I DID IT!

[nano_moose]

I made the shift! This may have have been due to the lovely and well-explained instructions provided by the Dreamwidth folks that allowed me to import all my stuff. (Because I can't just leave it there or something. What do you take me for, some kind of crazy person? I must have my posts. My posts. My precioussss.)

So hello again! I apologise for the long vanishment. I tried to make my presence known, but "popping up out of the blue to jabber for a while and then sinking again" was probably not that effective or, er, endearing. I assure you that I was not dead or in even moderate peril - just angry at Livejournal and confused by Tumblr.

I am studying English Literature so that I may get a degree. It is enjoyable! This semester we are looking at Romanticism. The level of pouting performed by authors I once viewed with awe is spectacular. One thing I love very much about this topic (and the Arts) is that studying these people who've been enshrined in the halls of Brilliant Creators reveals - to my slight surprise - that they are still people. And this fact makes their work far more appealing, because it didn't arise from some hidden wellspring of genius that no one else discovered, but from where art arises in anyone. Things like sadness, joy, anger, frustration, boredom and - of course - the need for money. Some of the Romanticists thought they could found great governments and societies on their philosophising, so they could be as naive as we are, too. It's a continuously repeated but always wonderful discovery to make. Especially with the additional discovery that women wrote just as well and just as much, even if that keeps being forgotten.

...That was all a bit heavier than I intended, so have a picture of one of my dogs. His name is Caliban. I named him that because I thought the name the shelter gave him was too dignified. He's mostly called Cal, and he is a good boy.



Good boy.

Comments

[jecca_mehlota]

Hello! Welcome! Angry at LJ and confused by Tumblr is perfectly fair. That is about where I am, really.

Your dog is cute! :3

[nano_moose]

Isn't he? :3 Whoa, you can almost make out my reflection in his eyes in that photo! (Mostly my blue jeans; I had to kneel/sit to get that shot.) It makes him look so devious, but really he's a marshmallow who thinks everyone in the world is his best friend; they just have yet to be informed. He follows me everywhere like a splodgy shadow and gets in my space - not aggressively, just sort of "i love you hi gonna smush my face into your ankles super gently to gather your precious scent yaaay". First dog I've known to do that. It's almost feline.

[squeemu]

D'awww Caliban is the best good boy. He will definitely be sad when you arrested for cannibalism. I mean. Wait. That's not where I was trying to go with this.

HI WELCOME TO DREAMWIDTH! I third the "angry at LiveJournal and confused by Tumblr" sentiment.

I'm glad to see that you're doing things that you're interested in! Use your knowledge for good.

[nano_moose]

Not cannibalism! Multiple murders! The cannibalism was just a secondary awful. ...Which I wouldn't be arrested for, nope. (Wiiiiinstoooon. D: They do resemble each other a bit, don't they? It's the splodges. But they have different shapes - Cal's sort of long and low to the ground like a Corgi, where Winston's a more traditional dog-shape.) Cal was a stray, but he was rescued by the shelter. They found him wandering around the streets. He's a total sweetheart, so I wonder where he came from - was he abandoned as a puppy or did his mum have some sort of torrid affair?

I will definitely use my knowledge for good, and not to commit weird poetic serial murder! Because, honestly, that would require me to approach people for something other than talking endlessly about context and embedded meaning.