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fed up.

April 25, 2013

I am fed up with social media. Yes, I know, a blog is social media, but let us refer to it as old school, or static, social media: it does not roll over completely every few seconds-to-minutes, nor is it expected to. I love the ease of interaction and accessibility to my readers that Facebook offers. Facebook, however, seems to be deliberately and actively trying to make the public pages unusable for the person running it–ie, me. At the moment, between the enormous size of the cover photo (which, once…

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Got Something In My Lip

Kitsnaps: Got Something In My Lip

April 25, 2013

To balance out yesterday’s dramatic picture+story, today you get a picture of a dorky giraffe with something stuck in her lip. :)

Crow Brings Daylight

Kitsnaps: Crow Brings Daylight

April 24, 2013

A long time ago, it was always night. Only Crow, who flew far south and north again, knew of daylight, and he told many stories of the brightness and shadow to the Inuit people. In time, they began to ask for daylight themselves, but No, said Crow, I am too old to drag daylight so far north for your hunters to see by. Please, said the people, and finally Crow agreed to spread his old wings once more and fly beyond the horizon to find daylight for them. He flew…

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Ghost Wolf

Kitsnaps: Ghost Wolf

April 23, 2013

This is what happens when you take an over-exposed photograph of a grey wolf on a fairly bright day. Also, that intent expression? That’s because this shot was taken at exactly the moment the wolf noticed Young Indiana. That is a wolf who is thinking, “Lunch!” The next shot I have of him he’s got his head lowered and is prowling down the hill after Young Indiana. :)

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Magic & Manners: Chapter Two

April 23, 2013

With further apologies to Jane Austen, I present to you the second chapter of MAGIC & MANNERS, which is what happens when I get it into my head to wonder what PRIDE & PREJUDICE would be like if it was not a lack of wealth that beleaguered the Bennet sisters, but rather an excess of magic… Chapter One is here or here, if you want to read it on LJ. Chapter Two commences behind the cut. :)