Eliyes

Hey, look, I went INSANE and actually made a list of all the fic I've posted. *facepalm* This is staying right at the top of my journal for the REST OF MY LIFE so that I can keep it updated. Hopefully it will prove useful.
I am including commentfic, and drabbles I posted in a glot, as their own separate entries. BECAUSE IT'S MY LIST. B}

( Click me for The List )

Love Is Not All
by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.

https://allpoetry.com/Love-Is-Not-All


stand with your lover on the ending earth
by e. e. cummings

stand with your lover on the ending earth-

and while a(huge which by which huger than
huge)whoing sea leaps to greenly hurl snow

suppose we could not love,dear;imagine

ourselves like living neither nor dead these
(or many thousand hearts which don’t and dream
or many million minds which sleep and move)
blind sands,at pitiless the mercy of

time time time time time

-how fortunate are you and i,whose home
is timelessness:we who have wandered down
from fragrant mountains of eternal now

to frolic in such mysteries as birth
and death a day(or maybe even less)


http://www.augustpoetry.org/poets/Cummings.htm


a snippet from Loreena McKennitt's "All Souls' Night" that stood out:

Standing on the bridge that crosses
The river that goes out to the sea
The wind is full of a thousand voices
They pass by the bridge and me


and Hildegard von Blingin's Medieval-Renaissance version of "We Didn't Start the Fire" (lyrics in thw video description) on YT here:

https://youtu.be/drDs-Y5DNH8

Check out the art inspired by one of the songs I submitted (Laisse-la rêver by Roch Voisine) done by the talented sloaners and posted on tumblr:

https://sloaners.tumblr.com/post/617886950973636608/breathe-a-30-minute-art-challenge-on

They both have such pretty hair. *hearteyes*

Sloaners also has done some of my favourite Naruto fanart. ♥

Right now, in my time zone, it's a little past midnight into the last day of the twenty-teens. I'm drinking tea and eating chocolate cake. There's a lot of things in the world that make me scream just to think about, but this.

This is okay.

I saw Longmire listed at least twice in the potential crossovers of various signups for Highlander Holiday Shortcuts, so I looked up what it was and now I'm ...kinda tempted to watch the thing? ^^;

Hey there!

Firstly, if there's a character you really love but who didn't make it to the end of the series, feel free to write about them, AU them as surviving. (As long as it's not Kenny or Horton.) And if there's a fandom you're really jamming on right now you think would make an awesome crossover with Highlander, feel free to write that, too! Good crossovers are how I wind up in new fandoms most of the time.

This year I have a couple scenarios I'd like to especially throw out there, although if you aren't feeling it, don't force yourself. I have kind of hinted at one in my "Preferences" in the sign-up.

The first one is Immortals dealing with our modern world. Smartphones, memes, fashion, participating in/commenting on modern society and/or politics. It interests me to imagine how they would adapt.

The second one is the supernatural or magical. Highlander has a sort of magical realism going for it anyway, exploring that or amping it up strikes me as something I'd like to read.

I have been asked before what I mean, in my sign-up, by "things that used to be food or people in a sexual or dining context" and the answer is fucking or eating bodily waste or dead humans. So no scat, watersports, cannibalism, necrophilia, etc.I'm just very much not into any of that.

Finally, I've allowed Anonymous comments for this post, so if you have a burning question, go ahead. amand-r has specifically asked we not do this in the email giving assignments (or at least in the one I got, lol), and that such questions go through her, so I've gone back to not allowing anonymous comments. Sorry! but she has a point about accidentally commenting non-anon, I've done that, too.

Thank you for your writing efforts, I hope you have fun!

So I am doing the Highlander Holiday Shortcuts Fic Exchange again this year ( https://hlh-shortcuts.dreamwidth.org/ ) and I'm pretty stoked because I like the idea I came up with and I'm having fun writing it.

Except I can't come up with a decent title. (_ )_

This is a frequent problem of mine. Also, as it's a secret santa type thing where the authors are revealed after everyone has a chance to guess who wrote what, I can't just, frex, post a summary on here and ask for suggestions.

So my apologies, Recipient, if you are reading this after you get it and the title is kinda blah. I tried.

So I saw someone ranting about how Obi-Wan is terrible because when the Jedi Council were like "no, this kid is too dangerous to train" he agreed and said they should send him back to Tatooine, which is totally harsh because the kid was a slave.

Yes.

Except.

Did Obi-Wan actually know Anakin had been a slave, at that point? I admit I haven't rewatched Ep I since it was in theaters, but I don't remember if that information had been relayed to him at that point. I checked a copy of the script online and it doesn't show in dialogue, but scripts are never 100% accurate.

I mean, if he knew, yes, that's harsh, but if he didn't? I mean clearly not everyone on Tatooine is a slave, look at Luke.

So I'm wondering if he knew. And if he didn't, like... when did he find out? Did he find out? That would have been one hell of a shocker to have come up once he was training the kid, I bet.

taichara: I am torn once again between Sailormoon and Shadowrun
taichara: it is a cruel, cruel world
taichara: Nathan as a fixer y/y?
eliyes: oh man
taichara: or That Asshole talismonger. or both
eliyes: I think he'd enjoy that far too much, honestly
eliyes: I said it out loud, but Nathan would absolutely be a talismonger (and sometimes fortune-teller) who fell into fixing after he put together some peeps to go fetch him talesma and discovered he's really good at it
taichara: yuuuuup
eliyes: he's probably got a SIN and a legit business license and a university education in thaumaturgy
taichara: he would, the canny bastard
taichara: Jae, meanwhile, is the original jack-of-all-trades so to speak
taichara: Zoey is probably a straight-up trid pirate/neo-a mystic adept type
eliyes: if you can make Zoey a rocker I will rain a thousand blessings upon your house, your cat, and your cow
taichara: *points* *gimme blessings*
eliyes: *rains them dowwwwwwwn*
taichara: and I have no fucking idea about Colin lol
eliyes: Colin is the menacing yet attractive bodyguard following Mamoru around at school
taichara: also a mystic adept because I said so
eliyes: Mamo is a rich corp kid who moonlights as a do-gooding runner, if you'll pardon the pun
taichara: lol
eliyes: Colin is exasperated but supportive

Probably a surprise, since I haven't posted in.... a couple years, wow, but I am not, in fact, dead. I have no real explanation for my absence? I have continued to write and if I can prick up the gumption to actually type up some of the stuff filling my notebooks (granted, a lot of it is snippets of WIPs or plotbunnies that need fleshing out, even if they're already pages long...) there may be some actual activity on this account! And also on my AO3. *skritches chin thoughtfully* I suppose one day I may even post on my FFnet account, who knows...

Just another of the many, many puns and references in Harry Potter:

"Lucius fights to reclaim Gaul from his treacherous tribune Frollo at the time of King Arthur's rise to power. After Arthur conquers Gaul, word of his great deeds reaches Rome, and Lucius demands that Arthur pay him tribute and recognize him as his sovereign. When Arthur refuses, Lucius invades the land of Arthur's allies on the continent, and Arthur and his knights hurry across the English Channel to do battle with him. Arthur defeats Lucius and adds Italy to his lands."

Source.

Well, it's surprising that the embedding of the quiz results went snafu, but the actual results were less so.

I took The Greek Godly Parent Quiz, aimed at Percy Jackson fans, and I got Hermes!

Which is my unsurprise.

There was a cool picture of Hermes here but see above about embedding issue.

This is a bittersweet duet from Koko wa Greenwood. "Amayadori" does literally mean "take shelter from the rain" but also connotes how people from very different backgrounds can, for a time, share a space together because of it, and then part. I love this song because not only is it a perfect image song for the deeper level of the relationship between the two characters (whose voice actors are) mainly singing it, but it is also the essential underlying theme for the entire series. The school, and more specifically the dorm, Greenwood, is the great tree under which most of the students find themselves meeting and sharing a space, before parting again to go out into the world, and possibly never meet again.

( credits )

( Romaji transcription )

( English translation )

"River Roll On" - The Judds

( No tears to cry - wish I could be like you )

We (tai and I) have a character who killed Madonna to spite his estranged father, who is a fan of her music.

We did this before Lady Gaga was a thing, and now are reconsidering.

(No, this is not a nice character. Yes, this is an alternate reality.)