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Monsters yesterday, general creepy today.


Silent Hill, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Anne says she dreams sometimes -- and so do I
About the child we say go by.
In the late afternoon we saw her pass,
Slowly and without a sound. The deep grass
Bent before her, as where a soft wind goes.
Except we know that no wind ever blows
The dark deep grass on Silent Hill.

My grandma says that back before her day,
There was a fine house there upon the crest
Where now a blackened chimney leans to rest
Against the sky. And now and then nearby,
Like a leaf of ash, a dark bird drifts without a cry.
Nothing else goes there. No boy climbs up to play.
Even the wild deer seem to keep away.
But Anne is not afraid. And sometimes we go near
To listen to the soft hush, deep as fear,
Heavy smoke, that seems to hang there still,
Where only dreams walk now -- on Silent Hill.

Anne says she dreams sometimes -- and so do I --
About the child we saw go by,
On Silent Hill.

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The vest I have been working on for months is now finished - I just sewed on the last button!

It looks pretty good, too, if I do say so myself. I'm quite pleased with the fiddly bits on the edging. And I learned a new stitch while making it - reverse single crochet, which is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of single crocheting from right to left, as usual, you crochet from left to right. It makes a cool-looking but easy twisted edge.

I'm really quite proud of this. Though now I kinda feel like I need a new big project to start on (can't start the Kira vest yet, because I still haven't figured out a pattern). I have some knitting stuff that I'm in the middle of and do want to work on, but I kinda want something new as well. Maybe I'll browse on ravely a bit today.

There will probably be pictures of the vest at some point, once I get good ones taken.



ETA - Or I could go browsing on ravelry and and finally find something that looks enough like the Kira thing in shape (or will, once I leave off that band in the front and make a few minor adjustments) to satisfy me. BRB, ordering yarn.

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The problem with the DS9 rewatch - the only problem, really - is that DS9 wasn't a musical fandom for me. Most of my fandoms are, you see, and then when I come back to them, I have albums or bands or playlists that I associate with that fandom that I can play. Even if I don't have songs that I feel match up with the fandom, I often have associations between music I was obsessing over at the time of the fannish obsession and the fannish obsession itself. So Matthew Good's Avalanche album is Buffy, and Farscape is Blues Traveler, and Inception is Gaslight Anthem, even though there's no real thematic link. (I was trying to figure if the Mountain Goats had an associated fandom and was about to conclude that it didn't but then I remembered that my Lovecraft renaissance was also a period of obsessively listening to Heretic Pride. John Darnielle does kinda sing like a Lovecraft protagonist.)

But DS9 never had a musical association. I mean, it had occasional onscreen music and yeah, I have Sisko singing The Best is Yet to Come on my mp3 player as we speak, but I have nothing beyond that. I remember what I was listening to at the time of my first watch-though of DS9 - mostly the Indigo Girls - but I don't feel a fannish connection between the two. I've usually got at least a few songs. Blake's 7 and Fringe are notably unmusical for me but I have at least a couple songs for both of them. It makes me a little sad, not having DS9 music.




(This post brought to you by Poe's Haunted album, which is forever associated in my brain with House of Leaves (of course), Black House, and Twin Peaks, all of which my brain insists happen in the same universe and thus have the same music.)