All is right with my world.

[lady_sarai]

xenokattz is my hero. xenokattz is the bestest EVER!

xenokattz wrote me Salazar/Helga comment fic!!!!

::squeeee!!!::

And it's glorious and wondrous and there are daisies and Salazar is PERFECT. Oh, am in awe.

::happy sigh::

/gushing



In other news, thanks again to xenokattz and continuous talk of Timeline, I watched it tonight. I am geek. I ♥ this movie. Gerard Butler? Should just talk, all the time. Stand there, smile, and talk. Oh, and geek out about history. I absolutely adore that.



And, in other news, decided to Wikipedia something that's been bothering me plotwise for my Founders epics fic. I'm so excited now. It will work.


So, Wikipedia says this:

Divorce existed in antiquity, dating at least back to ancient Mesopotamia. The ancient Athenians liberally allowed divorce, but the person requesting divorce had to submit the request to a magistrate and the magistrate could determine if the reasons given were insufficient. Although liberally granted in ancient Athens, divorce was rare in early Roman culture. As the Roman Empire grew in power and authority, however, Roman civil law embraced the maxim, “matrimonia debent esse libera” ("marriages ought be free") and either husband or wife could renounce the marriage at will. This unlimited freedom to divorce continued in western society until the ninth or tenth century of the Christian era, when it was greatly curtailed by the influence of the Christian church.

Wizarding culture roughly 1000 years ago totally and completely follows Roman civil law more than Catholic doctrine when it comes to marriage (or rather, divorce). This is what I wanted to justify to myself and I have and now I am pleased.

/geekage




And! Finally!

I've been tagged by three_nails!


Six Random Facts About Myself

1.) As if anyone doesn't know this, I obsess. I get an idea or am introduced to something that catches my attention and the next thing you know, I've got nothing else to talk about.

A perfect example? "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." ....

I really have no defense for this. Tonight's obsession is Timeline, meaning I just discovered it's based on a book and now I want to go to Borders and find said book. ::headdesk::

I also obsess in fandom. Current obsession is all things Founders. Could you tell?

2.) My favorite number is 5.

3.) My favorite color this summer seems to be pink and it's disturbing me. I've also got an unhealthy liking for all things flip-flop--as in, on shirts and bags and earrings. I have no clue why.

4.) I can watch movies with insane human death tolls and be fine, even enjoy them. I might find things too graphic, but I can handle them. However, if any kind of animal is so much as *slightly* injured, I am a MESS. I cannot handle animal injuries. And don't even imply animal fatality unless you want me a weeping mess.

5.) I have a birthmark on the inside of my right elbow and when I was in kindergarten, I used it to cheat when my teacher asked us to do anything involving our rights or lefts. Sometimes I still use it to cheat and remember my right from left. I most certainly don't ever do that anymore. Uh-uh.

6.) I hate James Taylor's voice with the passion of a billion fiery suns.


=D

That was fun. I tag.... anyone who wants to play.




One more question of my flist. Envisioning a wizarding battle, I began wondering about Avada Kedavra. Is there any definitive answer as to when the spell became a spell? I imagine magic works much like science, with new discoveries and spells happening all the time (isn't that how Luna's mother died, experimenting with magic?). Otherwise, boring. I think I also sort of equate AK with guns, and other weapons of killing efficiency.

The point I'm getting to is, would this particular spell have been in use during the Founders' lives? I have a gut instinct here but I would like opinions.

♥

Comments

[alphabet26.livejournal.com]

A fic about that very topic can be found here:
http://www.sugarquill.net/read.php?storyid=43&chapno=1

The Lexicon says (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_a.html#avada_kedavra)
Aramaic: "adhadda kedhabhra" - "let the thing be destroyed".
NOTE: Abracadabra is a cabbalistic charm in Judaic mythology that is supposed to bring healing powers. One of its sources is believed to be from Aramaic avada kedavra, another is the Phoenician alphabet (a-bra-ca-dabra).

So...I think you could have it any way you want. If it is a Phoenician or Aramaic spell, then, yeah, it would have been around in the Founders' time. But you could say that Founders weren't aware of the spell in England (whatever England was called then. Britannia? Hmm...). Or if you want them to use it, since the Phoenicians were conquered by the Romans, the Roman wizards absorbed their knowledge and the Founders had it. Or you could say one of the Founders met someone during their travels who explained it to them.

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

O_O Whoa, that story is slightly chilling. =D

And... the Lexicon. ::slaps self:: Thank you for looking that up for me! I didn't even think of it, and I should have. =P (Oddly enough, I feel like I've read that before... Huh.)

Obviously this battle scene needs a lot more research and thought before the bunnies can play the way they keep proding me to let them. =P

Thank you!! =D

[xenokattz.livejournal.com]

I figured I owed it to you got breaking your LJ that one time.

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

You definitely more than made up for it!! =D

♥♥♥♥♥!!

[scribophile.livejournal.com]

I have rainbow flip-flop earrings. =) I also saw a huge flip-flop car magnet at Target the other day.

I also don't have any birthmarks. I found this unspeakably unfair as a kid, because all my friends had at least one. I may or may not have taken a brown Sharpie and drawn one on my ankle in first grade.

I imagine a killing spell would have been around since time began. Maybe it was a lesser version of AK, but something had to have been around.

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

I am totally not drooling over the car magnet or entertaining the idea of going to look at my Target. Nope. The earrings sound SO cute! I have a necklace that is a pink flip-flop. And this summer have bought two bags--one a purse, the other a beach bag--not because I need them, but because they were pink and had flip-flops.

::headdesk::

I'm such a girly-girl.

::giggles at your birthmark:: I have more moles than birthmarks, which leads to interesting conversations with small children who don't have the common courtesy not to ask "what is that thing on your neck?" >_<

That's what I was thinking. I had this grand, epic battle image in my head and I wondered about AK or something similar.

::sigh:: Nothing's ever simple, is it? The damn bunnies feed me images and scenes and nothing coherent to tie them together with. They also ignore my screams of "but that wouldn't work, it's 1000 years ago!!"

Reason means nothing to the bunnies. Or the coconuts.

[scribophile.livejournal.com]

The Target magnet's huge, something like 18" high.

I'm one of those unnatural girls who hates the color pink and anything resembling a skirt or dress. But shhh, I've actually been wearing some skirts this summer because it's way too frikkin' hot. I have no idea why I dislike pink. My room is actually a very deep red color, sort of a bright burgundy, but when the paint was fresh it was bubblegum pink. I was freaking out, I tell you. I could not live in a pink room, the pink faeries would come out at night and slit my throat with their sugarplum swords!

Eheheh. Might have put just a wee bit too much sugar in that tea.

I have several flat moles, some of which are rather large, but I have a million really dark, large freckles. I have a triangle of them in the crook of my right elbow that I was convinced looked like a mouse when I was young. I was such a weird little kid.

Grand, epic battle are always so much fun to read and such an utter pain to write. It'll resolve itself, don't worry. I'd ask who Helga is, as I'm very anxious to see, but I don't think that'll be conductive to your writing process. =)

Great, now you're giving me visions of bunnies collaborating with coconuts. Thanks a lot, Sara!

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

O_O That magnet might be bigger than my CAR.

I WANT to be one of those unnatural girls! Or, at least, the girly-girl ZOMGpink! girls have always mad me nuts. And it seems I'm suddenly wearing more pink and buying pink things and I have the sense to be slightly ashamed of this. =P I mean, heck, when I did my LJ in shades of pink I was cringing the whole time, but it matches the header, so what do you do?

::headdesk:: Overthinking? NO.

Dude, the pink faeries are scary.

I actually think I found a Helga last night!! Wee!! I'll try to post something sometime today or tonight. =D

O_O Bunnies AND coconuts?! That is LETHAL, Kate. Even Sawyer's afraid of that. (He has read Watership Down, you know. ;) Hee.)

[scribophile.livejournal.com]

The other day, I found myself wearing a pink polo shirt (the only pink article of clothing I own) and a skirt, and I wondered who on earth I had let pick out my clothes.

The pink faeries are very real, you know. I recall quite a few of them in high school.

Yay, Helga! I don't have much of an image of her yet, so this'll be fun. =D

I forgot that he had! Do you think he's just more terrified than the rest of us, or could he be conspiring with them??

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

It is totally a conspiracy. And all Sawyer's idea.

[scribophile.livejournal.com]

He distracts us with his complete and utter hotness while the bunnies and coconut plot.