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gwydion* Yes, I know it's Cracked, but it's also real journalism, and props to them for sending people over to report when they could just be doing another click bait pop culture thing, which is way easier and more what their readers want. "We Met Syria's War Refugees: 7 Awful Things They Told Us:" http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1916-we-met-syrias-war-refugees-7-awful-things-they-told-us.html
* "A major city of people is effectively homeless in the United States of America:" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/over-half-a-million-people-are-homeless-in-the-united-states-a6742446.html
* "Toddlers Shot More People In US Than Islamic Terrorists In 2015: 20 Senators Want To Know Why:" http://reverbpress.com/politics/battlegrounds/toddler-shooting-incidents-threat-muslim-terrorists-us/
* 12 year old Tamir Rice was murdered by two adult men without any warning or cause one year ago yesterday. His murderers were caught on film. They lied extensively to police about their crime and brutalized the murdered child's sister for daring to be upset about the murder. Not only are the murders still on the loose, there are no plans to ever arrest them or make them pay for the heinous, unprovoked act, because the men are white and were wearing blue, and the innocent child was black.
* "GLAAD launches trans microaggressions photo project #transwk:" http://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-launches-trans-microaggressions-photo-project-transwk
* "New instrument dates old skeleton—'Little Foot' 3.67 million years old:" http://phys.org/news/2015-04-cosmogenic-burial-ages-foot-fossil.html
* "Altamura Man yields oldest Neanderthal DNA sample:" http://phys.org/news/2015-04-altamura-yields-oldest-neanderthal-dna.html
* "Heated dining rooms and butchery: The robbed Roman villa found by archaeologists in Yorkshire:" http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art522400-heated-dining-rooms-and-butchery-the-robbed-roman-villa-found-by-archaeologists-in-yorkshire
* "You Know Nothing, Barack Obama :"
* My Sunday got eaten by my Broken Targ's pretend future wife throwing a garden party connected to the upcoming nuptials. I had a brilliant time, but it ate 2/3rds of yesterday's sleep and disrupted my meds schedule, so that and the ebay's was pretty much all I did yesterday. Today I got cat food and did bureaucracy. I also managed to do dishes, read most of red Rose Chain, and make lemonade. (Lemonade is hard. It involves lots of standing and using of my messed up arthritis hands in ways that overtly hurt). I am exhausted and physically hurt and sort of freaking out about how i am going to find money for lung meds and what I'm going to feed the fish when the food runs out in a few days.
...And then my body pulled one of it’s nasty little rebellions. Ugh.
* This is the best thing! "This homophobic Tumblr post transformed into a dystopian LGBTI adventure novel and it is amazing:" http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/this-homophobic-tumblr-post-transformed-into-a-dystopian-lgbti-adventure-novel-and-it-is-amazing/?fb_ref=4b2429e02f614ef1a68b0befc05a55a1-Twitter#gs.NlyLNIU
* "Sleepy Hollow, Season 3, Episode 8: Novus Ordo Seclorum:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/11/sleepy-hollow-season-3-episode-8-novus.html
* Sleepy Hollow: This show is a mess. This show has been a mess for a long long time. Season two was absolutely terrible. I suspect it was a case of Dark Angel/Gargoyles syndrome. IE: They had unexpectedly good ratings, so suits who had no liking for the genre or understanding of what was good about the show in particular decided it would be "improved" by systematically dismantling everything and anything good about the show to make it more generic and white. Season three is better than two but it is still a mess. It inexplicably has no Orlando Bloom, for example, and it doesn't have nearly enough Mills sisters working together to kick ass. I keep hoping that these to problems will be solved by them simply bringing back Mr. bloom and giving the mills sisters more things they can do together, but while I wait impatiently more problems keep piling up. I do not want or need yet another love interest for Crane, especially given how the Katerina based family drama Cranewrecked season 2. Pandora isn't that interesting. Again, not insurmountable, but so no helping. the biggest problem for me though is that this show already requires a huge about of disbelief suspension, yet this season they keep deliberately handing us massive plot holes and things that don't make sense. For example: Malaria does not work that way. Why didn't they use a bacteria? Any non-antibiotic resistant bacteria would do. If any attack on the berserkers makes them stronger, how does having them attack each other not make them infinitely stronger instead of killing them? When did Crane learn Sumerian? I mean, yes, he could theoretically have spent the whole in world hiatus between Season two and three doing nothing but learning it, but why? Why would he randomly have put all this effort into learning something so arcane randomly when he had so much else to be learning, unless he knew the net threat would absolutely be Sumerian. It didn't sound like he had the tablet long enough that he could have learned a language in that time. He could not have learned it before going to earth as no one could read any Sumarian at all until the late 1830's after they found a list of proper names they used to start working out cuneiform. So every time he reads Sumerian I spend literally the rest of the show picking at his already shaky time line. And there are lots of little things like this. I'm cool with playing in historical interstices, places where there are gaps or alternative versions of events. I have a much harder time with things that flat out contradict known facts like how malaria works or the timeline on modern people deciphering cuneiform or there not having been an explosion of that magnitude during the revolutionary war. (Seriously, we would know if there had been. Even if no one saw it, there would be archaeological evidence and likely landscape features visible through aerial photography. They can find all sorts of things with aerial photography these days: eroded barrows, edges of fields out of use for a millennia, meteor impacts, etc.). It's too many things wrong every episode. Add supernatural things in the interstices? Fine, but you have to leave the rest of the world intact or the whole thing starts to crumble. Sleepy Hollow is crumbling faster and faster every week.
* The Hollow Crown: Henry IV pt. 2: As I've mentioned, I'm not a fan of either Henry IV. Pt.2 drags a lot and has many of the flaws of Pt. 1. They really did as best as can be expected. It is in this half that Simon Russell Beale's Falstaff acting really came into it's own. He made the very good decision to play it absolutely straight. Instead of trying to play up the comical, he gives a coherent performance of a very flawed and ultimately emotionally vulnerable man. For example, the Falstaff/Doll Tearsheet sex scene was played intimate and more than a little romantic instead of the usual fatphobic "Let's all laugh at fat old people for being interested in sex." This is the first time I've seen this played sympathetic instead of for the cheap laughs, and it made the ending of the play so much more poignant.
From the Henry IV apoplexy scene forward, the acting really rips your heart out. Mr. Hiddleston and Mr. Irons act the shit out of their parts doing an excellent job of conveying the complexity of the father son relationship and their feelings about each other, and as I mentioned before Mr. Beale's Falstaff will break your heart.
It still is a very long play with not that many good bits spread between moments when not that much is happening, but having the continuity of acting and such high quality in even the smallest parts really helped this production immensely. The sets also looked really good, and the use of the snowy landscape worked well with the theme of waning that pervades the play.
Again, this is never going to be a play I enjoy, but this worked far better than any production I've seen of it previously.
* EBAY:
Chaos Theory VII: Fougere, 44 2015 (LE,Chaos Theory VII): (Company says: Sharply fernlike lavenders and lilacs with a herbaceous, oakmoss-tinted touch.)Above the Shoulder.
In bottle: Very delicate and hard to pin down. Lavender fougere dominant, with a floral in the lavender and lilac range layered over it. I can swear to the lavender in the fougere, but not to the second floral. It goes very well with the fougere. There it a delicate spice, possibly a citrus, and something giving it depth, possibly amber or amberette. It's mostly about the androgynous florals though. Wet: Strongly Lime over lavender fougere. Not nearly as floral at first, though the florals rise to support lavender. I am still having trouble pining down what flower it is , but am suspecting it's something I have no chance of guessing like honeysuckle or daisy. There is still a sweetness and a sexiness that could be amber or amberette, that supports the fougere beautifully, and rises as it wears. The lime backs down to dance with that hint of spice. This is absolutely lovely, likely a little too delicate for my skin chemistry, but sublime. It slowly evolves towards a floral supported by probably Amberette and possibly a touch of honey with he soft fougere as a canvas. Dry: Floral and amber or Amberette over fougere fading eventually to lavender fougere. http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301806103614?
Chaos Theory VII: Gourmand #243 2015 (LE,Chaos Theory VII): (Company says: Sweet vanillas, thick chocolates, burnt caramels, and spun sugars.) Above the Shoulder.
In bottle: Possibly chamomile. Possibly lemongrass. Vanilla and sugar at a base. I am pretty sure there is poppy and possibly something else herbal. Wet: Not chamomile after all for which I am grateful as my skin chemistry does terrible things with it. It is now strongly pomegranate and I'm thinking red autumn berries. It's not too sweet, though it still smells of sugar. I'm picking up a touch of poppy still and that vaguely citrus herbal edge I'm still thinking might contain lemon grass and clearly something else I can't identify. The possibly lemongrass or rind and an herb holds firm as the more volatile bits wear away This is pleasingly red and Autumnal. Dry: Pomegranate and lemongrass. http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301806105684?
CHAOS THEORY VII: WOODS, #99 2015 (LE,Chaos Theory VII): (Company says: The root of these scents (SEE WHAT I DID THERE?) are foresty and camphoraceous, riddled with deep greens and lush brown tones.) Just Below the Shoulder.
In bottle: Very sharply green. I'm guessing cedar dominant, with mixed forest around it, since there is a richness to the woods suggesting multiple trees. There is a cool softness underneath that makes me think of stone in winter. Wet: More pine to it than in the bottle and the whole thing is gentler and smoother. It really does smell like mixed forest in winter, as there are deciduous woods in there but no hint of leaves. The subtle cold granite feel lingers also and a hint of something herbal tangles with the hint of camphor. http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301806111721?
A LOW CANDLE-LIT ROOM 2013 (LE, Yules): (Company says: Candle wax and waxen "skin," rotting leather and reeking damp wood, and the ashes of a yawning, cold fireplace.). 3/4 Full.
MUTANT HOT-RODDERS FROM HELL HIGH 2013 (LE, Retail Exclusive Oils): (Company says: Shiny black leather jackets, gleaming silver studs, black pepper, pungent lime, and hellfire). 1/2 Full.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301806095856?
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY 2010 (LE, Halloweenie): (Company says: Dewy green leaves colored by Moroccan amber, ginseng, and rooibos.) Just Below Label. http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301806116386?
* Story Dragon Store: http://thestorydragon.com/?product_cat=owens-art
* 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
* "A major city of people is effectively homeless in the United States of America:" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/over-half-a-million-people-are-homeless-in-the-united-states-a6742446.html
* "Toddlers Shot More People In US Than Islamic Terrorists In 2015: 20 Senators Want To Know Why:" http://reverbpress.com/politics/battlegrounds/toddler-shooting-incidents-threat-muslim-terrorists-us/
* 12 year old Tamir Rice was murdered by two adult men without any warning or cause one year ago yesterday. His murderers were caught on film. They lied extensively to police about their crime and brutalized the murdered child's sister for daring to be upset about the murder. Not only are the murders still on the loose, there are no plans to ever arrest them or make them pay for the heinous, unprovoked act, because the men are white and were wearing blue, and the innocent child was black.
* "GLAAD launches trans microaggressions photo project #transwk:" http://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-launches-trans-microaggressions-photo-project-transwk
* "New instrument dates old skeleton—'Little Foot' 3.67 million years old:" http://phys.org/news/2015-04-cosmogenic-burial-ages-foot-fossil.html
* "Altamura Man yields oldest Neanderthal DNA sample:" http://phys.org/news/2015-04-altamura-yields-oldest-neanderthal-dna.html
* "Heated dining rooms and butchery: The robbed Roman villa found by archaeologists in Yorkshire:" http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art522400-heated-dining-rooms-and-butchery-the-robbed-roman-villa-found-by-archaeologists-in-yorkshire
* "You Know Nothing, Barack Obama :"
* My Sunday got eaten by my Broken Targ's pretend future wife throwing a garden party connected to the upcoming nuptials. I had a brilliant time, but it ate 2/3rds of yesterday's sleep and disrupted my meds schedule, so that and the ebay's was pretty much all I did yesterday. Today I got cat food and did bureaucracy. I also managed to do dishes, read most of red Rose Chain, and make lemonade. (Lemonade is hard. It involves lots of standing and using of my messed up arthritis hands in ways that overtly hurt). I am exhausted and physically hurt and sort of freaking out about how i am going to find money for lung meds and what I'm going to feed the fish when the food runs out in a few days.
...And then my body pulled one of it’s nasty little rebellions. Ugh.
* This is the best thing! "This homophobic Tumblr post transformed into a dystopian LGBTI adventure novel and it is amazing:" http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/this-homophobic-tumblr-post-transformed-into-a-dystopian-lgbti-adventure-novel-and-it-is-amazing/?fb_ref=4b2429e02f614ef1a68b0befc05a55a1-Twitter#gs.NlyLNIU
* "Sleepy Hollow, Season 3, Episode 8: Novus Ordo Seclorum:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/11/sleepy-hollow-season-3-episode-8-novus.html
* Sleepy Hollow: This show is a mess. This show has been a mess for a long long time. Season two was absolutely terrible. I suspect it was a case of Dark Angel/Gargoyles syndrome. IE: They had unexpectedly good ratings, so suits who had no liking for the genre or understanding of what was good about the show in particular decided it would be "improved" by systematically dismantling everything and anything good about the show to make it more generic and white. Season three is better than two but it is still a mess. It inexplicably has no Orlando Bloom, for example, and it doesn't have nearly enough Mills sisters working together to kick ass. I keep hoping that these to problems will be solved by them simply bringing back Mr. bloom and giving the mills sisters more things they can do together, but while I wait impatiently more problems keep piling up. I do not want or need yet another love interest for Crane, especially given how the Katerina based family drama Cranewrecked season 2. Pandora isn't that interesting. Again, not insurmountable, but so no helping. the biggest problem for me though is that this show already requires a huge about of disbelief suspension, yet this season they keep deliberately handing us massive plot holes and things that don't make sense. For example: Malaria does not work that way. Why didn't they use a bacteria? Any non-antibiotic resistant bacteria would do. If any attack on the berserkers makes them stronger, how does having them attack each other not make them infinitely stronger instead of killing them? When did Crane learn Sumerian? I mean, yes, he could theoretically have spent the whole in world hiatus between Season two and three doing nothing but learning it, but why? Why would he randomly have put all this effort into learning something so arcane randomly when he had so much else to be learning, unless he knew the net threat would absolutely be Sumerian. It didn't sound like he had the tablet long enough that he could have learned a language in that time. He could not have learned it before going to earth as no one could read any Sumarian at all until the late 1830's after they found a list of proper names they used to start working out cuneiform. So every time he reads Sumerian I spend literally the rest of the show picking at his already shaky time line. And there are lots of little things like this. I'm cool with playing in historical interstices, places where there are gaps or alternative versions of events. I have a much harder time with things that flat out contradict known facts like how malaria works or the timeline on modern people deciphering cuneiform or there not having been an explosion of that magnitude during the revolutionary war. (Seriously, we would know if there had been. Even if no one saw it, there would be archaeological evidence and likely landscape features visible through aerial photography. They can find all sorts of things with aerial photography these days: eroded barrows, edges of fields out of use for a millennia, meteor impacts, etc.). It's too many things wrong every episode. Add supernatural things in the interstices? Fine, but you have to leave the rest of the world intact or the whole thing starts to crumble. Sleepy Hollow is crumbling faster and faster every week.
* The Hollow Crown: Henry IV pt. 2: As I've mentioned, I'm not a fan of either Henry IV. Pt.2 drags a lot and has many of the flaws of Pt. 1. They really did as best as can be expected. It is in this half that Simon Russell Beale's Falstaff acting really came into it's own. He made the very good decision to play it absolutely straight. Instead of trying to play up the comical, he gives a coherent performance of a very flawed and ultimately emotionally vulnerable man. For example, the Falstaff/Doll Tearsheet sex scene was played intimate and more than a little romantic instead of the usual fatphobic "Let's all laugh at fat old people for being interested in sex." This is the first time I've seen this played sympathetic instead of for the cheap laughs, and it made the ending of the play so much more poignant.
From the Henry IV apoplexy scene forward, the acting really rips your heart out. Mr. Hiddleston and Mr. Irons act the shit out of their parts doing an excellent job of conveying the complexity of the father son relationship and their feelings about each other, and as I mentioned before Mr. Beale's Falstaff will break your heart.
It still is a very long play with not that many good bits spread between moments when not that much is happening, but having the continuity of acting and such high quality in even the smallest parts really helped this production immensely. The sets also looked really good, and the use of the snowy landscape worked well with the theme of waning that pervades the play.
Again, this is never going to be a play I enjoy, but this worked far better than any production I've seen of it previously.
* EBAY:
Chaos Theory VII: Fougere, 44 2015 (LE,Chaos Theory VII): (Company says: Sharply fernlike lavenders and lilacs with a herbaceous, oakmoss-tinted touch.)Above the Shoulder.
In bottle: Very delicate and hard to pin down. Lavender fougere dominant, with a floral in the lavender and lilac range layered over it. I can swear to the lavender in the fougere, but not to the second floral. It goes very well with the fougere. There it a delicate spice, possibly a citrus, and something giving it depth, possibly amber or amberette. It's mostly about the androgynous florals though. Wet: Strongly Lime over lavender fougere. Not nearly as floral at first, though the florals rise to support lavender. I am still having trouble pining down what flower it is , but am suspecting it's something I have no chance of guessing like honeysuckle or daisy. There is still a sweetness and a sexiness that could be amber or amberette, that supports the fougere beautifully, and rises as it wears. The lime backs down to dance with that hint of spice. This is absolutely lovely, likely a little too delicate for my skin chemistry, but sublime. It slowly evolves towards a floral supported by probably Amberette and possibly a touch of honey with he soft fougere as a canvas. Dry: Floral and amber or Amberette over fougere fading eventually to lavender fougere. http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301806103614?
Chaos Theory VII: Gourmand #243 2015 (LE,Chaos Theory VII): (Company says: Sweet vanillas, thick chocolates, burnt caramels, and spun sugars.) Above the Shoulder.
In bottle: Possibly chamomile. Possibly lemongrass. Vanilla and sugar at a base. I am pretty sure there is poppy and possibly something else herbal. Wet: Not chamomile after all for which I am grateful as my skin chemistry does terrible things with it. It is now strongly pomegranate and I'm thinking red autumn berries. It's not too sweet, though it still smells of sugar. I'm picking up a touch of poppy still and that vaguely citrus herbal edge I'm still thinking might contain lemon grass and clearly something else I can't identify. The possibly lemongrass or rind and an herb holds firm as the more volatile bits wear away This is pleasingly red and Autumnal. Dry: Pomegranate and lemongrass. http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301806105684?
CHAOS THEORY VII: WOODS, #99 2015 (LE,Chaos Theory VII): (Company says: The root of these scents (SEE WHAT I DID THERE?) are foresty and camphoraceous, riddled with deep greens and lush brown tones.) Just Below the Shoulder.
In bottle: Very sharply green. I'm guessing cedar dominant, with mixed forest around it, since there is a richness to the woods suggesting multiple trees. There is a cool softness underneath that makes me think of stone in winter. Wet: More pine to it than in the bottle and the whole thing is gentler and smoother. It really does smell like mixed forest in winter, as there are deciduous woods in there but no hint of leaves. The subtle cold granite feel lingers also and a hint of something herbal tangles with the hint of camphor. http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301806111721?
A LOW CANDLE-LIT ROOM 2013 (LE, Yules): (Company says: Candle wax and waxen "skin," rotting leather and reeking damp wood, and the ashes of a yawning, cold fireplace.). 3/4 Full.
MUTANT HOT-RODDERS FROM HELL HIGH 2013 (LE, Retail Exclusive Oils): (Company says: Shiny black leather jackets, gleaming silver studs, black pepper, pungent lime, and hellfire). 1/2 Full.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301806095856?
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY 2010 (LE, Halloweenie): (Company says: Dewy green leaves colored by Moroccan amber, ginseng, and rooibos.) Just Below Label. http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301806116386?
* Story Dragon Store: http://thestorydragon.com/?product_cat=owens-art
* 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
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Date: 2015-11-24 07:45 am (UTC)Also, what kind of fish food do you need?
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Date: 2015-11-25 01:11 am (UTC)Yay, charity scents!