I've have had some strange occurrences during my life, and for some reason I happened to think of one today. It happened back before 2002, but I'm not certain how much before.

I was in the room of one of the house-mates I had back then. She had used one of those real long matches usually used to lite fireplaces to lite a couple of candles . When she went to blow it out, on a whim I asked her to hand it to me while it was still burning instead.

I held the match where the burnt part was pointing up from my hand and I made a slow downward motion with my other hand, which was at least 6 inches from the match. The fire died down and the match went out completely.

She said that was a very good trick, but now let's see me relight it.

I impishly made a flourishing gesture up at the match, and it flared up in a blue flame that was taller than when the match had first been lit. And the match had at least an inch of burned out area at that point.

I was startled and blew it out, then I looked at her. She was staring at me with fear in her face.



Things like that only seem to happen when I am not consciously trying to actually do anything.

I made a Dreamwidth account, unicorn_kitty.

I had copied selected posts from my LJ to my pc before I did so. Now I've found out that Dreamwith will copy/import my LJ posts over to it! So I did so.

I'm not going to delete this journal, and in fact have set up my Dreamwidth one to cross post to it,

I used http://www.pageplugins.com/generators/fordummies/ to make this.

The below was inspired by the Velveteen vs. writings of Seanan McGuire. They are worth reading, the link in the preceding sentence is to the first one.

( Out of SeasonCollapse )

A Trump presidency and a Republican controlled Congress. I wonder which country it would be best to immigrate to? Or indeed, if there is any place in the world that will be safe?

I said the following as part of a post back in 2006. I still mean it.


I will go against either "Good" or "Evil" if need be to serve Compassion and Love.

It was noon. Tiffany have invented the word noonlight, because she liked the sound of it. Anyone could be a witch at midnight, she’d thought, but you’d have to be really good to be a witch by noonlight.

-from Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

Originally posted by unisagi at Some good news