Day 302: Diwali

So, Tuesday 28th was Diwali. We had a delightful evening; sweets and candles and sparklers and a cat who wondered what all the excitement was about. A more competent description ) Photographs: There's something really quite funky about the effect of the last one. I may have to try it again. The full set, with many more sparklers, is here . ...

[recs] Pre-Election Pre-Yuletide Set of Glee!

... the different student personalities, and Will's unlikely friendship, and especially the discussion of baseball, which remains my favorite sport despite the fact that I never get to play it or watch it. Christingle. loneraven . Will's first term, adjusting to a life different than the one he had before--and learning about a life that is more than the sum of its parts. This is a quiet, ...

16th August to 22nd August

....... LEO: Secret Service protection, Charlie. But thanks for loading me up with that image. -- 2.3 'The Midterms' :: Fic Wet Porcelain by hollydb [Josh/Donna; R] Diptych by loneraven [Sam, Josh, Ensemble; PG-13] That Way Lies Madness by ygrawn [Donna/Sam, Donna/Josh; M] Utopia Limited #17: Our Great Mikado (Virtuous Man) by fabfemmeboy [Sam/Josh; PG...

Fic: Autochthony

Title: Autochthony Author: Raven Characters: McCoy, Spock, Kirk. Gen. Rating: PG-13. Summary: McCoy on a planet with flowers. And madness. ( It starts quietly..." )

Day 24: laughter

.... Anyhow, we all congregated around jacinthsong to drink tea and geek; at some point late in the evening, the Dread Book was produced. And, oh my, it was as bad as I remembered. loneraven reading Eye of Argon . The composition here is a bit off - the image is too tight, and could do with an extra inch or two around the edges (and probably also with being portrait not ...

we are old, love / goodnight my love

All right, so I'm not exactly old , yet. But I was standing at the till in Sainsbury's with a raw chicken in one hand and a bag of low-fat wine gums in the other and peering woefully at the "Under 21" sign, informing me about ID and alcohol purchases. And yes, it makes no qualitative difference, but not being under twenty-one is still odd. An odd sort of birthday. There was, due to a strange ...

What have I been up to? Volunteering on the Hillary Clinton campaign along with loneraven . For further details, see her excellent post... http://loneraven.livejournal.com/570645.html In other news, I really need an American political icon.

Michaelmas

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn." -pg 101, Brideshead Revisited , Evelyn Waugh. ...what? None of you had posted it yet! Someone had to crack and say it first! Anyway. My detour into minor pretension aside, this really is an autumn like the one described in Brideshead , sombre and grey and very wet. I have been back in Oxford two days, have successfully ...

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

... it happen, but now that it has, it's amazing to watch, and heartening, as well.//People are yelling their heads off at racism, starting online. People are educating each other. - (tags: race hp fandom ) loneraven : Race and ethnicity in fandom, and actually, real life as well - I'm Asian. I'm Indian. In all my time in fandom, I've only ever met two other fannish Indian people, ...

I bring fic! Fic: Down and Upping by Raven PG-13, gen. Geoffrey's breakdown. ( goodnight, sweet prince )