February 2012
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Things I was not expecting
candace-reads-clarissa:
I figured if anyone had ever attempted to turn the longest novel in the English language into a movie, it would be the BBC.
What I had not figured was that Sean Bean would play Lovelace.
If any picture could be worth a million words, it might be this one.
After this, the fact that the screenwriters were somehow able to condense 1,500 pages into four episodes is...
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Reading Hurts
treesquirrrel:
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
Sometimes, I’m convinced that the saddest part about reading—sadder, even, than all the saddest things I’ve ever read—is that it’s something we primarily...
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– John Green (via drizzleandahurricane)
This is eerily similar to the way I have previously described my emotions about Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series.
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WRITE ME A LETTER (anonymous or not)
aspiretobeinfinite:
Dear ______,
I ____ you. You have a nice ______. You make me _______. You should _______. Someday I will ______. You + me = ________. If I saw you now I’d __________. I want to ________ you. I would build a _______ just for you. If I could sing you any song it would be _________. We could __________ under the stars. Love, _______________ (P.S. ______________.)
ALL...
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Two of my friends are simultaneously reading So...
For the first time! Because I gave G my copy of the book and I talked to A about them so much that he had no other choice (and also because after reading the Leviathan series on my rec he understands how fab my taste in fiction is).
And so every so often A posts a quote as his facebook status or G sends me a text about how she is now terrified of fire hydrants and I just smile beatifically and...
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The Matthew/Mary Story, In One Sentence:
downtonabbeyonce:
UPDATE: HOORAY! NOW EVERYBODY KNOWS!
HE IS FINALLY GOING TO PUT A RING ON IT.
All of my copious Matthew/Mary love aside (and believe me it is copious), I’d like to point out that there is a tumblr completely devoted to Downton caps with Beyonce lyrics. LIFE IS GOOD.
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In case the previous posts sound overly self-congratulatory, here are some other things I was writing in and around high school:
—blatantly self-insert Harry Potter fanfic in which my best friends and I were all on the Gryffindor Quidditch team and I was the Seeker
—a couple of stories that are basically RPF making up details in the lives of kids I went to school with and/or...
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classyhats replied to your post: Some of my younger self’s ideas are totally…
These sound really cool. I’d totally read them.
THIS WAS MY RESPONSE! I was totally expecting them to be terrible but they are actually still fairly compelling, much to my surprise! I feel like “The Unwilling Wizard” could turn into a really great YA/middle-grade novel, and “The Rules of...
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…also this one time I planned out a story called “Shift” about a technologically-advanced human civilization suddenly coming into contact with magical shapeshifting invaders who, in addition to attempting planetary takeover, totally destroyed the original inhabitants’ sense of belief in science…
…and the entire thing was inspired by the definition of Le...
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Some of my younger self’s ideas are totally awesome, and only slightly embarassingly written.
FOR EXAMPLE, some story ideas that never got past five pages:
“The Rules of War”: In the 22nd century, the chaos of warfare has been abolished by a treaty which decreed that all wars shall be fought in a nation-sized Arena (constructed in the land which was formerly Switzerland, the...
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playingjax replied to your post: A friend’s facebook post inadvertently reminded me…
i saw that post, and definitely sympathized. i also think i remember reading part of that story :) it was cool!
Oh wow yes, I did have you read it once in one of its stages or incarnations! I actually just finished reading it right now and am actually rather impressed with its quality?! Like, there is this...
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Does it count as liveblogging if I just wanna talk about my present-day feelings about my former self as expressed in five-year-old short stories/story ideas? Because I am feeling all of this strange sympathy for high school self right now and also not just a little pride at the way she’s going about creating this world and turning it into a story even though it’s obvious she thought...
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A friend’s facebook post inadvertently reminded me of a story I wrote a loooooooong time ago (aka less than five years ago) about the last librarian of the Library of Alexandria, who in this story (because what else would you expect from a story I was writing?) had quasi-magical powers which she was keeping secret so as not to be persecuted as a witch.
I hadn’t even thought of this...
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⟶ send me a ship and I will tell you:
when or if I started shipping it.
my thoughts:
What makes me happy about them:
What makes me sad about them:
things done in fanfic that annoys me:
things I look for in fanfic:
My kinks:
Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
My happily ever after for them:
who is the big spoon/little spoon:
what is their favorite...
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1920's slang terms and phrases.
paranoidandroid42:
popcornmassacre:
dhemon:
For personal reference, though some are pretty interesting, so it can be used by anyone really!
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YES GIVE ME THIS
Dude. Dude.
First reaction: “Oh god I need this for when I write epic post-Goliath fic!” Second reaction: “Wait a minute, when did I decide to write an epic post-Goliath fic?!” (Third reaction:...
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“Used to jotting down daily notes on animal breeding, [Charles Darwin] scrawled...”
– Wikipedia article on Charles Darwin
“Better than a dog anyhow” makes me want to smack him. But I sympathize entirely with “less money for books.”
(Though, I could totally see Leviathan-verse Nora Barlow producing a similar list… What, you thought I was writing up a...
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soulsuckingisaacnewton asked: Earth's wizards go public, by force or intentionally, as you choose.
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“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath....”
– Natalie Goldberg (via jennfemmeinist)
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“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a...”
– Stephen Fry (via rachelshead)
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rustingroses asked: If I ask, does it count as double dipping? Oh well, I'll love you forever (even more than I do) if you manage to actually write a Sherlock/Young Wizards crossover, simply because I think it would be both a) hilarious and b) amazing. Y/Y?
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give me your Young Wizards prompts!
Trying to get into the mood for working on my dai_stiho challenge fic again, so, first five people to put a Young Wizards fic prompt in my ask will get at least 250 words of fic in response! (and maybe lots more words than that in all honesty)
Prompt about anyone and anything, including AUs/fusions/crossovers (provided I know the crossed-over fandom). Feel free to give me multiple prompts and I...
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WSJ, Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker : Why does Adele's... →
playingjax:
this is so cool!
This is seriously awesome.
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nabokovian asked: 15, 25, 28, 32. :)
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So, I decided I'm going to organize a Leviathan...
elviella:
a) Who’s with me? :D
b) Who would actually want to help with the organizing (basically, co-organize the thing)?
c) Where should that be hosted? I know a lot of people have started using dreamwidth more than livejournal.
d) What dates are more convenient for you?
e) …I think those are my main concerns. Also, spread the word if you’d like, I suppose! I know it’s a small fandom, but I...