Machin Shin

The Black Wind…

“…blood so sweet, so sweet to drink the blood, the blood that drips, drips, drops so red; pretty eyes, fine eyes, I have no eyes, pluck the eyes from out of your head; grind your bones, split your bones inside your flesh, suck your marrow while you scream; scream, scream, singing screams, sing your screams…”

~written after having read The Great Hunt through the night last Sunday… (Late posting lang kasi)

And it works!

Yes. Finally, I got to change my blog's address.

That is all. My head is heavy right now...it hurts...sigh...

Myself

How much I hate myself...
...for all the mistakes I commit...
...the carelessness I can't seem to stop...
How I dislike my ways...
...how can such a person as I be called responsible?
How can anyone depend on me so freely?
...it makes me hold myself...
I have to be me...a better me...
...change is all I must welcome
however cold it is,
however hot to the touch,
however much I sink into myself,
I must change...
and change for the better...
I am the Captain,
I will do better.
I will be...

~written this day for no other reason than just because...

This blog's web address...

Fool that I am, I typed it incorrectly and can't seem to correct it any longer.
Notice the address is myrdaal.blogspot.com, right? Well, it's suppose to be myrDDraal. That's right. It's suppose to be a double d. Sheesh...And blogger won't let me change it no matter how many times I try. Why?! Dang it!

Sigh...

This day is not starting out nicely...yeah, I just woke up like an hour ago. Stayed up till 4am reading...not an assignment at that, now I have only half a day left to finish them since I didn't do them yesterday..ha-ha! Baaaad student.... >.<

"What Follows in Shadow"

"The voices seemed to whisper...Flesh so fine, so fine to tear, to gash the skin; skin to strip, to plait, so nice to plait the strips, so nice, so red the drops that fall; blood so red, so red, so sweet,; sweet screams, pretty screams, singing screams, scream your song, sing your screams..."

~p. 686, Chapter 45, What Follows In Shadow
The Eye of the World, The Wheel of Time

It is like a song, isn't it? A terifying one, but a still a song...

my thirst...

Title: Unquenchable Fire
Artist: Silvatrez

Deviant

artist:unknown
[but I did find her...just forgot to note the name. I didn't think I'd be using the pic...
I first found it in a friend's friendster album and took it from there]

edit: changed the colors' tone...it's really like this;

I will find her name then re-post this with the proper title and her pen name...

*EDIT*

Artist: noah-kh

Title: Angel of despair

Artist's comment about her work:
"she decided to fall, far and away from the heavens, the paradise, her home. in mount hermon, she stayed.
and in her moments of utter silence, she spoke to destiny, death, dream, destruction, desire, despair, delirium. and in these moments of unspoken words being exchanged, she continued falling, with her loss of one love.
stolen, by the grim reaper.and millenniums passed. slowly, her heart turned black too."

Oh, how I loathe thee...

friggin' virus, how have you come upon my computer?
...
through the treacherous net, I see...
...
why won't you f***in' leave, hmm?
...
Ah, Norton you b*stard, you're so useless...


~excuse my talking/writing like a schizophrenic person. Well, obviously, I'm sure you got the gist of what it meant. If you didn't here: I have discovered a virus and friggin' Norton isn't working... >:( sh*t

~ah, sorry for the many (though censored, still obvious) curses...

About my blog name...

Its Old English for Night mare. I decided that "nightmare" as a title was just too plain. So I looked for the etymology thinking I'd get a Latin word but lo and behold, I got something better. XD

Here's the etymology of Nightmare
c.1290, "an evil female spirit afflicting sleepers with a feeling of suffocation," compounded from night + mare "goblin that causes nightmares, incubus," from O.E. mare "incubus," from mera, mære, from P.Gmc. *maron "goblin," from PIE *mora- "incubus," from base *mer- "to rub away, harm, seize" (cf. first element in O.Ir. Morrigain "demoness of the corpses," lit. "queen of the nightmare [1]," also Bulg., Serb., Pol. mora "incubus;" Fr. cauchemar, with first element is from O.Fr. caucher "to trample"). Meaning shifted mid-16c. from the incubus to the suffocating sensation it causes.

Definitions of Nightmare
The mare in nightmare is not a female horse, but a mara, an Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse term for a demon that sat on sleepers' chests, causing them to have bad dreams.

Dialect variants, as explained below, include the forms mara, mahr, mahrt, mårt, and others.
In High German, the demon who causes bad dreams is most often called an Alp, a word that is etymologically related to elf.

A mare-induced bad dream is called a nightmare in English, martröð (mare-ride) in Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic, mareridt (mare-ride) in Danish, mareritt (mare-ride) in Norwegian, and Alpdruck (alp-pressure) or Alptraum (alp-dream) in German.

Now another interesting factoid...
Baku, Eater of Dreams
Japan

In Japan, among superstitious people, evil dreams are believed to be the result of evil spirits, and the supernatural creature called Baku is known as Eater of Dreams.
The Baku, like so many mythological beings, is a curious mingling of various animals. It has the face of a lion, the body of a horse, the tail of a cow, the forelock of a rhinoceros, and the feet of a tiger.
Several evil dreams are mentioned in an old Japanese book, such as two snakes twined together, a fox with the voice of a man, blood-stained garments, a talking rice-pot, and so on.
When a Japanese peasant awakens from an evil nightmare, he cries: "Devour, O Baku! devour my evil dream." At one time pictures of the Baku were hung up in Japanese houses and its name written upon pillows. It was believed that if the Baku could be induced to eat a horrible dream, the creature had the power to change it into good fortune

[1] "...of nightmares" ah, nice...but it's not as if I like this demon..Ionly just learned of this. I just think it's cool. ;D

Sources:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=nightmare
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/nightmare.html
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/nightmare.html#baku


~don't think me garish...I merely wanted the word...just wanted it.