lacrimae rerum

So I've decided that whenever possible from now on I'm uploading a picture, with some relevance to whatever I think I'm going to talk about, before the actual wall of text post. I have so many cute or funny pictures and I might as well share them. ;)


I just want to bury myself like that fox and hibernate right now. @_@ There's this strange sort of lethargy or sluggishness in my bones.

Last night I was trying to catalogue some of my books at my LibraryThing account and now I just want to curl up with snacks and a hot drink and reread most of them, starting with Neil Gaiman's Odd and the Frost Giants. It may be just a really thin kids' book, but the storyline is awwww-worthy and the characters and the use of Norse myths are amazing and if I had kids I would so read it to them. That also goes for Sheila Banfield's Leif the Lucky. According to LibraryThing, only one other person on that website besides me owns it. Which is sad because for a simple-looking thin little kids' book, it combines an engaging plot and historical characters with lovely details of Viking history and art and culture and everday life, and shows how Christianity is just beginning to make itself felt alongside the old worship of Odin and Thor and so on. These books, to me, are amazing children's books, and I don't get how stuff like Captain Underpants is more popular. Sigh.

( cut for ramblings about crystals, religion and cleaning )

Help wanted! Help me clean my room and move stuff, and I will cook for you and give you something from Dubai or Egypt. Even if it's just sand from Giza or Saqqara in a tiny bottle. :D

I tried posting this earlier this week but LJ ATE MY POST! After I spent ages uploading three quarters of the photos! >_< I tried again last night, something went wrong and for the THIRD TIME THIS WEEK I am attempting to share these photos.

Deepavali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, was on October 17th. The photos in this post are of the preparations - shopping, cleaning, baking, henna etc. It will be HTML-heavy, so I sincerely hope that LJ will not screw with me. Crowley, I'm talking to you too.


 

( Deepavali Photos, Part One )

 

Part One over, Part Two, with the celbrations on the day itself and all the FOOD, coming soon!

Found this at mythtickle.com.




LOL. Thoth, Buddha, Lord Shiva, and... Mithras? Native American spirit god? Hard to figure out, that last one, although the first god I thought of was Mithras.

Anyway, it amused me, so I thought I'd share. xD

If you're a Good Omens fan and a Lower Tadfield Air Base (lower_tadfield ) regular, you might be familiar with that absolutely awesome role-play, neutral_omens . Well, a similar one is starting! It's calledlt_safe_house , and the premise is similar to that of neutral_omens (NO).

The NO role-play (RP) not only featured characters from Good Omens such as Crowley, Aziraphale, Adam, Brian, Wensleydale, Pepper, Newt, Anathema, and the Horsepersons, but also people from other Neil Gaiman books, like Mr Wednesday and the Marquis de Carabas,  people from mythology (and American Gods) like Horus or Loki, and of course Judaeo-Christian angels - we had Uriel, Michael, Raphael and Gabriel there as well. We also had other demons, like Belial, officially my favourite demon after Crowley. And we had people from other fandoms, like Harry Potter - Harry, Draco, Luna, Remus and Sirius joined the above cast at Tadfield Manor. And John Constantine came there too; he started out as a relatively minor character and friend of Crowley's, but he became one of the major players.

Anyway. As I was saying, we're starting a similar role-play at lt_safe_house . And I have joined it, and I will be role-playing... *drum roll* the Archangel Gabriel!

When I first got there I couldn't believe who was available, I was tempted to play Crowley or Aziraphale themselves, but I didn't know how well I could play them, seeing as how I didn't RP much before this. And if I changed them too much, the other GO fans mightn't like it. And I thought about playing one of the old gods, like Mr Wednesday aka Odin, or Isis, or my favourite Egyptian goddess Seshat. But Wednesday, again, is a canon Gaiman character and if I didn't play him properly I didn't know how the fans would react.

So I thought I'd use an established fanon character, but one who wasn't in much canon, so I could do my own take on the character. So I made a quick, heart-thumping decision to play the Divine Messenger himself, Gabriel.

I filled out the application at mad_prophecies , and created an RP account, cattygabriel .  And the whole point of this post was supposed to be to let you know this:

Due to the fact that 1) school will be piling on the assignments, 2) I will be playing Gabriel himself in a Good Omens role-play and 3) due to the aforementioned RP, I will have to research Gabriel, do some character posts at his LJ, and of course be active in the actual RP itself, I won't be able to update my own LiveJournal as often as I would prefer. Of course, I'll still pop by with photos or stories of school, or fanfiction or original fiction, but not nearly as regularly. Not that I update my LJ regularly in the first place, but it'll be even more infrequent now. :(

And any help with researching Gabriel would also be much appreciated, along with nice pictures of him. (:


Also, I recently read the Author's Preferred Text editions of Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Neverwhere. They're SO FREAKING GOOD! The Marquis de Carabas, from Neverwhere, reminded me so much of Crowley from Good Omens and Spider from Anansi Boys. And American Gods, with its cast of old and new gods and the occasional human XP was so fantastic! Absolutely wonderful! I've even had a number of dreams, featuring some of the gods in American Gods (alas, none featuring the Hindu gods whom I pray to). I shall talk more about those dreams in another post.



~ Sivaroobini