Dear N. K. Jemisin:

I am totally not parallel-thinking Wanahomen's and Hanani's story as a Zutara au. I am not. No matter what my brain says. I am also not forgiving you for pushing every single one of my narrative buttons on a regular basisSrsly tho, reading this lady's books is like getting a double of dose of bulletproof kinks straight to the ( Read more... )

Apparently Democrats getting their ears flicked for using inappropriate words zomg! on the House floor was all the incentive my [insert inappropriate word here] needed to remember that nature has courses to follow and stuff.

I believe this one should be filed as Things About Me You Might Have Been Better Off Without Knowing...

Also, Thursday is very ( Read more... )

Oh, man. You know you need to get off your ass when an entire weekend can be qualified as productive solely because you (finally!) shaved your legs.

Although, it bears noticing that upon a second reading of A Game of Thrones, realization dawned that I really like Queen Cersei and kind of want to smack Eddard Stark around something fierce. Also Arya ( Read more... )

Dropping by really quickly to link _autumncolours and whomever else might be interested to Neil Gaiman's reading of The Graveyard Book, as promised ages ago. Enjoy, darling(s)!

::saves link::

Good night, peeps!

Tehanu. Because it's a beautiful book full of love and family and courageous women and impeccably fantastic story-telling.

I love how it always, always gets to me, how Tenar's struggle to come to terms with her own power in the different spheres of her life leads her to unwittingly merge them into this marvelous little act of kindness and compassion ( Read more... )

You guys, this comes first and foremost: A Christian church in Memphis has opened its doors to the local Muslim community, letting them worship there until construction is completed on their mosque.Which I learned about via
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Universe for yesterday's sunset on the road. It was entirely too beautiful for words. ::is speechless::

And today, I'm grateful for finding this quote in an old notebook I'd forgotten I saved from the recycling bin:

"Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you get dropped back in, you're different -you're stronger, you' ( Read more... )

Ha! totally fell asleep while trying to watch Terminator Salvation on the bus ride back here (from the mountainside, you see, where I had the bestest time ever), there were way too many night scenes to watch it in broad daylight on a plasma screen, regardless on how much of an improvement said screen is over the olde half-inch screens. Did not ( Read more... )

Okay. So, I only feel vaguely and partially bad for skipping school today (first days are never interesting, anyway) because I lost track of time reading this book I shall wax poetics about now:

Blindsight by Peter Watts has left me unable to form a coherent though that doesn't begin, end and mostly consist of oh, my God, this is pure genius. ( Read more... )

Comment and I will give you 3 fandoms and then you have to answer these questions ( Read more... )