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tanarillToday is the ninth day of the Omer, which is one week and two days into the Omer.
Now that's I've decided to quit Judaism, I have the oddest desire to spread it around. Which is to say, I'm going to share random and useless bits of Judaism with you.
The Hebrew alphabet has twenty-four letters. We don't have a j, but we do have a letter for sh, and letter for kh (pronounced as the ch in Scottish loch), and two letters that make no sound at all.
Each letter is assigned a numerical value. First letter=1, second letter=2, and so on. At ten, you start going up by tens: tenth letter=10, eleventh letter=20, up to the twentieth letter, which is worth a hundred, and then you go up by hundreds. The last letter of the alphabet is worth four hundred, a consolation prize for being last, I guess.
The Hebrew word for life, khai, is spelled with two letters, khet and yud. Khet has a numerical value of 8; yud has a numerical value of ten. Thus, khai=18. So giving someone a gift of 18 anything is like giving them a one-up on lives, above and beyond the value of whatever it was you gave them. This is why Jews give each other gifts of $18 or $36. IT has nothing to do with the money.
Anyway. Spreading around the STR that is Judaism.
Also, there is only one thing I agree with the Bitch about from that "Phantom Planet" add:
Some specials are more special than other specials. Where special means "rides the short bus to school."
Srsly, Hartman, WTF?
Title: Kindergarten
Fandom: DP. I still don't own it, and I really don't think Bitch HArtman should either.
Rating: PG-13; nothing happens on screen, but . . .
Warnings: Depending on how you think of Dan and Danny, there's either selfcest or incest
Dan had never had a childhood. He had . . . memories, kind of, of two childhoods. Or of one childhood and one pre-young-adult time. He could remember some of the memories being happy, of knowing that at one point things like Easter eggs hunts and arguing with his sister had been nice. He didn’t seem to have the ability to feel that way anymore, as if it were a knack that he’d lost at some point. He was fairly sure he could put his finger down on that point.
Beside him, Danny stirred restlessly in his sleep.
But lately, he’d been getting flashes. Flashes of what, he wasn’t quite sure. Flashes, anyway, while he and Danny repeated an argument they’d had so many times by now that it was as much ritual as easy-natured fight. When he pinned Danny to the bed and tickled him senseless. During late-night B-movie marathons, when, stuffed with popcorn and candy and other such junk and he was just coming down off the high, he was able to put his head in Danny’s lap not have to worry that he’d wake up in a warm tangle on the floor, all awkward angles and cramps in odd places.
Danny thrashed a bit, perhaps having a nightmare of Dan’s second appearance in his life. Dan put an arm around him, and immediately the younger ghost stilled, cuddling against him and clinging as if to a life raft. Perhaps he was.
Danny was so different like this, all soft curves and whiteness, nothing like Dan. He knew he had not done anything to deserve him, had done a lot that could be considered the opposite of “deserve him,” and for some odd reason Danny had looked at his tormentor and chosen him, even though he couldn’t possibly have chosen anyone worse.
Still asleep, Danny thrashed again. Dan stroked his hair–hardly ever black, not anymore–and pressed a cooling kiss to his lover’s forehead.
He might not have a childhood, but he was learning what he needed to know; and this time, once he had it, he was never going to let it go again.
As always, please R&R. Maybe C&C. Or Q&Q? I wonder how many letter&letter there are that make sense . . .
Now that's I've decided to quit Judaism, I have the oddest desire to spread it around. Which is to say, I'm going to share random and useless bits of Judaism with you.
The Hebrew alphabet has twenty-four letters. We don't have a j, but we do have a letter for sh, and letter for kh (pronounced as the ch in Scottish loch), and two letters that make no sound at all.
Each letter is assigned a numerical value. First letter=1, second letter=2, and so on. At ten, you start going up by tens: tenth letter=10, eleventh letter=20, up to the twentieth letter, which is worth a hundred, and then you go up by hundreds. The last letter of the alphabet is worth four hundred, a consolation prize for being last, I guess.
The Hebrew word for life, khai, is spelled with two letters, khet and yud. Khet has a numerical value of 8; yud has a numerical value of ten. Thus, khai=18. So giving someone a gift of 18 anything is like giving them a one-up on lives, above and beyond the value of whatever it was you gave them. This is why Jews give each other gifts of $18 or $36. IT has nothing to do with the money.
Anyway. Spreading around the STR that is Judaism.
Also, there is only one thing I agree with the Bitch about from that "Phantom Planet" add:
Some specials are more special than other specials. Where special means "rides the short bus to school."
Srsly, Hartman, WTF?
Title: Kindergarten
Fandom: DP. I still don't own it, and I really don't think Bitch HArtman should either.
Rating: PG-13; nothing happens on screen, but . . .
Warnings: Depending on how you think of Dan and Danny, there's either selfcest or incest
Dan had never had a childhood. He had . . . memories, kind of, of two childhoods. Or of one childhood and one pre-young-adult time. He could remember some of the memories being happy, of knowing that at one point things like Easter eggs hunts and arguing with his sister had been nice. He didn’t seem to have the ability to feel that way anymore, as if it were a knack that he’d lost at some point. He was fairly sure he could put his finger down on that point.
Beside him, Danny stirred restlessly in his sleep.
But lately, he’d been getting flashes. Flashes of what, he wasn’t quite sure. Flashes, anyway, while he and Danny repeated an argument they’d had so many times by now that it was as much ritual as easy-natured fight. When he pinned Danny to the bed and tickled him senseless. During late-night B-movie marathons, when, stuffed with popcorn and candy and other such junk and he was just coming down off the high, he was able to put his head in Danny’s lap not have to worry that he’d wake up in a warm tangle on the floor, all awkward angles and cramps in odd places.
Danny thrashed a bit, perhaps having a nightmare of Dan’s second appearance in his life. Dan put an arm around him, and immediately the younger ghost stilled, cuddling against him and clinging as if to a life raft. Perhaps he was.
Danny was so different like this, all soft curves and whiteness, nothing like Dan. He knew he had not done anything to deserve him, had done a lot that could be considered the opposite of “deserve him,” and for some odd reason Danny had looked at his tormentor and chosen him, even though he couldn’t possibly have chosen anyone worse.
Still asleep, Danny thrashed again. Dan stroked his hair–hardly ever black, not anymore–and pressed a cooling kiss to his lover’s forehead.
He might not have a childhood, but he was learning what he needed to know; and this time, once he had it, he was never going to let it go again.
As always, please R&R. Maybe C&C. Or Q&Q? I wonder how many letter&letter there are that make sense . . .
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Date: 2007-04-13 06:28 pm (UTC)Hey one of our players only gets on like...three times a week? Or so. You only having an hour or so is fine.
Yeeeeah, I think I might. I wouldn't know who to try out for though. Ehh, I dunno. ::shrugg:
Hmmm. you want someone no one has made backtory to or someone that has gotten played before?
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Date: 2007-04-13 09:43 pm (UTC)Hmmm. I think a not-yet-played character would be easier for me.
<< >> Yes I am considering it, now. :)
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Date: 2007-04-14 04:49 am (UTC)Well here has the lists of taken and 'previously taken but then dropped' characters.
Elliot was only played for three days so he teeeechincaly has no previously made background.
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Date: 2007-04-14 05:14 am (UTC)Now, Elliot sounds interesting but I've never actually seen all of DCMH so....
Actually, playing El sounds cool. I've got to find a way to see DCMH first before I attempt to do anything. (Also, gotta love the fact that Dan likes his hair. Yes)
(One last thing. The Super-Dan pic for that icon. Is it really a screenshot? Cause I can't tell.)
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Date: 2007-04-14 05:17 am (UTC)Hmmm. Do you have aim or trillian?
Woot. (Glad ot hear that.)
(Yep, from a screenshot. I think she might have modified it a little bit but still a screenshot.)
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Date: 2007-04-14 05:28 am (UTC)(Awesome. Yeah, I thought it was modified cause the inside of the cape is white here. Well, at least we know Dan's all-white cape isn't a bed sheet XDD
IS it? O_ono subject
Date: 2007-04-14 05:30 am (UTC)(...would you believe I didn't even NOTICE the all white ness? XD
I'm gonna go with no.)no subject
Date: 2007-04-14 05:34 am (UTC)(XDDDD
Good. That would be weird)no subject
Date: 2007-04-14 05:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-14 05:42 am (UTC)(I don't have any connections ;_;)
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Date: 2007-04-14 05:46 am (UTC)Go to the blue thing buddies. Right click and scroll down to Add Contract or Group.
keep clicking the next button on the thign that pops up untill you can type in the name. the just type in the person's name and click the add button. You should now have them in your buddy list.
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Date: 2007-04-14 05:58 am (UTC)OK I'm retarded. my screen name is: not an invader. Without the line thingys. ^^;;;
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Date: 2007-04-14 05:58 am (UTC)