February 2012
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I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed
coreymarie:
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body’s weight upon my breast: So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the...
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It's Extra Magic Bonus Happy Leap Year Day!
neil-gaiman:
Please celebrate Leap Year Day in the traditional manner by taking a writer out for dinner.
It’s been four years since many authors had a good dinner. We are waiting. Many of us have our forks or chopsticks at the ready - some of us have had them ready for days. We will repay you by drifting off while the food is being served and then suddenly scribbling something down on a scrap...
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deadly-sweet asked: Hey just wanted to contact you on the side about my IP infringement post. I should've made it clear that not all the pieces were mine. I made the top 3, the one character owned by another company was for a Star Wars show and purchased by LucasFilms. But the other two are IPs under my name and I just wanted to make a point that we all need to try to create our own works to move anywhere in the...
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Attn Nerdfighters!
As if I didn’t have enough on my plate with recording an album and booking a ukulele show and working on a solo project and starting a second band, I’ve got a new piece of braincrack.
I want to create a Nerdfighter Songbook.
This would be a collection of songs that Nerdfighters love, with lyrics and chords, to facilitate jam/session/singalongs at Nerdfighter gatherings. I’m...
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streetfightinman asked: In case no ones gotten to this already; The gif is from a BBC Mini-Series he did called "Single Father". It's really good.
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“Okay so look, I’m 17-years-old, and you’re the last best thing...”
– “Dance Music,” by John Darnielle, who is apparently a time traveler and so was able to read TFiOS before writing this song.
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rocksoll:
Someone please tell me what movie or TV show this gif comes from, so I can never ever watch it. Just watching the gif makes me feel like I just saw a baby bird get hit by a car.
When David Tennant cries, the universe exists solely of suffering and the unbearable emptiness of heartache.
When David Tennant cries, he cries ALL the cries.
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without pain. how could we know joy?
mynameisjanilyn:
-John Green
And you thought it was bad when people posted the “extraordinary life” quote as if it was John’s own opinion rather than that of his characters.
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I noticed today that I’m just a few followers shy of 300. I feel like I should do something cool or interesting to mark the occasion whenever it comes by, because that’s a thing people do. A contest, maybe? People like contests, yeah?
Any suggestions?
Edit: Got another one while I was typing this. It seems that being reblogged by Hank Green is good for one’s Tumblarity.
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“When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie...”
– The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (via famousfirstsentences)
My submission. I can’t believe it hadn’t been posted yet.
holdon-fordearlife-holdon asked: You get tweet backs from Hank Green AND John Darnielle?! I MUST FOLLOW YOU AND AGIN YOUR WISDOM. <3
deathisjustthenextgreatadventure asked: Where did Alyse come from? I'm curious because it's my sister's name, spelled the same way and everything.
TODAY
Pros
- Hank Green responded to my Twitter comment
- Got to hang out with some awesome friends at their awesome art studio near my apartment
Cons
- Had one of those dreams the night before that fucks with your head all day, about someone I do not want to be thinking of
- Ants all up in my apartment
- Brown rice is difficult
- Second part of two-part Castle episode had rather unsatisfying...
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There's going to be an Inspector Spacetime web... →
…there was a dramatic reading of the first webisode, in which the Inspector and Constable Reginald visit the planet New Seventh Earth Two, where they meet the Blogons, vanquish them with the Inspector’s “optic penknife,” and then run into a deserted warehouse where they get trapped. Apparently, later in the episode we’ll get to meet the Inspector’s arch-nemesis. The panel also included a...
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An Incredibly Seattle Day
- Wake up late after playing a benefit for bicycle activism the night before
- Meet a friend for pho, during which he attempts to explain the Fermi Paradox to me, with limited success
- Walk through local farmer’s market, pick up a few necessities
- Chores
- Metro to Cap Hill
- “Games and Beer” night at friend’s apartment
The only thing keeping this day from being...
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Thing I Love About Seattle #4,957:
When your bandmate breaks a ukulele string, and someone in the audience has a spare ukulele to lend him.
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The Fault In Our Pants
My librarian sister: Posting on Twitter lines from a book you plan to recommend extensively is perhaps not the wisest idea.
Me: Crap, did I? What did I post?
MLS: The "skin feeling more like skin" bit.
Me: Oh, well. That's in chapter two. Not exactly a spoiler, plus it was in the live readings he posted. But if it impaired your enjoyment of the book, then I am sorry.
MLS: It just throws off your reading rhythm to encounter a line that has completely separate associations, especially in a book like this where language is such a key feature in both the author's creation of the world and the voices of the characters.
Me: True. I experienced that myself, unfortunately, because John included some lines in his book that had been referenced in the vlog previously. But man, how about that line? Having a voice that made my skin feel more like skin? Ugh, that man. Were he unwed, I would take him in an unladylike fashion.
MLS: Actually, that line does not exactly resonate with me.
Me: Really? Oh my god, it totally resonated for me. It resonated IN MY PANTS.
MLS: Exactly where it should.
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Eliza Rickman, “Foot Soldiers.”
If...
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