sneakers of the day

Diesel "Paramark" and another colour of the Adidas Originals Honey Mid.

give embarrassing names to animals: they won't get the joke.

I have a cousin who is named Perrin Dunlin, which are two kinds of birds, and Merlin is another. (Corwin sounds a bit like one but it's actually from the occupational name for leather-workers in England.) Wouldn't it be funny to name a bunch of kittens entirely after birds? (This is an example of my and Wax's sense of humour. I'm admitting it up front. On the plus side, you can count on us not to keep up a stream of puns for an extended period of time, like my Dad has done in the past. Although I can't forget my high school friend who said his dad once kept making cheese puns for the entirety of three hours in the car. I wish I'd been there.)

This isn't exactly on the same subject, but I had drawn a design with ribbons and little flowers that said "Medicine is the best medicine" and I was going to print it on a shirt or hoodie for Wax (I got the idea from this Emilie Autumn t-shirt design), and then... I saw this at Threadless two weeks ago. Although it doesn't preseve the tattoo-inspired design element and the font is really ugly and I find the "actually" completely superfluous, but... someone else had the same idea! I suppose it wasn't really that original...

And on a final note unrelated to anything whatsoever, I'm going to see Emilie Autumn again live in Helsinki at Nosturi in just a few weeks, 18 April! That being a Saturday instead of Friday, it meshes with Wax's schedule so that we'll have Saturday to spend in Helsinki, assuming she does ever contact her Helsinki friend for crash-space. Which is cool because I've never seen much of Helsinki - just Stockmann and Akademiska Bokhandeln over and over.

terminator: the sarah connor chronicles icons

Catherine and Savannah Weaver; credit required.

 

 

spn, hm?

If someone made a recs list/primer entitled "How to Read Dean/Castiel for People Who Don't Watch Supernatural and Want to Keep It That Way, Without Any Ep Tags or Too Much Reference to Plot", I would read it.

Just throwing that out there.

Roger Zelazny's fantasy masterpiece The Chronicles of Amber: A Picture-Primer

Just finished rereading the first "five-book trilogy" of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber in an omnibus with a pretty awesome cover. I discovered to my dismay that the second quintilogy (or Merlin cycle) has never been released in its own omnibus (only part of a bigger 10-book one), so I'm going to be hunting used books soon.

I've spent several weeks obsessively compiling a fantasy cast for the series. This was necessary to get through the whole thousand or so pages of it, because it's a true epic full of twists and turns, tangled interpersonal drama, and a large ensemble cast. The first book's called Nine Princes in Amber, and that's just the princes: there are four sisters and a non-prince brother, too, as well as other important characters.

So this is kind of an introduction to Roger Zelazny's fantasy masterpiece (a ten-volume universe published from 1970 to 1991 that's spawned rpgs and professional fanfic), combined with a picspam, combined with quotes in support of my casting rationale. An entirely self-involved enterprise, but it'd be a big waste not to post it now after all that work. So without further ado,

The Chronicles of Amber: A Picture-Primer, or

( Nine princes, four princesses, their brother, three descendants, a King, a sidekick, and some secondary characters in Amber )