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medals and
Aug. 20th, 2008 01:00 pmThe medals table keeps freaking me out. (aside from GB being third. Third. How the fuck is this possible? Sitting down sports and long-distance swimming, we salute thee) '...Kazakhstan are *where*?' and then you click and it turns out they specialise in certain things so even if they don't necessarily get golds, they always place. Kazakhstan specialises in weightlifting and Greco-Roman wrestling. Cuba specialises in Judo. Who knew? (Indonesia : Badminton badminton badminton. There's a surprise.)
The lacy white sundress has had the broderie anglaise edging put on. Before, it was a nice sundress. Now, it's 'hi, I'm trying to be cute and wholesome!' in a rather sickening way. Bleearrrrrgh. My mother thinks this is *funny*.
Experimenting with sun + lemon juice to lighten my hair at lunchtimes, seeing as we didn't have enough decent periods of sun at weekends this summer. And lemon juice works like cheap-ish hairspray - brush it enough, hair stays nicely in place due to the sugars with decent appearance, only disadvantage being slightly sticky. The fact that it smells nice is a bonus.
Clearly had a misspent childhood. Cannot write fights involving guns to save my life, it seems. Hand-to-hand or swords and knives and blunt objects, no problem. Action, Valiant, Battle, Eagle and Commando comics, you have failed me. FAILED. I spent a good portion of my childhood filching these off my brother and I still have problems writing a fight scene in Korea involving guns. Possibly the fact that all the literature (also filched off my brother) involving fight scenes I was reading during said formative years was Roman and British and Viking and early medieval/dark ages may have had something to do with this. Comics, you weren't wordy enough during your fight scenes. On the other hand, I could probably write an aerial dogfight since those had to have a lot of narration of the action.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mingmerciless, I can see you sniggering back there. Stop it.
:sigh: trying to figure out if I can write the relevant snippets of the fight and just those, and make it work...
Keep looking at this fic and going 'how the fuck did I end up writing about Korea?' In other news, I want a sodding narnia lj newsletter, like a bunch of the other fandoms have, which gives you all the icon and fic and meta posts in one lovely list of links regularly. So you can see anything interesting but don't have to join all the communities that melt your brain. With this in mind, I really need to cut down my torchwood fic comms - the sheer amount of cross-posting and clogging up of flist is scary. (yeah, probably guilty...)
The lacy white sundress has had the broderie anglaise edging put on. Before, it was a nice sundress. Now, it's 'hi, I'm trying to be cute and wholesome!' in a rather sickening way. Bleearrrrrgh. My mother thinks this is *funny*.
Experimenting with sun + lemon juice to lighten my hair at lunchtimes, seeing as we didn't have enough decent periods of sun at weekends this summer. And lemon juice works like cheap-ish hairspray - brush it enough, hair stays nicely in place due to the sugars with decent appearance, only disadvantage being slightly sticky. The fact that it smells nice is a bonus.
Clearly had a misspent childhood. Cannot write fights involving guns to save my life, it seems. Hand-to-hand or swords and knives and blunt objects, no problem. Action, Valiant, Battle, Eagle and Commando comics, you have failed me. FAILED. I spent a good portion of my childhood filching these off my brother and I still have problems writing a fight scene in Korea involving guns. Possibly the fact that all the literature (also filched off my brother) involving fight scenes I was reading during said formative years was Roman and British and Viking and early medieval/dark ages may have had something to do with this. Comics, you weren't wordy enough during your fight scenes. On the other hand, I could probably write an aerial dogfight since those had to have a lot of narration of the action.
mingmerciless, I can see you sniggering back there. Stop it.:sigh: trying to figure out if I can write the relevant snippets of the fight and just those, and make it work...
Keep looking at this fic and going 'how the fuck did I end up writing about Korea?' In other news, I want a sodding narnia lj newsletter, like a bunch of the other fandoms have, which gives you all the icon and fic and meta posts in one lovely list of links regularly. So you can see anything interesting but don't have to join all the communities that melt your brain. With this in mind, I really need to cut down my torchwood fic comms - the sheer amount of cross-posting and clogging up of flist is scary. (yeah, probably guilty...)
