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Wednesday, April 15th, 2020 10:40 am
That meme that’s being going around. Read more... )
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Sunday, January 10th, 2016 09:12 am
Meme collected from [personal profile] legionseagle.

Rules: go to page 7 of your WIP, skip to the 7th line, share 7 sentences, and tag 7 more writers to continue the challenge.


Elrond waited for the other elf who did deliveries for the bakery to arrive and she, too, said she’d not seen anyone around in the street.

Elrond sighed. So that was the end of that possibility.

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Finding a residence in a fold of hills leading down to the sea outside the city proper, it had amused Elrond to call his new home Rivendell. The only resemblance it bore to his house on Middle-Earth was that it was, if possible, even more rambling than his former home, and had been built over a long period in a variety of styles and painted a number of colours. His amusement, he knew, was not shared by all of his household, but at least there was little confusion about who lived here.

He’d chosen it because it was the only house available that seemed large enough to contain his household. He’d arrived with a few friends, the Ringbearers among them, but his foresight had not failed him and in time the numbers grew.



I don't tag, it always strikes me as unfair.
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Saturday, November 14th, 2015 12:11 pm
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScore
Purgatory (Repending Believers)Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)High
Level 2 (Lustful)High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)Very High
Level 7 (Violent)High
Level 8 - The Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)Low

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
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Friday, February 13th, 2015 02:27 pm
Copied from [personal profile] oursin,

If you were setting up a ritual to summon me, what three objects would be required?
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 04:32 pm
Gacked from [livejournal.com profile] fjm...

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's Parker ...she likes money and cereal." I'd love it if everyone who's friended me did this. (Yes, even you people who I know really well.) Then post this in your own journal. In return, ask me anything you'd like to know about me and I'll give you an answer.
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 10:24 pm
Gacked from [personal profile] mme_hardy

Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.

"I wonder how many pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, filleting knives, egg poachers (mine's a microwave one!), cake stands, garlic crushers, martini glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders, milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, tagine dishes, conical strainers, rice cookers (again microwave, used at least twice a month), steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers (bains marie), sukiyaki stoves, ice cream makers, and fondue sets languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards."
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Friday, September 7th, 2012 02:06 pm
I gacked this off [personal profile] fox. House meme )
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 11:32 am
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1.) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2.) Italicize those you intend to read.
3.) Underline those you LOVE.
4.) Put an asterisk next to the books you'd rather shove hot pokers in your eyes than read.

I reckon that my friends list isn't composed of 'average' adults. For one thing, from the school of 'I read it somewhere' studies, I read somewhere that the average home has about six books – and those design programmes on the TV seem to bear that out. I've rarely seen a shelf on "Cowboy Builders", let alone a book. I have about 2500 books, which would pose a big problem for any designer.


01. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

05. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06. The Bible
07. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

*12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (See below for my views on Hardy.)
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
(The Hobbit is my #1 'I don't feel very well and want to read something undemanding but loads of fun' book. I must have read it 70 or 80 times, to the point where I can recite bits of it.)
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (I enjoyed reading it, but when I grew up and realised some of the meaning behind it, I really resented feeling that I was being manipulated.)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
*39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (I tried. I failed.)
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
(Never again. "This is not a book to be put away lightly, it should the thrown…")
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
*47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
(I never want to read this book again. I hate Hardy and all his works.)
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
*49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Like Hardy, I never want to read this again. Or any of his other works.)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
(I enjoyed it, but won't read it again.)
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
*67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
*75. Ulysses - James Joyce
(I read it because I thought I should. Boy was that a bad decision. Crap book. That Joyce is good is a joke played on the reading public.)
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (Supposed to be a good book, but I can't remember much about it.)
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
*83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
*85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
*91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (As [personal profile] venivincere said, "Please God, never again.")
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
*93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (I tried, I failed.)
*94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 06:22 pm
This is interesting...

Quiz: What Kind of Liberal Are You?

My Liberal Identity

You are a Peace Patroller, also known as an anti-war liberal or neo-hippie. You believe in putting an end to American imperial conquest, stopping wars that have already been lost, and supporting our troops by bringing them home.

Take the quiz at
About.com Political Humor

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Saturday, February 25th, 2012 12:11 pm



Lexin's Dewey Decimal Section:

348 Laws, regulations & cases

Lexin = 25494 = 254+94 = 348


Class:
300 Social Sciences


Contains:
Books on politics, economics, education and the law.



What it says about you:
You are good at understanding people and finding the systems that work for them. You like having established reasoning behind your decisions. You consider it very important for your friends to always have your back.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com




I think this is actually quite accurate...curiously, when I did it for my real name, it wasn't nearly as accurate.
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Friday, January 13th, 2012 10:21 pm
Gacked from [personal profile] venivincere.

Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

"Then dared their dread to draw its breath,/ and they found their feet in the fouléd earth,/ and bent they both their backs once more/ to their task of toil, for Túrin woke not." The Lays of Beleriand, The Lay of the Children of Húrin.

So, not good news for me, really.
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Monday, September 5th, 2011 11:13 am
Haven't done one of these in a while.

you are steelblue
#4682B4

Your dominant hues are cyan and blue. You like people and enjoy making friends. You're conservative and like to make sure things make sense before you step into them, especially in relationships. You are curious but respected for your opinions by people who you sometimes wouldn't even suspect.

Your saturation level is medium - You're not the most decisive go-getter, but you can get a job done when it's required of you. You probably don't think the world can change for you and don't want to spend too much effort trying to force it.

Your outlook on life is brighter than most people's. You like the idea of influencing things for the better and find hope in situations where others might give up. You're not exactly a bouncy sunshine but things in your world generally look up.
the spacefem.com html color quiz
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 11:15 pm


You were born during a Waning Gibbous moon

This phase occurs right before a full moon.





- what it says about you -


You like to question things and have issues settled before going to work on a problem. You appreciate art, elegant forms, and efficient designs. You seek deeper meanings in things that you see and want your actions to make the world a better place.

What phase was the moon at on your birthday? Find out at Spacefem.com

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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 10:01 pm
[livejournal.com profile] gloriana posted up this one, and looking at its format, it's a killer viral design: simple to do but replicates in two directions:

Leave a ONE WORD comment that you think best describes me. It can only be one word. No more than one word. Then copy & paste this post to your own journal so I can leave a word about you.
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010 02:50 pm
From [livejournal.com profile] von_krag:

Copy and Paste if you have enjoyed the blessing of meeting people online that you never would have met any other way. This is an end of the year shout out to the many friends I have never been in the same room with but who have inspired, amused, comforted, encouraged, and touched me in so many ways. Here's to another year together.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 02:22 pm
Gacked from [personal profile] telesilla, Go to http://quotationspage.com/random.php3 and browse the random quotes until you find five that you think reflect who you are or what you believe. And because I fly in the face of convention, I'm going to have six.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations, 200 A.D.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
A. H. Weiler
(1909 - 2002)

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), (attributed)

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
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Friday, May 1st, 2009 05:30 pm
From [community profile] fannish5: Name 5 dead characters you'd like to see resurrected.

(1) Elrond. Well, OK. He's in Valinor, but I think counts as dead for all reasonable purposes. You can't really call being watched by the Valar being alive.

(2) Blake. And of course Avon. Not so fussed about Vila, he can stay dead as far as I'm concerned. I would like to see a really good remake of Blake's 7 – I've never heard the radio version, I got lost about where you could download it and I've never seen the collected edition anywhere. (Ideally free and in MP3 format if anyone has any suggestion.)

(3) Snape. Obviously. Mind you, in the world of fanfiction a live Snape is more common than a dead one, except for the situations where he's a ghost. I read a good story recently where he came back in the form of a plant, which they had to be transmogrified into a human by Harry and Neville. That idea was rather diverting.

(4) Hedwig. A crystal tear fell down my damask cheek at the death of Hedwig.

(5) Sirius Black. Having Snape and Sirius Black back would cause ructions, but I've no problem with that. He's another person that the fan world hasn't allowed to stay dead, and I think JKR could have bought a clue. Best of all if Remus comes back as well to keep him company.


Additional information: I have one DW invite left.
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Friday, April 24th, 2009 05:17 pm
I started with this list of characters, not of of whom were used.

(1) Capt William Laurence (Temeraire)
(2) Capt Jack Harkness (Torchwood)
(3) Stephen Clair, Earl of St Joseph (The Price of Temptation)
(4) Lt. David Archer (Ransom by Lee Rowan)
(5) Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
(6) Lord Oliver Marsden (Bound by Deception)
(7) The Doctor
(8) Sarah Jane Smith (Dr Who)
(9) Temeraire (Temeraire)
(10) Mr Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
(11) Capt John Granby (Temeraire)
(12) Ace (Dr Who)
(13) Lt. Will Marshall (Ransom by Lee Rowan)
(14) Sejanus (I Claudius)
(15) Lt Kira Nerys (ST:DS9)

[profile] yonmei asked me:
3 and 7 are on holiday together in Italy. Unexpectedly, they meet 15. What happens as a result - in Italy, and afterwards? )

9 must choose between 13 and 14: what's the choice, and which one does 9 choose? )

[personal profile] ellen_fremedon asked me:
#12 steals something from #6. What is it? What happens when #8 comes across it? )

[personal profile] aunty_marion aske me:
2 and 14 are on a date, having a picnic, when they are rudely interrupted by 7. What's his/her problem, and can 8 solve it? )

Now for [personal profile] watervole's effort:
What did 6 buy 2 for his birthday? )

And finally, [personal profile] hardboiledbaby asked me:
What secret do #11 and #5 share that they don't want #1 to know? )