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My name is Hellen, and this is my home in the 'tubes. On these pages you will find the numerous things I produce when left alone in a room with pen and paper. And the internet. You will also find an octopus eating cake, but that's not important right now.

Latest Website Update:

8th February 2009: Do not be alarmed.

I’m fiddling with the colours, as I have noticed how DULL AND DARK this site looks on some monitors. So if the octopus temporarily goes bright pink, it’s because I am doing something I probably shouldn’t be.

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Latest ARCHAEOBLOGOGY POST:

Ponderings on squiggly moon writing and academic interest.



I posted this on my personal blog the other day, but since it's Archaeology-related, I thought I might as well cross-post it. Including an awesome but unrelated picture and link! 8D Speaking of Asia (. […]

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15th March 2009

I am plagiarising myself on twitter, but that’s what you get for having multiple blogs.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I would like to take you to an establishment serving alcohol to a mainly homosexual clientele, at which I suggest, if you are agreeable, we commence thermonuclear hostilities.

I would further like to inquire upon the standing of your finances. It is my intention to invest them in their entirety at aforementioned establishment. Also while at said establishment, I have something I would like to insert into your person.

For indeed, in this establishment, you are a person of great renown.

Love, Me.


To completely change the subject, someone should write a historeligious (religio-historical? Neither of those are real words, are they.) novel in which Jesus is just an ordinary mortal human being who sees a lot of crappy things going on in the world but realises that there's nothing he can really do about it... unless he can become a successful travelling preacher/prophet and gain a large following, then maybe he has a small chance to gain some influence.

But the stress of that lifestyle begins to get to him, until he starts believing his own stories and becoming increasingly confused over whether or not he is the son of God and has mystical powers, causing much general worry and awkwardness among those of his disciples who are in on the joke. He eventually sinks so far into delusion that, by the time he's sentenced to death he completely believes he's doing it in some sort of divine sacrifice.

Or maybe a small part of him doesn't, but thinks it would make just the story to ensure his movement is perpetuated long after his death, we're not entirely sure. His disciples are still feeling conflicted and unhappy about the way it all turned out, but agree amongst themselves to write everything down with the spiritual embellishments, and to seriously have a go at this whole forming a religion business.

Don't tell me this wouldn't be the most wonderfully tragic thing to read. It would mainly be someone's slow decline into delusion and madness, but there could be hints scattered throughout that maybe, just possibly, he actually is divine and everyone, including he in lucid moments, just thinks he's crazy.

I really want to read this. Someone with a knowledge of religion and mental illness must have had the idea before me and written it.

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9th March 2009

I’m just cool like that.

I'm going to turn off my interwebs in aid of productivity as soon as I finish this bowl of cereal, but while I'm gone I thought it might be good times for a

Random Music Sharing Meme!

• I have 2933 tracks in my music collection.
• Name a number between 1 and 2933, and when I come back online later, I will upload the corresponding track.
• I reserve the right to skip random songs I don't like and haven't gotten around to deleting yet, as well as bits of audiobooks and such. XD


Go go go!

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8th March 2009

I should probably post this while it’s still actually to-day.

Happy International Women's Day!

If you live in the UK, you should go here and pester your MPs about services for women. :D? (My local authority has an extra failtastical zero. Don't be silly, there is no rape and domestic violence here, this is Surrey! >_>)

I've read the campaign being criticised because it doesn't specifically include trans women, and yeah, that is a stupid oversight to make. If I was making the website, I would at least acknowledge that there's an issue there and that the statistics don't include them because they're low-resolution government ones. I'm pretty sure that was Amnesty's explanation.

ANYWAY I think despite that criticism it's worthwhile to pester MPs about something like this. So. Do it. YIELD TO MY GOOD CAUSE PIMPING POWERS.

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7th March 2009

Beat up some thugs, say no to drugs, be in bed by ten!


I think I will go see Watchmen tomorrow (depending on how much work I get done >_>). It should be pretty epic.

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6th March 2009

Me and this novel are just going to sit over here and be awesome together.

Let me give you some advice - and if there's anything I am qualified to give advice on, it is this. If you have anything important to do? Do not buy this book. This book is dangerous. Every day last week that I tried to go to bed at a sensible time on, I picked it up intending to read for half an hour before going to sleep, and then the next time I looked up it was 4am.

If you haven't got anything to do, though, get it and read it and come talk with me about how amazing it is. I was a bit worried about the way it spans hundreds of years, because I tried to read a book years ago - can't remember the title - which chronicled the history of one town from the Stone Age to the present, and it was really really dull. All of the characters were only alive for three or four pages at most, so as soon as you started getting into their life's story, you had abandon it and go look at what their descendants five generations on were doing. It was lame.

It's done really well in this, though. Reminds me a little of one of my favourite books of all time (zees one), with the one-personality-in-multiple-settings thing. In fact (though I'll wait until I'm done until I make up my mind), I'm pretty sure I shall have to add this to the exclusive list of Books That Are Constantly In My Head, The Best Books Of All Time. That list currently has only two regular members, though some others are on the border. (I want to do a huge post of rambling about my favourite books and why everyone should read them sometime soon, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.)

In conclusion: The Years of Rice and Salt. Read it.

Also, look, I have a new default userpic. :3 Made from the new Tegaki-E 'about' picture I drew myself to-day. It makes me feel awesome. I mean, I think I am awesome anyway, or else I wouldn't have drawn it, but every time I look at it I think "fuck yeah, I am awesome". I don't really know where I am going with this, except toward the conclusion that I have a massively bloated ego.

I'm so hip I have trouble seeing over my own pelvis.

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4th March 2009

So much D:

There was a programme on the radio last night about Female Genital Mutilation. (Very pleasant thing to hear last before going to sleep >_<)

Urrrgh, it makes me feel ill every time I hear about it. You know how you hear about customs or things people have done, and you think 'That sounds like a bad plan, but I guess I can see how it seemed like a good idea at the time...'? Yeah, FGM is not one of those. I find it hard to believe that someone at any time thought: I have a brilliant idea on what to do with our daughters from now on! We will cut out their clitorises and labia (with tin lids and glass sherds, according to that Amnesty document D: D: D:) and sew them up, putting them in constant pain, risk of death, and denying them a lot of potential sexual pleasure, and if they survive the shock and bleeding and ensuing infections, when they get to marrying age their husbands can cut or rip them open, and if they get through that and become pregnant, along with all the other risks of childbirth, we'll cut them open and sew them up again! IS THIS A GOOD PLAN OR WHAT. IF ANYTHING RELATED TO SEX IS MASSIVELY PAINFUL, THEY'LL NEVER SLEEP AROUND! A LOT OF THEM WILL DIE, BUT IT'S TOTALLY WORTH IT TO ENSURE UNDISPUTED PATERNITY!

I know it's easier to perpetuate a custom than go against it, but how did this ever even take hold?


I want to go to these places and send all the children to school and teach them about exciting things like critical thinking and biology and that, if anything, a penis is an overgrown girl part rather than female genitals being manly. I mean, if you really wanted to be a sexual dimorphism purist, you could cut boys' nipples off.

I'm sure this is the sort of thing that can be taken care of with education. I just wish it was happening more quickly.

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3rd March 2009

THERE ARE NO PENISES IN SPACE.

I mean, er, Gundam 00 fangirling recap.

This episode was WIN. SO MUCH AWESOME TO MAKE UP FOR LAST WEEK <3 <3 <3

The rest of these are chronological, but FIRST OF ALL!

NAKED CROTCHLESS SPARKLE TIMES!!


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2nd March 2009

Or is it a smilie?

Every weekend there is drunken incoherent shouting outside at night. I really hate drunken incoherent shouting. Not because it's annoying, I could ignore it easily, but I always worry there is someone being mugged or raped or something outside while I'm trying to get to sleep. But how am I meant to tell, short of someone actually shouting for help? Drunken incoherent shouting just sounds like drunken incoherent shouting, whatever the circumstances. I prefer drunken singing; I doubt there are many muggers who go around their business giving an off-key (but enthusiastic) rendition of 'A Whole new World' from Disney's Aladdin.


Speaking of songs, I have the damn dango song from Clannad stuck in my head.

The writers of that series must have some sort of crazy writing magic. I don't even like it that much (it's not bad, just not the sort of thing I get really in to), I've only been catching every second or third episode of the second season (~After Story~. Yes, tildes and all.), but somehow it still makes me almost cry sometimes. Children's films, the odd TV commercial, and fucking Clannad fucking ~After Story~. XD I have a reputation as a heartless bastard to maintain, you know!

I have come up with a good metaphor to explain my erratic TV/anime watching habits: Living with Tim is sort of like having your own 24/7 anime TV channel. You watch a lot of stuff you wouldn't usually seek out just because it happens to be on, and sometimes you want to watch something, but it's being shown in an all-night marathon and you have to get up early for lectures next morning.

Except for all of the most awesome shows, those I am the arbiter of: Gundam 00 (obviously) Maria†Holic (Sayonaran Zetsubou Sensei minus the - to me - obscure cultural references, but with added lesbian Catholic schoolgirls and cross-dressing), and Michiko to Hatchin (incredibly cool epic adventure quest type story about a badass gangster lady in Unspecified South American Countries searching for her previously presumed dead ex-boyfriend with his daughter. It really deserves a post of its own to go into all the levels of awesome it contains. Watch it. No, really. Even if you don't go for anime - it's not very anime-cliche at all, in my opinion. Just one of the things that makes it awesome.)

No, this post wasn't an excuse to pimp out my favourite series, not at all.


(From the intro, because I only have the last three episodes downloaded at the moment, and none contains a suitably cool-looking shot with both of them in it.) (Also, Michiko has a sweet bike.)

Watch iiiiiit.


(A propos, one of the names my Japanese textbook uses in its examples in Michiko, and it makes me squee a little bit inside every time I see it. Have not yet come across the sentence "みちこさんpwned some bitches", though. A sad oversight.)

In other news, if Gundam subs don't come out soon I may EXPLODE.

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