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* "100 Years of Beauty - Episode 13: Ethiopia (Feven) :"

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* "100 Years of Beauty - Kazakhstan (Aya):"

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* "100 Years of Beauty - Episode 6: Philippines (April) :"

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* "100 Years of Beauty - Episode 11: Brazil (Cintia Dicker) :"

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* "100 Years of Beauty - Episode 14: Americana Tattoo (Casey) :"

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* "100 Years of Beauty - Episode 15: China (Leah Li) :"

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* "On Jewish characters and challenging expectations:" https://detailsandtales.wordpress.com/2015/12/05/on-jewish-characters-and-challenging-expectations/

* The Wedding and Feast went swimmingly. Royal family visit! Dragons! Surprise dramatic entrances! Greens and Blacks glaring at each other! A Targaryen Prince attacking his cousin's sworn sword at the wedding feast knowing the man couldn't fight back against a Prince! In front of the king! The Groom in tears! Challenges to two duels! People thinking maybe the bride and groom were about to be poisoned! Risque acrobats! The Groom conspiring with friends to sneak the bride to safety thus avoiding the horror of a Bedding Ceremony! It was all gloriously Dallas/Falcon's Crest etc. So little sleep....

To sum up: Best Wedding Ever. Groom assaulted at Bachelor party, alarmingly loud omens of death from small child during wedding, suspected poisonings (false) at wedding and feast, brawl and two challenges to Duels at the feast itself, actual riot and Dragon attacks interrupt tourney. 10/10 would Wedding again.

* Since it came up elsewhere this is my guess for who rides Danys Dragons in the Books (grain of salt. I have no secret knowledge):

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* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

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* I have never been a nail polish person, even back at the dawn of Gothdom when I did daily jewelry and full make up. I always had to work for a living and nail polish is for people who aren't forever washing things for other people (Dishes, tables, machines), and doing heavy lifting and other work. I did used to let my sister paint pattern on my toe nails when I was home in the time between her failing ill up until I moved away West. She did her own and all her friends and liked doing them, so I would let her adorn my feet with stripes and polka dots or whatever.

Anyway, I had this random craving for glittery gothy nails and I have a friend with lots of Gothy colours in metallics and glitter shades, so Thursday evening we covered my nails with a rich metallic that is green in white light and a lovely greenish blue in my bedroom or living room. It made me strangely happy. I meant to take a picture but my the time I tried Friday evening I had a massive gash across my right index fingers and all the tips were chipping.

I have had a fascinating time watching them deteriorate under the strain of heavy typing over the marathon rp sessions. I could actually see pretty little chips flying off, like glitter. They were gorgeous shiny and new and the piebald aspect of the most used fingers is not attractive, but I admit blueish green glitter flying from my fingers was delightful. The process of ruin has it's one sort of beauty, which aesthetic is the essence of goth in itself.

* Today were assorted errands, made more complicated by some massive thing going on involving multiple police, a fire trucks and paramedics, blocking the route into downtown from where I live without warning, just after a bend in the road. All they had was one lane coming out of downtown and it was too late to take an alternate route. There was nothing for it but to take early rush hour clogged one and a half laned back streets to the interstate, which meant way more gas and a much longer post office line to send out an ebay, and me still needing to get into downtown, only from the north east instead of south. Things got done, though I spent more precious dollars than I can afford. One the upside the tofurkeys were back in stock and cheaper than expected which meant I could buy gravy and cheese as well. Score! Still in pain. Still no TV, but at least I managed something.

In other news, Hector actually went to Narnia today. See, he's onlt ever lived places where there is one door to the terror and exciting smells of outside, and all the other doors are to parts of our clowder's den (rooms, closets). About a week after we move, the cats discovered there was another, mysterious doors the humans used occasionally in the back of the apartment leading to places unknown, henceus calling the door to the hallway that leads to the mailboxes "the Narnia door." The cats look upon this door with the sort of horrified curiosity generally experienced by characters in a Lovecraft story. LM, being much the bolder went out of it with Squirrel one time early on and was terrified by what likely seemed to her to be endless, nightmarish corridors, an experience she has avoided ever since. Today, when I was bringing in a Gothmas package from my Sister and had my hands also full with stuff going to the car he went out the Narnia door. I could have dropped everything and stopped him, but I didn't bother. It's all closed off and there is nothing cats want in there, so I waited a couple minutes, him having not gotten further away than the next neighbor's door, until the unseen elevator dinged around the corner, full of people talking loudly, one pretty clearly with a dog and he darted back home in terror, where I told him he was a good boy and shut him back in.

Silly beast.

* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com