May 2013
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going on an adventure tomorrow. If I’m not back by Monday call someone. Maybe the Doctor. Or Thorin. Or Vimes. Or Madam. Whoever can come sooner.
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nevver:
Foreign Words We Could Use in English
Kummerspeck (German) Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.
Shemomedjamo (Georgian) You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it?
Tartle (Scots) The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you...
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Opium and Old Tea
New chapter!
Yeah yeah yeah
so i’ve realised that my main motivation for pursuing a person is that they have cats.
Yes. I’m totally not weird.
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Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall - with annotations →
Images of Wolf Hall, annotated by the author
:D
Apparently I only follow Europeans because my entire dash has been commandeered by Eurovision.
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thecoppercow said: D’aaaaaaaaaaaw isn’t she just adorable! Yes! yes she is! And fluffy! And gorgeous! Apologies for lapsing into baby-talk but isn’t she the cutiest!
Well I’ll not deny any of that. (because she’s the best)
It’s her little pink nose. And her smile. She smiles. It’s great. And her sad big dog eyes. And her inability to understand that she is no longer a...
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21 Dogs Who Don't Realize How Big They Are →
thecoppercow:
spattersonbb:
Good things come in small packages, but great things come in huge packages.
Gabby dog is like this!
Oooh, what type of dog is Gabby? We need pics! I adore dogs. I would have all of them, Will Graham style, if I wasn’t poor. And didn’t live in a tiny place.
Gabby dog is a golden retriever. She is the best dog. She is the cutest dog. I love her.
I’ll...
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21 Dogs Who Don't Realize How Big They Are →
Good things come in small packages, but great things come in huge packages.
Gabby dog is like this!
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thecoppercow said: Play dramatic music as you refresh email or wait for the post!
pipuhattar said: Dance in a dramatic manner.
And through this I will summon the Hiring Gods!
i haaaaate waiting.
/whine whine whine/
My poor roommate gets this everyday on g-chat.
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pretty sure The Rocky Road to Dublin is just code for Ankh-Morpork.
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Ah Opium and Old Tea
chapter four’s up.
‘I hear you made the acquaintance of my aunt.’ He begins without preamble. Well, well, the man’s quick to a point. I take my time and offer him a smoke which he declines. For a second time. Sybil hollers an offer for a drink and he seems amused. He declines this as well.
‘I did. Swell lady.’
‘Indeed.’ He waits. I wait. Sybil snorts into her G&T. I can see her out...
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writing chapter 4 for Opium and Sybil will never not be my favourite.
Vimes and Vetinari are being dicks to each other. It’s cute.
Madam just swanks about town and is amazing.
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replies to nice ppl who talk to me
axmxz said: I love Vimes/Vetinari so much my God…
Not to toot my own horn but have you read my stuff on AO3? (totally tooting my own horn).
There’s also: theCoppercow and strawberriesandtophats who are both fantastic. (among many others)
thecoppercow said: :D Don’t worry. I sometimes think even Pratchett can’t keep from letting a little sweetness enter those two when he’s writing,...
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“Mr. Cobb was my escort,” she said, “Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should see him sober. I mean, just for the record”…
-Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep
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Ankh-Morpork Noir stuff
so I intended Opium and Old Tea to be generic. Just an exercise in Noir fiction writing.
But apparently the only two people in the entire fictional world I cannot write without having them make eyes at each other is V^2.
Vimes what are you thinking?
Vetinari…Vetinari what are you doing? No, really. What are you doing?
I could write Mercer and Beckett generic stuff. Valvert I write...
Guatemala’s interview was the most intense interview I have ever experienced.
put the thing to the thing into the thing.
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axmxz:
My cat has three catnip mice scattered throughout the apartment. At one point, she carried them all to her ‘play’ area and laid them out next to each other.
I love cats.
fuckin’ cats man.
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Second interview with Turkey tomorrow! Talking to the director of foreign languages department!
Does anyone know anything about Ankara?
thecoppercow said: OMG. OMG. Ok Friend 3 is kick ass but friend 1 is just hitting all kinds of alarm bells for me- “left wing and feminist” in rl, cool person. On the internet as a ‘badge’…oh no. And like, “change X or you won’t get taken seriously” is classic. :-(
and it just got so worse. By the end I was like “….right….moving away from the internet now. Ciao,...
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I went and found that mansplaining convo on FB.
original article:
http://jezebel.com/5978883/wikipedias-editors-are-87-percent-male-because-citations-are-stored-in-the-penis
Friend 1: If this story were in fact indicative of the case, then the reason men write history is because women can’t be bothered.
Women are less well educated, OK, but I bet if you look at the countries where the...
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thecoppercow:
jammerlammie:
why are dudes on the internet so argumentative?
you could say “i like the sky, it’s really pretty today.”
then some manly mcdudebro comes in and says “PRETTY IS SUBJECTIVE”, and go on a long ,18 paragraphed word filled with purple prose and flowery hippie crap.
i just made a statement,and you’re arguing about it as if i did it for the sole purpose of wishing to...
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thecoppercow:
genderagnostic:
turningonthelatheofheaven:
senpai-has-noticed-you:
sometimes i think i’m arrogant but then i remember that julius caesar was kidnapped by cicilian pirates and when they demanded a ransom of 620 kgs of silver he got mad because he thought he was worth more than that and made them raise it to 1550 kg
Was this before or after he raped his way across Gaul for...
thecoppercow said: Ooh, exciting! Are they permanent placements, or timed ones? :D
year contract with chance for renewal at the end of the year. So as permanent as you get in the traveling teacher’s field.
applying for jobs and navigating Turkish and Spanish websites with my rusty to substandard understanding of each language is an Adventure.
Repeat that with me. An adventure!
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“But what other authors do with light allusions, Discworld does with a...”
– Brandon Sanderson, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld might be the Highest Form of Literature on the Planet (via whimsicalbard)
(and then you thank it for stealing your wallet. Which is as it should be,). :)
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thecoppercow said: Concentrating the wrong bit first, ooh you have a pipe? I don’t smoke or know the difference but the long ones are cool! Actual point - I really really hope you go for a phd in this you’re so passionate that it’d be joyful.
Never the wrong bit! Yes, it’s one of my many “this is how Sara chooses to slowly kill herself in the 21st c” vices. I have a short...
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Renaissance Porn
Or, why I study this shit.
Pictures from I Modi or the Sixteen Pleasures which was first printed around 1524. It is a series of poems composed by Pietro Aretino and the pictures were originally by Giulio Romano and later translated into engravings by Marcantonio Raimondi. It is rumoured that it was made for a very important and high up Vatican official who got pissy after they were made into...
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thecoppercow said: STOP RECOMMENDING BOOKS TO ME i KEEP READING THEM AND GETTING HOOKED AND GETTING SIDETRACKED BY INTERESTING STUFF. Wait, that’s not a complaint but still - I’m pooor, damn you *shakes fist* :)
Books trump rent and food money to me. I have three things that trump rent money and all of them are vices: books, good pipe tobacco, and alcohol. Oh, and burritos. So four things.
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My only problem with JRM as Dracula is that I will forever and always see him as a really dickish Henry VIII.
Nothing so far has changed that.
(ahhh if only Nathalie Dormer could play Mina and all would be set for “NBC’S Wait, The Tudor Court and Dracula’s Sex LiFE Through The Ages Are Apparently The Same”. I’m also excited for people getting into Dracula the real...
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LEEEAAAAAFS
Why you gotta always fall? What is this?
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Was Wormtongue a Cannibal?
askmiddlearth:
There’s no proof, no. Tolkien doesn’t confirm nor deny the suggestion that Wormtongue ate Lotho’s body after killing him. All we have to work with is the text itself, which reads:
Wormtongue halted and looked back at him, half prepared to stay. Saruman turned. “No evil?” he cackled. “Oh no! Even when he sneaks out at night it is only to look at the stars. But did I hear...
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Day 23 - Least Favourite Character
goldberrytolkien:
Day 23 Least Favourite Character - It may seem typical, but I hated Wormtongue in both the books and the movies. He was just such a slimy, sneaky character that I couldn’t even feel bad for him. Plus he attacked the Shire, which just is wrong!
to be fair that was more of Saruman’s initiative. Grima was so mindless/spineless/just Saruman’s creature by then that...
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kenway:
ur sherlock/hannibal aus are invalidated by the fact that sherlock is so incredibly rude hannibal would eat him
cheers wildly
“Ah Dr Watson, care for some pate?”
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