Moving activity to a newer account! I want to be able to point new friends at my blog without making all my middle-school-and-up nonsense available. You know how it is.

If you're on my Flist, you already know where to find me. Otherwise ask. :)

Or, not dull, but all the interesting bits are ~*~*~*~ related and they are too absurd for me to get into. If I ignore them, maybe they will begin to make sense, sort of thing.

On the fandom front! I am participating in rarewomen which just started up. Although I'm super keen on the request I received, I'm pretty sure we're supposed to keep that sort of sensitive info on the DL ;)

... " on the DL ;) "

I offered Adventure Time, Animorphs, Discworld, and Homestuck (not in that order).

I requested Homestuck, Gunnerkrigg Court, L'Engleverse, and Young Wizards.

Among rare women not offered (because I slacked and missed nomination time):
Kali Cutter (L'Engleverse)
Taylor/Sub-Visser Fifty-one (Animorphs)
Anja Donlan (Gunnerkrigg Court)
Jadesprite (Homestuck)
Lady LeJean (Discworld)

I'm sure there were others, but I'll just keep it in mind for next year (fingers crossed).

Turning
by Annie Guthrie

I can’t sleep. I feel the globe
making a rotation,
and I’m not supposed to be, but I’m awake for it.

I’m at that age when everyone is talking about the kinds of love
they’ve been using to get by.

It’s a very dark late.
The sound of a towel dropping off the rack

into the bath
carries my name with it.

I get up to turn on the dryer
to block out all possibilities of ever

hearing anything else so
fall.

Ugh, today. You should console me. No you shouldn't. I am going to go console myself. With calories. Like an adult.

(Everyone is sick or tired or miserable right now, what do I do? (Blog about it.))

What's really frustrating me about the Atreides men (early on - they're so much less important later) is their lack of transparency. I don't know that women aren't equally never-talking-about-important-things. It may just be that they don't have any Dire Revelations to share.

In the bit I'm reading now, Leto II is being secretive with Ghani about his plans, which are now *their* plans, which she might like a say in. ("You never mentioned the Trial of Possession!") I can't tell why he doesn't just tell her everything. His one partner in crime - what on earth does he think he's doing? Ghani isn't hiding things from Leto because she thinks he can't handle it.

And Paul especially. My gosh, just tell Chani! What is the problem except that she might have more worry and be unable to do anything. Worry is her perogative, isn't it? She doesn't ask him stuff because of Fremen politeness or whatever, but way to communication fail, man. Although Chani... never tells Paul they're having twins. Do they never talk about it? All it would take is "they're restless today" or something to have that conversation.

He doesn't really talk to his mom. After a while, he doesn't really talk to his sister. If he'd given more of himself (his concerns or thoughts or time) to Alia instead of imagining her as a part of the universe forcing/"forcing" him to do things, it might have saved everyone some trouble.

Duke Leto... actually, he's cool, if only because Jessica can read him like a book anyway. It's the other way around in this pair, I guess. My only issue with him has nothing to do with transparency and more to do with: where did Jessica get the idea that having a son instead of a daughter would be such an OMG Big Deal to him in the first place? He didn't seem like that kind of guy, you know?

In Dune, it's like everyone (important) can read everything from everyone else's nervous tics. They can use sign languages and ancient languages and even mind-talk (sort of). And yet they all still completely fail at communication.

(It isn't.)



EDIT: Whoops, nevermind, there we go. I guess I'd better go catch it.

Sondre Lerche concert with shyue!

I blew through The Hunger Games last night into this morning. It was a dumb time to begin since I knew I wouldn't be putting it down once I started, but I couldn't resist.

Faye, you were right. I did love it. I wish I'd read it as soon as you told me to. And everything I've been hearing about it from what seems to be everywhere - it's all true. I had high expectations, and so far, they've been met. Hooray. I want to talk about it! But I should probably finish the trilogy first.

Now I need to find some way to get at Catching Fire and Mockingjay, hopefully without the mini-adventure through the backrooms of the library. We just went two days ago, and also a few days before that. Mom is going to make :| faces at me if I suggest another trip so soon, but I don't have a car.

Meanwhile, I've finished the YW books I borrowed (still missing on Holiday and Mars), but I still have The Book of Night with Moon and To Visit the Queen, which I will get to as soon as I get some proper work done.