Idle thoughts and links on a Sunday morning

[heliopausa]

Bother, bother, bother... it's no longer Sunday morning, and due to too-long delay, I've lost nearly all of a long post, and nothing's left but the links, essentially. I suppose at least it spares you all the idle thoughts!

There was this story which begins by being about a not-exactly plagiarism,but ends in mulling the possibility that tumblr is changing the mode of self-expression from private individual creation to a more collective, curatorial form. (The idle thoughts I had were about whether this wasn't more akin to the old commonplace book method.)

Then there was the Owl as stealth warrior and I wondered about writing some more Narnia, with a story about Peter in the North, giving the Owl Shortfeather a much more active role than just messenger. (That link talks about a wingspan of nearly six feet! attacks with razor-sharp talons!)

and there was the death of a man in the Northern Territory, who will be much missed. I'm sorry I lost those stray thoughts - in sum, a great story-teller, a sharp analyst of people and situations, a valuable doer of things, and not a scrap of malice in him.

From the same source, a tiny glimpse of more traditional indigenous story-telling, in contemporary life.

and that's it from the Lost Post! :)

Comments

[marmota_b]

Oops, this was meant to go on the other post. Well, it remains here.
I posted my own prompt on historyfest. I'm not sure I'll get around to filling any (a lot of them aren't my thing, anyway), but I'll be interested in seeing how some of them turn out. :-)

[heliopausa]

Yes, I was more interested in reading than in actually filling a prompt there. The introduction leaves that as an acceptable option. :) I'd only recently come across Anne of Brittany - her whole life a comment on monarchies and gender roles.