Random Claire is Random
Aug. 28th, 2011 12:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonlettuceOn space pirates and kink memes:
I should be writing space pirates, so why am I looking at the XMFC kink memes and going 'I could do that... And that... And that one, too...'
On decapitated snails:
Also, there were decapitated snails in my street last night. I'm not sure if someone had been at them with a shovel, or if this means there's some sort of psychotic snail out there who has fashioned a sword from bits of his own shell and is now going around lopping off the heads of his brethren*. Dude, it's hard being a snail.
On tattoos:
Various people (okay, two people, anyway) have posted on LJ/Twitter about getting XMFC-related tattoos recently. Both are quote based and making me want to get the two lit tattoos I've wanted for years. One of them is 'Denn die toten reiten schnell,' which is a quote from Dracula. (Well, technically, it's a quote from Bürger's Lenore, which Stoker then used in Dracula.) The quote translates as 'For the dead travel fast' and I fell in love with the line when I first read Dracula way back when.
The other lit ink I've always wanted is the quote from the gates of Hell from Dante's Inferno. For this one, though, I swing between having the entire quote, or just the last bit. The last three lines are the ones I'm in love with, but my completion self would want all of it done.
Original Italian:
Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:
fecemi la divina podestate,
la somma sapienza e 'l primo amore.
Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.
Translation:
Through me the way is to the city dolent;
Through me the way is to eternal dole;
Through me the way among the people lost.
Justice incited my sublime Creator;
Created me divine Omnipotence,
The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.
Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in.
And then, of course, the question is where to put them and what font to use.
Also, part of me is strangely amused by the thought of having 'Peace was never an option' wrapped around my ankle.
* Does this also mean there's a snail equivalent of the BAU, going from garden to garden and profiling killer snails? "I say male, young, definitely a slow mover. Mother issues, possibly..."
I should be writing space pirates, so why am I looking at the XMFC kink memes and going 'I could do that... And that... And that one, too...'
On decapitated snails:
Also, there were decapitated snails in my street last night. I'm not sure if someone had been at them with a shovel, or if this means there's some sort of psychotic snail out there who has fashioned a sword from bits of his own shell and is now going around lopping off the heads of his brethren*. Dude, it's hard being a snail.
On tattoos:
Various people (okay, two people, anyway) have posted on LJ/Twitter about getting XMFC-related tattoos recently. Both are quote based and making me want to get the two lit tattoos I've wanted for years. One of them is 'Denn die toten reiten schnell,' which is a quote from Dracula. (Well, technically, it's a quote from Bürger's Lenore, which Stoker then used in Dracula.) The quote translates as 'For the dead travel fast' and I fell in love with the line when I first read Dracula way back when.
The other lit ink I've always wanted is the quote from the gates of Hell from Dante's Inferno. For this one, though, I swing between having the entire quote, or just the last bit. The last three lines are the ones I'm in love with, but my completion self would want all of it done.
Original Italian:
Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:
fecemi la divina podestate,
la somma sapienza e 'l primo amore.
Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.
Translation:
Through me the way is to the city dolent;
Through me the way is to eternal dole;
Through me the way among the people lost.
Justice incited my sublime Creator;
Created me divine Omnipotence,
The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.
Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in.
And then, of course, the question is where to put them and what font to use.
Also, part of me is strangely amused by the thought of having 'Peace was never an option' wrapped around my ankle.
* Does this also mean there's a snail equivalent of the BAU, going from garden to garden and profiling killer snails? "I say male, young, definitely a slow mover. Mother issues, possibly..."
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Date: 2011-08-27 11:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-28 12:01 am (UTC)Pssst! If you do, have them capitalize the Toten. ;-) (Nouns get capitalized in German)
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Date: 2011-08-28 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-28 12:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-28 07:41 pm (UTC)The problem with quote tattoos are positioning, or at least that's what I found. As for font, I - shockingly - used this site (http://www.dafont.com) and just put the words in, then picked the one which looked nicest.
But both quotes are great and would be awesome tatts.
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Date: 2011-08-28 08:37 pm (UTC)