Imaginary Gardens

Remember how - if you waded through my sea of Tumblr links - there were some links about how there'd been some sort of plot against Misha Collins and fandom instantly went full-on GRR ARGH MAMA BEAR? And remember how I couldn't find out what the plot had been?

Yeah. It was this. Seriously, that is just mean. Are alright, "mean" doesn't even begin to cover what this is, but I'd probably burn through my keyboard if I tried to write all applicable words down. And I'd probably have an aneurism coming up with them all. I'm just sitting here shaking my head in horror and shame and disgust and THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH ADJECTIVES TO DESCRIBE HOW I FEEL, OKAY?!?

Also, I made Fanart. Well, picspams. And macros. And "MUST. EXPRESS. FEELINGS." fanart-picspam-quote-meta-man-ape-gone-wrong thing. There's Supernatural, Doctor Who, Stonehenge Apocalypse and Firefly, some of them all mixed up like a Turkey stuffing. ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day: Christpher Paolini, Brisingr (As much as it pains me to quote him and his series - and by gods, it pains me. It's on par with quoting Stephanie Myer for me.)

Perhaps no one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth,and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.

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* Jacob Glaser, Stonehenge Apocalypse

Today at the internship I returned to the translations, which is sort of a relief on account of the lack of interminable scanning, and on the other hand, it's me, back where I started. I need this oompf to get me a little bit further now.

There was another metro&bus strike this morning, which meant I got to go to the office's neighbourhood a full hour before work actually started and, plus, I got to freeze my bum off sitting and walking around the sad, empty little streets.

Mom's off to Spain starting this morning, so it's just my Dad and me until Wednesday. I trust we won't starve, although to hear my mother speak and see her stock the freezer, you'd think we didn't know how to feed ourselves. Mind you, I think I'm having McD's tomorrow.

Tomorrow, speaking of, I'm going to head over to the far reaches of the city and try and get my fiscal number. It will undoubtably involve a lot of waiting and hopefully not too much paperwork. Beurocracy for the not at all win.

I've spent the afternoon revelling in having the house to myself and working on almost a week's worth of Links of the Day (oh, compulsive organization!) On Sunday Dad and I are going to see a Swan lake ballet showing - we managed to nab free tickets from our landlady for some reason. I think I might force myself to go jogging sometimes in the weekend too, and I have to write a comment in a Goethe forum for my German homework (how wack is that?).

In other news, I'm dying to finish The Pillars of the Earth and hey, new Supernatural this week again! \o/ I'm really looking forward to seeing more of Puppy!Sam. Ah, it's almost like seeing Season 1 Sam all over again! (Except he doesn't have the adorable bangs of adorableness.)

Meme: Good Things:

Day 5: CV! In Italian!
Day 6: Chat iwth girl from German class!
Day 7: House to myself!

Video of the Day: Sia's "Soon We'll Be Found" - So pretty! ( Read more... )

Quote of the Day: metaquotes thead

shoemoney2night: After being tickled by the names of 17th century Puritans [...] I did some reading and discovered some more brilliant Puritan names. A Sussex jury roll from 1650 list includes the names Accepted Trevor, Redeemed Compton, Kill-Sin Pimple, Fly-Fornication Richardson, Search-The-Scriptures Moreton [...].

17catherines: Am I the only one who wondered why the puritans were interested in fornicating flies?

shaysdays: I think it's more, "Fly away, oh foul temptation of our mortal bodies!" not "Screeeeew meeeeeee!"

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* Small Expression

I continue to be behind in everything in my life, although I have an excuse for today, because today mom and I went windowshopping, although the intention was to go to the Goethe so I could sign up for a course but the secretary was closed and we didn't so much "go windowshopping" as "go into shops and fail to find anything that wasn't hideous", which is why we got home late and watched Castle (2x01) and then I tried to catch up on the flist and by then I just was too tired to do anything at all and anyway it was too late in the night so here I am.

Also, run on sentences.

I hope to have photos to post tomorrow (they're uploading!) but for now, Imma gonna go and watch The Daily Show's last Thursday episode. For greater justice.


Quote of the Day: greygirlbeast (Caitlin R. Kiernan), here

I'm on manuscript page 162. But, even as I begin this seemingly marvelous progress, the insecurity mounts. The fear that I'm not even half smart enough to write this book, and that there's no audience who wants to read a novel of this sort. I have begun heavily second guessing the reader.

Fuck the so-called wisdom of writing workshops, of instructors, and fuck all that shit about reader/writer contracts. This sort of anxiety is poisonous to good fiction. One does not write for an audience, unless one only wishes to pander. One writes. The worth of a novel is not determined by the opinions of those who read it, collected and averaged to yield an objective rating that may be expressed in stars given and stars withehld. It's all a lonely mess. The book's "worth" lies in the mind of the author, and in the mind of each reader. Each is alone with the book, and everyone who reads it is subject to their own unique experience. Nothing is generally true. That said, I sit and try to just let Imp speak and tell her story, but I begin to hear the complaints to come. The shitty Amazon and blog "reviews" it may receive in 2012. These things shouldn't occur to me, and certainly they shouldn't give me a moment's pause, but they do. "It takes forever before anything actually happens." "It's slow." "It rambles." And so on and on and on and so forth.

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* Goethe

Because I am so very far behind in posting anything of substance, not that there's is much, have some bullet points:

- Triangle (2009) is fantastically awesome and kinda needs to be put on repeat once or twice until your brain makes sense of everything. Win. Trailer, which I only watched once and said, "I need to watch this film" and a year and a half later, I still hadn't seen hide nor hair of the film and barely remembered anything except that it was awesome, so I tracked it down and here I am all a-squee. Although apparently people are saying the trailer spoils you too much and you should go in blind, so, uh, you could do that too.

- Stray cats of win! Bob the Cat (not to be confused with Fake-Bob, a black-with-grey-hairs cat who is less of the "pet me!" variety) is back, sitting up and meowing for caresses. There's also a new cat around, with one eye and missing one lower canine, who is henceforth called Greebo, for obvious reasons, who is also a "pet me!" fiend. Lastly, a long-haired black cat who very much likes to be petted has popped by a few times, and will henceforth be Valhallarama

- I finished listening to How to Train Your Dragon and holy wow, it has nothing to do with the movie apart from there being the same names and dragons and vikings. So. Different. (So awesome.)

- Yesterday was Free Night at the Museum day, and they'd just opened the Palazzo Barberini after fixing up a few galleries. They opened at 7, mom and I were in line a little after 6. One hour later and we were still in line - a line that was ten to twelve people wide so all you could see was the shirt of the person in front of you and couldn't move at all - and not moving at all. Cue Sickle feeling dizzy, her vision going black, and the insistent buzzing in her ears turning into a dull yet deafening roar. Eh, oui, I was moments away from fainting. I scrambled out of the crowd and sat with my head bent low over my knees until I was aware of the world around me, at which point a young, cute and terribly annoying man comes over asking if I'm okay, if I'm pregnant, if I need water, if I want to tell him what's wrong in English, and I'm just, "Gah, *handwave* I'm fine, go away, don't make me think now."

- Ever since I watched Devour I've been meaning to rewatch it and write up all the snark, or at least do so without rewatching it, but I seem to not have the time. I've got some notes for Disney's Anastacia (which sucked and is so not the thing to watch after reading an extensive biography of Tzar Nicholas II and family).

- I've been working a lot of the OPush fanvid and I've gotten through the first of Dean's verses and have the second one all planned out. I'm a bit miffed that I can't seem to not do chronological timelines, but if the images fit, what can I do? *sigh* I'm so, so ready for this project to be done with.

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* Common expression

Today was nothing to write home about, except for that bit in the afternoon with the maternal strife argument. Yesterday was even worse, what with the three-hour-long torturous cramp session of pain and agony, preceded by the morning- and the evening-cramps sessions of great discomfort.

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* Ben Braeden, "The Kids Are Alright", Supernatural

...Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life.*


After much freaking out and "I cannae do this, Captain!" I managed to call the guy from FAO about volunteerships and internships. I stuttered a bit, shook a bit more, and finally managed to speak. He, on the other hand, sounded like the most wonderful person ever. He basically told me to go the usual route with the forms and stuff, but he told me about two other agencies that do similar work and also provided his email so I could forward him my application. So \o/ on that.

I then went and had lunch with Willy, and there was much squee and joy. It was pretty hilarious how I was high on caffeine and sociality and saying how I was miserable with the biggest grin on my face. Oh brain, you so weird!

And continuing our nightly tradition of anxiety dreams, or nightmares, I had another one! About having two buckets full of water and trying to move fish out of one, realizing that the big fish were eating the small ones so panicking even more about taking the fish out, then realizing that the big bucket I was holding the two buckets in has a mother-lovin' baby crocodile in it and then the bucket I'm holding is practically churning with little crocodiles and there's a tortoise over on the side.

I'm going to recover from today's madness - yes, it's 4 pm and the day can be over now, thanks - and watch Lost. Then I have to pull myself together enought write a few emails expressing my condolences because holy shit, y'all, violence in Nairobi to people I know. Willy just told me what happened and it's really, really bad.


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* Management slogan, Ridcully-style (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent)

Yesterday talked with Leslie for some 6 hours. She just got back and is leaving again Friday forevers.

Today's first day of SBB was nervewracking (because I'm weak). Especially the "How to get a job" lecture, and how you need to Know Thyself before deciding what to apply for.

I slept fitfully all night, waking up over and over and having my typical nightmares of actually waking up and going about my business thinking I'm running late only to really wake up and think, damnit, now I really am going to be late. Woke up some 2 times at night and then just like every 20 minutes or so from dawn to alarm clock. *sigh* It was also a trick getting to sleep, heart all a-pounding in that "Ha ha, panic in the sheets!** Insooooomnia!" kind of way.

My nerves were totally not soothed by the inexplicable and unstoppable double-house beeping of the fire alarm this morning.

I whiled away the afternoon printing and reading for my Project Proposal (I need to have a rough draft in two weeks, and a final by the end of the month). Then I met up with Lander for a walk, which I thought would be a stroll but turned out to be 2 hours long. (I think he likes me. Like, likes, but I don't likelike and anyway, we get along fine and all but I don't think we click really well conversation-wise. I mean, I feel like I'm making an effort most of the time. But he's nice and helpful and friends are good things to have. But argh, if I go through another awkward unrequited-like thing, I'm a-gonna scream. Damn boys.)


Links of the Day:
UK/US English Dictionary and another
Celebatheists: Joss Whedon on God - "I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absense of any grander scheme, not from the presense of any grander scheme.">
simm_daily provides Life on Mars Official Companion Season 2 Scans
iconzicons's Animated Horror Portraits
forth_eorlingas's TDK Fanfic: Royal Conversations (Wayne, Joker)
polskipiwo's TDK Fanfic: Drabble Series: Shine (Joker, Minion) - Header image ftw.
morlockiness's TDK Fanfic: Drabbles
irisbleufic's TDK Fanfic: Tandem (Dent/Coin)
newbia's TDK Fanfic: Sweetheart (Joker/Batman, Joker/Harley Quinn, Wayne/Rachel)
teacrumb's TDK Fanfic: Magic Mirror (Joker)
ragdoll987's TDK Fanfic: Control Issues (Wayne/Gordon)


* "Coin-Operated Boy", Desden Dolls
** Panic in the Sheets sounds like a great title for something...

A present from me to you: Sylar scenes all in one go! Hell yeah! Take it while it's 'cause he's hot!

Found and posted Chapter 22 of Hero's Manual. Not that anyone reads it. *pout*

In other news, a government branch - represented by a group of three - came into my house today to check on the house itself (whether it was livable and safe) and that everyone registered to live here actually was (and vice versa) and had contracts. How truly Dutch.

It was a bizarre experience, because a) while it was 1 pm, I hadn't even had breakfast yet and b) authority law figures make me somewhat uncomfortable in case, somehow, they decide I'm guilty of something. But everything went well and all my papers checked out. I even tought one of 'em something - namely that my Spanish ID is valid for all of Eurpoe, 'cause we're a loving community who accepts things like this.

Yesterday's outing was most excellent. Lander picked me up on his bike - riding double is a very difficult thing indeed! *death grip* - and we went to Proost, where we had a choice of two social events. We eventually settled for the backroom, where his International Law collegues were playing darts. (I threw for the first time ever, with noticable improvement. Watching professional dart shooters, as I have previously done, doesn't help you, but it's entertaining. Ish.) The people were really nice and interesting and, while my body still screamed "I'm nervous and shy and not at all relaxed!", my face was a-giggle and I enjoyed myself. One extra-nice thing was that there was one guy, Ashran or Asran, whom I was a bit attracted to, and we got along nicely. :D

Tomorrow is my internship meeting, and I might meet up with Mariska (email recept pending). Friday I'm heading off to Amsterdam with Lander and whoever cares to join for museum fun.

ETA: Why I feel I should be watching Torchwood: holy smokin' Jack/James!


Links of the Day:
Generation Terrorists - quotastic!
More metaquotes Movies that ought to Be (oakenguy's monkey army) and Songs that Ought to Be (morelen's I'm Cold Song
metaquotes explains why not to be a zombie
Tom Cruise talks about Scientology - While I definately woudln't call this "terrifyingly creepy", there are a few moments where I definately balk and crash up against a wall of WTF Wrong! And as scary as I find religion sometimes, and the "We are the authority on x" mentality, I do realize that if it gives people the strength and impulse to "go out and help", that may be a good thing. (Unless by help they mean convert, burn at the stake, etc.)


* Moving Pictures, TPratchett