Pit of Hell

Yuletide 2014

bwinter — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:21:57 GMT

Dear Yuletide writer,

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Takarazuka meme

bwinter — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 14:39:36 GMT

Dusting off this Livejournal just for Takarazuka fandom purposes. Has it really been 19 months since I posted anything relevant?

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Yuletide 2013

bwinter — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 20:13:50 GMT

Dear Yuletide writer,

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Yuletide reveal

bwinter — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:06:35 GMT

(Real life remains unstable with added cold, but hey, optimism.)

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End of year TV meme

bwinter — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:26:03 GMT

Oh. Yes. LiveJournal. (For the curious: situation unchanged over here.) Meme stolen from selenak.

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Dear Yuletide writer: gender-ambiguous blondes edition

bwinter — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:47:09 GMT

First of all, thank you to anyone who actually addresses my requests :) It's been a hard year, and thus all of the below are about my absolute favourite characters who triumph against adversity (well, except for St Just, but then I want a St Just that survives).

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Brainspace: get

bwinter — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 07:32:35 GMT

I'm back from a short sojourn at the lakeside and, hopefully, I should be able to finally have time enough and space to actually accomplish things I owe to people. The last year in general hasn't been good for the work-life balance thing, and Let's Not Mention July. I am exceedingly sorry for all the delays, but now, finally, fingers crossed...

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Tanabata with Queen (and Adam Lambert)

bwinter — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:26:47 GMT

You're supposed to be very young indeed for the wild jaunts along the lines of spending 13 hours on a bus just to see a rock concert. I decided that yesterday was my last chance to do it while, technically, in my twenties. (Or just over the line, since I was born at 6AM.)

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Viva technology!

bwinter — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:12:02 GMT

After a year of carrying the work laptop home every day, and eight years after I last got a new-to-me computer (only a year old at that point and with extra-good specs for that time, 2GB RAM and almost 2GHz single-core processor), I finally have a new personal machine. MINE. My money, my choice, my 6+ hours reinstalling everything from scratch because silly Microsoft thinks that only people who live in English-speaking countries want English-speaking Windows. (I have not had a Polish-speaking computer ever, and I don't use one for work either, since my workplace is very much global.)

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A month's silence. Oops?

bwinter — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:03:38 GMT

I do think fannish activity centres are moving to Tumblr, and I never posted that much about real life. Especially when it tries to eat me, like it did throughout the last month. Last week was egregious, with a 14-hour day to cap it, so I'm looking forward to a slightly lighter schedule.

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Tanka challenge

bwinter — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:13:40 GMT

Stolen from reynardine, with far too much delay - gurdymonkey's tanka challenge.

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Lemon yogurt fluff cake

bwinter — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:47:57 GMT

Recipe adapted from Every Cake You Bake (Polish-only). Makes low-maintenance delicious fluff, like a cheesecake but much lighter.

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Semi-European okonomiyaki

bwinter — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:29:23 GMT

Batter:
1 cup cake flour
1/3 tablespoon baking powder
2 eggs
1 medium potato, grated to paste
1 glass of bouillion (dashi if you can get it)
Enough additional hot water to make it a sticky batter a little thicker than clotted cream consistency

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Three weeks from my last entry

bwinter — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:26:25 GMT

It's been quiet, which is - good, I think. It's starting to turn into spring.

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Wislawa Szymborska, 1923-2012

bwinter — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:31:54 GMT

Die—you can’t do that to a cat.
Since what can a cat do
in an empty apartment?
Climb the walls?
Rub up against the furniture?
Nothing seems different here
but nothing is the same.
Nothing’s been moved
but there’s more space.
And at nighttime no lamps are lit.

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Takarazuka: the black tailcoat staircase dance

bwinter — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:37:46 GMT

I'm overdue on quite a lot of commentary about recent revue happenings (retirements mostly, alas), but I just ran into a clip that really drove home why the kuroembi / tailcoat otokoyaku dance is my favourite set fragment from any revue. It's as stylised and full of set elements as any traditional Japanese dance, and yet when you have so many otokoyaku moving in unison, it's magic. The flair, too, the way each movement is carried out with flourish and grace.

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Japanese language study - help?

bwinter — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:09:42 GMT

A plea for help for the large portion of the flist who have studied Japanese at one point or another:

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Yuletide reveal

bwinter — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:59:35 GMT

Look! I managed four stories this year, though all are short, and written in a haze of sleep-deprived exhaustion. Theme of the year: AAAAAANGST.

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Year in fandom meme

bwinter — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:56:37 GMT

Borrowed from many people:

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...how did it get to be December 28? Also, Yuletide

bwinter — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:13:35 GMT

It's safe to say I'm enjoying my time off, in the "blissed out on the couch with complete collection of JD Robb ebooks" kind of way. Which means I haven't been reading much Yuletide except Those That Matter.

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Public plea thing (LiveJournal changes)

bwinter — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:55:38 GMT

I don't do this often, but today's changes to LiveJournal's design are beyond idiotic even in a long history of idiotic LJ stuff. Just try viewing a long comment thread on a post without a custom design to see what I mean. Please go to the LJ Releases post about them and lodge a formal complaint. Numbers are the one thing they understand.

Takarazuka transfer announcement from hell

bwinter — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:35:30 GMT

...yeah. I need some time to think this through.

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Dear Yulegoat letter

bwinter — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:43:34 GMT

First of all, thank you dear Yuletide Writer for addressing my request :)

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YULETIDE

bwinter — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:54:40 GMT

Nominations are finally open! And only open till Monday, make your minds up fast! Signups Monday-Saturday it looks like, and assignments just afterwards. Still little time to write.

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West end tickets fast?

bwinter — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:29:47 GMT

Calling out to London and UK people - in the eventuality that one can be in London on Thursday-Saturday this week, how does one get (cheap) tickets to something like Phantom, Les Miserables, Priscilla, possibly Wicked?

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