Let’s See If Girls Run Tumblr :)

I have had guests non-stop for the past month, for the past week it's been very close girlfriends staying with me. Early this morning we had this exchange:

Her: what are you doing up so early?

me: research for a story I'm writing. 

Her: (looking over my shoulder) Wow, that guy's built like a house. 

me: (very quietly) Yeah. 

Her: (eyes going glassy) A nice house!

mmmmmmmmmm

Over the past couple of years, I've gotten many PMs, emails, AO3 comments saying something to the effect of...."Oh you must really love Game of Thrones, right? Your username!" And I'd would just politely demur, to their puzzlement.

It's true, I've been 'khaleesian' since 2000. I started reading ASOIAF in 1997. But I have not willingly watched past S1 of Game of Thrones, despite my friends and complete strangers saying 'Why ever not? It's so goood! Why don't you watch?'

And it's been rough, biting my tongue, not wanting to inadvertently spoil anyone...but finally I can just smile and say: "That's why."

so much truth

Tumblr has this ongoing obsession/love affair with this breed, but as a professional dog trainer and general animal lover, seeing the number of people who enthusiastically declare their desire to own one makes me cringe. I’m not comfortable enabling or reinforcing any of the...

http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xmhihr

This short film has me on a knife's edge of romance and anguish. Best 12 minutes I've spent for a while.

"This is who we are"

OMG, this kills me....so insightful & subtle & cool!

I lie — I totally had a rush of inspiration today for more fic ebook covers. The first set can be found here. I reposted the two covers I did earlier, as I changed one of them.

Don’t delete the text below please, as it contains attribution.

Sources:

The changeling; or, Charles Xavier (a Novel by a Lady): Images taken from Clker and subsequently modified. Some of you saw an earlier version I posted on Twitter — I’m much more pleased with this one.

A Conspiracy of Ravens. The X-Men Phoenix symbol was nabbed off this forum thread and then modified, while the crown is from Clker.

Nine Eleven Ten. Feather from Clker.

Queen’s Gambit. I decided to keep the cover of Boden’s Mate so as to preserve continuity. I did change the chesspiece to a queen, from the same set on Clker as that of the bishop.

The Waking of the Red King. The coin is a black and white copy of the Czech Prague New Town gold coin, featuring Charles IV.

the western shore: I made a cover for the first story in the series, so why not the sequel? :D Again, I used images from Clker. The axe may not be accurate for the time period and/or culture. I’ve since changed this slightly.

These covers are free to use — no need to attribute me.

The good happehpills was kind enough to ask me the following question:

I’m not sure if you answered it here, but ever since I followed your blog and read your comments about the subject, I’ve been curiously wondering…what is the difference between a ‘real’ goth and a mall goth? How are goths...

Awesome. That is exactly what I was going for...that Thor is more than ready to turn the world upside down. In that scene, I was trying to give the sense that they were actually talking at cross-purposes...simply because the giants didn't expect anyone to be as physically brave as Thor. They don't quite get it at first blush, they're using the negotiating technique (offering something truly awful in hopes of getting someone to accept a different kind of awful) that's worked for them before...and they don't understand that Thor is like: rape me, maim me terribly, whatevs, so long as you can do what you say. I'm a big boy, I can take it. 

Kim’s intelligent and well thought out response:

Thor, honey, we gotta talk about this tendency of yours to be non-conned/coerced into having sex.

Would follow

this book on norwegian folklore i’ve been reading just makes me want to make a sideblog exclusively for translations of folk legends and pictures of foggy forests

i should probably resist the temptation to do this…..