December 2011
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We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
– Charles de Lint
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But your love was like a loaded gun you shot me down like everyone. ‘Cause everyone’s replaceable when you’re just so incapable of getting past skin deep…
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Reality Obscure: Eight Rules for Writing Fiction: →
tumblrfiction:
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a sadist. Now...
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Just finished "Fingersmith"...
I don’t think there was a moment there where I wasn’t saying
WHAT.
WHAT THE FUCK?
WHAT JUST HAPPENED THERE?!
I don’t think I can read any more books right now. My sense of reality and morality is well and truly in a ditch, rolling in the dirt and saying rude things about your mother.
My claims to fame over the weekend
Nearly finished 3 out of my 12 summer reading books. Officially ahead of schedule.
Restarted Arkham City on hard difficulty. Got my Batman behind kicked. Repeatedly. It was FANTASTIC.
Pippin Tiberius was on my shoulder for pretty much the entire weekend, or trying to climb down to the PS3 controller.
Did. Not. Write. A. Thing. And. Feel. Like. A. Lazy. Whelp.
Consumed far too much...
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Speak for yourself, always. It is lack of confidence. You can say things as well...
– Anais Nin to Henry Miller, November 8 1933. (via mysterysmudgesextra)
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Out of your whole life give but a moment!
All of your life that has gone...
– Robert Browning
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dumb running sonic →
Where Michael Dolan collects all of the dumb running Sonics and gives them room to …. run. Dumbly.
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How to be classy in three easy steps: →
Open this tab.
Open this tab.
Open this tab.
The classiness. I’m digging it, yo.