Title: "Upon the Moors, Beneath the Stars" (1/1)
Author: cinzia
Rating: PG
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Pairing: Book/Reader
Summary: On Names and Kings and Other Fairy Things.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Feedback: Always appreciated.
Author Notes: Unbetaed. I don't even know if she's read the book--but this is for her, as always, because all Books are Love.


( Upon the Moors, Beneath the Stars )


Crossposted to the_famulus here.

Via sol_se: another Sherlock Holmes trailer, with new footage. Spoilers abound, of course--and look! It's all ready to steal the title of Slashiest Movie of 2009 from Start Trek: Reboot. And then it just might run away with it and never ever give it back.

Ever.

♥

Steve/Tony icons I made a while ago. I couldn't help myself, they sort of have been together for forty years now, you know. You have to respect that. *nods* (The icons are under cut 'cause not particularly safe for work--nothing really graphic, but better safe etc).

Teaser:

( Big gay heroes this way )

Crossposted to chestnut_grove here and to cap_ironman here.

Season 1 only, no spoilers.

01. 02. 03.
( 9 more here )

EtA: Crossposted to chestnut_grove here and to merlin_icons here.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy


Day 07 has to be this, this, and also this. (Aka 3 SPN Dean/Castiel vidlets animated with the BuddyPoke application. Yes, yes I'm twelve. Your point? ;))

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy


Day 06 (Oops, I missed two whole days--bad me!)

"He would have liked to embroider some horrible disaster befalling the village of Wall. Indeed he got so far as to pick out some violent-coloured red and orange silks for the purpose, but in the end he was obliged to give it up, his skills in embroidery being in no way equal to the task."
(Susanna Clarke, The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse - from 'The Ladies of Grace Adieu' and Other Stories)

I just love Mrs Clarke's writing. ♥

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy


So, day 05. Since I already did the songvids, I'm going for something different:

Her Morning Elegance/Oren Lavie, an original music vid, truly brilliant and creative--you have to see it, it's enchanting. :)

Also, this list of make-up tutorials and this other one might come in handy if you--like me--are fascinated by the colourful, fun world of make-up but haven't the first clue as to how to apply it to your own face. (The girl has my same skin/eye colour, so I find her tutorials pretty useful. She also sounds very sweet and nice. The guy is terribly skilled and clear in his explanations, too... and he sounds like a total doll. <3 )

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy


Day 04: Kawaii Not (I expect everyone and their pets know this site already, but how can one resist? It's a webcomic 'for cute gone bad.' 'Nuff said.) <3

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy


Day 03, I'm going with a book that's also a fanfic: My Dearest Holmes by Rohase Piercy. It's a gorgeously written novel in Sir Conan Doyle's style, with a perfect Watson voice, dealing with a new case and unveiling what really happened when Holmes faked his death. It's slash, AND it could totally be canon.

Also: why isn't this movie out yet? :P

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy


Day 02, here's my pictures (two of them: both taken by me during vacations this year).

( Day 02: picture(s) )

Let's see if I can do this...

As seen in fileg's LJ:


Sharing Meme

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy


Day 01, therefore, will be a song... vid or five, 'cause that's what I like.

( Day 01: song(vids) )

I appear to have developed a Thing for Robert Downey Jr.

Who woulda thought.

He's so gorgeous and so sexually ambiguous sexually ambiguous omg. ♥_♥

Title: Five Things That Might've Happened to Sean (And One That Always Did) (1/1)
Author: cinzia
Rating: PG
Pairing: Sean Bean/life
Summary: Life is but a dream (or several).
Disclaimer: Not true!
Feedback: Always appreciated.
Author Notes: For the Reflections: 50 Days of Sean birthday celebration. A world of thanks to caras_galadhon for her brilliantly thoughtful and thought-provoking beta. <3



( Five Things That Might've Happened to Sean (And One That Always Did) )


EtA: 50 Days of Viggo is here.

The cupcakes came out all right, I think. I never baked anything like that before, and it was lots of fun. Yay!

Proof is ( under cut. )

01. Call doctor for appointment.

02. Remember to pick up meds.

03. Take pictures of baby birds in nest on stairs.

04. Bake cupcakes.
04a. Remember to take pictures if cupcakes end up looking nice.

05. Type up thingie.
05a. Send off thingie.

06. Watch some movie(s) in English so my pronunciation/hearing comprehension will get a little bettah. (Was thinking Emma and/or Sense and Sensibility, and/or Silent Hill.)

#03 is difficult, 'cause they're (naturally) three shy lil' buggers; #06 is 'cause I have a job interview tomorrow and do so need to sound like I know how to interact with polite society non-Italian speakers, OMG. Also polite society, but let us take one step at a time.

Anyone needs a code? I have two, in case. (First come, first served. :))

EtA: All gone. :)

I just baked a cake after years, and my very first chocolate cake ever, at that. I believe it's called a 'Deep Dark Chocolate Truffle Cake'... which of course tells you lots about me (recipe found here).

If it comes out right, pictures and squeeing will follow. :)

If not, we shall never speak of this again. :(

*goes to poke cake*

Lots of people rescue dogs and cats. Our family? We're all about birds.

( A couple of pictures here, as proof. )

Also, I have a new camera I need to play with. Could you guess? ;)

Looks like I got myself a Dreamwidth account, too. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to do anything with it, but it might come in handy if a zombie!apocalypse were to break out in LJ-land. Well, you just never know. :P

Odysseus had been on drugs Twitter?

Please stop with the cold and the raining already. Haven't we had this discussion before? U iz Spring, no Winter no more omg.

Also: how did I not know about Kermit Bale? HOW, I say?! *is slain*

I blame it all on those two, though, because... just look at them! Looking all happy and huggly and stuff. After all this time! Cheeky buggers.

Teasers: . . .

( 11 happy!VigBean icons this way )

EtA: Crossposted to chestnut_grove and also here to sons_of_gondor.

Buon compleanno, On. Montalcini. Here's to many more.

I just realised that, between one thing and the other, it's been nearly twenty days since I've done any shopping at all. Like, not even a book! A DVD! A T-shirt! A packet of chips! That's got to be a personal record, and I vow to remedy as soon as I can.

And for my next trick, I shall find a job which has nice hours, nice co-workers, is well paid and doesn't require me to spend three hours each day stuck on public transport feeling like I'm going to scream every minute of it.

*crickets chirp*

I'm a bit out of practice, but since I'm here, I might as well post these 12 icons I made, all of them Riptide icons, and all Nick/Cody at that, 'cause first loves etc. etc. (it's been almost 25 years since I first sort-of shipped those two, omg. Twenty. Five. Years. I'm boggling. O_o )

Teasers:

. . .

If you like, you can find the rest here, at my sadly underused icon journal.


Crossposted to pier56.

No, seriously: you are.

I was halfway through a longish entry about how I sort of made my peace with how bad I am at keeping up with LJ, and while this doesn't excuse the constant disappearing, I basically have had my lurking mode stuck on 'on' for ages now--and then realised, well, you sort of know all that already, because I keep posting that post over and over, whenever I dust off this old journal.

So, what I really really mean is: you guys? Are the best.

Seriously.

...gacked as usual from caras_galadhon:

Rules:
01. Answer each of the questions below using the Flickr search engine.
02. Choose a photo from the first three pages.
03. Copy the URL of your favorite photos here.
04. Then save, upload, and share with the world.

Questions:
01. First Name
02. Favourite Food
03. Hometown
04. Favourite Colour
05. Celebrity Crush
06. Favourite Drink
07. Dream Holiday
08. Favourite Dessert
09. What I Want To Be When I Grow Up
10. What I Love Most In The World
11. One Word That Describes Me
12. My LiveJournal Name

( Meme this way )

Also: Hi. I owe lots and lots of comments and thanks for feedback and birthday wishes! I'll get to it, I promise. *is bad like a very, very bad thing* *flais*