The gods of bdsm have a limited vocabulary.

I find Jacqueline Carey's books about Terre D'Ange [wherein Jesus' son settled down in France and produced gods of bdsm -- it's better than it sounds] entertaining, but oh my Lord...someone please stop telling her to use "betimes" and "apurpose" in every third paragraph.

Just to make matters more irritating, Carey uses "betimes" as a synonym of "sometimes," but the first meaning for this archaic word  is actually "in good time; early," as in, "The farmer got up betimes to milk the cows in the predawn darkness."

Carey's lexical problems really interrupt my enjoyment of her mind candy.

Photography with flash

Taking advantage of the clocks turned back and the early dark, I tried taking some photos of Sarah under my one desk light, no other lights on in the bedroom, and the flash. Amazingly enough, the flash didn't totally wash out her features. I did some burning and dodging on her eyes in the first picture so you can see what a lovely green they are.( Read more... )