Then one steel morning on the white quay, I saw a grey ship come in from sea

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A lot of this post is catch-up. But with pictures!

1. I missed International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Have a picture of Robert Newton and some seafaring songs.

The Imagined Village, "Mermaid"

Neptune he has favored us with fair and lively breeze
Like a thing endowed with life she bounds across the seas
Then we're off to Tibert's Bay upon some drunken sprees
To drink some rum and raise some hell and lose our dignity

The Bills, "Bamfield's John Vanden" (historically attested)

When the listing wrecks needed us the most
We slipped past death on the graveyard coast
But the ocean remembers, so we never did boast

Peter Bellamy, "Anchor Song (Live on Folk 80)"

Oh, we're bound to Mother Carey where she feeds her chicks at sea!



2. shweta_narayan and elsmi were in town this past week! Below the cut please find photographic evidence in the form of Mippo. Also Shweta. Elsmi appears in none of these pictures because the first two were taken before we met up with him at dinner and the last two were taken by him because my phone is kind of terrible.









3. If you have not already seen Ursula Vernon's Harry Potter fic and its accompanying illustration, there you go.

In other news, worst insomnia since 2006 or 2007. Trying to remember what I did yesterday, I think the answer is mostly laundry, work, and I showed derspatchel The Cruel Sea (1953), from which he correctly recognized my young Denholm Elliott icon. We have surprise plans for dinner at Lobsta Land with audioboy and Beckie tonight, which should be fun. Anything gets me more sea, I approve of.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Robert Newton looks a bit--just a bit--like you actually. It's not just the cap; it's the eyes, too. And lovely to see a photo of Shweta!

And a war-badger is a thing of might--that's an awesome illustration.

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Robert Newton looks a bit--just a bit--like you actually. It's not just the cap; it's the eyes, too.

Hah! I didn't even think of the clothing similarities. I just wanted a picture of him as Bill Walker in Major Barbara (1941), because I like him so much in that role and I figured everyone else would have posted him as Long John Silver; it was a tossup between that photo and either of these. He had better hair than I do. I am coping very badly with mine.

And lovely to see a photo of Shweta!

It was lovely to see them. We talked for hours; I only left because it was nearing midnight and the trains were going to stop running soon. Plus they lent me an electric blanket for my hands, which was awesome.

And a war-badger is a thing of might--that's an awesome illustration.

I read the fic and found the only thing lacking was an illustration of a war-badger (although I would have settled for Salazar Slytherin wearing his snake); I was so glad to see that Vernon herself had clearly thought the same thing a few minutes later.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You picked the best of the three pictures. And now I'm remembering that Major Barbara is another book I've wanted to read.

(And as for the hair--loss of something so key to Self: heart rending. I get pain in my chest thinking about the pain *you* must feel regarding it--and then you go and smile your beautiful smile. We need a definition of courage, endurance, and generosity that encompasses that.)

I need to read Ursula Vernon's fic--but first I need to finish your Pacific Rim one, which I got interrupted in the middle of, and I want to read Cucumberseed's most recent, too. Still, Salazar Slytherin with a serpent muffler sounds excellent.