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Eivind Kverno is a graduate of the Siras Academy of Music (class of 3341). His focuses are piano and cello, and he maintains the largest private collection of pre-fall classical works in the city of Eterno. He's also a 357-year-old phoenix. (RP Blog - Comments Enabled)

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//Guys, I had to learn how to herd cows today.  I was sitting having a chat with my dad after dinner, and we suddenly realized that about 30-40 cows were in the lane outside the kitchen, and that they were heading for the entrance to the hall gardens (which I am technically responsible for after hours).

So, instead of working on my Billy/Teddy fic or my Scisaac one, I had to spend an hour IN THE POURING RAIN stomping around in a lane full of cow pies and confused bovines, trying to keep them off the property so that when the WHOLE BOARD OF DIRECTORS shows up on Friday, I'll still have a job.

// I promise I'll be back soon.  I've just been busy this week hiking around with my dad, who came out to visit me at what was probably great expense.  We've been having a lot of fun (with at least one cow-related incident per day).  Seriously; the night he got here, someone let the calves out of their field and scared them into a major road with firecrackers (in the middle of the night).  Then on Monday, we got chased back and forth around a field for half an hour by a herd of ornery juvenile bulls.  Yesterday, we almost ran into ANOTHER herd of bulls that were lying in wait behind a low hill, and today THIS!  IT MUST BE A CONSPIRACY.  

But we did also go to the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway today.  Also known as the world's cutest railway ever.  Which was fun, and we went hiking too, which was nice because I don't do that much anymore.

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Share 10 facts about yourself then pass this onto 10 or your favourite followers!

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I’m a published composer, and I’ve had my works performed abroad (in Italy).

I’m a gay male musician who RP’s as a gay male musician.

My summer job is in the office of a house that’s the birthplace of a major world religion.

My secret ambition is to become a citizen of the UK and to manage historic properties in Cumbria/Scotland.

I’ve never been on a date. 

I play eighteen different musical instruments (Six different sizes of recorder, piano, organ, upright bass, cello, clarinet and bass clarinet, oboe and english horn, bassoon, and soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones).  I have never been able to teach myself the flute.

I’m an Eagle Scout. 

Most of what I know of the canon universes of the fandoms I’m in I learned secondhand from fics, because I’m afraid that if I actually got into the original material I’d fail out of college because I’d read it obsessively.

I’m fantastically bad at dealing with emotional trauma, both in the real world and in fiction.  Which is why I’m still not sure I’ll ever watch more than the first few episodes of Teen Wolf.

My French used to be good enough to make Parisians think I was from Quebec instead of Washington DC.

And bonus No. 11 because of reasons  (i.e: I forgot about it when I was writing the first ten).

11. I left the Billy/Teddy ship for about four to five months, between November and March.  Not because I stopped liking it, but because around the beginning of November three of my friends from college were hit by a train, and two of them died, and I was desperately searching for something long and mildly smutty to read to take my mind of it because I was a mess, and I'd already read Teenage Wasteland about four times.  So I migrated to the ocean liner that is Sterek for a while.  And when I came back to Billy/Teddy, there were a bunch of great new fics for me to read, which was great.

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PRISM PowerPoint Redesign | Victoria Nece

Designer Victoria Nece tweaks the PRISM PowerPoint so it won’t hurt your brain

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This post actually made me laugh a little, because it's so true.  Dear god, those poor NSA employees who have to filter out all the porn and nonsense from billions of posts.  Can we all send them an asprin or two?  Because god knows they'll need it.

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//Was going to be upset that the NSA could be watching all our tumblrs, but then realized that we'll probably just get them all into slash fiction and gay sex, so I figured I wouldn't worry about it too much.

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Come here so I can ravish you, Pup.

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Oh god, please just ignore what's on the screen, and just listen to the music.  Elgar is probably rolling in his grave.

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//Okay, I promise I'll stop fanboying over Edward Elgar eventually, but I have just discovered that his symphonies are, like, the ULTIMATE BAD-FEELS DISPERSANT.  Seriously, it's like, impossible to focus on how shitty life is for the characters when Elgar is all like : IT'S JOLLY NICE TO BE AN EDWARDIAN GENTLEMAN, MMHM.

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Everyone should, at some point in their lives, get drunk and rock out to Elgar 2.  It's SO MUCH FUN!

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Grayscale Update: Page #81 - Only Half

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Visit Original Link

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Billy/Teddy - Music Shop AU

So this idea just came out of nowhere and now it won't leave me alone.

Teddy's mother left him the shop when she died.  She never told him that he wasn't human.  In fact, the knowledge that he was anything more than normal died when she did. 

After her death, Teddy switches to online college and takes up the running of the shop himself.  He's been doing it for a year when Billy walks by and gets a feeling that the really unfairly hot dude working at Altman's Music Shop is more than he seems. 

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I know I've been rather absent recently, but I've been very busy.  I've been working as a Friend in Residence at Swarthmoor Hall, sometimes referred to as the 'Cradle of Quakerism'.  It may not look like much, but it is, in fact, the birthplace of a major world religion, and the home of two of it's founders: George Fox and Margaret Fell.

It's a really exciting place to work, at least for me.  And, it doesn't hurt that I get a free place to stay out of the deal.  I'm going to be here until the middle of July, and I'm hoping that next year, I'll be able to get a working visa and work here full time.

I know some of you live in the UK, so if any of you want to come by and see the hall, I can give you a discount. 

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I'm Yours

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Eivind leaned a little closer, fluttering his eyelids in an exaggerated manner.  “But I’m spending it on me, too!”  He reached out and pawed at Scott’s arm, rolling himself over until he was practically draped across his boyfriend’s lap.  “I wanna go on a crazy trip with my pup.”

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“We can’t go that far away.” He replied, running a hand through the phoenix’s hair. “What if something happens? What if Stiles or mom need me? What if Derek starts getting people killed again or something?”

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Eivind sighed and pouted some more.  "Darn you and your logic," he mumbled, butting his head against Scott's elbow gently.  "What about Canada?  Could we go to Canad for the weekend?"

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//Huzzah!  Thanks to the wonders of internet magic, I am finally able to see my dash for the first time in over a week!