on the reasoning that prompts are fun

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Sometimes, people tell me random things and then stories happen. Like that time a friend told me to write a Doctor Who stapler monster. Stuff like that ( Read more... )

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mylittlepwny July 17 2011, 02:03:55 UTC
OH GOD YOU ACCEPT POETRY FOR INSPIRATION

Warning, I might never leave.

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I admit, I am afraid of isolation,

and of the way the land breaks off here
into pieces,

and of the woman who says forever
moving her tongue along my skin
like she means it.

If I believe her, I will suffer.
If I don’t believe her, I will suffer.

Who has never wanted to be unneeding?

-Northwest, Stacie Cassarino

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thought i'd wander over to play for a bit rallalon October 3 2011, 20:41:42 UTC
"That way," he says, having taken her hand. He takes and takes and he never does give back. "Northwest, that's us ( ... )

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Re: thought i'd wander over to play for a bit mylittlepwny October 4 2011, 00:09:35 UTC
youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

They stand on the edge of destruction, her delicate hand so steady in his, as if there will never be a question of his holding on, of her palm against his. As if she believes he keeps safety in his pockets along with cups and keys and fourteen broken hair ties from a young woman's golden head.

"Oh," he replies in a voice far too much his own: "I wouldn't worry about that.It feels like I'm always leaving comments with lines pulled from the very end of things and gushing over them, and it always makes me feel as if I'm ignoring every other brilliant part but really it's just that from the first word you start off at GREAT, where regular people end at, and by the last you're floating somewhere above MARVELOUS, so really it's a simple progression that draws me to picking those lines out above others ( ... )

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Re: thought i'd wander over to play for a bit rallalon October 4 2011, 02:10:30 UTC
It feels like I'm always leaving comments with lines pulled from the very end of things....

I love how you explain the reasoning and then immediately go do the exact same thing to Evidently Deviltown. I admit it, I laughed. Your enthusiasm => my joy. (Also, it lets me know that I'm getting better at endings.)

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Re: thought i'd wander over to play for a bit mylittlepwny October 5 2011, 17:45:43 UTC
I'm adorably predictable that way, lol.

But seriously folks, I told you! IT'S A PROBLEM.

(You are the best at endings. I know because I never want them to come.)

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almost completely unrelated rallalon October 4 2011, 02:14:07 UTC
I just checked the times and while you were reading/commenting, I was with a lit group on campus reading sex poetry in a basement with two dozen plus people. I feel like this is something you would want to know.

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Re: almost completely unrelated mylittlepwny October 5 2011, 17:48:31 UTC

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