And I can love you like a color TV

[sovay]

I seem to have dreamed that I enlisted in an interdimensional military force. I needed to get offplanet. It made sense at the time. I want to blame yhlee.

Having slept appreciably for what was not quite literally the first time all week, I am now of course much more tired than when I was strung out for days, but I suspect it was still good for me. Have some links.

1. It is a sign of the comprehensive awfulness of last spring that I missed the discovery of wartime footage of Bletchley Park. Technically a satellite of Bletchley Park, but still. A four-and-a-half-minute edit of the original eleven-minute film has been made available: a mix of silent color and black-and-white, with subtitles added where lip-reading could make the words out; I wouldn't have minded captions identifying the known figures. The accompanying mini-documentary adds context, most notably from an MI6 veteran who worked at Whaddon Hall as a teenager and recognized his father in the off-duty flicker. No one seems to have any idea who did the filming. It wasn't surreptitious at all.

2. I like this poem: Celia Sorhaindo, "Ambergris."

3. Courtesy of moon_custafer: the seaweed-eating sheep of North Ronaldsay. It feels absolutely characteristic of sheep that they still want to eat grass even though it will kill them. I also confess I would like to eat one.

The world isn't going to become less stressful just because I would like it to, but I would still like it to.

Comments

[yhlee]

NO DON'T DO IT DON'T JOIN THE KEL

Can I interest you in a friendly willing voidmoth who will take you wherever you want, if only in dreams, in exchange for conversation about movies and the sea??

[sovay]

Can I interest you in a friendly willing voidmoth who will take you wherever you want, if only in dreams, in exchange for conversation about movies and the sea??

That would be splendid!

[cmcmck]

Since you mention North Ron sheep- the last time we were there, it was the time of year when they are on grass.



I'm not sure where that story comes from as the sheep are on grass for part of the year and seaweed for the rest. They are quite capable of eating both.

[sovay]

I'm not sure where that story comes from as the sheep are on grass for part of the year and seaweed for the rest. They are quite capable of eating both.

Wikipedia has citations that they are "susceptible to copper toxicity, if fed on a grass diet, as copper is toxic to sheep in high quantities . . . The levels of copper found in typical sheep feed, including grass, are toxic for this breed," which suggests that a certain amount of grass is safe for them to consume, but a year-round grass diet would have adverse results. I agree that the Tumblr phrasing makes it sound like they'd keel over if they tried at all.

Thank you for the photograph!

[gwynnega]

I seem to have dreamed that I enlisted in an interdimensional military force.

I dreamed of an extremely localized zombie apocalypse.

[sovay]

I dreamed of an extremely localized zombie apocalypse.

What a wonderful thing is zeitgeist.

[moon_custafer]

I dreamed I’d finally found a job, albeit at a call centre, but I was simultaneously involved in investigating a murder that had happened twenty years earlier in a South American country, which also had supernatural elements (there was a plaster cast of the victim’s face that had also been made into a vessel for her ghost so she could give us information), so I kept taking too long on my breaks and getting scolded whenever I was spotted sneaking back to my desk. I kept wondering when I was going to be fired.

[greenwoodside]

For once I'm ahead of the curve! I adopted one of those sheep as a gift for my mother last winter. As far as I know, she is still alive and thriving on her immensely high-iodine diet. The sheep, that is.

[sovay]

I adopted one of those sheep as a gift for my mother last winter. As far as I know, she is still alive and thriving on her immensely high-iodine diet. The sheep, that is.

I think that's wonderful. I didn't know you could adopt them!

[sholio]

Oh, that's fascinating about the sheep!

[sovay]

Oh, that's fascinating about the sheep!

It made me want seaweed.

[davidgillon]

I seem to have dreamed that I enlisted in an interdimensional military force. I needed to get offplanet. It made sense at the time. I want to blame [personal profile] yhlee.

If I was on one of Yoon's worlds, I'd probably want to get off planet too!

wartime footage of Bletchley Park.

Ooh! ISTR a friend I haven't seen in a few years mentioning their dad worked there in WWII.

[sovay]

If I was on one of Yoon's worlds, I'd probably want to get off planet too!

I think I was just leaving Earth!

ISTR a friend I haven't seen in a few years mentioning their dad worked there in WWII.

Oh, cool. I'm glad their father lived to the point in time where he could mention it!

[selkie]

I deliberately haven’t looked because I cannot work on the Bletchley thing right now I cannot. I’m up two flashbacks, two sex scenes and a fight scene and I have more burnt-out holes in my brain than a Russian oligarch with many fun recreational addictions and also yay, you slept!

[sovay]

I’m up two flashbacks, two sex scenes and a fight scene and I have more burnt-out holes in my brain than a Russian oligarch with many fun recreational addictions and also yay, you slept!

Yay, you wrote two sex scenes!

[selkie]

It is possible I should listen to you. Sooner. Sometimes.

[shewhomust]

I also confess I would like to eat one.

Your wish is my command (mutton pie at the lighthouse, North Ronaldsay):

[sovay]

Your wish is my command (mutton pie at the lighthouse, North Ronaldsay)

Thank you! That looks great.

[asakiyume]

"Ambergris" is great.

So are the seaweed-eating sheep. I was surprised to learn that sometimes grass can be too much even for quite ordinary horses when it's lush and rich--I found this out from my sister-in-law. She had a pony and had to restrict his access to grass.

[sovay]

"Ambergris" is great.

I love the images smashed together, as in the whale they would be.

I was surprised to learn that sometimes grass can be too much even for quite ordinary horses when it's lush and rich--I found this out from my sister-in-law.

I had no idea! What are ordinary horses supposed to eat, then? (I can't read the entire article.)

[ethelmay]

News flash: Margery Allingham's wartime memoir The Oaken Heart is up on Faded Page.

[sovay]

News flash: Margery Allingham's wartime memoir The Oaken Heart is up on Faded Page.

Thank you!

[aurumcalendula]

Ooh! The Bletchley Park stuff is really neat!

[sovay]

Ooh! The Bletchley Park stuff is really neat!

I am glad to be able to share!

[movingfinger]

...I enlisted in an interdimensional military force. I needed to get offplanet.

This could be hilarious or suspensefully terrifying, but were there even options for you to do so?

[sovay]

This could be hilarious or suspensefully terrifying, but were there even options for you to do so?

Oh, yes. There were the equivalent of worldgates. I remember going through one.