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I was tagged by kareenvorbarra at Tumblr in the 9 Favourite Albums meme!

Mine (at the moment, trying to avoid the same artists etc) are:

Phenomena (Audiomachine), The Flower That Shattered the Stone (John Denver), Barcelona (Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé), Illumination (Jennifer Thomas), Pulse of Life (Future World Music), Beethoven’s Last Night (Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Archangel (Two Steps From Hell), Ceremonials (Florence + The Machine), and Harmony in Disarray (Elijah Bossenbroek).

 A Tumblr thing, but after a long, horrible weekend in which I accomplished nothing except cleaning the apartment, "Gondor picspam" is where my faculties were at:


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I've now been recc'd at crack_van three times, and I'm ridiculously gratified about it. And two for SW, even, which is particularly nice; people tend to like my Austen stories much more (even with one-shots and drabbles, Austen ones tend to get about five times as many hits - it's like ... fannish typecasting?). To be fair, it may be that I'm much more painstaking with Austen stuff, but still, it's always nice when the lazier SW stuff gets noticed!

( gimme fic! + Skywalker face mash-ups )

So I'm twenty-six today, and it feels rather odd, but I had an awesome birthday. My mother bought me a pot of daffodils, and I spent hours at Powell's Books (the local bookstore with over one million books at this location, hell yeah) and had ultra-bittersweet hot chocolate (yum!) and then went to the Mongolian grill. Also I don't have homework, for once!

As well as being the 2056th anniversary of Julius Caesar's death, March 15th is mentioned in Lord of the Rings as the day that Théoden died. Wow, thanks Tolkien - but hey, doesn't that mean it's also the day that Éowyn slew the Witch-King?

Why, yes. Yes, it does. So to finish off the fabulous day I've just had, I'm going to do a picspam of a fabulous character: Éowyn, and mostly Éowyn's shining moment on March 15th.

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I recently discussed Luke and Leia in regard to the fangirlblog essay I had so very many feelings about, and used the video as an excuse to make a Luke-and-Leia slideshow, because I love them - so I stuffed all my pictures/groups of pictures focused on Luke and Leia into the video, whether appropriate or not. (In the event, they were often ludicrously inappropriate.) Anyway, I'm not sure how many are new, but I meant to post them in a proper picspam with proper attribution when I had some time - which I don't, but I'm posting anyway.

As in the original post, warning for the Skywalker twins' 30+ year old, retroactive, still infamous not-quite-incest. But hey, none of that is from fanart, just stuff that was actually filmed for the movies. (...I don't know if that makes it better or worse, honestly, but it is part of the whole Luke and Leia thing, so yes, there are pictures of their totally platonic kisses.)

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I have, somehow, managed to acquire too many pictures for a normal picspam since my last picspam. So instead, here are just the gifs -- all Star Wars, as usual. A few are in sets, for which I sorta-kinda came up with titles.

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So, good Austen fanart is not quite so abundant as SW -- though this may be that I tend to dislike the adaptations, especially the 1995 one, so the various versions of Colin Firth or whomever don't generally make the cut. Anyway, here's some of the stuff I've found.

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So I was super depressed, and decided to comfort myself by ... posting a ton of paper dolls, 'cause I like them.

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This year's presidential race was looking pretty boring. I mean, I do like the president and not only because I grew up under Bush OMG, but exciting he is not, and Mitt Romney? C'mon. And I don't need to hear any speeches to know who I'm voting for, because I'd sooner cut my wrists than vote for a modern-day Republican, so I was all "meh" about it. But Bachmann's awful goes so far that even when she says things that are personally offensive to me, I can't bring myself to be offended because it's so ludicrous and I just laugh instead. It's like So Bad It's Good for politics.

Besides, I very much doubt that she can beat Obama, while Romney might have a fighting chance. So I hope she wins it on those grounds, too.

My stepfather considered registering as a Republican just to nominate her. I'll admit, I laughed, though I'm such a staunch Democrat that I suspect my brain would spontaneously explode if I tried.

Also, a(nother!) SW picspam while I'm here - I'll do the meme later this afternoon. Mostly art, this time.
( picspam! )

Because I finished my Revenge chapter (on an appropriately ominous note) and I want to celebrate.  Also, I've just realised that Leia doesn't show up for another third of the story.  So!

( I was not a damsel in distress. I was a distressing damsel. )