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This is me as Silverhair the Wanderer, from Diana Paxson's Westria novels. [link] Photo by Diana Paxson.

This is part of the photograph taken for the cover of The Wandersong, a CD of songs from, or relating to, Westria. A picture of the full cover is available in my Scraps. [link]

I can't actually play the harp, but I do have waist-length silver hair. That's Diana's harp, and the purple velvet cloak is borrowed from Linda VonBraskat-Crowe (known in the SCA as Linda-Muirall von Katzenbrasse), who wrote the song Fair Mistland. [link]

I'm also on the cover of Jewel Songs, the second Westria CD, which has Mount Diablo in the background, just as this one has Mount Tamalpais in the distance (both anciently sacred mountains). [link]
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~Goottirinsessa Nov 24, 2010
You look just like Väinämöinen in Finnish national epic Kalevala.
Väinämöinen is an old, wise wizard. And this is a great picture.
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*DonSimpson Nov 25, 2010
~Nikama said that also. As I told him, I've read the Kalevala in translation (I think it sounds a lot better in the original, but I don't speak Finnish). So I know about Väinämöinen, and am complemented. :)
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*mrSketchy Nov 23, 2010
Such a beautiful shot, lucky for you there aren't any lions nearby xD
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*DonSimpson Nov 23, 2010
It's not luck; careful planning is involved. And my tin of Acme Lion Repellant. :D
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*mrSketchy Nov 24, 2010
:lmao:if loony tunes are to be believed Acme does rather the opposite of what it's meant to do.
You best lock the doors and quit been so deliciously full of meat if you stand any chance against them lions
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*DonSimpson Nov 24, 2010
Acme products basically fail in the worst possible way available at the time used, including working just fine in test mode. That is sophisticated product design. So I am always carrying the Lion Repellent, and never actually using it (this also makes the tin last much longer), and it is waiting to fail if I ever did use it. Meanwhile, it keeps lions away, because it can't attract them if they are already there; that wouldn't be funny. Careful planning, as I said. :D
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*mrSketchy Nov 24, 2010
atleast the tin looks rather dashing ;D
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*DonSimpson Nov 24, 2010
:D
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~Voqu Mar 15, 2010
You. Are amazing.
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Mood: Love *DonSimpson Mar 15, 2010
Yes. And incredibly modest, too. :D
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