Odds and Ends
A collection of things I like, aka my place to be a magpie.
Expect a lot of lynxes, London, and BBC Sherlock.
Other interests include Harry Potter (I'm a Huffleclaw), His Dark Materials (my daemon should be obvious), Diana Wynne Jones' books (especially Chrestomanci), travel, Nintendo games, nature, aquariums, Neil Gaiman (yes, both his writing and him as a person), Doctor Who, and Being Human (BBC).
Me:
22, female, bisexual, demi/grey-A, senior at Hendrix College majoring in Environmental Studies (but currently taking a year off and living in Norman, OK), ISTJ, ADHD-PI.
If you want to know anything else (or just want a random conversation), my ask is open!
I don't always follow back. If I don't follow you, it's not because I don't think you're a cool person; I just don't think I would reblog your posts very often.
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Go on then eject me, see if I care.
I’m really going to miss her.
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I AM REALLY UPSET BY THE LACK OF A CHRESTOMANCI FANDOM
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tea-kitten asked: I'm going to see you in Dallas in June and just read your response to a question about what book tours are like for you; enlightening, to say the least. What do you do mentally to get through signing books for like 4 hours at a time? What sorts of things keep you engaged and excited when you feel like you can't do something a moment longer?
The people who are there to get their books signed are wonderful, and they keep me going. There is always someone new in the line, and everyone has...
More lovely photos taken of my daughter Helena as Delirium and myself as Death from Sandman at Vancouver Fan Expo.
(via neil-gaiman)
Neverwhere… From the Radio Times website:
As anticipation mounts among fantasy fans ahead of the Radio 4 adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, RadioTimes.com can reveal the first exclusive shot of the star-studded cast, which reads like a who’s who of cult TV.
Sherlock’s Benedict Cumberbatch and X-Men’s James McAvoy are joined by Game of Thrones and former Fades star Natalie Dormer, Doctor Who alumnus Sophie Okondeo and Homeland’s David Harewood for the tale of London Below, an alternate reality beneath the capital where famous landmarks take on a life of their own.
Screen legends Christopher Lee and Bernard Cribbins also star in an adaptation that is being described as an “audio film”.
The six-part series begins with an hour-long episode on Saturday 16 March on Radio 4 and continues with five 30-minute instalments on Radio 4 Extra from Monday 18 March.
More photos and news to follow in the coming weeks…
Via http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-02-20/benedict-cumberbatch-and-the-cast-of-neverwhere—-first-photo-and-air-date-revealed
to brighten up your day, I made some gifs of Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer hanging out with animals
enjoy. (x)
best honeymoon gifs ever.
Also, both of the echidnas were called Eric.
feeding homeless echidnas in tasmania is right up there with touring with NIN.
I’ll be on the radio tomorrow with Philip Pullman. About 8:20 am UK time on the TODAY show, Radio 4. Subject to breaking news, American Frankenstorms, new revelations about which stars have been arrested for what, and subject to complete cancellation int he event of an alien invasion.
Two of my favorite authors together, YEAHHHHH
Reading @neilhimself in the bathtub (the illustrated edition of Stardust with Charles Vess). Just barely SFW, if you have a fairly permissive office.
This is the internet. Is there actually a dedicated place for happy photos of people reading my books in the bath?
You don’t lose sight of your goal.
Think of it as a mountain. Just make sure you’re walking towards the mountain, all the time.
You aren’t going to be a more lesbian and undoubtedly prettier version of Steven Moffat just like that. You’ll take other jobs, do other things. Just make sure that what you do is walking towards the mountain, not away from it. (So something in television, or writery, or producery, even answering the telephones in a TV production company, is walking towards the mountain. Getting a job milking cows or showing people around houses probably isn’t.)
Big mountain. Small you. Just keep walking towards the mountain.
What did I do to combat the fear of failure? I honestly don’t remember a fear of failure. I had a fear of starving, and, shortly after that, a fear of not feeding my kids, which tended to keep me working and writing. I wanted what I’ve got now. But I would have been satisfied with anything that kept me fed — as long as it was moving towards the mountain. (The hardest job to turn down was when I was offered the job of features editor on Penthouse. It was the first and last time I was ever actually offered a real job, with a salary and an office, and I was a hungry young freelance journalist. But I said no, because it felt like I would have been walking away from the mountain. And looking back on it, I would have been.)
Reblogging because this helped me write my paper last week when I was sitting at my computer at 2 am, in tears, with only a few vague assertions about alienation in Modernism scribbled on a scrap of paper. I knew if I didn’t write the paper I was not just walking away from the mountain but running in the opposite direction and into a pit. So I wrote it and it was the best paper I’ve written all semester.
I think a lot of people need to read this.
Actually, the title says it all. Season 6 of Doctor Who is streaming on Netflix, so if you haven’t seen “The Doctor’s Wife”, now’s your chance.
Hang on. I will go and find something to randomly illustrate this with, by searching for “Idris” on DeviantArt & picking the first thing that makes me smile.
Neil Gaiman how are you so perfect?
I ask myself the same thing on a regular basis
