Four very quick things

[blamebrampton]

1. If you are a slash fandom person, you WILL love this comic. If you are not, you may anyway. ETA: After reading further, much of my flist resembles this comic.

2. Due to unexpected events, I am making my living for November and December, and possibly January by freelance writing. Which is fine financially and fun intellectually, but means that I get to the end of the day and am utterly pants at writing anything else. Will be back in a fortnight after all my deadlines are met, or possibly earlier if I type faster!

3. MY BICYCLE IS THE BEST THING EVER!!! There will be a dedicated post to its glories as soon as I get organised to take and download photos. Sydney is SO much less lethal than it was the last time I was riding here. Though I have to factor in extra time as people keep asking me about the bike and panniers every time I take it out. I feel as though I should have flyers saying 'Interested in Dutch-style bikes? Ask me now!'

4. Have been reading Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James. It's quite up and down, but she gets one thing right that is managed by only about 13% of writers anywhere in the Anglosphere.
These are candelabra:


This is a candelabrum:

This is a candlestick:
If you can get that right, you will make pedants happy all over the world!

Comments

[arcanetrivia]

Mmmm, shiny, shiny pedantry. (But I'm not polishing it.)

Without clicking, I'm going to guess the Oglaf comic is the recent "gladiators" one? I thought of posting that myself.

[merlyn-gabriel.livejournal.com]

The comic is hilarious. Thank you for sharing. It's not the sort of thing I'd come across on my own.

Sigh.... bicycles...every spring we mean to buy new ones ( our old bikes went the way of the crap heap) and every autumn I wonder why we haven't bought our new bikes yet. We live in a bike friendly country ( Germany) and up North it's flat so really you'd think we'd have done this by now but nope...and I really want a bike since I live miles from anywhere that even remotely resembles a shop.

I stick my candles in lanterns so that whole candle stick issue isn't an issue. ( evil grin)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

One of my dearest flistees had pointed it out to me in the past, and Mr Brammers is a longterm fan despite never mentioning it to me, but were it not for a random internet moment, I'd never have come across it, either, which would have been a Great Loss :-)

I've gone a decade without cycling -- Sydney is very dangerous for bikes and I have nearly been killed a few times here -- but I realised that I was really missing it when I noticed that all of my gym sessions consisted of a 40 minute cycle even after weights and a class and so on :-) It's a wonderful way to feel connected with the world, and a very fast way to get places!

And lanterns are the best! You get the most light!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

So much bad innuendo ... ;-)

Yes, that one exactly. Great minds!