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Tomatoes!

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Patty holding green zebra tomatoes from our illegal fire-escape garden.


close-up of tomatoes

Boston!

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How does this work? (me futzing with the camera while Patty laughs)


Yay! (Patty and I, slightly blurry)


I'm sure everyone takes this shot, but we were sorta awed by it. I love wacky place-names like this.


seagull hates you.


whale tails!


whale tails!

MNP!
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with AXL at the Torchwood/Doctor Who wake at WriterCon. Yes, the baby's initials are AXL, I'm not even kidding. Also, baby was strong and kept trying to climb on my shoulder! AXL brought to you by miep and cozzene.


the post-it fic written by miep, kalichan, invisible_lift and I that SOMEONE will post SOMEDAY.


Future city!


Okay, it's not a dragon, but a bird, but can I use this crazy habitrail town as an inspiration for New Cardiff though? please?


Future city!


Future city!


Future city (there is, btw, in this and one other shot a fountain in the ceiling that rains down into that atrium, but you have to look closely and at the larger versions to see it).!

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[rm.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's just Minneapolis. Which Team Torchwood (Kali, Lifty and I) started calling Future City! and couldn't stop while we were there. Basically, it gets so fucking cold there in the winter that a huge swathe of the downtown city is all on the second floor of buildings and there are skyways between them all; not sure how much actual ground it covers, but it has to be miles of walkways. So you're strolling at ground level and you can't find a cash machine or anything, but then you go up, and all the buildings connect and that's where the banks and the shops and the fast food and the dry cleaners and everything is, and then you get to various office buildings and they have these atriums with multiple stories where there will be more restaurants and stuff.

Truly weird.

(and thank you! It's all that one suit now... I'm going to be so grateful to have my hands on the second one in a week -- also, shirts! yay! although got save me from my fandom should I ever wear the pinstripe suit with the plum shirt I ordered.)

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, now I feel like I'm in on a big secret... with the rest on the interwebs :P
I hear Montreal also has that kind of underground infrastructure because of the cold. It's a major reason I cannot contemplate Canada as a place to live in the future... though maaaaaybe it is!

(Are you thinking of cosplaying Ianto off the cuff - hahah - if that happens? Or will it just be too painful to contemplate... damn, getting teary eyed)

[rm.livejournal.com]

I just... I don't have the affect for it... I mean, I could probably do it, economy of motion and all, but, doesn't go with my natural way of being at all.

And yeah... I'm so _so_ glad to be getting the suit in person at my fitting, as I was thinking about the big giant box the first was was shipped in and I was feeling a bit not okay about that. How geeky.

See, MNP's thing works better than Montreal's because there is light! Montreal's underground is, in fact, underground. And I'm pretty sure that MNP gets waaaaaay colder. Which is a shame, because it's really an exquisite city with a perfectly hot summer.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I wore Jack and Ianto on my tits (for they live on a very tight shirt) for the one day Con we had last week with a rainbow sticker that said "Tolerance is not a Fantasy".

How Geeky - I get it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I still can't believe... how long later? A month? More? This thing is still kicking around my emotional circuits quite this way.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

*nods* fucking tell me about it. Once I'm done with all my Uni assignments *weeps, will they never end* I might write something semi-academic and try and read it at either the big Sci-Fi Con or the Queer Studies Con later in the year.

That weeks deserves to be spoken about forever!

[fleur.livejournal.com]

Ironically, this week is the hottest it's been all year .. normally not so much!

[cozzene.livejournal.com]

I think I heard it's like 33 linear miles that are connected via the skyways. It's about 6 blocks by 11 blocks of buildings that are on the connection routes.