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I saw this on FB and now I've wiped the tears of laughter from my eyes, I have to share.
I think circumvent might be my fave, but they are all such great words and meanings, I'd love to use them in a fic!Read more... )
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My boy is such a romantic sweetie. He sent me this from work, and left me some mint choc crisps on my chair.

How Do I Start?

How do I start?
What do I say?
I love you and you take my breath away?
Do I say hold me tight, keep me warm all through the night?
So how do I start?
I start like this: hold me, love me, teach me, move me, motivate me to do something great.
Now that I’ve started, how do I end?
I end like this
I LOVE YOU!!!
By Denise Branham & not by me unfortunately & I’m not sure I can do something great

I think he did enough putting up with me for 37 years this year (poor bugger!), especially after I apparently kept him awake half the night last night with my clogged up cold, snoring. LOL
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I missed my original date for this post but here it is, better late than never. A little celebration of the fantastic breadth of talent in Fandom.
Bear in mind, this is just a small sample of what's out there, and it's only the tip of the iceberg of wonderful art I've admired over the years. Plus, they are not in any particular order. I LOVE THEM ALL and I wish I could just post everything here because it's all SO GOOD.

But I can't, so here's a selection.
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FanLove

Jan. 25th, 2016 07:22 pm
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I'm going to post on 19th Feb! Go pick a date and feel the lurve.


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ART: Stay

Oct. 18th, 2015 08:46 am
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LOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL ART done for me!!! I'm still in Asylum so can't stare at this all day like I want to, but I thought I'd share so all my flisties can stare instead.

Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] apocalipskiss at ART: Stay
Title: Stay
Pairing: J2 or Wincest
Rating: R
Note: Fanworks Auction for [livejournal.com profile] amberdreams. I was struggling a lot about the color, personally I like the second one more, but I guess the first one is more fit the request? I hope you like it.

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Reading some of my lovely flisties comments about how hurt they have been by dreamweaver37 deception, or how they are feeling foolish for giving him their trust - I think there is something very important you should all bear in mind.

Don't feel bad! We all believed him (or wanted to). The only reason I had any doubts was down to having been taken in before by that micamonroe (who apparently is tragically dead according to his still live LJ). When that happened I looked up this syndrome and it is a thing - people often have multiple online identities (though how the hell they keep up with them all I have no idea) and can even use one ID to reinforce the others. Mostly they are harmless but sometimes theycan be malicious - like that woman on Twitter who has a serious personality disorder and has threatened people in real life (my friend Dave being one).

In this case, I think dreamweaver wasn't malicious, he/she was just looking for attention/reinforcement, maybe a feeling of importance? Who knows.

Whatever the reason, please don't feel bad about this - Think of it this way - any emotional investment we had in this person's story was still real because we genuinely thought here was someone who was doing good things that merited our support. The fact that these things may not have been real doesn't negate our sympathy or empathy or any words of support we might have spoken. The fact that the recipient didn't deserve it doesn't mean our actions were worthless. Our own goodness and thoughtfulness in putting together messages of love doesn't change, neither does the intent behind the messages. So his child wasn't real and we mourned - we've mourned fictional characters before and it's good to feel. Human beings need to feel.

We are still good people who had good thoughts and tried to do good things. That is a truth that his lies cannot change.

And don't let it stop you being kind in future. It's a small risk we take that has a huge impact. Loving someone is always a risk - we can't really get hurt if we don't love.

Um, I'll stop moralising now LOL
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Thank you, thank you everyone who's sent me birthday wishes today - i've been swamped in the lurve, and it's a beautiful thing. My LJ inbox was chocker, I had tweets, and Facebook goodies, and virtual gifts, and song spams and gifspams and all sorts of lushness and I am very grateful. Hopefully I have thanked each and every one of you individually, but in case I have not - THANK YOU!

I woke up this morning and could have made you a list of things NOT to do on your birthday - like

  • having a sniffle in the bathroom because you are missing your Dad, and then

  • weigh yourself on your Mum's bathroom scales and find you are two (yes TWO) stone heavier than you thought you were. (For you Americans, that's 28 pounds btw)

  • or end up waiting in most of the morning because the register office is incompetent and has mislaid your father's death certificates that are needed to finalise various financial affairs and they are supposed to be ringing you back...

So the stuff that y'all sent me was indeed a very cheering thing, as was the delicious mushroom pizza I had for lunch, and the big bar of Aero I scoffed this afternoon in definace of the bathroom scales' message of doom.

Tomorrow I return home and hope to be able to stay for longer than a couple of days this time. I need to have some down time so I can catch up on everything!
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It had to be done! I'm posting on 6th, go pick a date and make it your day for the lurve.
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A day late (again) - this one's for sw0rdy What do you think Dean would love/hate most about the UK?

Dean would LOVE that we have two kinds of pie. He could have meat & potato pie for his main course followed by apple pie with lashings of custard for desert. Within a week he would have put on two stone and Sam would have to wheel him from pub to pub in order to sample steak & kidney pie followed by blackcurrant and apple, or pork pie followed by strawberry & gooseberry...
"Oh fuck, Sammy, I think I'm gonna burst!"
"For god's sake, Dean, I told you to go easy on that lamb, pea and mint pie."
"Yeah, I think the peas and mint tipped me over the edge..."

And Dean would hate that he'd have to leave his Baby behind - but I suppose that would be the same for anywhere outside the continental US so... Ok - he'd probably hate the fact that Sam would be geeking out all the time about the history. So much of it, everywhere you look - old buildings and old stuff. Probably full of old ghosts too, you know? just because it's old doesn't mean it's interesting, Sammy.
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I've read a few reaction posts and think ash48 probably summed it up for me, saying everything I'd have wanted to say only better, so I won't repeat all that here. I just wanted to raise one little question.

At the start, they showed the typing of SUPERNATURAL "Pilot" Created by Eric Kripke. Then of course, they awesomely brought in Chuck (or Craver Edlund) at the end, to give his seal of approval to the fan girls. (Yes yes I KNOW I split my inifinitive there! LOL)

So my question is - do you think that they intended a shout out to Chuck being Eric being God, linking those two things - the THEN and the ending like that? And of course, in terms of the overarching story within the show (and putting aside the love letter to us, the fans) if Chuck is God, and God is approving of the Winchesters, does God still have some power in this universe? Do you think they intend him to use it at some point in the boys' story?

I don't know what to think, I'm just throwing the thought out there.


More Love

Jul. 14th, 2014 08:17 pm
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What? It's important! You can't have too much of it, right?



♥ LOVE MEME ♥

full meme | my thread

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I just wanted to say a massive thank you to everybody who sent me virtual gifts, jolly messages and even actual real cards and stuff too!  You are all lovely jubbly peeps and made my day very special.  Hopefully I will get round to thank you all individually but thought I'd throw out this fluffy blanket of love just in case I forget or accidentally miss someone out.
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I just wanted to say a massive thank you to everybody who sent me virtual gifts, jolly messages and even actual real cards and stuff too!  You are all lovely jubbly peeps and made my day very special.  Hopefully I will get round to thank you all individually but thought I'd throw out this fluffy blanket of love just in case I forget or accidentally miss someone out.
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Don't ever let anyone tell you there is no such thing as love at first sight.  Or that love cannot last, it will always die.

Today I watched a good friend bury his wife.  He met her when he was in the Merchant Navy, a young man playing and working hard on a cruise ship back in 1957.  He and his mates were drunk and decided to hit on the next pretty girls to walk through the door of the function room, and Christie was the first one he saw.  52 years of marriage later, through all sorts of stress related illnesses, memory malfunctions, bodily decrepitude, they were still in love. I am so sad that he will now have to find some way to live without her, because I know that his life will seem empty.

And I don't want to think about how empty my life would be if I were to lose my husband (and we have only been together for 32 years).  Certainly, our love isn't the same creature it was 32 years ago, but that doesn't make it less, or invalid, or something to be thrown away.  I hope it will continue to change and grow as we change and grow (well, I also hope the growing is figurative not literal, I don't want to put any more weight on thanks!).

So anyway, next time you have a drink, raise a glass to my friend Mal and his late wife Christie, and if you are the praying type or just a deep thinker, spare him a thought to keep him strong without her.
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Don't ever let anyone tell you there is no such thing as love at first sight.  Or that love cannot last, it will always die.

Today I watched a good friend bury his wife.  He met her when he was in the Merchant Navy, a young man playing and working hard on a cruise ship back in 1957.  He and his mates were drunk and decided to hit on the next pretty girls to walk through the door of the function room, and Christie was the first one he saw.  52 years of marriage later, through all sorts of stress related illnesses, memory malfunctions, bodily decrepitude, they were still in love. I am so sad that he will now have to find some way to live without her, because I know that his life will seem empty.

And I don't want to think about how empty my life would be if I were to lose my husband (and we have only been together for 32 years).  Certainly, our love isn't the same creature it was 32 years ago, but that doesn't make it less, or invalid, or something to be thrown away.  I hope it will continue to change and grow as we change and grow (well, I also hope the growing is figurative not literal, I don't want to put any more weight on thanks!).

So anyway, next time you have a drink, raise a glass to my friend Mal and his late wife Christie, and if you are the praying type or just a deep thinker, spare him a thought to keep him strong without her.

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