WE GOTS UR SUN FOR PAST 2 DAYZ AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Sorry. But that was so worth it. :p
Also, you have a Mysterious Cities of Gold icon, so I guess for that, we can let you have the sun back sometime this week. *sigh* I'm such a geek. I was squeeing so much when Caitlan Moran mentioned it in her column this week...
Oh, wasn't it just the most perfect cartoon ever? They don't make them like they used to! And yaay for ze column. <3
Trufax: I always wanted to come to this city. I finally achieved it in 2004, but you know what started my childhood hankering to go? The very first episode of Cities of Gold:
"The year 1532, Barcelona, Spain, in the rain..."
It just spoke to me of adventure and intrigue. :D :D :D :D :D :D
Wow... it's like me with Constantinople. Which yeah, is not called Constantinople anymore, but you know what made me want to see that city?
When we were about 11 or 12 there was a drama on CITV called The Sea Dragon, about a Saxon/English youth who got kidnapped by the Vikings and sold into slavery. And later I got the book it was based on, by Rosemary Sutcliffe, and there was this bit at the end about him being a free man in Constantinople, writing this story with the lamp on and looking out at the winding street...
Blood and Gold didn't help either. Actually, I blame that book entirely for my developing a wanderlust. (Wanderlust is of course balanced by absolute terror of travelling.) Come to think of it, Constantinople is in there too... why can't we have time travel?
Oh, wow. I hear (read) you totally on that! Wanderlust is just all-consuming - I hope the terror fades in time and you follow your heart to these places.
A couple of years ago, I had the most lucid dream... I was in Constantinople with my brother, except that it was at that period Byzantium, although I was in modern clothing and such. I dreamt it was sunset and all these massive old churches and strange things were around me. It was emphatically not Istanbul.
The place was really sinister and beautiful and when I woke up, I ached to go, except of course it would be nothing like that now. I'm not interested in Istanbul, but Constantinople/Byzantium haunts me. If only you could do time travel!
Oooooh, I wish I had dreams like that! It's weird how you can have this heartsickness for places nobody alive has ever been... this also reminds me of the story Ramadan from the Sandman series. It's about Old Baghdad, pre-every-preconception-we-have-now.
Oh, man. Old Baghdad! Yet another place to be sick at heart about D:
But Thorne is just so stupid! "Hello, pretty cloud. Cloud Gift. Hello, pretty rabbit. Rabbit Gift. Hello, breath. Breath Gift." Maybe I'll just skip to the awesome historical parts. ;)
*snort* "Hello, nice snow people, who I am kind to because I only bite you in small instalments and don't actually kill you!"
It's worth skimming to the part where Marius starts talking about how he felt about what Lestat did. That's awesome. Thankfully it goes into the proper flashback part soon after, and you have maybe 500 Thorne-less pages. And even Marius doesn't use the word "Gift" quite as much.
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Date: 2007-08-08 04:04 pm (UTC)Sorry. But that was so worth it. :p
Also, you have a Mysterious Cities of Gold icon, so I guess for that, we can let you have the sun back sometime this week. *sigh* I'm such a geek. I was squeeing so much when Caitlan Moran mentioned it in her column this week...
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Date: 2007-08-08 04:12 pm (UTC)Oh, wasn't it just the most perfect cartoon ever? They don't make them like they used to! And yaay for ze column. <3
Trufax: I always wanted to come to this city. I finally achieved it in 2004, but you know what started my childhood hankering to go? The very first episode of Cities of Gold:
"The year 1532, Barcelona, Spain, in the rain..."
It just spoke to me of adventure and intrigue. :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Date: 2007-08-09 09:38 am (UTC)When we were about 11 or 12 there was a drama on CITV called The Sea Dragon, about a Saxon/English youth who got kidnapped by the Vikings and sold into slavery. And later I got the book it was based on, by Rosemary Sutcliffe, and there was this bit at the end about him being a free man in Constantinople, writing this story with the lamp on and looking out at the winding street...
Blood and Gold didn't help either. Actually, I blame that book entirely for my developing a wanderlust. (Wanderlust is of course balanced by absolute terror of travelling.) Come to think of it, Constantinople is in there too... why can't we have time travel?
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Date: 2007-08-09 10:54 am (UTC)A couple of years ago, I had the most lucid dream... I was in Constantinople with my brother, except that it was at that period Byzantium, although I was in modern clothing and such. I dreamt it was sunset and all these massive old churches and strange things were around me. It was emphatically not Istanbul.
The place was really sinister and beautiful and when I woke up, I ached to go, except of course it would be nothing like that now. I'm not interested in Istanbul, but Constantinople/Byzantium haunts me. If only you could do time travel!
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Date: 2007-08-10 11:20 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-08-10 11:27 am (UTC)But Thorne is just so stupid! "Hello, pretty cloud. Cloud Gift. Hello, pretty rabbit. Rabbit Gift. Hello, breath. Breath Gift." Maybe I'll just skip to the awesome historical parts. ;)
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Date: 2007-08-10 11:41 am (UTC)It's worth skimming to the part where Marius starts talking about how he felt about what Lestat did. That's awesome. Thankfully it goes into the proper flashback part soon after, and you have maybe 500 Thorne-less pages. And even Marius doesn't use the word "Gift" quite as much.