May 2013
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The Name of the Doctor
I thought it was pretty bold of Steven Moffat to not only reference Classic Who as obviously as he did, but also to have it actually part of the plot. I liked it. :)
It’s like he’s subtly hinting at everyone to watch the Classic Who episodes. (I’m still on the Fourth Doctor — progress is slooow.)
I wonder if anyone else noticed the Sherlock Holmes reference. (It was at...
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“Commodified fantasy takes no risks; it invents nothing, but imitates and...”
– Ursula Le Guin, “Introduction,” Tales from Earthsea (via: bibliophile.martini)
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“A long way. ‘As far away as Selidor,’ they used to say on Enlad. The old stories...”
– Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin (via bookgirl91)
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I’m more than halfway through Emma and I’m thinking that The Casual Vacancy is a tiny bit like some of Jane Austen’s novels. It is set in a small village and tells the follies and triumphs of the people in that village, only it deals with politics and social responsibility rather than property (and propriety) and social classes.
On a related note, Emma is one of J.K....
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April 2013
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“Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake....”
– narration in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan
I would have liked this better had it come from one of the characters instead of appearing as author moralizing. (EDIT: I fear this is going to get reblogged a lot, so preemptively reminding everyone that if you remove my commentary from a post...
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Hermione's Bookshelf: malecshipper:... →
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malecshipper:
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why don’t they have big hyped up award shows for books
i mean
best male/female character
best antagonist
best plot development
best plot twist
come on
Someone understands.
#Best non-romantic relationship
#Best hug
#Best argument between best friends who later reconcile
#Most creative character names
#Most character deaths
#Most...
A list of the voices heard in 'Journey to the... →
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When the Encyclopaedia Gallifreya ‘leaks’ and we hear knowledge ebbing from its container, you might just be able to catch the familiar voice of Timothy Dalton – in other words, Rassilon himself from The End of Time.
Immediately after Bram tries to dismantle the TARDIS console we hear an audio mosaic of lines from previous episodes– some more clearly than others… We initially catch...
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Actually whooped out loud when the Doctor mentioned the blue crystal from Metebelis 3. Loving the Classic Who throwbacks in this season.
And the “entropy in the bubble universe”! As if the story wasn’t good enough, they also threw in a cool bit of science.
This is (one of the many, many reasons) why Doctor Who is awesome.
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Rereading Sabriel and now at the part where Sabriel meets Mogget. I think the appropriate reaction would be, “Awww…”
I don’t know how the Abhorsen Trilogy stays relatively unknown compared to other fantasy novels considering how much the internet loves its cats.
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Ranna. The smallest bell. Ranna the sleepbringer, the sweet, low sound that brought silence in its wake.
Mosrael. The second bell, a harsh, rowdy bell. Mosrael was the waker, the bell Sabriel should never use, the bell whose sound was a seesaw, throwing the ringer further into Death, as it brought the listener to life.
Kibeth. Kibeth, the walker. A bell of several sounds, a difficult and...
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“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
– from Sabriel, Book 1 of The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix
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I had forgotten, I had never fully appreciated, how wonderful the Abhorsen Trilogy is. The history of the Bright Shiners, the magic of the Charter and the Bells, the mystique of the Old Kingdom. Wow!
I was so caught up by the amazing characterization the first time I read it that the world and the magic came only second to my admiration. Don’t get me wrong, I did think it was great. I just...
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Reblog if Google should do a Doodle of Doctor...
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Spread ‘em around.
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The Rings of Akhaten = The Shakespeare Code + The Beast Below + a little bit of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. Sprinkled with good music to make one of the best Doctor Who episodes since the show’s inception way back in 1963.
I feel bad comparing it to other episodes because Akhaten is quite brilliant in its own right, but that’s the only way I can emphasize how good it is since The...
March 2013
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I Only Date Planes: On Earthsea →
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Let me lay it out for you Tumblr, since cover artists and filmmakers can’t fucking get it right
Ged ain’t white
ged ain’t white
GED AIN’T FUCKIN WHITE
I FREELY ADMIT that as a child when I read these books, I had no idea, because I was like ten years old and had never ONCE before read…
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^this^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
THIS.
The beautiful thing about the people of...
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The Kingkiller Chronicles, or at least The Name of the Wind reminds me of Earthsea.
Now, I am less than a tenth of the way through the book, so I may be saying things too soon. Also, I sometimes tend to see connections between things that other people can’t. (And I’m sure others can also see similarities in things that are vastly different to me.)
That said, there are certain parts in The Name...
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Being a fan of a series for so long that the characters who used to be older than you are now younger than you.
#Always reblog.
But they’re not really younger than me. Ron and Hermione are now 33 years old, Harry and Neville are 32 going on 33, Ginny is 31 going on 32, and Luna is either 31 or 32 (Rowling hasn’t said when her birthday is)....
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“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved...”
– — Sarah Williams, in the poem The Old Astronomer.
I’ve always loved this quote, though I only just got around to searching where it came from. The poem is basically a dying astronomer’s request to his pupil to continue his research “in the service of their science”.
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“There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.”
– Carl Sagan on pseudoscience, in his book The Demon-Haunted World.
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February 2013
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“There came a time when our weapons grew faster than our wisdom, and we almost...”
– — Captain Kirk, Star Trek TOS
This is one of the reasons why Star Trek is awesome. I love the back story about how humans finally came to travel between the stars.
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January 2013
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