How many young maids would take scythes and go mowing
I write from the depths of the green basket chair, where Autolycus is slowly claiming more of my lap (and my lap desk) than Bertie. Have some links.
1. I had not heard of Mr. Malcolm's List (2022) before this evening, but the original proof-of-concept short is terrific and may double as an inadvertent book trailer. I have meant to see Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù in something ever since this photograph.
2. Nor did I know that Angela Carter sang folk songs as well as working with their themes and language, but it says so in the notes for Polly Paulusma's Invisible Music (2021) and I'm delighted.
3. Fern Maddie's "Hares on the Mountain" is not quite a witch song, but I will now consider her acceptable casting for John the Balladeer.
4. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie, a week ago when I had no time to do anything about it: Cristina Mîrzoi recommends Forget the Sleepless Shores (2018). "I am in awe of this collection."
5. I just like this fanart for Gregory Peck's Captain Ahab.
My godchild called shortly before midnight. My interim phone is dreadful, but it enabled me to take their call and also send them evidence of cat.
P.S. And after I had come upstairs for the night, my mother heard a stealthy little scratching at the door at the bottom of the stairs to the summer kitchen and the next thing we knew an intrepid astronaut was standing foursquare on his little black feet on the sun porch, looking around him with lime-green curious eyes. His sister was waiting at the base for the report from her advance scout. He was returned unceremoniously, wriggling and protesting, without even a medal. Then I ran around the outside of the house with some rope to secure the door that opens directly from the summer kitchen into the driveway just in case Hestia decided it was the next tantalizing frontier. The door into the house doesn't have a deadbolt, but I do in fact lock it every time. Our little safecrackers grow up so fast.
1. I had not heard of Mr. Malcolm's List (2022) before this evening, but the original proof-of-concept short is terrific and may double as an inadvertent book trailer. I have meant to see Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù in something ever since this photograph.
2. Nor did I know that Angela Carter sang folk songs as well as working with their themes and language, but it says so in the notes for Polly Paulusma's Invisible Music (2021) and I'm delighted.
3. Fern Maddie's "Hares on the Mountain" is not quite a witch song, but I will now consider her acceptable casting for John the Balladeer.
4. Courtesy of
selkie, a week ago when I had no time to do anything about it: Cristina Mîrzoi recommends Forget the Sleepless Shores (2018). "I am in awe of this collection."5. I just like this fanart for Gregory Peck's Captain Ahab.
My godchild called shortly before midnight. My interim phone is dreadful, but it enabled me to take their call and also send them evidence of cat.
P.S. And after I had come upstairs for the night, my mother heard a stealthy little scratching at the door at the bottom of the stairs to the summer kitchen and the next thing we knew an intrepid astronaut was standing foursquare on his little black feet on the sun porch, looking around him with lime-green curious eyes. His sister was waiting at the base for the report from her advance scout. He was returned unceremoniously, wriggling and protesting, without even a medal. Then I ran around the outside of the house with some rope to secure the door that opens directly from the summer kitchen into the driveway just in case Hestia decided it was the next tantalizing frontier. The door into the house doesn't have a deadbolt, but I do in fact lock it every time. Our little safecrackers grow up so fast.
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*hugs if wanted*
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See postscript for further adventures!
*hugs*
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FANART.
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Tell me, which heist roles do Hestia and Autolycus sort into? :D :D
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And the innocence, or appearance thereof.
P.
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He is so sincere, even when he makes to eat the human food. We call him the Innocent Mooch.
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https://youtu.be/asc0-mXdB9U
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I love that song. I got the album it comes from because I heard it.
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We tell him so!
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And now we mask up, hit the hotel breakfast, and scuttle back to the room like squirrels.
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I aten't dead and working on keeping it that way. Glad to hear you are, too. Love.
And now we mask up, hit the hotel breakfast, and scuttle back to the room like squirrels.
*hugs*
How was squirrel breakfast?
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The inexplicable things that happen to some people.
*hugs*
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I'm telling you, it'll be motorcycles next.
Apropos which https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34058540
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Hah! Thank you. I will look for the book when it comes out.
(Good face.)
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Those are awesome songs!
Kitty!
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I really want to see it: I am frustrated that once again I will have to wait until it is out of theaters (and, almost as complicated, available on a streaming service I have access to). Have you read the original novel, and if so, do you recommend it?
Those are awesome songs!
I am capable of getting "Hares on the Mountain" stuck in my head for days on end on my own recognizance, and Maddie's version is not helping.
Kitty!
Very!
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Same here!
I have not read the original novel yet (this reminds me I should put a hold on the ebook)
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Evidence of cat is lovely. Making sure they stay in the summer kitchen: very wise. Why the interim phone?
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Thank you! I didn't expect it at all.
Evidence of cat is lovely. Making sure they stay in the summer kitchen: very wise.
My mother is allergic and the house is not set up for cats!
(My mother loves cats, though, and has been going down in very short visits to see her grandkittens.)
Why the interim phone?
Because my phone which had been broken since mid-May finally decapitated itself for good and could not be nursed along any further and the replacement phone which my wireless carrier was supposed to have provided in mid-May has still not arrived, so I need something with which to take calls and texts until it finally gets here. I hate the interim phone, but it does demonstrably work. I am treating it more or less like a landline because I don't want to carry it around.
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Who would guess that such a cozy-looking kitten would crave adventure?
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Thank you!
Who would guess that such a cozy-looking kitten would crave adventure?
He contains multitudes.
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Love.
Nine
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*hugs*
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That is a lovely recommendation for Forget the Sleepless Shores. Congratulations!
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I suspect you're right. I don't think, fortunately, it has ever been tried.
That is a lovely recommendation for Forget the Sleepless Shores. Congratulations!
Thank you!
addendum: Hare on the Mountain
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You're welcome! I'm so glad.
She has a deer's face, but sings about being the hunter.
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