Because I feel like it. Six things that have made me happy today!

1. Superdrug's Moroccan shower gel. It actually smells of desert sand and warm stone and sweet spices, and if I close my eyes and sniff I am instantly mentally teleported to somewhere that's all red and golden and sunlight and silk and sand, and it is absolutely delicious. I need to go and find out what else they do in the same range.

2. Koi is currently playing W.A.S.P.'s The Headless Children album, which I haven't heard in some time and had forgotten how much I unreservedly love. It was the first W.A.S.P. album I ever bought, on battered vinyl fished out of a discount box in one of teenage!Rath's local record stores; I had no idea what to expect from it, but I was grabbed by the sinister barbed wire and flame-wreathed skull on the cover, so. Turned out to be one of the best purchases I ever made, and pretty much set my taste in W.A.S.P. albums for the rest of time. I'll always love them best when they sound like they did here, perfectly balanced between feral rock'n'roll and a viciously sharp awareness of the world around them, dripping blood and spitting fire to disguse the lifetime's worth of pain and hunger that you can hear lurking somewhere just beneath the surface of those shredding jet-black riffs and screaming leads. I know the world of metal will be arguing about the respective merits of W.A.S.P.'s different aspects until the end of all things, but for me, they were fucking perfect right here. ♥

3. I have an epic heap of spiritual-creative inspiration, thanks to Koi telling me stuff about the Slaaneshi cult that lives on one of its headworlds. I now want to do vast amounts of embroidery. And I will, as well, if Koi draws me the pictures I need so I can turn them into patterns...

4. I am also struggling to stop giggling, on account of said headworld also containing a lot of folk tales that Koi has been telling me. Some of them filthier than others:

"I'll cut off your head!"

"I haven't got a head!"

"Then I'll cut off your arms!"

"I haven't got any arms!"

"Then what have you got?"

"KNOBS!"

...you want an explanation? You'll have to wait till I stop laughing. ^_^

5. These little guys, who have taken over my life since I got them on account of being so cute I literally can hardly bring myself to put them down. I am wrapped around their little furry fingers, seriously, I tell you. ♥ And we have all kinds of plans up our sleeves... well, my sleeves, anyway, since, y'know, neither of them have any...

6. I have pink rhinestones on my trousers. No, really, I ACTUALLY DO.

Okay, okay, that's enough. Time to work... *scrams*

Love,
Rath

ZOMG, Slaanesh loves me, seriously. You guys will not believe this...

A couple of years ago, I got a custom scent made for me by S'Amuser perfumers in Cambridge. It was basically perfect on me, the only scent ever to be so - all vanilla and amber and molten gold, and I adored it. Unfortunately, being all-natural, it eventually died on me... and S'Amuser closed down a while back. I thought I'd never have it again.

I managed to find their email address, back in June, and sent them an email. The email bounced, or seemed to. I figured they'd gone out of business and that was going to be the end of it. Much quiet mourning ensued.

Only tonight I just got an email from someone at the company, apologising for her mailbox having mislaid some of her mail! And she has all the supplies! And she's willing to make me up a custom batch just because I was dedicated enough to chase them down! I can have my perfume again!

You all have no idea how happy this makes me. ^_^

Laters,
The Navigator

...and I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of Man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels.

The above from the immortal William Wordsworth, but delivered into my field of awareness by being on the back of a Relentless can (yes, I do drink energy drinks at twelve o'clock at night, you think I got this way naturally?) Thus inspired in more ways than one, I seem to have gone off collecting pretty things - so here, I share!

( Slaanesh-themed art links. )

(If you're commenting on this btw, please be invited to add art links of things that you love (any subject at all) - I want there to be as many beautiful things in this post as will possibly fit. ^_^)

Laters,
Rath

EDIT: I have just discovered the source of the Wordsworth quote above, namely "Tintern Abbey".

Which OF COURSE would also be the one with the line about: Knowing that Nature never did betray / the heart that loved her, wouldn't it. Of course it would. ♥