and there will, in the very near future, be a commentfic party on my journal. heads up!

[whynot]

* I come back from the old country richer by two pair of pants and, uh, five Discworld books, oh maaaaan Discworld. I <3 Good Omens as much as the next guy and I <333 Johnny Maxwell bunches, but as far as Discworld goes, I am a johnny-come-lately ecstatic that there are, like, ten billion more Discworld books for me to get through.

* Some cool stuff cropped up on my flist--
-- via fahye: Subnormality, a webcomic whose teal deer tendencies is made up for by its affectionate cleverness, of which this strip is a fine example.
-- via luciusmalfoy: Oglaf, a webcomic that's like a parade of dick jokes, with pictures! The archive only warns for SFW-ness.
-- via woosterfeed: They painted a crossword puzzle 100 ft high on the side of an apartment building in Lvov City, Ukraine. "Questions for the puzzle can be found in various locations around the city, on monuments, theaters, fountains, etc."

* Um, holy crap, I just found a shitload of stuff I wrote in high school. I thought these were lost to the ages and various hardware failures! Holy shit, HP warfic. Holy shit, the time I accidentally wrote Neil Gaiman RPF. Holy shit, shitloads of origfic, and it's interesting seeing which I still like seven years later. These might be posted at some point. I almost want to go through the contents of old 3.5" diskettes and see what else I find.

* Perfume! Do you use it? Which? What sort of scents do you like? I am maybe poking around for one, so might you recommend to me a scent that is like Davidoff Cool Water, Tommy Girl, CK1, or Dior Addict Shine? Something springy and fruity, but not like a candy, and I don't like the musky vanilla/sandalwood/rose type of scents.

Comments

[mumblemutter.livejournal.com]

Diiiiiiiiiiiiiscworld! \o/

Terry. :-(

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Terry :(((((((

The symmetry of his undoing is too much.

[hivesofactivity.livejournal.com]

If you like springy and fruity, have you tried just a plain bergamot? The Body Shop used to do a nice one, but I don't think they do any more, alas. It's really nice by itself, and it also can be mixed with other perfumes without necessarily smelling like a big o'l mess.

I like a nice chypre, myself - they have a bergamot top note, and although many have sandalwood in them, this doesn't dominate, so they are fresh without being sweet. My favourite is Ma Griffe, which isn't made any more, but old bottles can be got, cheaper than new, from eBay. It's a green chypre, and I've been told that Chanel No 19 is similar, but I haven't tried it!

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I haven't! Who else does a nice bergamot? And 'fresh without being sweet' sounds like a good description of what I am looking for. And not too powdery-smelling either. I used to do Oceanus from the Body Shop for a while, that was nice. Scent was a bit heavy though. I'm also warming up to those green tea scents, though I'm not sure if I like it as a perfume or just as an air freshener.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

HI YOU ARE HOME and I know I already said yay but YAAAAAY! <333 i missed you!

In other news, OMG DISCWORLD, BEST EVER. READ THE WATCH SERIES! BEST THINGS EVER. Angua and Carrot are just too awesome for words. Also PTerry *sniff* :'(

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

HAY GURL HAAAAAAAY <3333 i missed you too

DISCWORLD <333. VIMES. So street-smart, and funny, and a complete asskicker, omg, Viiiiiiimes, and his THOROUGHLY AWESOME WIFE SYBIL RAMKIN. I just finished 'Fifth Elephant' (I haven't read a mystery novel in YEARS and this book totally tricked me into it) and am currently reading 'Going Postal', which I am enjoying muuuuuuch. I think my favorite so far is 'Soul Music'.

I've only read a couple of Watch books I think. "Guards! Guards!" and possibly something else. What book do Angua and Carrot end up hooking up in?

[mumblemutter.livejournal.com]

Men at Arms! *ahem*

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

I guess Men at Arms? My library has an oppressively low number of Pratchett books - only like, seven or eight. It is SAD. Any book with Vimes, though, is a Watch book. Except for 'Monstrous Regiment,' which is one of the awesomest books ever and I am not even kidding. Go read it now! It is about a Sweet Polly Oliver and a vampire with a craving for coffee and oh god, now I want to write Polly/Mal again shoot.

My other favorite Pratchett book is 'Feet of Clay.' It will make you sob and laugh in the same sentence. "I DO NOT CONSIDER THAT A CONVINCING ARGUMENT." You will understand that quote eventually. OH OH. Also the Tiffany Aching books! Or at least, the second, which would be the one I've read. My library doesn't have the first. Anyway, the one I read was 'A Hat Full of Sky' and it was really easy to understand the background even without reading 'The Wee Free Men' and Tiffany is hardcore and pretty much awesome, especially when you consider that she is 11 and has third thoughts.

Okay, going to stop squeeing madly now. XD

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

POLLY/MAL YES YES YES DO IT.

I really love Monstrous Regiment, Lass, read it right now! Also Going Postal kinda made me sad, but it was so good! Also Thief of Time--all the Death books actually.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I have! I liked it, though I found it kind of slow-moving. It's not my favorite. 'Thief of Time' is one of the books I bought, I was actually considering between that and 'Going Postal' for my next read. Temporal disorientation <33!

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

I WANT TO but I no longer have the book and am worried about characterization and also I HAVE ALREADY PROMISED YOU LUCY GOLDEN AGE gah stop it I have too many fics already!

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

BUT BUT BUT WHAT ELSE COULD YOU POSSIBLY BE DOING? (she says as she hasn't written anything in weeks)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

psst, she wrote polly&mal in the commentfic party ;)

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

COMMENT FIC PARTY, that was the other tab I was missing!

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I've read 'Monstrous Regiment'! I have a quote from it on my profile page for like ages. For my birthday, my boyfriend got me two Discworld books because he is excellent like that, and 'Monstrous Regiment' was one of 'em. Aaah, I was considering buying 'Feet of Clay' as part of my five, but passed on it. I got, what, 'Moving Pictures', 'Night Watch', 'Going Postal', 'Thief of Time', and uh something else I can't remember. Yes, I've read the Tiffany Aching books! God, I want to Tiffany to be my kids' hero. Pratchett is pretty good at writing girls and the different ways they're strong.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Read Feet of Clay sometime! It was fabulous

(Since you've already read Monstrous Regiment, do you understand the urge to write Polly/Mal?)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Wait, is Men at Arms the one where Vetinari is in his own dungeons reading a book about lacemaking?

Slow reaction is slow.

[allothi.livejournal.com]

Man, I have such mixed feelings about Pratchett. On the one hand, he's technically pretty fucking amazing and there are ways in which he has a mind like a flip-knife (er, well -- o mortality...) but on the other hand, the more time goes by, the more I find his particular brand of humanism pretty oppressively narrow. Occasionally, I feel like that knife is directed at my way of seeing, and not for the right reasons.

Perfume: I'm possibly not much use to you on this, since I skew towards spicy/woody/foodie scents (probably because I spend most of my time somewhere cold and windswept, so I want smells to heat the blood), but you might check out Origins' Ginger Essence, which is a lemonish, fresh ginger, not the dried, gingerbread kind. Or, hm, I adore Tan Giudicelli's Annam, which is a sort of unfloralish white floral, blurring into being an unfoodieish foodie. Though I understand it's now fiendishly difficult to get hold of, so perhaps not. Hm.

Oh, L'Occitane make good scents. I'm pretty fond of Cinnamon Orange -- fresh, sweet oranges with the cinnamon lingering around the edges -- which might be rather sticky-sweet for what you want. But I think they make a nice green tea scent, and a lemon verbena, which would be worth checking out.

A friend swears by BPAL's The Mock Turtle's Lesson for summer, which I have in my head as aquatic-to-citrus with a touch of florals -- I think white, again -- though I find BPAL horrifically frustrating because there aren't any wonderchemicals to stabilise the scent and stop it from (potentially) going very odd on the skin.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Seeing as I've only read a handful, I dunno if I can speak to that. There were articulations of morality that I disagreed with, though I thought I was just disagreeing with the characters (namely Vimes) and not Pratchett himself. I do love Vetinari's shtick, and I've only begun to read about Moist van Lipwig but I'm liking him a lot too. Uhh, so I like the slippery bastards, so sue me.

Of L'Occitane I'm familiar only with their rose-scented stuff, since I got a basket of 'em for Christmas one time. I'm pretty sure it's partly responsible for my anti-rose stance. A pretty flower, but kinda dowdy for a scent. I haven't checked out their other stuff though, so I'll stash that info away for later. I like the description "aquatic-to-citrus", that sounds like what I might be looking for in a perfume.

[lettersandliars.livejournal.com]

perfume: i wear this, but usually i'm more of a bath & body works kind of girl. i go for flowery scents, though, so.

accidental neil gaiman rpf?! POST, PLEASE.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I will! I think. I hope. Probably I'm just going to make the Neil Gaiman a generic genre writer. Right now I'm just looking at the writing of my high school self and cringing, but I had some good ideas. Could use a bit of fixing.

[alice-pike.livejournal.com]

Oh, HP warfic, how I missss youuu. Seriously, I pretty much stopped writing HP fic after HBP, because post-OotP was my favorite. canon. ever. So much angst! So much slash! So many dark possibilities... I'd love to see some of yours, too, so if you ever feel like posting it, please do!

As for perfume, I can't help you there. When I wear it, which isn't often, I'm a total Burberry girl--I use London in the spring/summer and Brit in the fall/winter. Musk is my weakness, for realz.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Oh, HP warfic, how I missss youuu.
SERIOUSLY. SREIOUSLY SERIOUSLY. Oh man, everyone skulking around, losing everyone and themselves, the all-or-nothing of it, the tension of aftermath, oh man. OH WARFIC. I think I will post it up at some point. Some of the writing makes me cringe now, but I like some of the ideas I had.

I use Burberry Weekend, and I also have Dior Addict. They're nice, but I'm also still on the quest for, like, the perfect perfume.

[puckling.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, the time I accidentally wrote Neil Gaiman RPF.

How can you mention this and not post! Share with the rest of the class ladyface.

Also, PTerry, though as someone mentioned upthread, definitely has BELIEFS, I love him dearly. He is the reason I am way hung up on footnotes. &hearts. I actually knit a square on the Pratchgan (http://woolly-knit-bits.blogspot.com/2008/08/pratchgan-2008-mission-accomplished.html). I don't want him to stop writing. D:

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I will at some point! I gotta patch up my high school self's writing, and I think I'll change Neil Gaiman into a generic made-up genre author. The gist is that he goes to Bali, that Island of 1000 Gods, and hangs out with some local gods to find some inspiration for his next story. And it's not just humans like to vacation in Bali, gods from other places also like to tourist around there.

PTerry's use of typography is SO EXCELLENT (MUCH LIKE THAT PRATCHGAN HOLY CRAP), I love it. His footnotes <33.

I don't want him to stop writing. D:
I knooooooooow! :((((((((((((((

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

What, we're not going to see these things you wrote?

ALSO YAY YOU'RE BACK. <3 <3 <3

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

You will! At some point you will. Once I fix the things that can be fixed.

I AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM <3 <4 <5!!