Riona (
rionaleonhart) wrote2007-10-02 12:47 pm
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Don't Listen To Ondore's Lies!
There was a guy with a Griever necklace in my Approaches to Meaning in English lecture. I stopped him on his way out and told him how awesome he was and asked him where he'd got it from and generally made a complete prat of myself, but I have an excuse, and that excuse is Griever necklace.
Also, I have got more post, because you are all ridiculously lovely. I will talk about it under the cut, because I imagine most of you are fed up with my 'eeeeee, post!' entries by now.
draegonhawke has sent me another hilarious postcard, this one with a drawing of Captain Jack Harkness attempting to chat up a rather bewildered Milotic on the front, much to Sam Tyler's despair. The back suggests the caption, 'It hadn't even cast "Captivate" yet!' IT IS A WORK OF GENIUS. (I'll probably have to scan some of these things in when I next have access to a scanner.) One of the stamps did, indeed, appear to have a tiny '666' printed on it, which rather confused me until I realised that there was an extremely difficult-to-see additional yellow '6' at the beginning. '6666' is no less mysterious, but at least it's slightly less Satanic.
reipan has sent me a letter written on paper that inexplicably has pictures of sushi all over it and is held together with what appear, rather worryingly, to be tentacle stickers. (Oh, Rei, I recognised the handwriting from the envelope alone. Not signing it would have fooled nobody. ALSO, I ALWAYS WANT CRACKFIC. YOU KNOW I DO.) By the way, Rei, if you write 'P.T.O.' on both sides of a piece of paper, you have essentially doomed the reader to eternally reading the first two sides of your letter over and over and over again. That was probably intentional, wasn't it? Because you're evil. (The fact that I am now caught in an endless loop of letter-reading does not make me any less grateful for the letter, however.)
twilit_wanderer's letter opened with a series of warnings which included 'She will write letters until told to stop!', which I am both amused and pleased by, and included a line in Al Bhed, which, I was slightly concerned to discover, I could read perfectly well without looking at the translation. In fact, the translation says 'does' while the Al Bhed says 'will'. Was this a secret test of my Al Bhed-reading skills? Do I pass?
In the letter itself, she wrote about cave-drawing Pyramid Head and included a doodle of stick-figure herself going 'D:' at stick-figure Pyramid Head (THAT IS THE SECOND STICK-FIGURE PYRAMID HEAD I HAVE RECEIVED IN TWO DAYS WHAT THE HELL) and drew her Brilliant Techniques For Spider-Elimination and mused on how tall a model Jeremy Clarkson would have to be to fit with her Transformer figurines and generally made me laugh like a loon. Although she has now permanently associated spiders with the Weeping Angel statues from Doctor Who in my mind, which is horrifying. And I would love to hear about Vana'diel!
I have realised, rather to my alarm, that the way in which I write Balthier can sometimes make him sound very similar to the Master. I'll have to make them meet at some point and see what happens. (If Balthier hadn't been a hero, he could have made such a good villain.)
Also, I have got more post, because you are all ridiculously lovely. I will talk about it under the cut, because I imagine most of you are fed up with my 'eeeeee, post!' entries by now.
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In the letter itself, she wrote about cave-drawing Pyramid Head and included a doodle of stick-figure herself going 'D:' at stick-figure Pyramid Head (THAT IS THE SECOND STICK-FIGURE PYRAMID HEAD I HAVE RECEIVED IN TWO DAYS WHAT THE HELL) and drew her Brilliant Techniques For Spider-Elimination and mused on how tall a model Jeremy Clarkson would have to be to fit with her Transformer figurines and generally made me laugh like a loon. Although she has now permanently associated spiders with the Weeping Angel statues from Doctor Who in my mind, which is horrifying. And I would love to hear about Vana'diel!
I have realised, rather to my alarm, that the way in which I write Balthier can sometimes make him sound very similar to the Master. I'll have to make them meet at some point and see what happens. (If Balthier hadn't been a hero, he could have made such a good villain.)
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THERE'S SOMETHING WEIRD ABOUT THOSE STAMPS, MAGI. I suspect that this may be why they increased the postal rate.
YUM YUM, DELICIOUS INK.
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Randomly, because it has been a random morning, what is your keyboard layout like? You can't actually be stuck with the $ right above the 4, can you? And if you aren't, how do you code PHP?
...I wonder about strange things.
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I find it really quite disconcerting that you have the '@' symbol over the two. We have the double quotation marks up there, and I would find it bloody hard to type if I had a keyboard with them in any other location. All the others are the same, though.
I sort of wish the brackets were in different locations on my keyboard purely so I could give the happy and sad faces different hairstyles.
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...and now, to class.
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To the immediate left of the Enter key is the only sensible placement for the " key. Because that way, using only your right hand, you can hit Shift with your middle and ring fingers, and move the index finger only a tiny amount to create a ". In high-dialogue situations, taking something from a quarter of a second to an eighth of a second and requiring decidedly less effort is, in my opinion, total win.
On the other hand, that's so a hash sign, not a pound sign.
I GUESS I JUST DISAGREE WITH EVERYBODY. CONTROVERSY!!!
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AND, ER, MY FINGERS WILL GET A TINY BIT MORE EXERCISE.
Out of curiosity, while we're talking about typing, how do you produce your ALLCAPS SENTENCES? I'm fairly irrational about this; I will never use the Caps Lock key. I just hold down the Shift key with the little finger of my left hand and carry on typing.
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But you'd have to be trained into it. Don't cry for me, Riona. I'm already dead.
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1-! 2-" 3-№ 4-% 5-: 6-, 7-. 8-; 9-( 0-)
..which weirds me out to great extent.
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It is good that you do not mind hearing about Vana'diel, because I have started that and it is going to be... probably ridiculously long!.
(And the word I could not remember was synesthesia. Just if that was a sleep-impairing mystery or something.)
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(The original draft of this post actually had the line 'And the word was "synaesthesia", by the way' in it, but I worried that it might seem too patronising.)
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I enjoy the 'eee, post!' entries! Possibly by now you are tired of me saying 'O HAY ILALL UR ENTRIES'. But yes.
You should have Balthier meet the Master. Because this means YOU WRITING MORE OF THE MASTER.
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AND I AM TOTALLY DRAWING ONE IN THE NEXT LETTER TOO. :xOMG BALTHIER!MASTER
OR EVEN BETTER, BALTHIER/MASTER. Y/N?
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ALSO, Y. It is a pairing of superiority and awesome.
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also i have only just noticed that the title of this post is "Don't listen to Ondore's lies!" and cannot stop laughing. I DO NOT KNOW WHY.
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...I did not, unfortunately, succeed.
NIDA!MASTER SUCCEEDS BALTHIER!MASTER SUCCEEDS JESS!MASTER SUCCEEDS SAXON!MASTER Y/N
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