Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black

Re-watched Dead Poets' Society with Jörg and his mom yesterday.

I had almost... well, not forgotten, but not remembered, either, how much I loved that film when I was in my last years in school. It made me dream, it kept me sane (maybe not what you might call sane, but you know what I mean)), it made me write poetry myself after I had given that up some time around grade 3.
Massive love.
And the ending still makes me cry.

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( Und ich seh den Kongo gurgeln durch die Nacht )

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You make the baby Tolkien cry.

Oh, Eru. When I volunteered to translate short stories for next Ring*Con's charity fan-art book, I had not expected the Mary Sues to catch up so soon.
The sad thing is that her writing style is quite nice. But the story? OW.
I want to write a long and elaborate letter to the author of that short story, explaining to her some things about forests in Middle-earth, Aragorn's history, Aragorn's actual age, orphanages in medieval and pseudo-medieval environments, the unlikeliness of meat being a frequent meal in such an orphanage, child adoption, wolves, the unlikeliness of golden arrows in a ranger's quiver, the irrelevance of birthdays and the actual size of spiders in Mirkwood. And the general concept of Mary Sues and why they're evil.
Yes, I think these are the points that bother me most (quite a lot for a three-page story).
And that I can't do it because I don't even know the writer.
And that I can't refuse to do the translation.
Ow. Ow ow ow ow ow ow OW.
I have half a mind to put a link to limyaael's helpful rants on writing somewhere on the Ring*Con page.

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( Tolkien rotiert im Grabe )

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Save the 津波

You know, whenever I hear "Tsunami aid" I get the mental image of a big, helpless, drying-out tsunami being pushed back into the sea by members of Greenpeace. Can't people say "help for the victims of the flood", or whatever?

Oh, and it's "tsunami". Not "tsunammi".

Paper-writing anecdote:
Lyra *typing* "Nonetheless, children manage to understand and learn the language around them perfectly within a relatively short period of time."
Youth Outside On Street #1 (Henceforth known as YOOS 1): *grunt*
YOOS 2: Ey!
YOOS 1: Come along cinema?
YOOS 2: Eh?
Lyra: *headdesk* ...quod erat demonstrandum.

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( Rettet die 津波 )

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