Chévere!

[osprey_archer]

I found the best Spanish dictionary ever yesterday. It’s not exactly a dictionary, it’s a book with lists of words grouped around a certain concept: these words mean “to run,” these words are types of shoes, these words describe different types of rivers…

Where has this book been all my life? I would have loved this book, and carried it around with me like a favorite blanket and petted it and called it Jorge.

My favorite word from this book is “serenarse,” which means “to calm yourself down; to regain your self-control.” I feel that “Me serené” is infinitely more graceful and affecting than “I regained my self-control.” It’s a pity I can’t unilaterally introduce it into the English language.

Just generally, Spanish reflexive verbs beat English reflexives into the dust. Myself, yourself, himself—all of these words are awkward and overlong, compared to the graceful simplicity of the Spanish me, te, se. If you ever want to inflict an action on yourself, Spanish is the language to use.

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Also, a link to a hilarious and affectionate description of steampunk, via marycatelli:

People think of goths as weirdoes who take vampires too seriously, and therefore they can’t help being worried on some level that a crazy goth might, you know, want to make them bleed. Whereas steampunks are — what? Weirdoes who take pocket-watches too seriously? What are they gonna do, vehemently tell you what time it is?

I feel like I should mention that the article is not nearly as hard on Goths as that sounds.

Comments

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

hah, it really really would be. ; )

i'm betting it'll be a minor-ish character or two... maybe dr. ron or sharon? who's not really minor but she isn't jaye/eric/mahandra...the three people who i would get most excited about, but probably are the least likely to show up.

(...or maybe the bird lady from the zoo, or the police officer from "caged bird")

aaah crack!fic- what if mahandra is emerson's daughter?

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

That crack!fic is the Best Idea Ever.

Although I think Dr. Ron could be utterly hilarious, especially if he tried to talk to Ned who would be all I DO NOT TALK TO PEOPLE, or Chuck who would be trying to explain her mental state without actually referring to any of the supernatural events that caused it.

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

it would be incredibly exciting. though i do get the impression that his kid's young enough to read pop-up books.
...but maybe mahandra's still related to him in some way, or is a character from his past. because, yeah, i want to see that snarkfest. ; )

i very much want to see that chuck scene now... it sounds kind of excellent.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Plotbunny!

I do need a new project now that Jaye's epic is done, after all. :)

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

and it is super-epic. it was bad though, i read though a lot of the third part but couldn't get my brain in edit-mode because it was too busy enjoying the utter excellence of it. plus i haven't seen a whole lot of great wonderfalls fic around (though i haven't been actively looking, either...), so it's automatically noteworthy fic in that way.

ooh, it'd be fun to read your pd fic, if you so choose to write some. right now i'm toying with a crack!drabble in which olive actually is in the sound of music, or maria's in pd...it's definitely still in the gestating idea stage, though...

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Ooh, are you going to have Olive and Maria meet? Because that could be interesting.

I'm not making any promises on the PD fic, because half of my fic plans seem to fall through into the fiery abyss, but it's definitely on list of possibilities. It has points in its favor for its non-epicness.