as i cried out, like, in latin

it's been a while since I posted, lj hasn't been kind to me as of late.

anyhow, my nephew got married a couple weeks ago, and I got a bit dressed up. usually I'm pretty casual. so it was a really nice change, and I think I turned out to look okay. I won't post any actual wedding pics with heaps of other people in, as I have not asked.

but this is what I wore. plus a couple randoms, one being a 4 month (roughly) post chest op pic. so possibly NSFW

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I was reading Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time again, and something about the description of Mrs. Whatsit struck me. "Several scarves of assorted colors were tied about the head, and a man's felt hat perched atop." She later appeared "in her familiar wild garb of shawls and scarves and the old tramp's coat and hat."

At one point, she changes. No, not clothes: "Now, don't be frightened, loves," Mrs. Whatsit said. Her plump little body began to shimmer, to quiver, to shift.

She goes by a title that clearly isn't her real name:
"But what do we call you now?" Calvin asked.
"Oh my dears," came the new voice…"You can't go on changing my name each time I metamorphose. And I've had such pleasure being Mrs. Whatsit I think you'd better keep to that."

And she travels in time and space with some companions:
"We took a time wrinkle as well as a space wrinkle….We made a nice, tidy little time tesser, and unless something goes terribly wrong we'll have you back about five minutes before you left, so there'll be time to spare…And if something goes terribly wrong it won't matter whether we ever get back at all."

Now who does that remind me of?

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I know we've had a few HP posts lately, so of course it's time for something Twilight related. I saw this posted in a forum I lurk in and felt some of you might find it interesting, even if it is a few months old.

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though these images were taken last week or during my first week. I've actually gotten more hair growth over my lip now. Not sure if anyone else notices though :-/ (nsfw I believe)( 3 Pics )

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Last night, I ended up watching the latter two Pirates of the Caribbean movies back to back while trying to tinker with something on my laptop. I'm pretty sure I accomplished neither well, as both distracted from the other. *grin* They're more melodramatic and overblown than I remember, but in a good yet cheesy way. Regardless, this led to me still being awake at, um, 1 am? Thus I'm more than a bit out of it this morning, apt to focus on unimportant things for long seconds before catching myself with a twitch and dragging my attention back to whatever I'm supposed to be doing.

On lyssie's recommendation, I'm checking out the new 30 Seconds to Mars album, This is War. So far, I'm very much impressed. It's got a sound that's enveloping, wrapping you up in lyrics and sound and spinning you around til you emerge dizzily, amazed, from the far end. OK, maybe that totally wordy description is just me; maybe that's just the lack of sleep talking. All the same, I think it's a very good album... and several songs immediately make me curious to try out vidding, either on BSG or T:TSCC source material.

I can't get a certain individual I shared lunch with in California out of my thoughts. As in, having dinner last night and idly imagining sharing it with said person because said person was, well, really interesting. I wish I didn't live 3,000 miles away. *wry smile*

I'm rather looking forward to bringing the D&D campaign I'm running to a satisfying story-arc ending. Technically it's a hiatus, but really I'm ready to retire it. It was the first one I've run for any length of time, and while it was quite the learning experience I'm glad that it's at a point where I can break away from it and move on. One more session, in theory, and the actions and luck of the characters therein will determine which way the campaign ends -- well, or very very badly. *evil grin*

In closing, the weather in New England remains surreal. Yesterday, December 3, it was 67 degrees. If the Gulf Stream ever dissipates, New England is SO in trouble.

Skylar P 19yrs
Lansing, MI
computer science major


1 year 3 months on T (injections, pills [terrible], and gel at various times.)
I have a consult for top surgery on Monday!

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This is *fascinating*. Really. I never get to see real ebook drama; it's usually "oh, I could never give up the smell of real books!" vs "umm, 300 books in my pocket, yay!" And then there's some mumblings on both sides, and they both move on and read books on whatever media tweaks their kinks. But not this time!

I bring you... Alan Kaufman vs Mobileread!

Who, you might ask, is Alan Kaufman? I don't know! Apparently, he's written some books. And he blogs about writerly things. And a little over a month ago, he wrote The Electronic Book Burning, in which he compares ebooks to Nazis:

The book is fast becoming the despised Jew of our culture. Der Jude is now Der Book. Hi-tech propogandists tell us that the book is a tree-murdering, space-devouring, inferior form of technology; that society would simply be better-off altogether if we euthanized it even as we begin to carry around, like good little Aryans, whole libraries in our pockets, downloaded on the Uber-Kindle.

Serious Godwin points for that. In an opening salvo, even. (It's okay, folks, he's Jewish, and that makes it okay for him to compare technological advances to the Holocaust. Erm.)

What's Mobileread? A website devoted to ebooks, ebook sources, ebook devices, and people who read ebooks. It's big. And active.

Mobileread, with its membership of 50,000 ebook aficionados, who range from copyfight fanatics to language purists to casual Kindle readers, are interested in *anything* about ebooks. And ebook author Steve Jordan posted a discussion thread: Kaufman links e-book trend to bookburning, Nazis.

Of the 19 pages of comments, 10 are from the last few days, because Kaufman had to return to a thread that had been moribund for almost a month to post A Statement From Alan Kaufman, author of 'THE ELECTRONIC BOOKBURNING' To My Mobile Read Critics. He makes sure to link back to his original rant essay, in case any of us were incapable of clicking back to the beginning of the thread.)

He has some new things to say!

But this is not a Gutenberg moment: it is a Nuremberg moment--a linguistic and cultural mass murder of the human mind; an economic Krystallnacht against the book, book culture, literacy and human freedom. We are witness to the ghettoization and deportation of our language and literature to the internet,where it will surely perish.

Pixel-stained technopeasant Nazi wretches. Widespread distribution of literature=bookburning! Mobileread promptly hands him the pieces of his ass from several directions. But he can't leave it at that. And, of course, since he has no actual *point* to make, he can't reply to the questions (like, where did you get that claim that America is 25% illiterate?) or issues raised--so he makes yet *another* bloggish post in the middle of a long, long thread: A Further Response To His Mobile Read Critics.

For you are merch-juggled children breastfed on marketing strategies hatched before you were born and are so fully inculcated with h-tech propoganda that it is safe to say that with few exceptions virtually your entire generation haven't the capacity to interrogate your own experience vis a vis the addictive, soul-numbing machines that have become mocking substitutes for your human experience.

My, check out the big brain on Brad Alan! And in case you thought his brain was the only thing big about him:

So, I'd like to extend the following invite to any on this site. Lets thumbwrestle for three shirtless private rounds in an alley of my choice, and see who's left victorious: my 6'2”, 200 pound, tattooed, 57 year old military veteran Bronx-born poetry writing streetfighting ass or your nerdy and ignorant Silicon Folly digitized selves.

That's right: you ebook geeks are so pathetic, I can beat you up! (At thumbwrestling. Wouldn't want anyone to accuse me of threatening real assault.) But he is capable of actually replying to a person: Dear FlorenceArt,
Yours is actually the sole reply from among 230 postings here that resonates with me (I have read each and every one: a private survey of e-book readers, to unearth signs of intelligent life: yours is the only evidence that I've so far found). Because insisting that several dozen replies full of insightful discussion points (and a handful of minor wankish digressions) contain no signs of intelligent is a *sure* way to convince people that you're right!

Hey!
My name is Castillo, I'm 21 and currently living in rural maine. A year ago i lived in jamaica plain while i worked for City Year. I try to visit boston often to see my old friends, and am looking for a place to stay during christmas vacation!
I will be arriving the 18th, and leaving the 7th.
any amount of time i could stay at your house would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

This is me!


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Once upon a time there was Kia, aka Angelica Caprice aka absintheminded aka kiastar67, a Wincest-shipping self-professed vegetarian vampire who feels she has been persecuted on the internets.

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Thanks to an anon on </a></b></a>wank_report for all the links.

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It's the holiday season, and with all of the obnoxious overplayed music and decorations that show up way too early come holiday sales. And the Ctrl...

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The essay about Lily by </a></b></a>randomneses continues to attract crazy people. </a></b></a>oryx_leucoryx finally stopped wanking here, but don't worry! Enter </a></b></a>n1ght1ng4l3, who claims to be not a Snape fan and to dislike the Marauders and Snape equally, despite being a member of Snapedom and two Sirius comms (also such comms for butthurt fans as dh_oh_shit and deadlyhollow).

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28th of november marked my ten months on t and i made a comparison video.
wheely, 18, australia.

shirtless pictures, nsfw.

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Everyone loves vintage wank, and everyone loves food wank. So what happens when we mix the two of them together?

Pure Gold.

In thoroughly modern fashion, EPICURE’s recipe was almost immediately wikified. PORCUPINE warned against over-frying the scrapple, A HOUSEKEEPER swapped in Graham flour, and MIDDLETOWN gave her method for removing excess grease.

Only PHYSICIAN seemed content with the dish as it was, calling it “a positive luxury, throwing the Frenchman’s pâté de foie gras entirely into the shade.”

As always, the haters far outnumbered the fans: One reader declared that he’d just as soon fry bread in lard and eat it than partake in what others called an “abominable mess,” a “culinary fraud upon the stomach” and a great way to contract trichinosis.

Many thanks to the NY Times for the excellent wank report article.

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Whatever works

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Over on the Dear Author blog, they run a weekly feature where authors can send in their first page for critique. Last Saturday, readers were treated to a doozy [Link text NSFW] labled as a contemporary romance novel where the opening scene consisted of a fifty-six-year-old washed-up boxer receiving a blowjob from an anonymous woman. Comments were mixed, but tended towards the negative. Things began to heat up when the author of the piece showed up in the comments to defend her literary masterpiece.

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Courtesy of a kind mousey on wank_report, and also of my flist, we have Bleach wank!

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I picked up Assassin's Creed 2 a little while back, and my first impressions were met with a lot of feedback on Twitter. To summarize, I called the...

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On special occasions

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I hope everyone had a great Turkey Day!
Today is Black Friday, also known as the day I don't even take a step outside, much less go anywhere withi...

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It gets everyone

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It took a little longer than planned but I'm really happy to finally see the new site up!
Here's a couple of things to note:

All the site URLs ...

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I'll tell you, it feels like we've been working on this for months. Though that's probably because we've been working on this for months.
This mar...

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That first step

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The fork fallback