How about we try for a list of somewhat major goings on?

• I turned nineteen waaay back in January. I’m half way through the year now, though, so I’m almost twenty. Good lord.
• One of my cats had to be put down because she was having seizures.
• I have an iPod Touch, which while not especially news, is awesome! (even if apple are market controlling idiots.)
• The Government is actually giving me a semi-decent paycheck every fortnight for looking after Mum, the house, and Lily. (Mum had two minor strokes, for those out of the loop. So she needs help, I’m her carer. The government gives (somewhat crappy) pay to those who fulfill these roles.
• We have a new dog. Her name is Galinda. Yes. Like from Wicked/The Wizard of Oz. And she came named that way. A lot of animals around here are getting named after witches, recently.
• I hate American companies who won’t sell me the things I want. DO YOU HEAR ME, SONY? BARNES AND NOBLE I’M TALKING TO YOU TOO. Or that will sell to me, but charge way more than the exchange rate difference.
• My computer died, taking with it virtually two-three years of art, writing and photography. A week or so before I was getting a new back up drive (the old one went a bit dodgy). Fuck you too, fate. (side note – anyone who has any of my writing/photos/whatever. Sendies, please? I’d love you forever. :D)
• I started a new RPG, on my new domain name. The game is floundering a little, especially since the great computer crash of 2010, but I’m going to try to put more effort into it (and things like blogging, since I forget to tweet. Whoops.) It’s called Unearthly Tales and is a freeform (i.e. everyone can make up storylines, not just the staff), Multi-Genre, Multi-Game forum based rpg. If that sounds complicated, it’s really not. The basic gist is that you can have “small” (i.e. not needing a lot of players) or even private (games for only a few members/a game that is invite only to new members) games, within the most appropriate genre board, or you can play in a “large” game that has a main board as well as various sub-boards, sub-sub boards and etc. These games can even have their own theme set, as the software I use allows me to set a theme for any select board that’s different to the main theme. And it has the benefit of being part of a (hopefully someday) larger community.
• I really, really, really want an eInk Reader device. It’s like star trek in real life. So AWESOME. And yes, I did like ST way, way, WAY before the reboot. So ner. :pissed:  Silly youngin’s. I wanted a Nook, and while I could give one of my American friends the money to get me one and send it on… I think I’ll get something that’s more customizable and directly available to me to purchase myself. Even if not now (I need a few thousand for a new laptop. Sigh.) A.S.A.P. I’d really love a pocketbook 360, though. MobileRead is feeding my obsession.

..Uh there was probably more, but that’s the best I can think of for the moment. Anyone have any good cheap/free ebooks suggestions, by the way? And I’ll try to be around more!

Oh also, on Siren Tides the comments are disabled for the moment as I am getting spammed an absurd amount, and for some reason akismet isn’t just kicking them to the spam file but I promise I’m trying to work it out, and for those few who care, they will be back A.S.A.P.

Nevermind, apparently it got disabled somehow O_o

Oh and… anyone happen to have any good ideas on how to raise money for a new laptop? I know, saving, but at the rate food costs that’s going to be a century or two before I have my own laptop again (the old one really tanked) and thus can actually do things. I’m borrowing a computer for the moment, but obviously that can only go on for so long.

Nan said she knew where he was. I thought I did too.

I think his grave went walkabout! We couldn’t find him! We found my uncle, but not Poppy Godden.

…does this ever happen to anyone else?!

What’s your favourite holiday song/Christmas Carol?

I think mine would be Happy Xmas (War is Over).

Sewing machine didn’t want to cooperate, though. So it’s a no go for now until I get another machine or feel up to handsewing it. :/ But, aren’t the poppets precious?

So have a flower. I’m off to snooze. <3 I love you all! Yes, even you the stranger lurking over the corner.

If you click on the pictures, they should display larger.

For now, though. I leave you with a photo I took back in April, I believe. From a train. It’s not really a polaroid, I took it with my digital camera, but I like it. And it shows you how dry it gets here.

Some of them are old, and most unedited. So forgive me? The worlds of the fanfis don’t belong to me, obviously. But the original stuff is mine, and either way don’t steal.

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HP:

‘How can you still smile, Andry?’ Sirius asked watching his older cousin as she watched her older sister, Bellatrix, walk into Knockturn Alley, Rodolphus whispering something undoubtedly wicked in her ear as she laughed. Andry smiled very faintly at her sister then looked to Sirius.

‘You don’t think about it. Just pretend she’s bewitched… in a way she is.’

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HP:

‘Oh don’t start Sirius! Don’t you dare even try. You tease me and taunt me, you know you do. You come to me for help that I shouldn’t give you, you smile at me sometimes and make fun. We can’t… I can’t do this anymore, Sirius. We’ve got too much history. And one day I’ll get orders and they might be to hurt you, your precious friends or something related to you and I won’t hesitate Sirius, because you brought this upon yourself the day you grew attached to the mudbloods and traitors. We had all the power in the world and you just left. You abandoned your family. I don’t care how horrible our parents are, I’m not your parents or mine, I’m your fucking spitting image Sirius, just older and female. You and your friends think I’m evil, but at least I don’t abandon my best friend on a whim because of a Potter, I don’t lie and try to hide who I am, what I am! You’re just as Black as me, just as dark natured, you’d enjoy it, I know you would. But you’re too busy being someone else for the Gryffindors because being yourself as opposed to hiding behind a façade is so much more evil. You’re caught in more lies just because you’re afraid to be what you are, who you are. You’ve hurt me before and I’ve seen you enjoy it so don’t pull that self righteous bull shit on me either. You’re no better then me, no less evil and by far less important.’

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HP AU:
‘Orion, I am not so good or so brave to face a world in which my brothers, father and uncle have signed both our death warrants if I can cure the situation myself! I should sooner live in Azkaban.’

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Original Arthurian:

It had been nigh on fifteen years since she had seen the boy who was once her half-brother, the source of much of her hate for the King who had slain her father. He had been merely four summers old when he had left, a bratty little thing she had tried not to care about at all… though the success of such an action wasn’t something to be overly boastful about. She had liked him in spite of Uther. She found it impossible to see the murderer in his bright little eyes.

When Morgana finally laid eyes on Arthur for the first time in so long she looked at him with cautious grey eyes, searching for any sense of the now dead Uther within the boy, no… within the man. Arthur felt as though she were looking straight through his very soul and in spite of himself, he shivered.

Whatever it was that she thought she would find, she didn’t.

‘The King is Dead,’ Morgana said in a voice that made her seem bigger than her small stature as she walked around the smouldering pyre that spit and sizzled as it consumed the last of Uther, the rank odour of death hung around them all, making the air thick and stale. ‘Long Live The King.’ She did not bow, though the surrounding crowd of knights and nobles fell to their knees, instead she offered him a smile as she held out her hand. ‘Arthur Pendragon, we have great plans for you.’ Her voice seemed to whisper inside his head, curling around his spine and searching places that no mortal should have. ‘If you fail us, we will all die.’

Her smile disappeared.

Now, we’re going to ignore the fact that this is human size/a costume and imagine it as a tree topper. Possibly more colourful. I think it’d be fun (after I find some variety of tree, of course. ) Maybe with flowers, as it’ll be midsummer here?

…Do I really need to explain the appeal of this one?

Sadly, not Mal himself. If I had those kinds of skills, I’d have found better things to do than blog about ornaments. But. His coat, a browncoats homage?  I think I can do it.

This is a Star Trek Comm badge, for those out of the loop. It’s a personal communication device that lets the crews of Starfleet ships talk to each other/their ships both on the ship and during away missions while the ship is in range. I was thinking some version of this as well as tribbles (if I can work out how to make them/make a knitting loom before I need them) to honour my neverending love of Trek (BEFORE THE LATEST MOVIE, THANK YOU.).

This is a True Blood poster for season 2, I found it when I was googling for ideas of how I could make something to do with the show for my decorations. I’m thinking a silhouette sort of ornament, and it’d display my general love of vampires more that just TB. Plus. It’s pretty.

The Lion King (movie) came out when I was young and ever since I’ve adored it like it ain’t even funny. I’ve seen the musical, too. And oh my Gods is it amazing?!!! I think I could do this logo (the lion bit) with relative ease and aaah. So. Much. Love.

There are other ideas brewing in my head – cats, flowers, fey… but here’s a few I have pictures for.