fandom and General: ( Read more... )
Supernatural: ( Maaaasive and unending, like SamnDean's angst )


* Jon Stewart

In celebration of the death of summer, my room has been taken over by laundry (pending- and damp) as well as a suitcase in the midst of one of its great yearly transitions (the summer-winter exchange, less feared than the storage-travel one).

The weekend with Willy was brilliant. We talked mainly about our projects and respective boys. Coo-ee did we talk a lot about the boys and she's agreed that I'm being neither crazy, demanding nor am I exaggerating. So, um, yay? Anyway, it was good to hash it out with someone who knows exactly who and what I'm talking about. (Once this is all settled in Real Life I'm run y'all through it - mainly because I need to hash it out myself.) Then on Saturday night we went to a shared bday party of some of her friends (and omg, sitting on the back of a bike for a long time hurts one's bum a lot). Sunday we took it easy in the morning, then she went to work and I wandered around Amsterdam.

I've been trying to plan out my birthday this coming Saturday. Mom suggests I hang out with the people I'm trying to make friends out of, and I needn't say it's my birthday. I see the logic in that sociality is good and that if you hang out with acquaintances on your bday (and them knowing it is), they may stare at you as if you were a shaven monkey lathering on sunscreen whilst sitting on a parka**, thinking "You seriously don't have anyone better - closer - to hang out with on your bday?"

On the other hand, if I'm to spend my bday with people, I'd rather it be people who care I'm alive. If that's not an option (and when was the last time that was), then I'd rather spend it alone. Alone, yes, but doing things I like. As in, I will give myself an awesome day.

So the plan so far is a late wake-up, a full English breakfast at a local pub***, a stock-up on all sorts of candy and then a stint in the Hague, where dim sum and a movie will be enjoyed. (I'm still a bit hazy on this last bit.) I don't think I'll manage Dutch pancakes or a cake of some sort, but there's always Sunday. Somewhere during all that I hope to receive a call or two from family, but that's about it. This will be awesome and wonderful and not at all sad and the first person to suggest so will be tied to a chair and forced to watch the abysmal film Happy Birthday To Me with the McGill Architectural Porn deleted! Oh yeah, I will stoop so low.


Links of the Day:

marika_kailaya's ( too awesome for this page )
( Random Fandom )
( The Internets )

I'm lately been thinking of what I would want in a house. So, naturally, I turn to television shows first, for inspiration and the likes. ( True Blood and Supernatural Homes )


Links of the Day:

Dollhouse Communities: [Bad username or site: imprinted dolls @ livejournal.com], imprinted_icons, dollhousefics, claire_topher, dollhouse_art
meadowmines's SPN Podfic: Life Is a Banquet (and Some Poor Suckers Are Starving to Death) read by helloapollo
Dollhouse Screencaps
Dollhouse Wiki
12_12_12 posts Idol Tour Videos
ack_attack's picspam of hilarity for the Half-Blood Prince London Premiere
lilyroseicons's Colour Tutorial
theflyingbeet's Batman_lulz Webcomic
sue_denimme's Doctor Who A tribute to the Tenth Doctor (with images)
whedon_lists's BtvS Fanon
True Blood Screencaps
Robin Hood Part 1
25th Hour Part 1
The Black Couldron Part 1
Jani's at the mercy of her mind - The parents of a 6-year-old schizophrenic search for help against daunting odds for a patient so young and a case so severe.
Myths Over Miami by Lynda Edwards - Captured on South Beach, Satan later escaped. His demons and the horrible Bloody Mary are now killing people. God has fled. Avenging angels hide out in the Everglades. And other tales from children in Dade's homeless shelters.
Noisbot.com's Funny T-Shirts


* James Brogan, 25th Hour

Reading Blueprint For a Sutainable Economy by DPearce & EBBarbier (2000) and once again, a pet peeve gets petted. ( Latin America )

In today's emotional topography, I was skirting the great Marsh of Suck** and could see, far in the distance, the Pit of Blah. Luckily, whilst striding through the Woods of Worry, I failed to attract the attention of a flock of Dodos of Doom - though there were near enough to be heard, cooing softly, "Dooooom. Doo-wooom. Doomanu, doomanu. Doooom."***

So what did I do? I was rebellious and irresponsible and acted in direct opposition to my Mother's desires. Meaning, I bought shit. ( Lookit. )


Links of the Day: ( Massive. For a given value of. )


* "Weighty Ghost", Wintersleep (Music Video)
** Alliteration fails me. Quicksand of Suck? Sea of Suck? But it wouldn't suck then, just...drown.
*** The Dodos of Doom are really just the dodos in Ice Age, flocking around the hero's chanting, "Doom on you!" They seemed like an apt emotional!metaphor.