Tumblr crosspost (8 March 2021)
May. 24th, 2024 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heckofabecca responded to this post:BIRFDAY BIRFDAY BIRDFARY
incognitajones said:"Still alive, so there" is a Mood
I replied:
Yes, exactly!
heckofabecca responded to this post:BIRFDAY BIRFDAY BIRDFARY
incognitajones said:"Still alive, so there" is a Mood
I replied:
Yes, exactly!
Tumblr crosspost (8 March 2021)
May. 24th, 2024 09:55 pmAlso, my ambivalence over this year’s birthday has been vacillating between “ack! how have I lived this long” and “YAY,” but now that it’s in one week, I’m just like … BIRTHDAYYYYYY
Tagged: #hello ides of march!!! i am ready to mark 'still alive nyahhhh' #unlike caesar lol
Tagged: #hello ides of march!!! i am ready to mark 'still alive nyahhhh' #unlike caesar lol
Tumblr crosspost (5 March 2021)
May. 23rd, 2024 08:11 amI’m just … it doesn’t feel recent, but it certainly doesn’t feel like that long, yet it was one of the last things I did in my all-Austen-fandom-all-the-time phase, before I jumped into SW fandom. And my earliest SW fics are ten years old now (somehow???).
But idk, it seems so strange.
Tagged: #my birthday is in ten days and i'm both looking forward to it and feeling a bit weird about it this year #idk i feel like i should be more ~accomplished at this point in my life #or more something #maybe because the things people point to as accomplishments whenever i mention it #are pretty far back too #in any case objective lengths of time just don't match up with how the passage of time feels and it's weird #might be different if my best friend were here (he was born 11 days after me) but we haven't seen each other for over a year #/sigh
Tumblr crosspost (23 February 2021)
May. 14th, 2024 11:31 pmMy birthday is coming up (the ides of March!!) and it’s a Significant Age, so people are like … you need to make a list so we have some idea of what to give you for the Significant Birthday!
Which is fair, but these days, the things I want are like … “my longtime best friend to live in the PNW again” and “my prelims to be over” and “a book cover for my perpetually unfinished novel” and “Amazon to do well by Númenor” and “a sudden desire to eat vegetables.”
I mean, there are plenty of things that occur to me in passing, but when it comes down to making a list, they all flee my mind and … ???
Tagged: #i know there are things other than money that i want #i just can't think of most of them #and the ones i can think of are prohibitively expensive so i wouldn't actually ask #hmm #hmmmmm #gw2 costumes? i'm not playing at the moment but i love them and am feeling like going back #but it seems a kind of trivial thing #i've thought one of those genetic tests would be fun but a) they're expensive and b) i know exactly where my ancestors are from #seriously though if i could pick any actually-possible thing it /would/ be money for art commissions #not just the novel ... like althea and logan or fíriel and éowyn or lucy and vader or the aasimar au or my d&d warlock ororor #this is what comes of having art ideas but no ability lol #but i can't really ask the people in my life for that #uhhhh #i don't want to read anything rn so the old reliable of books/bookstore gift cards is kind of out #cooler dice? i don't know!!
Tumblr crosspost (11 February 2021)
May. 13th, 2024 01:24 pmMy birthday is next month and this year, I’m struggling to wrap my brain around it. Like … it’s just marking another year of life (though after the last year, that isn’t nothing) but it’s also WOW. EVERY YEAR I GET OLDER. WHAT A CONCEPT.
Tagged: #also i saw the post about how the ides of march is a sort of tumblr holiday that no one else cares about and was like #excuse YOU i've been on the receiving end of ides of march jokes for my whole life #and rightly so! #personally i like to imagine that the doctor handed baby!me to my mother and was like... BEWARE
Tagged: #also i saw the post about how the ides of march is a sort of tumblr holiday that no one else cares about and was like #excuse YOU i've been on the receiving end of ides of march jokes for my whole life #and rightly so! #personally i like to imagine that the doctor handed baby!me to my mother and was like... BEWARE
I got into a debate with a friend that touched on the Ottoman genocides, I went to do some research to make sure I was remembering details correctly, fell down a rabbit hole of research, and wow I'm not sleeping tonight.
The conversational aside was specifically about the assassination of Talaat Pasha, which also happened on March 15th. My birthday! I mean, not my birthday at the time, obviously—I would not be born until many decades later—but it is certainly a day for the annals of history. I cherish and respect Tumblr's hatred of Julius Caesar, but he's got nothing on Talaat Pasha. I wish I believed in hell specifically so I could believe he's burning in it.
(Fun fact: my grandmother, who is Greek, used to hint darkly about some misdeed of "the Turks" that she's still got a grudge about, and for years, I thought she was just being vaguely Islamophobic. I did eventually get the impression of something happening not long before she was born, maybe. But I was still really unsure about any details until I was digging through some articles on a trip during my master's program and discovered that "vague misdeeds" were entire fucking genocides that my own country, the USA, did not find it politically convenient to acknowledge until years later.)
The conversational aside was specifically about the assassination of Talaat Pasha, which also happened on March 15th. My birthday! I mean, not my birthday at the time, obviously—I would not be born until many decades later—but it is certainly a day for the annals of history. I cherish and respect Tumblr's hatred of Julius Caesar, but he's got nothing on Talaat Pasha. I wish I believed in hell specifically so I could believe he's burning in it.
(Fun fact: my grandmother, who is Greek, used to hint darkly about some misdeed of "the Turks" that she's still got a grudge about, and for years, I thought she was just being vaguely Islamophobic. I did eventually get the impression of something happening not long before she was born, maybe. But I was still really unsure about any details until I was digging through some articles on a trip during my master's program and discovered that "vague misdeeds" were entire fucking genocides that my own country, the USA, did not find it politically convenient to acknowledge until years later.)
Tumblr crosspost (2 December 2020)
Mar. 9th, 2024 10:56 pmI’m usually very tired of winter by the time my birthday rolls around, but technically it falls on the winter side of March, and … idk, I just feel very much a winter-baby this year.
Tagged: #this is maybe related to (hopefully) completing my exams in jan #and then i'm freeeee #...to work on other things #but anyway
Tagged: #this is maybe related to (hopefully) completing my exams in jan #and then i'm freeeee #...to work on other things #but anyway
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Mar. 16th, 2022 08:42 amMy parents got me, among a couple of other things, the new expansion for my favourite board game (Aeon's End) and the entire (!) "Skywalker Saga" set of SW movies, since I'd asked for a couple DVDs from either the OT or the PT (I've never owned all the PT and my OT DVDs are very old and scratched). I meant to use those to start getting good-quality copies piecemeal, but ... <3
(Feels a little weird to own TROS, ngl, but I'm fond of the other 8/9 despite gripes about certain particulars, so I'm still really happy and grateful about it. STAR WAAAARS)
(Feels a little weird to own TROS, ngl, but I'm fond of the other 8/9 despite gripes about certain particulars, so I'm still really happy and grateful about it. STAR WAAAARS)
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Mar. 15th, 2022 09:11 am9:10 AM has passed in my time zone (also the one I was born in), so I'm officially 36 now! o_O
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Mar. 14th, 2022 06:20 pm150 bookmarks on the Lucyverse <3
Anyway, this is the last night of my year of being 35, so after a day of revising, I'm spending the evening with games and rice pudding. Onto 36! :)
Anyway, this is the last night of my year of being 35, so after a day of revising, I'm spending the evening with games and rice pudding. Onto 36! :)
Tumblr crosspost (15 March 2020)
Oct. 26th, 2021 10:39 am“Beware the ides of March!”
—Glorfindel to the Witch-king
—Glorfindel to the Witch-king
Tumblr crosspost (10 March 2020)
Oct. 18th, 2021 03:17 pmI mostly have a great birthday on the Middle-earth front, since a) it coincides with the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, my favourite of all the Middle-earth battles, b) that battle specifically includes Éowyn laughing into the Witch-king’s face before stabbing him, and c) my favourite Tolkien character, Faramir, is saved from death on the same day!
But my second-favourite dies tragically :(
otoh … Éowyn
tagged: #every time i look at the timeline it's like 'march 15. battle of the pelennor fields' FUCK YEAH!!! 'pyre of denethor' NONONONONO #but with all respect to denethor it's still a pretty rocking birthday for a tolkien fan #the ride of the rohirrim is one of the single best scenes that tolkien wrote in anything ever SO
But my second-favourite dies tragically :(
otoh … Éowyn
tagged: #every time i look at the timeline it's like 'march 15. battle of the pelennor fields' FUCK YEAH!!! 'pyre of denethor' NONONONONO #but with all respect to denethor it's still a pretty rocking birthday for a tolkien fan #the ride of the rohirrim is one of the single best scenes that tolkien wrote in anything ever SO
