I don't know if this day-plus headache is the result of the heat or the humidity or some other meteorological factor that could knock it off any time now, but at least what I am doing right now is eating lemon poppy seed ice cream and reading my paperback of Nevil Shute's Landfall (1940) which arrived this afternoon. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
davidgillon, the foreword directly cites as inspiration the friendly fire incident involving HMS Snapper on December 3, 1939: "It is remarkable that he was able to get this lightly fictionalised version of the event past the censors." Have a couple of links.
1. Courtesy ofmoon_custafer: a gifset of Bishop from Aliens (1986), whom I love.
2. Courtesy ofhandful_ofdust: a chunk of meta on the first three Pirates of the Caribbean proving that after fifteen-ish years, none of my emotions about these movies have gone anywhere (and that gaudior and I should totally feel smug about reading the signs of Elizabeth's self-actualization as a pirate). In any case, even though I am on record as liking the myth-arc of the original ending, it appears that I am one hundred and ten percent here for the hypothetical AU of "Pirate King Elizabeth with her devoted, snatch-heroism-from-the-jaws-of-disgrace ex-Royal-Navy Commodore Norrington." Would also watch the Will and Elizabeth Flying Dutchman Jailbreak Show. Come on.
3. I just really like this picture of Galina Vishnevskaya and Benjamin Britten. I presume it was taken during the recording sessions for the War Requiem (1963), whose rehearsal tapes are still one of my favorite bootlegs in existence. "Please, ladies and gentlemen, I want to have a bash, as they say, at the Sanctus."
davidgillon, the foreword directly cites as inspiration the friendly fire incident involving HMS Snapper on December 3, 1939: "It is remarkable that he was able to get this lightly fictionalised version of the event past the censors." Have a couple of links.1. Courtesy of
moon_custafer: a gifset of Bishop from Aliens (1986), whom I love.2. Courtesy of
handful_ofdust: a chunk of meta on the first three Pirates of the Caribbean proving that after fifteen-ish years, none of my emotions about these movies have gone anywhere (and that gaudior and I should totally feel smug about reading the signs of Elizabeth's self-actualization as a pirate). In any case, even though I am on record as liking the myth-arc of the original ending, it appears that I am one hundred and ten percent here for the hypothetical AU of "Pirate King Elizabeth with her devoted, snatch-heroism-from-the-jaws-of-disgrace ex-Royal-Navy Commodore Norrington." Would also watch the Will and Elizabeth Flying Dutchman Jailbreak Show. Come on.3. I just really like this picture of Galina Vishnevskaya and Benjamin Britten. I presume it was taken during the recording sessions for the War Requiem (1963), whose rehearsal tapes are still one of my favorite bootlegs in existence. "Please, ladies and gentlemen, I want to have a bash, as they say, at the Sanctus."
