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( Clearly, the Hobbit had no skill with a sword. With a shield though... )

I'm spending a lot of time on Tumblr and while I've never really left any of my fandoms, I haven't been writing. Tumblr stalking other people has lead to more writing. Here are two drabbles tied into The Hobbit after a successful Christmas season of reading through all things Tolkien and seeing the movie four times (soon to be five).

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I'm in the midst of cleaning the house (again, though I could never really say it's been cleaned fully yet. Like aspiring for utopia. There's just always setbacks.) before my trip. In a week I fly over to Europe, hang out with trunks_angel and then go beat up girls in Germany for martial arts. Life is just too cool lately ( Read more... )

It...it could have been a lot worse.He tells himself this. He tells himself this a second time, coming to believe that he'll start to understand gratitude in just a moment. A moment, he just needs ( Read more... )

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Oh, that one moment with the lights down low. He's got sweat stinging his eyes and he keeps reaching up to them, pushing thick hair of the way. He wants to see them--his crowd.

And just like that, his fingers are on the neck of his guitar, fondling the frets.

"I played this, for the first time. It was in the shower, with my acoustic."

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Scapegoat means never having to say that the system is wrong.

Goddammit. I tore up my house looking for my only remaining copy of The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker so I could fill in a response to jbmcdragon and in the end tried to do the best I could with what the internet had to offer in book review excerpts.

AND THE COPY I NEEDED WAS NEXT TO MY KEYBOARD THE WHOLE DAMN TIME!!!Hulk smash ( Read more... )

I had this idea earlier today at work. I know I'm jumping the queue with several other projects, but I care not for petty rules and self-inflicted regulations. I also think you should all listen to more Death Cab for Cutie ( Read more... )