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Rath, the Ghost of the Navigator's InsaneJournal:
| Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 | |
| 2:38 am | Ficsnippet I don't know what this is. The first line just fell into my head from nowhere, so I started writing and this is what I got. *** ( The House Of Black Lanterns ) *** Laters, The Navigator Current Mood:  curiousCurrent Music: Tiamat, Cold Seed |
| Thursday, November 24th, 2011 | |
| 4:15 pm | There is nothing quite like... ...that moment when you thought you'd lost your innocence for good and then someone you've never even met turns out to have found it and hands it back to you. <3 The Navigator Current Mood:  gratefulCurrent Music: BotDF, Dark Dreams |
| Thursday, October 27th, 2011 | |
| 2:31 pm | It's happening again. Nnnnngh. Having another one of those days where every thought, every word, every image is hitting me like a bullet between the eyes. I can't stop tearing up. I actually sat looking at my CD racks having a fit of the shakes earlier because I couldn't pick a single thing off there to listen to that wasn't reliably going to make my heart try and eat itself. Someone has turned the emotional overdrive up again. (Not helping either that the papers this morning are full of Italian politicians brawling in parliament and the German Chancellor muttering vague imprecations about World War Three. It's one of those days when it feels like a triumph of will just to be sane.) ...that's okay, though. I would so much rather feel like this than, y'know, not. *s* Though my body break and my soul be forfeit... ♥ Laters, The Navigator PS Man, I'd forgotten how much I love this song. This whole album, really. "In the breathless heat of night I'm falling spellbound / When the power of love comes crashing down-!" Oh, and then there's this, which just makes my heart soar. "Can't turn the tide now the battle has begun / the Devil take the man when his soul is on the run!" Anyone need a battle anthem today? Here you go... Current Mood:  live wiredCurrent Music: Ten, Spellbound |
| Sunday, September 18th, 2011 | |
| 2:41 pm | Crossposted from LJ - signal boost, can anyone help? Signal-boosted from Necrognosis over on Livejournal's metal_community: can anyone spare a few bucks to help Jonas R Christiansen, variously known from Norwegian black metal bands Koldbrann, Disiplin and Slavia? Jonas is 31 - yeah, my age, guys - and he's been diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only 1-2 years to live "barring a miracle". He's receiving standard treatment in Norway, but his friends in the scene have set up a fund to try and raise enough money to send him to a specialist clinic in Denmark for additional treatment that may help to prolong his life or even save it. Now, usually when someone in the metal scene at large needs help people rally round by the hundred, because metalheads are like that, but I don't know if it's ever been tried in the black metal scene before. But it seems to be working as the fund is over a third of the way to its target already! (See their Facebook page for an up-to-date running total.) So if anyone can afford to donate and help give Jonas a chance, that would be awesome - and if you can't afford to donate, please signal-boost if you can. Thank you. Donation details: Bank: Nordea Bank Norge ASA SWIFT: NDEANOKK IBAN: NO0465801642424 Paypal donation address: tiljonas@live.no Thanks again for anything anyone can do to help! Cheers, Rath Current Mood: hopefulCurrent Music: Koldbrann, Fortapelse I Svovel Og Helvetesild |
| Monday, September 5th, 2011 | |
| 11:02 pm | Revenge of the icon meme 1. Reply to this post with your favorite color, and I will pick five of your icons. 2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose. 3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts. 4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee. ( Two rounds under here! ) Whee, that was fun... anyone want to play? ^_^ Laters, The Navigator Current Mood:  accomplishedCurrent Music: "La Seine" from Un monstre à Paris |
| Thursday, August 18th, 2011 | |
| 12:42 am | Spider demon of the internets! We've been having some epic problems with the internet connection at chez woff-and-fish lately. A series of hardware tests, replacement components, and annoyed phone calls to Orange Broadband seemed, this morning, to have finally fixed the problem, as our linespeed went up from the 30K it'd been jammed at, to the 200+K that we're actually paying for. :p Unfortunately, as everyone knows, the first step of exorcising a demon is to make it manifest in physical form, and only then can you perform the actual banishment. In this case, Orange's engineers only seem to have accomplished step one, because when the internet suddenly dropped off again a few minutes ago, Koi went downstairs to reboot the router, which lives at the foot of the stairs to the hall. Cue a sudden and awful cry of fishie horror. "GIANT SPIDER!" No shit. The demon of the internets had indeed been made manifest, in the form of one of the BIGGEST brown house spiders I have ever seen. I grabbed a cup, snagged 'Boots's notepad to use as the all-important piece of cardboard, and went to do the necessary. Luckily, I got the infernal thing on the first pass, it not being quite quick enough to spot me where I was perched on the bottom step, and successfully chucked it out of Koi's window. The really weird thing is that as soon as we came back upstairs, the linespeed started going back up again... O_O Laters, Rath Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: Avantasia, Dying For An Angel |
| Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 | |
| 2:11 am | Six Things! It's been a while... and a bad few weeks... but right now it's two in the morning, I'm being totally irresponsible by being up this late, and for the first time in a while I'm crazy happy. ^_^ So! Six things post! 1. Rain. Rain makes me happy, especially when it comes down hard enough to drive all the tourists off the promenade and leave it empty for me to walk on my own. As long as I'm not too cold, I love getting soaked to the skin, feeling the water run down my face and my shoulders and drip from my hair, my clothes plaster against me... I don't know why. I just really like the way it feels. (I also like feeling superior to all the cowards hiding under the awnings like they think it's pissing sulphuric acid from the skies or something. They're hilarious, the lot of them.) 2. The existence of Eyes of Noctum, who are not only great, but whose frontman Arcane is better known as Weston Coppola Cage, son of Nicolas Cage: front and slightly right of centre, here. My gods, he's beautiful... can that family get ANY more talented/awesome/win, seriously? 3. Speaking of Nicolas Cage, item #3 is that the new Ghost Rider movie is in post-production! It's on! Yay! 4. And speaking of black metal, item #4 is Dimmu Borgir's cover of Twisted Sister's Burn In Hell, which is one of my favourite covers ever. That song has needed a black metal band to tackle it ever since it was first written and Dimmu did an absolutely thunderous job of it. Makes me ridiculously happy, seriously. \m/ 5. The upcoming WWE Money in the Bank pay per view. If you'd told me a year ago I could be chewing-my-nails excited about John Cena vs CM Punk, I'd have asked what you were smoking, but seriously, this current angle has the potential to be legendary. Also I would like to add an Item 5a for the Miz, just in general because I love him, but particularly for the other week when he and Christian and R-Truth cut one of the funniest promos I've seen since DX retired, and possibly THE funniest since Jay Lethal and Ric Flair had a woo-off. ("Really?" "Really!" "Riley!" "Randy!" "JIMMY!") So much love. XD 6. And finally, and the thing that has made me absolutely giddy with joy tonight, a fellow Aramii player called Bacon, who is clearing her camp and has so far dropped EIGHTY FOUR free critters on me just because I promised I'd give them good homes. It is amazing how good it makes you feel, just now and again, to be the recipient of an absolutely outrageously act of excessive generosity. I spend so much of my life feeling like Fate is trying to make sure I get nothing without paying for it twice, that to be given unto until I haven't got enough hands to hold everything is an absolutely wonderful feeling. I am overwhelmed with gratitude. (I am also overwhelmed with fuzzy pixel critters, but that's by the bye. ^_^) So yeah. All of that, basically. Thank you, gods, world, and kind people who do nice things to me. <3 Laters, The Navigator Current Mood: lovedCurrent Music: Dimmu Borgir, Burn In Hell |
| Thursday, June 16th, 2011 | |
| 9:07 pm | Critter update! For those who are following, current state of my critters! MagiStream:          Arvyre:   ...as you can see, I have some new ones. <3 All clicks gratefully received - thank you! ^_^ Laters, The Navigator Current Mood: fuzzyCurrent Music: Manic Street Preachers, Symphony of Tourette's |
| Thursday, June 9th, 2011 | |
| 4:20 pm | You can't see twits on the radio ...okay, what IS it with the previous few generations of boybands? Last time I looked it was Take That on an intergalactic peace mission, and now it's the Backstreet Boys in a vampire bar. If this sort of thing keeps happening I give it... oh, about ten to fifteen years before Justin Bieber's leading a bondage cabaret troupe. I only hope it doesn't work the other way, though, or Adam Lambert's going to turn into Cliff Richard. Laters, The Navigator (with apologies to the Scissor Sisters for that post title >.>) Edit: Changed the link under Adam Lambert cos I just found another video of his I hadn't seen before and I love it. <3 Additional edit: I forgot to even mention Jason Donovan playing Frank'n'Furter. The pattern goes back even further than I realised... O_O Current Mood: delightedCurrent Music: Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment |
| Friday, June 3rd, 2011 | |
| 9:31 pm | AAAAA my critters have hatched! Guys, guys, look! My Arvyre critters have HATCHED! *flails* Harvest Wyrm: Ravine Sprite: Oh my gods they are so tiny and I love them both. *huggles* Thank you to everyone who clicked them, and to anyone who clicks them some more cos they still have a bunch of growing up to do. <3 My Magistream critters, meanwhile, have not hatched, but here they are again anyway for fairness's sake: AND one of my Wajas is due to give birth, like, ten minutes from now. I am very glad I got home in time to sit with her while she does (read: sit here clicking Refresh until something happens, but it's kind of solidarity >.>). ...yeah, okay, two posts about this subject in a row, I should make a filter. If you want to see further posts about my various pets, please say so below - if you have a burning desire to NOT see any more of these, please also mention it! Cheers. Laters, The Navigator PS UPDATE: ...three cubs! O_O Wow. I am so proud right now. <3 *hugs Black Night, Dusk, and babywolfies* Current Mood: ecstaticCurrent Music: Astral Doors, Evil is Forever |
| Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 | |
| 8:21 pm | Fuzzy pixels for all! Ever since I was a little Navigator, I've loved collecting critters. Plastic ones, plushie ones, invisible ones (♥ Blackie and Milkie, the two invisible dogs who caused something of a problem when I was at school) and now, thanks to the wonders of the Internet, I've got virtual ones as well! Only these ones are better, cos they can be trained and bred and all sorts of cool stuff! It's all making me ridiculously happy, being fuzzy, harmless and a world away from any of the stuff I'm usually into. It's a nice break for the brain - a kind of mental sanctuary, if you will. Where am I, then? I'm on Aramii, where you get pretty winged wolfies, awesome cat-creatures who I can't stop thinking of as jagulars even though I know they officially aren't, dragons, and many more. I'm also on Wajas, which isn't as nice to play and is much more complicated, but does at least allow you to have wolves covered in roses (Thoran) and rainbow-painted freaks (Crimson Heart). But worst of all... I've succumbed to the dreaded Clickables craze. So... MagiStream: Arvyre: I will be very grateful to anyone who can spare the time to click these, either one-off or on a daily basis if you have nothing better to do with your time *g*. They're also permanently living on my LJ and IJ profiles, so you get to see them as and when they hatch! So, yes. Right, BRB, off to go and design more custom critters that I can't afford... *g* Laters, The Navigator PS Oh, and if anyone fancies trying Aramii, my referrer URL is http://aramii.com/newaccount?ref=6103. >.> *plug* Come in by that door and I get shinies. *g* Current Mood:  playfulCurrent Music: E Nomine |
| Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 | |
| 5:39 am | I haven't posted something like this in way too long. Some nights, you just know that if you don't take them while you've got them, you won't get them again. ( Late-night adventures. ) So, yes. May this be the first night of the rest of my life. *s* Laters, The Navigator Current Mood:  noctambulantCurrent Music: Finsterforst, Rauschende Nächte |
| Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 | |
| 2:03 am | Stories you find lying around. So, Koi and I were out on the beach... [transcription slightly modified from original dialogue] Koi: *looking at the sand* I can see lots of sets of pawprints heading towards the water, and none coming back. *puzzled* Me: Those are waterdog prints, o best beloved. Koi: Waterdogs? Me: Of course, waterdogs. You haven't heard of waterdogs? They live out at sea and come ashore to rear their young, and in the spring on fine days, the little waterdogs leave their burrows and run down to the sea. They swim away and don't come back for another three years, until they're old enough to breed themselves. Hence, lots of pawprints going to the water, and none coming back. Koi: Mhm? *interested* Me: *nodding* If you come down here on a stormy night in October or thereabouts, sometimes you'll see the grownup ones coming ashore in the dark for the start of the breeding season. They ride in on the storms and climb up the cliffs to dig themselves burrows, and then they stay on land until the baby waterdogs are ready to swim away the next spring. Koi: ...ohhhhh. *pause* You have to write this up for Livejournal, you know. Me: ^_^ ...so there you go. Waterdogs. Honest. *s* Laters, The Navigator Current Mood:  wistfulCurrent Music: Ingrimm, Letzte Reise |
| Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 | |
| 4:06 pm | OH GODS WAIT WHAT HAPPENED HERE Okay, so I'm thirty years old. That means I was in my tweens/early teens in the first half of the 1990s. At the time, I was not listening to the same bands everyone my age liked. I was mostly into Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Meat Loaf, and what-all that I'd gotten off my older cousin. Somewhere at the end of the nineties, I and a dear friend only a couple of years older than myself, along with a few other people, saw the Rocky Horror in Cambridge when Jason Donovan was playing Frank'n'Furter. This incident led to the immortal words from the friend in question: "Bother, I think I fancy Jason Donovan. About ten years after everybody else." Well, now I know how she felt. Because OH HOLY CHAOS WHEN DID TAKE THAT GET THIS AWESOME?! I fucking couldn't stand them back when I was supposed to be into them in 199-whatever and all my little schoolmates were swooning over them, but THIS?! It's got a beat you can dance to and a fucking SPACE STATION and ridiculous outfits and half the National Guard and oh my good gods this is great! *_* (I mean, obviously it's still pop music, but it's pop music that looks and sounds about a million times more EVERYTHING than it did fifteen years ago and dsjhkfjskf, I love it. You can all laugh now. ^_^) ** In other pop music news, I also just discovered that the video for Florence and the Machine's The Drumming Song is absolutely gorgeous in a kind of wild, dark, twisted way, like some kind of witches' sabbath that's gotten into the church and taken over. I love the colours, the white walls and the black costumes and the red of her hair; and the few quick shots towards the end, where she's wearing the black and silver mask, are amazing in that "this is something that is more real than it was ever supposed to be" way that certain music-video type images occasionally are. Gorgeous. Meanwhile, the Hoosiers' Choices, aside from being a pretty little song in its own right, demonstrates conclusively that absolutely everything is better with kung fu. *lol* I only looked this one up because I heard it on the work radio and it's nice to sing along to when I'm working, I... wasn't quite expecting it to look like this. ^_^ (Although it has to be said, if I looked as unassuming as these guys I wouldn't attempt to be in any sort of action movie pastiche, but bless 'em anyway. *g*) ** Anyway, that's my ridiculous for the day, what's yours? (And if you haven't got any, what are you sitting here reading this for? Go and get some! It'll be good for you! ^_^) Laters, Rath PS Hail Slaanesh. \m/ PPS Correction! I have just found the song I couldn't find that was stuck in my head, and it's Florence and the Machine again! Howl - dude, fucking WEREWOLF ANTHEM, much? Seriously, look at the lyrics to this thing - and then ask yourself, with me, what is this doing being played on Superdrug's instore radio anyway? O_O Current Mood: giddyCurrent Music: A song I haven't ID'd yet because I can't pick out the words. :/ |
| Sunday, March 27th, 2011 | |
| 4:49 pm | Oh, fuck YOU. Yahoo reminds us that it's census day today if you're in the UK! That, in itself, is fine, and I'm glad they reminded me. I have nothing to hide and no problem with being census'd (and I am not sure what the right word was there, but as long as it's not "censored" I'm down with it) but I just spotted this at the end of the article: Daniel Hamilton, director of Big Brother Watch, the civil liberties group opposed to the census, said: "Everyone knows the census is a monumental waste of time and money. "A large number of the questions duplicate data already held by the authorities on databases such as the electoral register, school records, tax returns and GP information. "Last time, 390,000 people declared their religion as Jedi, 7,000 people said they were witches. "There's no reason to think people will take the census any more seriously this year." ...just in case you can't see what's wrong with that, let me repeat. In bold. "7,000 people said they were witches. There's no reason to think people will take the census any more seriously this year." Well, fuck YOU. If there aren't at LEAST seven thousand practising Wiccan/Pagan/etc individuals who could and would in all good faith describe themselves as "witches" in the UK? I'll be VERY surprised. I know a few of them. They're good people and they are not the type to pull pranks on census forms. (And that's leaving COMPLETELY aside the fact that I've also known one or two self-declared and completely sincere Jedi (and at least one Sith)...) *sigh* aren't civil liberties campaigners supposed to not come out with this kind of BS? Laters, Rath Current Mood:  aggravatedCurrent Music: Firehouse, Reach for the Sky |
| Thursday, March 24th, 2011 | |
| 1:43 pm | Quick Six Things post, because. Six things that are making me happy at the moment! ( Read more... ) And a new addition, because while all this being-glad-of-what-you-have business is fun, profitable and good for the karma, I feel the need for something more.... six things a Rath currently wants! ( Read more... ) Laters, Rath Current Mood: upbeatCurrent Music: Firehouse, All She Wrote |
| Saturday, January 15th, 2011 | |
| 12:52 am | I can't not pass this on. Stolen from hellbound_heart on LJ, reposted here because it says everything, better than I ever could. To all my rock stars and superstars and beautiful boys, all of you out there who don't have the faintest idea who I am but that's okay... this. "Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have." - Henry Rollins Fuck. Yes. -Rath Current Mood: movedCurrent Music: Great White, Never Change Heart |
| Thursday, January 6th, 2011 | |
| 9:49 pm | Information of Rath-location! [crossposted from LJ!] Hello everydudes, For those of you in Cambridge and immediate environs - just to let you know that I will be down visiting for a couple of days, namely Mon 17th/Tue 18th. Monday is already booked up by Oliver and a dinner date with Richard, but as far as Tuesday afternoon goes, my plan is to be in CB2s from about 2pm (possibly a bit later depending on how long I spend in Forbidden Planet and KFC beforehand). Here, I will be findable at one of the upstairs tables, building a small fortification out of empty hot chocolate mugs, and anyone who wants to may come and help me. ^_^ Depending on who shows up and when, I am happy to hang around until about eight or so, so peoples who work in the afternoon can stop by after-shift if they so desire. So, there you go. Hopefully at least one or two people will be both willing and able to drop in - but if not, feel no pang of conscience, cos it's entirely fine. I'll bring a book. *grin* Laters, Rath Current Mood: optimisticCurrent Music: Koi listening to Nine Inch Nails |
| Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 | |
| 2:37 am | A blessing, or something like that... Hail to all the beautiful ones, you need no excuse. Hail to all the wild ones, you remind us of what we should never forsake. Hail to all the faithful ones, you keep the world from coming down. Hail to all the fearless ones, you inspire the rest of us to courage. Hail to all the loving ones, you are the gods' mercy given breath. Hail to the free spirits, the wild hearts, the One Percent - may the gods watch over all of you, because your worth to the world is beyond price even when it forgets to treat you that way. Those I know and those I love, those who are my heroes and my inspirations, and those of you who are out there and I haven't met yet but who will be my friends at once on the day I do - gods bless every one of you. Happy New Year, guys. Love you all. Rath xxx Current Mood:  awakeCurrent Music: Amorphis, Sampo |
| Saturday, December 25th, 2010 | |
| 12:05 am | I reject your bastardised religious observance and substitute my own. I got into work today [yes, working Christmas Eve, AND Boxing Day, screw you, head office] and was told that I was required to don festive headgear. "There's some santa hats on the stairs. Or a pair of reindeer ears." Indeed there were. One pair of red foam reindeer antlers, glued to a plastic headband. ...now, guess who had just been reading up on Cernunnos before she went out? Oh yeah. You want me to wear silly headgear? Damn right I am going to wear a pair of fake antlers, and I am going to wear them with pride. Pagan pride, no less. Subversion is alive and well and living in Whitby. Also, they were massive fun to wear, even though they did keep knocking against things whenever I dipped my head down. I kinda want a proper set of prosthetic antlers now. Or maybe horns. In fact, by the end of the shift I was so attached to them that I stole them - photos when I can get Koi to take some for me! *g* (I'm kinda sad that I didn't get one single "hey, nice rack!" call from ANYBODY, though. People, you missed your feedline, shame on you. I did have a laugh with the guy who said "erm, do you know you've got something in your hair?" though, at least. ^_^) Anyway, it's after midnight here, so Merry Christmas, motherfuckers! Off up to the cliffs shortly - will be sure to come back and let you know if I see a fat man in a fur coat careering about the skies up there... Laters, The Navigator Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: Kishidan, One Night Carnival |
