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Vampire Diaries: Matt Honeycutt, not just a supporting character

Red — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:38:17 +0000

I am, as many people know, a huge Matt Honeycutt fan. He’s my favourite character in the Vampire Diaries, and I’d go as far as saying that I may be Matt’s biggest fan. The reasons for this are many and varied, from the important role he plays in the story (he’s a lynchpin for so many events in the story that it would fall to pieces without him), to the fact that he’s such an all-round great guy. So when I see people dismissing him as a mere unimportant supporting character, I develop a twitch in my left eye and start getting all defensive about him. So I’d like to take some time now to explain just why I think Matt is so important to the story, why I think he’s so awesome, and what my feelings are about him in the upcoming TV series. Hopefully I’ll convert a few of you into Matt fans in the process. ;)

Read all about Matt…

All Moved Over

Red — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:00:38 +0000

Okay, that’s the last time I reformat all my fanfiction. It was a mammoth task of pain, and pretty much guarantees I’ll be sticking with WordPress for the foreseeable future, because I can’t face that again any time soon. O_o

So, that’s most of my fanfiction added (I ‘lost’ the works in progress, I’ll re-add them if I actually write more), all my art up, and the flickr widget working nicely. I don’t think there’s anything urgently vital I need to do, and any layout tweaking can be done later.

I might actually start making some proper blog posts now. w00t!

Garden Centre Photography

Red — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:04:43 +0000

I like garden centres, especially in the Spring and Summer, because they’re an ideal, free (unless you’re with my mother, who can drop a fortune on plants) place to visit to take all kinds of interesting photos. Not just plants and flowers, either. Most of them sell garden decorations, statues, pots, paving, timber… there are all kinds of interesting things that they have lurking around. Personally, I draw the line at compost, but I’m sure that far more talented photographers than I could get some interesting photos out of even that.
Bees, butterflies and other insects like to lurk around garden centres, too. Flowers and pollen attract them, and they don’t particularly care if they’re supposed to be paying for the plants they’re landing on. This said, catching the buggers can be a trial, because the first you see of them is usually when they bomb past your head, flick their bums at you rudely, then zip off over a fence before you can take a picture. At least, I hope that’s not just me.
Ponds are pretty common in garden centres, though I haven’t really got the knack of getting pictures of fish through water yet. On the plus side, they’re not as fast to zip off as insects are, so you stand a chance of actually getting a shot a picture that isn’t solely comprised of fish tails.
All those other interesting things aside, ultimately it’s the flowers that are the biggest reason I love garden centres. My mum makes awesome gardens, but there are some flowers, trees and plants that I can’t find at home simply because they cost too much, they’re not suitable for our soil, or they simply require too much specialist care. At a garden centre Someone Else does that work for me, and all I have to do is sidle in and take some shots. I do get some funny looks from elderly people as I’m snapping away while they pick out primulas, though. ;)