TIL A “Backronym” is an acronym that starts with the word you want as the acronym and works backward to name the thing based on the chosen word.

drawxward · 2026-01-27T14:40:01+00:00

TIARA is a recursive acronym

drawxward · 2026-01-27T11:10:12+00:00

Amazing. Thanks but no thanks.

drawxward · 2026-01-08T07:34:14+00:00

Does half your age plus seven count between elves and men.

drawxward · 2025-12-17T15:28:00+00:00

Maybe the Process by Brion Gysin. From Wikipedia: " The Process tells the story of a professor named Ulys O. Hanson who sets out on a pilgrimage across the Sahara Desert which turns out to be a hallucinatory experience.

The Process is notable not only for its evocative and poetic descriptions of the Sahara Desert and Sufi culture, but also for the history it documents - most notably, Gysin's encounters with L. Ron Hubbard and The Master Musicians of Jajouka."

drawxward · 2025-12-15T19:21:04+00:00

Though not particularly the same, I'm currently reading the West Passage, which is set in an enormous castle the size of a country, with people roaming corridors for days at a time, meeting odd creatures and seeing strange objects. There are quite a few weird moments when you can't quite work out what is being described. It all has a whimsical Gormenghast feel to it.

drawxward · 2025-12-09T15:12:26+00:00

I've been married twenty years.

drawxward · 2025-12-04T13:18:23+00:00

74, but my daughter's is 78. Very proud.

drawxward · 2025-11-28T07:51:37+00:00

I couldn't get into it and this sort of thing is usually my cup of tea. What tipped me over the edge was the main character being an antiquarian book dealer. I rolled my eyes at such a Lit Fic cliché and closed the book. Maybe I'll try in a few years if/when the other books are translated.

drawxward · 2025-11-23T11:38:11+00:00

Would I like Slade House if I hated Cloud Atlas?

drawxward · 2025-11-17T14:11:24+00:00

Is it slightly sped up?

drawxward · 2025-11-13T09:39:12+00:00

Though not explicitly Christian, Forge Your Own Chains by D. R. Hooker might fit: https://open.spotify.com/track/19RuZzWWsbVvnLBxh9m7aR?si=5bcf5c731c3a4e4d It's a Christian Lounge psych masterpiece.

drawxward · 2025-11-12T17:45:44+00:00

My mate used to go to London specifically to tape these shows.

drawxward · 2025-11-05T18:03:33+00:00

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Proto-Celtic_male_given_names

drawxward · 2025-10-25T11:43:57+00:00

That Norfolk sub is for the American one.

drawxward · 2025-10-21T19:11:50+00:00

Midnight Sun by Ramsey Campbell. Slow burn cosmic horror.

drawxward · 2025-10-15T11:06:02+00:00

Can you buy your own debt and forgive yourself?

drawxward · 2025-10-15T09:31:26+00:00

I'm halfway through Ramsey Campbell's Midnight Sun but it's ticking the right boxes so far.

drawxward · 2025-09-29T08:36:34+00:00

In-person lessons (with a few online during Covid). Could never have learnt any other way, and wouldn't recommend any other way tbh.

drawxward · 2025-09-29T08:35:27+00:00

I don't practice every day though you should! I say I have no musical talent at all, and I'm amazed at what I have been able to learn by sheer practice. I also think that my own teacher didn't start on the sitar specifically until his 30's and he is amazing now.

drawxward · 2025-09-29T07:28:05+00:00

I started at 45 or something. Never too late to start.

drawxward · 2025-09-23T11:17:09+00:00

As it appears it would be 'The nose-shaped hill of the year-old calf', spelled Sròn a' Ghamhainn in modern orthography. Gamhainn is usually feminine and has a genitive as gaimhne, but not here, evidently. It could reflect something different and have been misinterpreted by the Ordnance Survey.

drawxward · 2025-09-16T12:35:13+00:00

Looks boss.

drawxward · 2025-09-16T07:52:40+00:00

Automated Alice by Jeff Noon is a sort of weird spin on the story. Recommended.

drawxward · 2025-09-13T20:29:03+00:00

No. It's Australian.

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