breeze of cherry petals

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“The cherry blossoms are falling away already.”
“They’re transient things. They only last a week or two.”
“I like the way they fall on the ground. It’s like snow, sort of. I just wish they wouldn’t rot away so quickly.”
“What would they do if they didn’t? They’d just pile up and we’d be wading knee deep in cherry blossom petals.”
“Blow away on the wind and become fireflies, I guess.”
-excerpt from Aubade, chapter 6.

Be grateful because I braved the chill and wind. And no, I'm not posting photos on deviantart; they take up space and they disappear from the front page within seconds.

And other things:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/imop/
I found this. It's not what I'm looking for, but it's awesome nonetheless.

Nalbina's throne room is the dome of the rock.

Pho is delish.

I'm reading the lego thread on Gamespite and someone posted a picture of the latest Space Police theme: A space mobster ship with what I think is Cthulhu in a pimp suit. That's sick. And by sick, I mean awesome.

Still no Space Pirates. That makes me sad.

and books:

22. Your "comfort" book
I don't know what they mean by this...


23. Favourite book cover including a picture!
Do they have any idea what "decent size" means?… hmm, I think I'll take my own picture, actually, nevermind, this one's passable.
http://library.risingshadow.net/images/books/7386.jpg

http://www.bibliopolis.org/graficos/editorial/bibliofan/tormentaalas_gr.jpg
I like this one too. It's the Spanish ediiton of A Storm of Wings.

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/bc/6f/45d5793509a0a8c0df7a0110.L.jpg
This one's actually a Gustave Moreau painting.

http://library.risingshadow.net/images/books/1427.jpg

A few of the Nightwings editions have particularly awesome covers. Can't find any of those in good quality, though.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/WordWorldForest.jpg

24. Favourite fictional relationship (romantic, friendship, familial)
Fuschia and Steerpike, if that counts as a relationship

25. Most annoying character ever
I read some shitty self-published blog novel once and there was this character who was a neo-nazi; I wouldn't be so pissed at this if it wasn't for the fact that he was meant to be sympathetic and the damn novel was an anti-islamic tract making a feeble attempt at pretending not to be. It's not up anymore. It's not archived either.


Burning Question: Why would I ever want to convert a pdf into anything other than a pdf?