THE TALE OF A SMALL PERSON MEETING BIG WORDS.

13 November 2010 @ 05:33 pm

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06 March 2009 @ 10:55 am

Just went to the midnight showing of Watchmen.

Well...

Hurm.

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03 December 2008 @ 09:41 pm

Selection from Ch. 3, "Three Is Company." Part three.

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Nearer at hand a few lights twinkled in the village of Woodhall.
The Elves sat on the grass and spoke together in soft voices; they seemed to take no further notice of the hobbits. Frodo and his companions wrapped themselves in cloaks and blankets, and drowsiness stole over them. The night grew on, and the lights in the valley went out. Pippin fel asleep, pillowed on a green hillock.

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03 December 2008 @ 09:39 pm

Selection from Ch. 3, "Three Is Company." Part two.

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They now marched on again in silence, and passed like shadows and faint lights: for Elves (even more than hobbits) could walk when they wished without sound or footfall. Pippin soon began to feel sleepy, and staggered once or twice; but each time a tall Elf at his side put out his arm and saved him from a fall. Sam walked along at Frodo's side, as if in a dream, with an expression on his face half of fear and half of astonished joy.
The woods on either side became denser; the trees were now younger and thicker; and as the lane went lower, running down into a fold of the hills, there were many deep brakes of hazel on the rising slopes at either hand. At last the Elves turned aside from the path. A green ride lay almost unseen through the thickets on the right; and this they followed as it wound away back up the wooded slopes on to the top of a shoulder of the hills that stood out into the lower land of the river-valley. Suddenly they came out of the shadow of the trees, and before them lay a wide space of grass, grey under the night. On three sides the woods pressed upon it; but eastward the ground fell steeply and the tops of the dark trees, growing at the bottom of the slope, were below their feet. Beyond, the low lands lay dim and flat under the stars.

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03 December 2008 @ 09:37 pm

Selection from Ch. 3, "Three Is Company." Part one.

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'O Fair Folk! This is good fortune beyond my hope,' said Pippin. Sam was speechless. 'I thank you indeed, Gildor Inglorien,' said Frodo bowing. 'Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting,' he added in the high-elven speech.
'Be careful, friends!' cried Gildor laughing. 'Speak no secrets! Here is a scholar in the High Ancient Tongue. Bilbo was a good master. Hail, Elf-friend!' he said, bowing to Frodo. 'Come now with your friends and join our company! You had best walk in the middle so that you may not stray. You may be weary before we halt.'
'Why? Where are you going?' asked Frodo.
'For tonight we go to the woods on the hills above Woodhall. It is some miles, but you shall have rest at the end of it, and it will shorten your journey tomorrow.'

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20 October 2008 @ 09:03 pm

Thoughts on Heroes: "Dying of the Light."

heroes_meta.

( PineHearst? More like PWNhearst. )
PineHearst? More like PWNhearst. This season's taking a turn for the better.
I think the writers are drawing straws for which characters get thrown down the toilet next. Adam drew short. Shall we have a moment of silence? .... Okay. That's good.
Claire is such a drama queen. Remind me why she's angry with H.R.G. again?
Hey... does anyone know what happened to Caitlin?
Quite impressed with Tracy and her quick work of Mohinder. She's shaping up to be an asset to our side. Even if she is another gratuitous chance at getting Adrian and Ali to make out on screen again. Speaking of which, Mohinder isn't doin' so bad either. He makes a pretty snappy villain, even if I'm not really sure why he's cobwebbing people again. Is he... Tarantular?
Character consistency, people. Could Sylar not be one of those pity-me-I've-been-victimized-by-my-abilities characters? Because honestly, he was so much more interesting before he got "good". That's why everyone loves H.R.G.- he's ambiguous. People love the complicated ones. They're trying to simplify Sylie-boy, and it plum ain't working out. Also, lol!chest hair.
Since Adam's dead and Sylar's lame, can Doyle be my new favorite character? Brr. He's cool, in a Syndrome (you know, from The Incredibles) kind of way.
I would have shot Meredith. Come on. She's kind of a pretty face (who mysteriously lost her accent from first season?), and Sandra is the new Mrs. Weasley.
"My son Lyle... he's... six..." Poor Lyle. He don't get no respect.
It's a little ridiculous how glad I am that Hiro didn't actually kill Ando.
First it was Kaito/Mr. Muggles/world. Now it's Parkman/Daphne/Turtle. You read it here first, folks.
Thank you, Peter, for gracing the screen with your loud angry voice and rippling pectorals. Unfortunately, you were now administered the Hug of Doom. FAILBOAT.

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13 October 2008 @ 10:10 pm

Review of Heroes 3x05: "Angels and Monsters." For

heroes_meta.

First order of business: PHWOOAR. IT'S HEROES TIME.

( Blip-blip, bloop. )

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24 September 2008 @ 07:03 pm

Selection from Ch. 2: "The Shadow of the Past." Part four.

My apologies for the few lines between parts three and four that seem to have disappeared into thin air. I was dropped as a child and can no longer work telephones. Or... something. Sorry, Mr. Tolkien, sir.

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'...than most of the Wise would believe. I don't think you need worry about Bilbo.
'Of course, he possessed the ring for many years, and used it, so it might take a long while for the influence to wear off - before it was safe for him to see it again, for instance. Otherwise, he might live on for years, quite happily: just stop as he was when he parted with it. For he gave it up in the end of his own accord: an important point. No, I was not troubled about dear Bilbo any more, once he had let the thing go. It is for you that I feel responsible.
'Ever since Bilbo left I have been deeply concerned about you, and about all these charming, absurd, helpless hobbits. It would be a grievous blow to the world, if the Dark Power overcame the Shire; if all your kind, jolly, stupid Bolgers, Hornblowers, Boffins, Bracegirdles, and the rest, not to mention the ridiculously Bagginses, became enslaved.'
Frodo shuddered. 'But why should we be?' he asked. 'And why should he want such slaves?'

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24 September 2008 @ 07:01 pm

Selection from Ch. 2: "The Shadow of the Past." Part three.

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'But I said to myself: "After all he comes of a long-lived family on his mother's side. There is time yet. Wait!"
'And I waited. Until that night when he left this house. He said and did things then that filled me with a fear that no words of Saruman could allay. I knew at last that something dark and deadly was at work. And I have spent most of the years since then in finding out the truth of it.'
'There wasn't any permanent harm done, was there?' asked Frodo anxiously. 'He would get all right in time, wouldn't he? Be able to rest in peace, I mean?'
'He felt better at once,' said Gandalf. 'But there is only one Power in this world that knows all about the Rings and their effects; and as far as I know there is no Power in the world that knows all about hobbits. Among the Wise I am the only one that goes in for hobbit-lore: an obscure branch of knowledge, but full of surprises. Soft as butter they can be, and yet sometimes as tough as old tree-roots. I think it likely that some would resist the Rings far longer...'

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24 September 2008 @ 06:59 pm

Selection from Ch. 2: "The Shadow of the Past." Part two.

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'...and I had no right to do so anyway. I could only watch and wait. I might perhaps have consulted Saruman the White, but something always held me back.'
'Who is he?' asked Frodo. 'I have never heard of him before.'
'Maybe not,' answered Gandalf. 'Hobbits are, or were, no concern of his. Yet he is great among the Wise. He is the chief of my order and the head of the Council. His knowledge is deep, but his pride has grown with it, and he takes ill any meddling. The lore of the Elven-rings, great and small, is his province. He has long studied it, seeking the lost secrets of their making; but when the Rings were debated in the Council, all that he would reveal to us of his ring-lore told against my fears. So my doubt slept - but uneasily. Still I watched and I waited.
'And all seemed well with Bilbo. And the years passed. Yes, they passed, and they seemed not to touch him. He showed no signs of age. The shadow fell on me again.'

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24 September 2008 @ 06:52 pm

Selection from Ch. 2: "The Shadow of the Past." Part one.

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'When did I first begin to guess?' he mused, searching back in memory. 'Let me see - it was in the year that the White Council drove the dark power from Mirkwood, just before the Battle of Five Armies, that Bilbo found his ring. A shadow fell on my heart then, though I did not know yet what I feared. I wondered often how Gollum came by a Great Ring, as plainly it was - that at least was clear from the first. Then I heard Bilbo's strange story of how he had "won" it, and I could not believe it. When I at last got the truth out of him, I saw at once that he had been trying to put his claim to the ring beyond doubt. Much like Gollum with his "birthday present". The lies were too much alike for my comfort. Clearly the ring had an unwholesome power that set to work on its keeper at once. That was the first real warning I had that all was not well. I told Bilbo often that such rings were better left unused; but he resented it, and soon got angry. There was little else that I could do. I could not take it from him without doing greater harm...'

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11 September 2008 @ 04:57 pm

WE WILL NEVER STOP REMEMBERING.

September 11th of 2001 held probably the weirdest thing that has happened to my home country since I've lived in it. Most of the people I know only have fuzzy memories of it, but I remember the day quite clearly.

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28 August 2008 @ 06:11 am

Eä, Arda, Ainulindalë.

Okay, I'm off to the Wilderlands. Defend the castle while I'm gone.

Tags: hiatus

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Current Music: saruman from the lotr musical

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10 July 2008 @ 06:55 pm

oh, my love, it was a funny little thing to be the ones to've seen.

I just read this quote from Willow Wode's essay Deny The Lie (on plagiarism and especially its relationship to fanfiction):

"Inspiration happens when something has touched you, something huge enough to make you change your patterns of contemplation, or deep enough to delve things from you that perhaps you hadn't realised were there. Inspiration is faery dust—and I'm not talking about the wimpy, sparkly type so pervasive in all the hopelessly-sterilised Disney versions, where deus ex machina is offered for no more effort than a whine and a wish. No, I mean the real faery dust, the primal, undeniable compulsion formed from stars and earth and the blood beating in your veins, the brilliant darkness that works its way into your brain and your soul, rocking your world, shifting your paradigms in every sense of their being."

...my god. I think I just had a revelation: I am wasting myself. I am wasting my life and my talents on things that in the Grand Scheme of Things utterly cease to matter. I could be writing things that are important, things that will reach people, touch them, make them feel- and I'm writing horrible, haphazard, useless pieces of fanfiction. There is so much more I could be doing. And I'm going to. I have yet to live, and I'm standing just on the edge of doing so.

I'm toeing the verge. It's terrifying and thrilling at the same time. Fuck, I'm going to be someone. Be someone who matters. I'm dreadfully excited.

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30 June 2008 @ 08:52 pm

For the 2008 Wicked Fanfic Exchange.

Please direct all questions, concerns, requests for a switch of request, and general gripes to this post. All comments are screened, so have at it.

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30 April 2008 @ 09:50 pm

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Hey guys. For all of you who have friended me because of my fiction and/or would like to keep up to date with my fiction, it's now being posted at

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rather than here, simply because the load of fiction I'm going to be writing soon is going to be pretty massive. So don't hesitate to join.

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26 April 2008 @ 09:12 am

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Title: Variations on a Theme.
Author:

top_hatted_girl .
Beta: The glorious

artemis_rain .
Rating: R.
Characters/Pairings: Claire/Elle.
Summary: An exploration of what they might have been and what they, in the end, became.
Prompts:

heroes_fest ("how could anyone be sad, she wondered, surrounded by this weird and wonderful world?") and

psych_30 (Instinct).
Warnings: Mild violence and f/f sex.
Spoilers: For all of Season Two, including the finale.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the situations themselves.
Author's Note: The first half of this story is AU; the other takes place after the (premature) finale of Season Two.

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06 April 2008 @ 08:32 am

My LJ is being wonky, so excuse me if you... already saw this post or whatever.

From the journal of

sophia_helix :

Three things _____ did after the world ended by _____.

e.g. Three things Toby Flenderson did after the world ended by nuclear attack.
e.g. Three things Luna Lovegood did after the world ended by clowns.

Fandoms I'll do:
Heroes
The Office
Harry Potter
There Will Be Blood
Pirates of the Caribbean
...and whatever else you can think of.

Go crazy, guys. I have- well, that's a lie, I have a lot that I'm supposed to be writing, but that doesn't mean I'm going to. I'm hungry for prompts.

Tags: unfortunate memes

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Current Music: Come On, Come Out- A Fine Frenzy

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01 March 2008 @ 08:06 pm

Heroes- The Triumph.

Title: The Triumph.
Author:

top_hatted_girl
Rating: PG-13.
Characters/Pairings: Peter/Nathan.
Summary: Life, for Peter, was a series of demons they had to defeat. Written for the

slashyheroes15 prompt Triumph.
Warnings: Incest.
Spoilers: Major spoilers for the finale episodes of both seasons.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the situations themselves.
Author's Note: Consider this a kick in the teeth to my writer's block. This story was heavily inspired by the song 'Heysátan' by Sigur Rós, and the story's mood is largely similar to the one in the song. Even though it's in Icelandic. My muse comes from strange places.

( Peter, raising his gaze to the sky, said hello to the devil. )

Tags: fic, fic: heroes

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13 February 2008 @ 05:06 pm

Heroes- Corrosion

Title: Corrosion.
Author:

top_hatted_girl .
Rating: R.
Characters/Pairings: Nathan/Sylar, implied Peter/Nathan.
Summary: He knows he should stop, but still he keeps allowing him to come. Is it redemption he wants, or something else entirely? Set in the 'Five Years Gone' universe. For the

slashyheroes15 prompt 'Fear.'
Warnings: Dub-con and violence.
Spoilers: Up to season one, the '5YG' episode.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the situations themselves.

( In the night-blackened alley )

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