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A Story Containing Vampires
“What do you want for Christmas?”
Jackson shrugged, his attention on the mannequins in the shop windows. They looked horrible - dressed in green tinseled miniskirts and tube tops with belled fringes, their midriffs bare. Go out like that in weather like this and you’d snap right in half, he thought, shoving his gloved hands deeper into his ( Read more... ) -
Class registration + nightmare prevention
A) Class registration at Bard is, in Mike's words, "like a scavenger hunt in a bureaucratic dystopia run by Sylvester McMonkey McBean". Flynn did warn me. Managed to get the following (two of which were my first choice. Really didn't want a Lit class on top of my FySem because that is a terrifying amount of reading, but every single art history, ( Read more... ) -
Bard.
That Italy post is still coming, I promise! But first, Bard.
It's completely unbelievable to me that I've only been here two weeks. Firstly, that doesn't make any sense for the connections I've made. I thought that friendships didn't blossom this fast anywhere but Wayfinder. But two weeks in and I've already found the other two points of my triangle ( Read more... ) -
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Not that you'll notice, as I haven't been here much lately anyway, but I'm headed off to Italy for two weeks to eat and laugh and explore and play cards and write with my dear, dear friend Quinn (she who I wrote The Sideways House with, she who crafted me wings). Internet will exist but be limited.
Love to you all. -
Himself
He sips his coffee and watches the stream of people go by. There is a man in a wheelchair, his nose bitten red by the sharp-toothed wind, watching with birdlike eyes the crossing-light. A woman slumps in the doorway, skin ashy with fatigue. Her sweater is a lumpy, home-made affair, rumpled over her ribs, or perhaps her ribs are rumpled beneath it ( Read more... ) -
Updates
Haven't posted anything real here in a while (the Hamlet rant didn't count, though I'm super, super glad that not many people read that David Tennant newsletter community it was posted to, apparently, or at the very least were wiling to scoff at my opinions from afar rather than come here and wave their sonic screwdrivers in my face ( Read more... ) -
HAMLET RANTS
I just finished watching the David Tennant and Patrick Stewart version of Hamlet. Patrick Stewart was incredible, as were the actors who played Polonius and Laertes, but there was an overall...wrongness to it, that I think was centered around the titular character.
I feel terrible saying such about Tennant, because I will always love him, but he ( Read more... ) -
Selkie
A man walked through the park. I could tell you what he looked like (average height, brunet, blue eyes), where he was coming from (work), where he was going (home), but it doesn't matter. He is not the remarkable part of this story.
The remarkable part began when he noticed something strange, sitting in a pile on a park bench. It seemed to him to be ( Read more... ) -
Weird fucking day.
Monday was Stori's birthday. I can't remember anyone's birthday - not Liam's, not Tappy's, not even Mike's - but I remember hers. Why? I just made it up, right? Pulled it out of the air one day in response to Quinn's questioning.
...I tried to talk to her today. I don't even know whether that's the right words, but that's what it feels like - ( Read more... ) -
Choose Your Own Adventure
I have gotten many letters in the past weeks that greatly affected my future.
Firstly there were the rejection letters from Oberlin and Swarthmore. Neither was entirely unexpected, but both were sobering. I suppose they made my choices easier, in some ways.
Second was the letter from Bard saying I was accepted. I have gotten nothing more from them ( Read more... )