some scatterings

[ontology]

I keep opening a tab to post, and then I find I'm at a loss as to what to post about. I've been puttering along as usual, the thoughts in my head have been fairly benign, and I'm not feeling particularly bad or particularly good, all in all. I want to say something interesting and clever but there doesn't seem to be much of the interesting or clever amongst the scattered things in my head. Perhaps it will come in a bit, because I have noticed a fascinating trait about myself: whenever I say that I do not have a lot to say, I somehow end up going on for paragraphs.

i. October has come, and the world is finally beginning to really taste like autumn. I am waiting for the tree overhanging my roof and peering into my window to change -- it goes a brilliant gold and fills the room with light. But it is stubbornly remaining green, which rather gets in the way of the autumnal aesthetic I seek. And several days ago my mother and siblings and I lay on our backs on the front lawn and watched the clouds -- the tree across the road has gone gold and there is a spray of leaves beneath it, and there was a thunderstorm rolling in, great dark looming clouds billowing after one another like briny waves churning in the sky and the wind rushing through the leaves and scattering them hither and thither.

ii. I have finished Firefly! Which is rather sad, because now there isn't any more, but now I can abscond with someone's copy of Serenity and at last wander comfortably around fandom. I should make a post about Firefly eventually, because there is so very much to say about it and I don't think I've got the energy for it just now, or the presence of mind, because I start to compose something and it ends in flailing and gibberish and squee. I want to do a great big meta-y post on the pioneer/Oriental culture and how perfect it is, but it keeps on not coming out. Well, maybe when I get my laptop back. Hopefully it will be fixed properly so that I can actually get documents off of it.

iii. I, er. Want to say something. I just don't know what it is. Er, stuff.

Comments

[mermaidrain.livejournal.com]

Ah well, I'd recommend posting your thoughts on "Firefly" before you watch "Serenity" because ... they're different beasts. And frankly (without spoiling anything) I'm still a little shellshocked from "Serenity" and stinkin' JOSS! So yeah, post BEFORE you watch the movie. ;)

[trolliepop.livejournal.com]

We had autumn here for about a week. The weather was cool and there were leaves all over the ground and everything crunched when you walked around. Then it got hot again. It was probably in the upper 90s today. I'm so ready for cool weather!

[builtofsorrow.livejournal.com]

Joooooooo. -cuddles you, just because- I love your new layout scheme; it makes me feel like autumn.

Also, I kept meaning to comment on all your entries, only I didn't know what to say, and then I got distracted, and um, stuff, but I am glad you are not feeling quite so horribly these days. Though I hope things start to feel more particularly good. And um. More stuff? -feeds you gingerbread to induce delusions of my coherency and profundity-

Must.watch.Firefly.

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

Yeeeah...I was spoiled for Serenity long before I watched it, and I saw it before I ever saw the series, and...I liked the film a lot, because it's very good for River awesome and Reaver backstory and...stuff. And Simon/Kaylee. Not so awesome for...others. Curse you, Joss, curse you.

[last-archangel.livejournal.com]

I'm sad to report that autumn is not really arriving here, either, in New England, the foliage capital.

It's wonderful that you like Firefly. Although it may just be a rumour, a few days ago an article came out, and interview with Alan Tudyk, and he said that with the way the special edition DVD of Serenity performed, that there is the consideration of option another film...and that he'd be in it. Despite my better, frequently disappointed judegment, I find myself getting excited by the prospect.

[anthon1.livejournal.com]

i. I crunched through autumn leaves today. It wasn't a very big crunch, but it was the first one of the year and it made me hopeful for things to come.

Your new layout is gorgeous.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

Aah, autumn. ♥ She will always be my favourite season: I love the in-between time of autumn. Unfortunately autumn here is ... lacking. The temperature drops, the leaves change colour, and less than a month later there's snow on the ground and everything's in deep winter. Woe.

Firefly = MADE OF WIN. INSERT SQUEE HERE, AND STUFF, AND AWLEKFJSLDF. (Serenity, like mermaidrain has said, is ... a different beast. A good one though. Anyway. I shall not say anything more until you watch it, lest I spoil.)

I am glad to hear that the thoughts have been Benign. *nods* You = ♥!

[un-titled-love.livejournal.com]

Your new layout is fantastically wonderful and gorgeous. It makes me feel home-ish and snuggly.

Autumn is fantastic, and it's sort of semi-coming here. Some of the trees are turning wonderful autumn colours, and it's cold and drizzly and sometimes semi-blustery. You must take pictures of the stubborn tree outside your window when it actually turns colour; it sounds gorgeous.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Aha! I sped through every leaf pile (approximately two) I could find on my ways to and from the library yesterday. The crunch has not, alas, quite reached its peak. It's sort of half-hearted.

Thank you, good sir!

[anthon1.livejournal.com]

Well, yes - it was more of a squelch than a crunch, but it's the idea that counts. :D They're still leaves, after all...

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

I think that, while I love all of the seasons, autumn is the only season I want to last longer. I love autumn and bitter winds and chilly weather so much that I'm eager for summer to end; as much as I love winter in December, by mid-January I've had quite enough, thank you (and by mid-March I am locking myself in small warm places and screaming); spring transitions so naturally into summer that I don't miss it. -- Well, not much. Summer is generally the beacon of things I loathe, such as sun, heat, humidity, and insects. And sunscreen. And forced association with hordes of hot, sweaty people in their very ugliest clothing (why does heat make it suddenly permissible for humanity to stop having eyes?).

That's terrible that you haven't got a good long autumn, though -- I feel for you! (Not quite empathetically, because I haven't been in your place, but I can imagine.) Autumn is my favourite season because somehow it belongs to me -- no other season calls to me with the strange sense of kinship autumn does. And the weather suits me exactly, and the sunsets seem to get more spectacular.


YOU GUYS ARE MAKING ME REALLY NERVOUS ABOUT SERENITY YOU KNOW. D: I am going to have to watch it alone in a dark room with a comforting hoard of foodstuffs (you know, what I did when I read Deathly Hallows, pretty much -- I will not even tell you how much chocolate I consumed in that three hours)! Actually I will probably have to watch it alone regardless, because I will probably want to have long conversations with the screen, and that's a bit difficult in the company of others.

Anyway I am quite accustomed to fandoms ripping out my heart and stomping on it by now; after Deathly Hallows I am beginning to think that nothing can ever hurt me again. :P

But yes, FIREFLY IS MADE OF ALL KINDS OF SHINY, SHINY AWESOME. For reasons I do not quite understand, I almost never laugh out loud while watching or reading things. (Unless I am with a lot of comfortable people. What is it about friends that encourages hysteria so?) However, the dialogue in Firefly had me laughing several times an episode. And then it goes and gets all poignant. Seriously, I don't know if I've ever seen a more well-crafted television show.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Well, that is rather the point. ;D (Feeling like autumn, I mean.) Also I have had the same layout for nearly a year and that is completely unlike me.

Oooh, gingerbread. (Which I was thinking about making today, but I have been Busy(ish), so now I will have to settle for flavouring some of the loaves of bread dough we have got knocking about in the freezer with sesame seeds and maybe garlic powder if I can find some and baking rolls. Because store-bought wheat bread is just not cutting it for sandwiches for me today, let me tell you.) ♥! Also I have been rather meaning to comment on more of your entries, but let me assure you that this lack of commenting much is a f-list-wide plague and not an isolated outbreak; my mind has been a lot less focused than usual lately, which is especially bad when you consider that to my mind, "focused" amounts to "only when Paul McGann is saying stuff with the letter r in".

YES YOU MUST. I NEED SOMEONE BESIDES THE ENTIRE REST OF MY F-LIST TO SQUEE WITH. ...Uh, yeah!

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

And the idea is to CRUSH AND DESTROY. --Er, that is, I just read your last sentence as "they're just leaves, after all", said in the sort of tone generally employed by a Roman emperor watching unfortunates being mauled by wolves in an amphitheatre -- "they're only slaves!". I think I have a problem with my normal thought processes being REALLY MORBID.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Why thankee! Now that I am in the mood for gingerbread and cocoa and atmospheric Victorian Era novels and the full moon through the trees I could no longer stand a purple and silver layout. It was just not on. :D

WHY IS AUTUMN TAKING SO LONG, SERIOUSLY. How exiting for you, though. It's barely rained here at all, hmph.

I shall take pictures: I only hope the camera captures it adequately. I'm not big on yellow trees generally (I know, I'm such an autumn snob), but the way it fills the room with light is unbelievable. I was terribly sad last year when it finally stopped having leaves on it.

[builtofsorrow.livejournal.com]

-grins- Well, I assumed. ^^ And yes, that is unlike you. I get so restless with my layouts, although I did have my original one for this journal up for quite awhile. And I'm really in love with my current one, so if I do change it, it will probably only be the header. Anyway.

I really want to make gingerbread, only I reallyreallyreally need to get my finances sorted out. If my bank would ever send me deposit slips it would be helpful. But whatever. I could make molasses cookies though, and that would be cheaper. Hmmm.

♥!! And yes, I think it is an autumn affliction. Or we shall call it that, to make ourselves feel better, yes?

I am afraid you shall have to rely on the entire rest of your f-list, m'dear, unless you are capable of doing a great feat of convincing. At this point, I'd rather watch another episode of Blackpool than Firefly. -hides-

[anthon1.livejournal.com]

Having just watched an episode of Doctor Who with Daleks in it, that made me laugh. A lot. And I also share that problem, but personally I look on it as an opportunity. It makes life a lot more ... interesting. :D

[bonny-kathryn.livejournal.com]

Serenity is, in a sense, even better than Firefly. Tighter and crisper, in a way, and filled with all kinds of very cool stuff, and double talk, and winks at people who have seen Firefly. And it is really, truly, one of the great sci-fi films of all time. I think you will like it . . .

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

YES. Summer is not as nice as everyone says it is, for all of the reasons you've just stated. Winter used to be my favourite season when I was young -- but it sinks its frosty claws in for nearly half a year here. That's a little too much for me. (The sunsets definitely are more spectacular. I love the light in autumn. -- Reference to Faulkner not intended, & I've never read that book, actually.)

DON'T BE NERVOUS! BUT DO INDEED BRING THE FOODSTUFFS, BECAUSE NIBBLES ARE ALWAYS GOOD! :DD

after Deathly Hallows I am beginning to think that nothing can ever hurt me again. :P -- Hee, Banui. You always make me smile. :))

Ooh did you see Nelle's post about how she's iffy about Firefly yet? If not GO. She must be converted to the side of Good. :p

How are you doing these days? ♥

[barefoottomboy.livejournal.com]

Greetings! I am currently going through the application process over at booklisters, and I am curious with time slow on my hands (not to mention finding writing my grad school personal statement heavy going, and am therefore procrastinating), so I wandered over here.

Your list! Blue Like Jazz! The Eagle of the Ninth! (Which I cannot help but pronounce phonetically - blame my elder brother for this...) Little Women! L'Engle! And you like Firefly, and autumn weather (oh how I mourn the loss of autumn in this 'sunburnt land'), and I see we have a friend-of-a-friend in common, and this is essentially a long and breathless way of saying: would you like to be friends?

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

*waves* The Eagle of the Ninth! Almost no-one I know who did not go through the same homeschooling curriculum I have has read that book, and I've loved it ever since I read it long ago in the sixth grade and fell wildly in love with ancient Britain. It's so nice to find someone else who's read it. Also I see Neverwhere on your list, which is possibly my favourite Gaiman, or at least it's the one I find the most aesthetically pleasing.

Meeting new people is splendid! I would absolutely love to be friends. :D

[barefoottomboy.livejournal.com]

*waves back* Hast been added, friend!

Have you read (any of) the Eagle of the Ninth sequels? (Or any other Rosemary Sutcliffes, for that matter?) I personally didn't enjoy them as much as the original, but now I feel like going back and trying them again - they always seemed a little darker than Eagle, which might be something I can appreciate now.

[trollywoodqueen.livejournal.com]

You better post soon, honey.
I'm getting worried about you.
I love you.
♥

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Eh, have not been so on top of the comments lately!

Anyway, I've read several other Sutcliffe novels, but not very many recently, on account of having moved away from the land of good libraries and reduced to inter-library loans which take three weeks at the least. Right before I moved from Massachusetts I read the first book in an Arthurian trilogy which I remember being profoundly impressed by: I can't even remember what it was, but something about the way she used words thrilled me. The Shining Company was also very good, and it's on a bookshelf around here somewhere. I ought to give it a re-read, because I think I was a wee bit on the young side for it when I read it; mostly I remember that a lot of people die.

And yes, I read (and I believe I own! I had a really fantastic day at the local used bookstore once) some of the sequels, and while I enjoyed them, I was also a bit frustrated that they weren't sequels in the way I thought they ought to be! I wanted Marcus and Cottia being domestic and having adventures! (Actually, for the most part, I just want more Cottia. I love Cottia.) But no, I had to form attachments to new characters. Hmph!

But the thing I love about Rosemary Sutcliffe, and why I keep re-reading her novels and falling in love with them in stages, is that she manages to write in a very archaic manner, or at the very least her characters speak in rather an archaic manner, and it comes out very fresh and right sounding. I loved all of the old twists and idioms of the vernaculars in Eagle of the Ninth, the peculiar rhythms. Of course I have been completely infatuated with ancient Britain ever since!