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Another cliffhanger, sigh. How do they get out of this one?

( Spoilers )

End of Term, this time

Nicola: I HAS A SPROG

Nicola: MI SPROG, CAN I SHOW U HIM?

Esther: KRIEZ

Sprog: BAI

Nicola: BAI, TRANE

Sprog: OH HAI NICOLA, I KILLED U A SPARROH BUT I ETTED IT

Esther: I HAS A DAKS

Esther: KRIEZ
( REED MOAR )

I am rather chuffed to notice that Children of Hurin has made the Tesco's value books list. A mythological tale by an author who's been dead for 30 years. I suppose it might be the incest factor.

I happened to be in the children's section of Waterstone's the other day and the done thing is to cash in on Harry Potter—2/3 of the books are about magic. Hardly an issue novel in sight. This started me thinking a bit: loads and loads of children's fantasy, but very little children's sf. Are children just not considered capable of understanding enough science to make it worthwhile?

A couple of quick recs:

matril ponders common complaints about the SW prequels.

Back to Where You Once Belonged, DW fic by sensiblecat. One of the best fics I've read about the Doctor and Martha stranded in 1969. Just enough angst, and a great Martha.

And then came 1969, and suddenly there was absolutely no money, and more time than they knew what to do with.

significantowl has Ten/Martha recs here.

Looks like it's autumn now.

There are distinct advantages to living at 500 feet sometimes.

Here is Smudge, rather a lot of him. SOME AR B MACROS
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Because doyle_sb4 has just finished it:

Attic Term

Ginty: I HAS A PATRICK

Nicola: WOEZ

Patrick: I HATEZ SKOOL

Nicola: I AM B BORROWIN PATRICK

Ginty: WOEZ

Patrick: I HATEZ SKOOL. I HATEZ VATICAN 2.

( PATRICK B H8IN SKOOL MOAR HEER )

I read the Chrestomanci series when I was younger and have just rediscovered it again. I have a couple of questions:

( Spoilers for Witch Week, The Lives of Christopher Chant, and (slightly) Stealer of Souls )

So, thewhiteowl, your LiveJournal reveals...



You are... 3% unique
(blame, for example, your interest in luke/keiten)
and 7% herdlike
(partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy star wars).
When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers.

Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is intellectual.

Your overall weirdness is: 25

(The average level of weirdness is: 27.
You are weirder than 55% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

Ah, but what do they mean by average? If it's anywhere near a normal distribution, it doesn't look like mean...

Well, that lived up to last week's promise, all right. There were a couple of moments where I was almost crying. Over Doctor Who, yet.

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