who are these skeletons with guns, taking aim?
we made ourselves a home out of our dreamsbrought with us this love now bittersweetmaybe I could say now that I always thought of youhow you run to walk with me, your whole life throughWhat is it, old...
View Articlewassail, wassail all over the town
Merry Yule and merry winter!And now to snowy silver splendour,dark twinkling nights and pewter dawns,and soft snows powdering the lawns.Rejoice, and raise the golden glasses!Dance with merry lads and...
View Articleit came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter
I spent some few hours two days back, standing in front of the Bellefleurs estate, welcoming in any who happened by. Admittedly, we are nearing the height of the holiday season, so the days are slow,...
View ArticleI wanna ride the waves down in Galveston when the hurricanes blow in
We are truly living in the future. I mean, show of hands, people--who expected a functional transparent metal to be developed in our lifetimes? I know my hand isn't raised, there!There are three...
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Lemmy Kilmister, singer, songwriter, musician, member of Motörhead and former member of Hawkwind, has passed away at the age of 70 from cancer. He will most sincerely and ardently be missed, and he...
View Articlethere is water, there is snow
I present to you the cast of Star Wars singing Staying Alive. You're...welcome?While we're at it, have some Jedi & Sith lightsaber training, courtesy of Kuma Films.And I know the holidays are...
View Articlewhat is beauty compared to grief?
Wayne Rogers has passed away December 31st, due to complications from pneumonia, at the age of 82. While many of us remember him from his work on the initial seasons of M.A.S.H. and as a character...
View Articleand I'll burn my mind on this nothing
And this is how we heard:[17:07] Cayenne Republic: store is gone[17:07] Cayenne Republic: clubhaus is gone, find a sandbox[17:07] Veruca Monday: :-([17:07] Lulubelle Muircastle: MOCK is gone?[17:07]...
View Articlesometimes I think that it's better to never ask why
What?All I was doing was trying to log into SL.So I went off to check the SL grid status. Apparently, the announcement went up a bit before one AM:[Posted 12:51 AM PST, 09 January 2016]We are...
View Articleheed my warning and steer well clear
Today's troubles actually started earlier in the week, when there were two very early mornings of "unplanned maintenance". But today, it's apparently been worse:[13:37] xxxxxxxx Rxxxxxxx: i just...
View Articlego make some new disaster
Several months ago...Yeah. It's been a while. I got to the point where I realized that the longer I put it off, the longer it would be before I said anything. So...I made plans to write an entry, even...
View Articleis there a chance you may change your mind? or are we ashes and wine?
"The writing drought is over, at least for now."Or, at least, until life went boom again, both on and offworld, my aetheric engine's main drive died, one of my RL partners had elbow surgery, and...
View Articleso it's gonna be forever or it's gonna go down in flames
There are times I love my new job at Sakura, and then there are times like these, when it baffles me beyond all comprehension.[12:56] Emilly Orr: Greetings again.I had met this fellow all but once...
View Articlewhat is joy in league with sorrow?
Doing some housekeeping, as long as I'm updating the colors and the theme. Absinthe as a post tag is now gone; it's been replaced by a general Winterfell tag if something in the entry just refers to...
View Articlewe'd move from the shadows of the wall
Precise cuts. Deliberate wounding. Never arm someone with the weapons to use against you, it's a rule. But I've never been able to function that way.There was contention. I felt there was an argument...
View Articleeyes wide shut, unopened
And I cannot speak, I cannot speak, there are no words to say......and...that's really where we stand. I'm not even sure there's a reasonable summation. So...I suppose I won't keep you...
View Articleso I learned to listen through silence
(I still don't have the words, so I make bad art. Full version's up on deviantArt, not that it's any better.)
View Articleand it doesn't seem to me we're each others' better side
Some actions we cannot take back.Some things we cannot fix.Some things we cannot unsay, or undo.I'm sorry.
View Articlebut still you wake and know the truth: no one's there
"Just because you miss someone, that doesn't mean you need them back. Missing is just a part of moving on."~Mitch Cuento
View Articlecalling me, calling me, as you fade to black
Stasis. That breathless sensation of waiting. For the other shoe to drop. For contact to resume. To be sure contact will never resume. Waiting to see if I've become another chapter in the ongoing...
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