“It was almost noon as we set out to find the body of a dead kid named Rachel Brower…”

( Have gun will travel, reads the card of a man. A knight without armor in a savage land... )

It’s another one! So, this idea has been rattling around in my head (‘crawled into my attic’, as Deryn Sharp would say) ever since I finished Goliath on a fictional-world high.

For the record, like many fans of Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan book series, I think that an animated adaptation with Keith Thompson’s stylings would be a dream. It would add ( Read more... )

Barney: O Captain! My Captain!
Ted: How good was “Dead Poets Society”?
Barney: I know, right? The end? Tears!

-How I Met Your Mother

“Dead Poets Society” is one of my favorite films of all time. I unabashedly, un-ironically, adore it. I stop whatever I’m doing whenever it’s on; I am that much of a dork for it.

There’s something so dear to me about this ( Read more... )

"By Jove! The signs!" said Gil suddenly. "I'd better repeat them." He was in a panic for a second or two, but he found he could still say them all correctly. "So that's all right," he said.
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The others admitted afterwards that Gil had been wonderful that day. As soon as the King and the rest of the hunting party had set off, he began making a ( Read more... )