November 2011
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Mother Tongue
Title: Mother Tongue
Fandom: Dragon Age 2
Rating: G
Summary: Remember that Anders and language post? Well, here’s the fic that grew out of it. I haven’t written this much Anders in ages! For zeitheist on lj, and janiejanine and everyone over here.
Anders’ earliest memories are of mountains cupping the sky like fingers, and a cold so keen it makes his mouth water. A waved...
I'm having this feeling a lot lately
Where I get the ‘writing itch’- you know, the tingle under the skin and the heart beating really fast, and so i open whatever-it-is and bash away enthusiastically for ten minutes. Then I start to flag but I keep going because being a writer is about keeping going! That’s the whole NaNo thing, right?
And then half an hour later I read it back and wonder why everything seems so...
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Hobbit and Elvish name generator →
thesilverfeatheredraven:
middlemarching:
rhiannon42:
impressioniste:
temperedsteele:
sympathiana:
fuckyeahthehobbitmovie:
finding-the-melody-within:
My Elvish name is Linwë Elanessë and my Hobbit name is Lila Hardbottle. I like it.
Ha. Hobbit: Iris Boggy-Hillocks My Elvish name is much better: Alatariel Linwëlin. What’s yours?
Elvish name is Eámanë Calafalas
My Hobbit...
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Ordered a hoodie! →
An assassin hoodie!
I have been ogling this at conventions for far too long, so I decided to get it as a reward for getting seasonal work at John Lewis.
spicyshimmy replied to your post: varric, “all stories, if continued far enough, end in death.”
it is my own fault really and i should have known this and searched quotes about kittens not quotes about death. you pull no punches in your writing, which is about my favorite thing ever.
Thank you! <3 I seem to have this horrible compulsion to write the worst case scenarios for things, which...
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spicyshimmy asked: varric, "all stories, if continued far enough, end in death."
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Blugh, so so writingblocked.
Words are not forthcoming today. So I will start a meme-y thing! Give me a character and a quote and I’ll write you a short bit of something.
Go go go!
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What is your battle cry? →
qualityrachni:
barbeauxbot:
freckles04:
rsek:
goddessofcheese:
stealyourshiny:
goddessofcheese:
sannam:
dreadelion:
trainedbrofessional:
airinn:
naespark:
Sprinting out of the fields, carrying a meaty axe, comethNae! And she gives a booming scream:
“You in some shit now, muhfuh! I come like a storm and lay waste like a hurricane!”
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Running over the wasteland,...
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hawkewardblr?: Deor's Lament →
medievalthedas:
Before I head to bed, I wanted to share one of my favorite stanzas from one of my favorite poems.
Deor or Deor’s Lament is a tenth century poem written in Old English. The narrator is a scop, a poet. Scops were an important part of Anglo-Saxon culture; they specialized in…
Old English on tumblr, who’da thunk! I loved learning it at uni, even if I never could get my...
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October 2011
anlamasanda replied to your post: anlamasanda replied to your post: Saturday…
Ohh!! I just mean the child’s fate reminds me of one story about how rusalki come into being, except “rusalka” is feminine and rusalki are usually woman spirits, so I wildly guessed a little-boy version of “rusalka”. Which probably isn’t a thing :’D
Oooh! Believe it or not, that bit of folklore was part of the...
anlamasanda replied to your post: Saturday Market
…probably rusalchik isn’t a thing. But still. Woah.
I have been wracking my brains for ages and I simply have to ask! What did you mean by ‘rusalchik’? Did I make a typo I haven’t found?
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