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[dracoliciousss.livejournal.com]

http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/10/happy-samhain-happy-halloween.html


LKH in italics, me in bold fits of laughter.
This is my first time blog-flogging instead of book-flogging...hope you all enjoy!

Happy Samhain, Happy Halloween

Traditionally a time to say good-bye to the dear departed.  On that note, will anyone join me for a ritual bonfire where we bid adieu to plot and characterization as we know it? 

 I've got to go get ready to take Trinity trick or treating. I'm trying to decide if it's too cold for my costume. I've got a cape.  Any guesses on the sure-to-be-absurd costume? Maybe Marie Antoinette, so as we villagers are starving for plot she can proclaim from her ivory tower, "let them read Micah!"

Jon and I will probably take turns taking her out and serving candy. We usually do. The pumpkins are lit. The excitement runs high, and all I can think of is that I didn't get my minim pages today.
*shakes head*  you know, we'd all much prefer you got less than the minimum pages finished, so long as they were decent pages.  

It is the end of our year, because it is the end of the harvest. Now's the time to prepare for winter in a serious way. 
Indeed.  Stock up on post-its, calendars, and shiny red shirts.  Also make sure the house is warm by kindling the fire with angry fan letters. 

The seasons don't mean much when you have central heating and central air, and grocery stores, but the rhythm's of the earth are still there, still waiting to be felt.  This is the kind of general statement that makes my brain hurt.  The seasons mean plenty, no matter how insulated your house is.  They mean change, renewal, birth, death, twilight, growth, etc.  They awaken muses and inspire creativity in most people.  The 'rhythm of the earth' is a lot more than just shopping in a store, and someone who prides themself on being in tune with nature should know the distinction.  Argggggh!

Comments

[windiain.livejournal.com]

The seasons would probably mean more to her if she stepped outside of her centrally-heated home more often. She might experience the bitter chill the rest of us do when we have to do things like post letters and go to the store to buy milk during the winter. ¬_¬

[albinowolf.livejournal.com]

"Well, some of us" says the Wolfie in south Florida" ;)

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

*looks out at the nice warm sunshine coming down from the nice warm blue sky*

*grins evilly to self*

Ah well - I'm going for a week to the Wild North of Canada, so I'll be paying my penance.

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

I lit things on fire in a grand festival of ... fire!

I love Edinburgh!

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

(There are pictures in my LJ if you want to check them out, and a link to many many many more.)

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Which Wolf guy? *grin* If it is who I thought it was, I was right behind him during part of it, and yeah, he was definately easy on the eyes... :)

Or you may mean the ones on slilts and *man* I can't wait to get the damned video made small enough to put up on you-tube because watching them move is outstanding!

[sadlikeknives.livejournal.com]

It is the end of our year, because it is the end of the harvest.

Suburban bitch, please, you wouldn't know a harvest if it smacked you in the face.

[catskin.livejournal.com]

Now, now, let us not presume.

I'm sure Laurell was out there all summer, toiling in the fields and bringing in the barley with the rest of the serfs.

Oh wait, this is the 21st century, isn't it?

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

Thank-you! I swear that every time that woman talks about harvest or anything vaguely related to agriculture it inspires rage. She knows even less about it than about S&M.

[sadlikeknives.livejournal.com]

It really pisses me off. I'm from farm country; I've worked my hands sore in a garden patch and spent whole days shucking corn (not this year, because there was a drought and everyone lost their crops) and shelling peas. I know from harvest.

When LKH actually pulls in a harvest, we'll talk. Until then, her year can damn well end on December 31 like everybody else's.

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

I know. It drives me up the wall that for her farming and harvest are stuff in some postcard-perfect pastoral cliched scene from the pre-Christian times where everyone was happy, intune with nature, and worshipping the all powerful triple-goddess.

*sigh* now my innter historian is cringing too.

[foxfire74.livejournal.com]

some postcard-perfect pastoral cliched scene from the pre-Christian times where everyone was happy, intune with nature, and worshipping the all powerful triple-goddess.

...before our patriarchal Judeo-Christian heritage spoiled all the affirming, feeling, sensing, burgeoning, whelp-and-hoe fun. (Sorry, I quote Florence King whenever anybody gives me the slightest opportunity.)

And I think my brain just broke at the notion of Florence King (bisexual, right-wing, gun-toting Episcopalian atheist (or should that be athiest to go with the Diety?) laying the smack down on LKH. Oh, I would pay money to see that...

[ravenclaw-devi.livejournal.com]

Maybe Marie Antoinette, so as we villagers are starving for plot she can proclaim from her ivory tower, "let them read Micah!"

Well, the meat from that doomcock could feed a family for... never mind. :p

[frabjously.livejournal.com]

Well, the meat from that doomcock could feed a family for... never mind. :p

You win and lose at the same time. *can't scrub image from mind*

[dwg.livejournal.com]

I'm imagining the warped dinner scene from "Rocky Horror Picture Show", starring the cast of AB:VH.

OH DUDE. RHPS could totaly be recast with AB:VH people. JC gets my vote for Frankenfurter (wait, like there was any doubt?) and he and Asher and Jason could chorus like "Sweet Transvestite" in drag. *nods*

That's...one of my happy place images.

[dracoliciousss.livejournal.com]

LMFAO!!!! Please let Micah be Eddie. Half of his brain sure was removed. oooh someone's gonna write a AB:VH/RHPS crossover! *crosses fingers*

[dracoliciousss.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh Columbia=Raina! I'm in Photoshop right now, this is too funny to waste!

[dwg.livejournal.com]

The seasons don't mean much when you have central heating and central air, and grocery stores,

Bitch, please.

My country's in the middle of a drought. We've got the earliest fire-ban season on record, water restrictions liek woah (the prices of groceries will be going up, accordingly) and it ain't even summer yet, which is totally when we get to look forward to blackouts. And this is in the metro area. Mercifully, I don't live in the hills and get to look forward to bushfires, too.

I might be living nocturnally, but I'm not so stupid as to ignore what's going on with the seasons (and not just because my hayfever is trying to kill me) and the like.

Just...HOMG, the stupid. IT BURNS US. *flails*

[jeannette.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute, how old is Trinity? Old enough to go trick-or-treating with her friends!

[ellenel13.livejournal.com]

LKH is a poser. She wants to come off as the wise womyn in tune with the Earth but then she goes a says shit like "the rythms of the Earth are still there, waiting to be felt." It's like she read it off a cheap horoscope.

Moron.

[dracoliciousss.livejournal.com]

She's about as Goth as a tractor-pull, lol.
Having naturally pale skin and ripping off Anne Rice's singularly-named French-sexy-vamp doesn't make you goth, it just makes you unoriginal.

[sadlikeknives.livejournal.com]

Honestly, this gives her a touch more credibility in my eyes, since at some point in her life she might have actually picked something. I want to smack people who go on about the rhythms of the earth and all this and have never lived anywhere with a yard, never mind a vegetable patch.

She can still get the hell over herself, as I'm pretty sure she now gets her produce at Kroger where it's available year-round.

[ladyravana.livejournal.com]

Having naturally pale skin and ripping off Anne Rice's singularly-named French-sexy-vamp doesn't make you goth, it just makes you unoriginal.

And to think, I used to respect this woman as an author.

Hey, JC and Asher might be Anne Rice rip-offs, but I still like them, lol. ;) I have a softspot for those two.

Anyways, nice floggie Draco. :D

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

The seasons don't mean much
*boogles* It does snow in Saint-Louis doesn't it? How can that not mean much? Somebody have pity and take this poor woman outside for once.

the rhythm's of the earth

The poor abused apostrophy.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

The excitement runs high

Is it crazy that I initially read that as "The excrement runs high"?