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I seem to have become the most adored member of the Dom-loving community.
You're all shallow! For shame. You only love me for my pictures. I'm outraged.
Okay, I'm lying. I love it :D and I love making the spams, except for the part where I copy-paste a lot and get RSI. Still, wading through 3000 pictures of Dom to find the best ones isn't exactly a chore.
However, to all those people who have recently friended me and who I'm sure are charming and lovely, I have uni soon and I can't justify expanding my friends list even more. I've already got 138 people or some such thing. Sorry :(
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY to those who celebrate it. Luke was my Valentine this year, I had work in the morning and a meeting in the afternoon. But I did wear pink to celebrate the occasion :)
SHAKESPEARE
Honestly, it hardly seems worthwhile to do a post on Shakespeare as an interest. Suffice it to say I've been in love with his writings since I was about 12. I was that weird kid in class who actually really got into studying his plays. I love Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear, but I'm still a sucker for Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet even though I've read them a million times and watched a million versions of films of them. Shakespeare was a very cool guy.
SHOEBOX PROJECT
Much easier to do a post on! Firstly, you MUST VISIT![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
shoebox_project! Go back to the start and have a read, I know they haven't updated in a while but it's good, really it is.
Why I Love Shoebox:
01. Sirius. Their Sirius is just about the hottest thing ever, I want to run off with him and hide him from his future and veils and bad things that are going to happen. He's completely mad and spontaneous and passionate.
02. Perfect, spot-on characterisation. All the Marauders are exactly as I can see them in the books. James and Sirius *are* slightly arrogant but they're also sweet, decent guys, and it all works so well. Remus is an awkward, gawky and wonderful teenager. And Peter is just innocent enough yet still annoying. Reminds me of the song Lump, lol.
03. The format. The way that the sketches and photographs fit so beautifully with the stories, and their use of notes, are fantastic elements to add to an already brilliant piece of fiction.
For me, this is a bit like filling in canon where no canon exists. I love some of their inventions that seem to fit seemlessly into JKR's world, so much so you almost miss them in the actual books, such as the evil mistletoe. Plus Sirius/McGonagall is about the funniest thing ever. The whole thing is funny and touching and every so often just a hint of evil creeps in to leave you tingling.
Quotes:
-"Hello there, boys," the apparition whispers, in a voice brittle like dry leaves, rubbing against each other. "Not...afraid to be out after dark, are you?"
Remus takes a step backwards. "But it isn't after dark," he babbles, inanely. "It was only tea-time half an hour ago and just because the storm came along doesn't mean, technically, it's after dark just because it's dark outside. There is a distinction. Do you see that? Quite clearly, one signifies that it's past the hour for the sane and reasonable to be awake, while the other simply means it is dark outside because of a natural phenomenon like rain, or a tornado."
-"This is too stupid to be happening!" (Halloween 1976)
-"I do believe in commas, I do, I do!"
-"Is that what funkies your monkey?" Sirius asks. He bats his lashes outrageously in her direction, hoping the meaning is not lost. "Is that what bloats your stoat?"
"I would prefer, Mr. Black," McGonagall insists, "that you leave my stoat out of this indecency."
The chocolate.
The whole, entire flashback to when James, Peter and Sirius have animals in their heads.
Melissa, I think we got Anthony to dress up as the wrong Potter for Halloween. He's clearly a James.
In other words, go readshoebox_project.
Link of the Day? You guessed it,shoebox_project.
I DO have yet another Pic of the Day for you, though - it's Dom and Billy at the Abbey Road studio after Billy recorded the Steward of Gondor song.
Sorry, mate, I don't speak pathetic bastard - 151 days
Green Queen
You're all shallow! For shame. You only love me for my pictures. I'm outraged.
Okay, I'm lying. I love it :D and I love making the spams, except for the part where I copy-paste a lot and get RSI. Still, wading through 3000 pictures of Dom to find the best ones isn't exactly a chore.
However, to all those people who have recently friended me and who I'm sure are charming and lovely, I have uni soon and I can't justify expanding my friends list even more. I've already got 138 people or some such thing. Sorry :(
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY to those who celebrate it. Luke was my Valentine this year, I had work in the morning and a meeting in the afternoon. But I did wear pink to celebrate the occasion :)
SHAKESPEARE
Honestly, it hardly seems worthwhile to do a post on Shakespeare as an interest. Suffice it to say I've been in love with his writings since I was about 12. I was that weird kid in class who actually really got into studying his plays. I love Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear, but I'm still a sucker for Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet even though I've read them a million times and watched a million versions of films of them. Shakespeare was a very cool guy.
SHOEBOX PROJECT
Much easier to do a post on! Firstly, you MUST VISIT
shoebox_project! Go back to the start and have a read, I know they haven't updated in a while but it's good, really it is.Why I Love Shoebox:
01. Sirius. Their Sirius is just about the hottest thing ever, I want to run off with him and hide him from his future and veils and bad things that are going to happen. He's completely mad and spontaneous and passionate.
02. Perfect, spot-on characterisation. All the Marauders are exactly as I can see them in the books. James and Sirius *are* slightly arrogant but they're also sweet, decent guys, and it all works so well. Remus is an awkward, gawky and wonderful teenager. And Peter is just innocent enough yet still annoying. Reminds me of the song Lump, lol.
03. The format. The way that the sketches and photographs fit so beautifully with the stories, and their use of notes, are fantastic elements to add to an already brilliant piece of fiction.
For me, this is a bit like filling in canon where no canon exists. I love some of their inventions that seem to fit seemlessly into JKR's world, so much so you almost miss them in the actual books, such as the evil mistletoe. Plus Sirius/McGonagall is about the funniest thing ever. The whole thing is funny and touching and every so often just a hint of evil creeps in to leave you tingling.
Quotes:
-"Hello there, boys," the apparition whispers, in a voice brittle like dry leaves, rubbing against each other. "Not...afraid to be out after dark, are you?"
Remus takes a step backwards. "But it isn't after dark," he babbles, inanely. "It was only tea-time half an hour ago and just because the storm came along doesn't mean, technically, it's after dark just because it's dark outside. There is a distinction. Do you see that? Quite clearly, one signifies that it's past the hour for the sane and reasonable to be awake, while the other simply means it is dark outside because of a natural phenomenon like rain, or a tornado."
-"This is too stupid to be happening!" (Halloween 1976)
-"I do believe in commas, I do, I do!"
-"Is that what funkies your monkey?" Sirius asks. He bats his lashes outrageously in her direction, hoping the meaning is not lost. "Is that what bloats your stoat?"
"I would prefer, Mr. Black," McGonagall insists, "that you leave my stoat out of this indecency."
The chocolate.
The whole, entire flashback to when James, Peter and Sirius have animals in their heads.
Melissa, I think we got Anthony to dress up as the wrong Potter for Halloween. He's clearly a James.
In other words, go read
shoebox_project.Link of the Day? You guessed it,
shoebox_project.I DO have yet another Pic of the Day for you, though - it's Dom and Billy at the Abbey Road studio after Billy recorded the Steward of Gondor song.
Sorry, mate, I don't speak pathetic bastard - 151 days
Green Queen