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olorielWe haven't had one of those in a long time, eh?
Sooo!
My username is _____ because ____.
My journal is titled ____ because ____.
My subtitle is ____ because ____.
My friends page is called ____ because ____.
My default userpic is ____ because ____.
My username is oloriel because Lyra was already taken back then. I went and tried to figure out what "dreamer [female]" would be in Quenya, and that's what came out of it.
My journal is titled the lyf so short, the crafte so long to lerne because I really like that line - it's from Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls, as you may remember - and it really really seems to fit the situation of a student who should be close to her exams and yet doesn't feel like she knows enough.
My subtitle is in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni because we all know by now that I'm a language geek. It's a Latin palindrome - that is, a sentence that, read backwards, is the same as read normally - and means "we walk in a gyre at night and are consumed by fire", which is a bit dark but still vaguely pretty. And Fëanorian.
My friends page is called Other Voices because the old LotR reference - "Strangers from distant lands, friends of old" - was getting old, and because it was nice, short, and seemed like a good idea at the time.
My default userpic changes with the seasons or as the whim takes me; at the moment it's a little scene from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, more precisely from Brief Lives, because I really love the comics and the picture, and because it's summer-nightly and thus sufficiently seasonal.
And there you go.
Sooo!
My username is _____ because ____.
My journal is titled ____ because ____.
My subtitle is ____ because ____.
My friends page is called ____ because ____.
My default userpic is ____ because ____.
My username is oloriel because Lyra was already taken back then. I went and tried to figure out what "dreamer [female]" would be in Quenya, and that's what came out of it.
My journal is titled the lyf so short, the crafte so long to lerne because I really like that line - it's from Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls, as you may remember - and it really really seems to fit the situation of a student who should be close to her exams and yet doesn't feel like she knows enough.
My subtitle is in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni because we all know by now that I'm a language geek. It's a Latin palindrome - that is, a sentence that, read backwards, is the same as read normally - and means "we walk in a gyre at night and are consumed by fire", which is a bit dark but still vaguely pretty. And Fëanorian.
My friends page is called Other Voices because the old LotR reference - "Strangers from distant lands, friends of old" - was getting old, and because it was nice, short, and seemed like a good idea at the time.
My default userpic changes with the seasons or as the whim takes me; at the moment it's a little scene from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, more precisely from Brief Lives, because I really love the comics and the picture, and because it's summer-nightly and thus sufficiently seasonal.
And there you go.
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Date: 2007-06-21 07:32 pm (UTC)My journal is titled 'Meine Gedankenwiese' because this perfectly sums up what LJ is for me. ^^;
My subtitle is not present because I prefer my layout wabi-sabi.
My friends page is called 'friends page' because I lack that sparkle of creativity to come up with a nice title for that. Yet.
My default userpic is this 'I'm not fat - I'm fluffy'-one because... well... actually I pretty much like that one. And it's the first ok-ish result of my working-with-gurps-career... Please don't laugh.