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That is the most awesome cake I have ever seen.

They are kind of an adorable couple, aren't they? Thank you!!

I dunno, I think it can be okay to borrow if you do it right... Like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. That title is a line from a Sherlock Holmes story.

Have some Epic Symphonic Hollywood Power Metal (it's a genre, I kid you not) Rhapsody, feat. Christopher Lee––Unholy Warcry

Thank you, sweet! Yeah, Mark is turning out very human, I'm quite pleased with him.

CHAPTER TWO The Man with the Velvet Voice Ben spent the rest of the week in his flat, reading over his scripts and replying to e-mails. Occasionally, Mark would send him a text, breaking the monotony. Almost got caught busking illegally on the tube today. Fuck the police. M Came up with an idea for a new song. Want to play it to you next time we meet. M Len rang me earlier. Nightmare. M I’ve had a bit to drink, just wanted to say I’m thinking about you. M They did not arrive every day

I have a tendency to literally judge a book by its cover. The title is very important, and what tends to draw me in in the first place. If the title doesn't catch me, I'm unlikely to read. Then there's the description and the rating. I rarely read anything below mature rating unless the description and title have really drawn me in. Lastly, there's length. I'm more likely to read a short story than a novel at the moment, simply because reading novels is very time consuming. So if I'm looking through an author's works for something to read, I'll generally start with a short story or novella of less than 20,000 words. Then, if I really like what I see, I'll move on and read the longer stuff. If it is poorly written, I'll probably put it away again, unless the plot is exceptionally good, because the beta/editor in me will point out every little mistake to me and I'll get really annoyed. If the plot is good enough, I can sometimes get past that, but then we're talking tremendously good.

You have a valid point, but I would still say 'don't go there'... Although the prospect of seeing a real, live dodo really tickles my fancy.

I love Calvin & Hobbes!

My mum always says, if half the producers of sugar in the US started making bio-ethanol instead you'd kill two birds with one stone. Solve the obesity problem AND get low-emission fuel not made from things that could feed third world countries. A third of the buses in my city run on bio-ethanol, and sugar is one of the easiest and best ways to make it.

All animals help the planet. They all play vital parts in its ecosystems. One of the animals I worry about the most is the bumblebee. And the honeybee. They are vital to the survival of so many species of plant, and they're slowly diminishing in number. I caught my mum's cat hunting a bumblebee yesterday, nearly threw a fit. Nobody kills bumblebees in my vicinity and gets away with it.

I have been bad. I deserve to be punished.

We cheated a bit, we didn't bake the sponge cake ourselves, we bought it in the shop.

Michael Jackson was really talented, though, and way younger than any of these kids when he started with the Jackson 5. Also, Stevie Wonder started off quite young, but was also epically talented, not to mention blind from birth which makes everything so much more impressive.

I think Bieber is better. Which, considering that I cannot stand the brat, is saying something. (I once slept a full night in my friend's little sister's room, which was wallpapered with Bieber posters. I couldn't sleep, he was staring at me all night.) Also, off topic: crazyfish, huge kudos for your location. Love it when people get their mythologies right!

I've been listening to Chumbawamba a lot. For those who don't know who that is, they had one big hit several years ago that some might recognise. Other than that, they've been through lots of different genres in one way or another, though mostly folk and something akin to punk or ska. Torturing James Hetfield: Give the Anarchist a Cigarette:

They ran up the cobbled walkway, reaching the door of the house just as the first rays of sunlight hit the rooftops of Venice, reflecting off the smooth-as-glass water of the canals. Spike clutched his stomach, gasping for unneeded air between fits of laughter, while Angelus struggled to get the door open. They slipped inside, avoiding the reflected sunlight by a hair’s breadth. ‘That… that couple in the gondola!’ Spike chortled, supporting himself on his grandsire’s shoulder, trying to rega

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel 'Angel and me have never been intimate. Except that once...' Venice, 1894. The Scourge of Europe have fled Rome and The Immortal. Spike and Angelus make it back from a night of slaughter to find the house empty. To pass the time, they drink wine, play cards and get into an argument with a rather interesting conclusion.

James Bond.

Lol! Sir Ian McKellen would agree with you regarding LotR. From what I hear he got quite involved with the direction of some of their scenes, most particularly the way Sam takes Frodo's hand when he wakes up in Rivendell.

It's been a really long time since I've read a Harry Potter fanfic, let alone a Draco/Ron one. Thanks for that! I really enjoyed it.

When I write love songs I always take care not to use gendered pronouns, so anyone could sing them to anyone.

Velvet Goldmine! Because it is awesome. Always. Other than that, Beautiful Thing, Latter Days and My Beautiful Laundrette are high on the list. Also Christopher and His Kind (about the author Christopher Isherwood), A Single Man (starring Colin Firth, based on a book by Christopher Isherwood), Maurice, The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love, Lilies and Another Country (young Colin Firth, yes please!). Honourable mention also, definitely, to Fucking Åmål. Great movie!

Ooh, it's your birthday?? What a coincidence, I made a cake! Happy Birthday!

All true. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't do our level best, now that we know how, to preserve the animals now threatened by our stupidity in the past. I think we do have a responsibility, as the most technologically and, most likely, intellectually advanced species on our planet, to take care of the rest of it.