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On Bullshit
Got fifteen minutes to spare?
Here's an exploration of the nature of bullshit by Harry Frankfurt.
"Facts about ourselves are not peculiarly solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial - notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, ( Read more... ) -
The Spring Turnover
His lips were soft and cool and audacious, and they looked so
thin but they felt plump and sensuous between her teeth. He tasted like
lightning and something... something bitter and wonderful, and she thought her
heart would either deflate and collapse, or drop down to her stomach floor, or
burst out of her ears and shatter right in front of him.
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Traditional Food
So I understand quite a few of you are British or have lived across the pond. I have to do a speech for my COM class, and my topic is traditional food. I ended up with Bangers and Mash, Spotted Dick, and Treacle Tart ( Read more... ) -
Fanfiction terms
So what's an alpha reader? I'm relatively new to fanfiction writing and I've been coming across this term a lot lately. Please and thank you :) I've been spending too much time faffing about on LJ... I need to get back to Self-Slain Gods. -
A spot of Cumber-Snape, anyone?
So following that conversation about which actor (Rickman/Cumberbatch/Brody) would have portrayed Severus the most effectively, I just couldn't resist. Ladies and gentlemen (just the ladies, really), I present to you, Cumbersnape! I used Sharpie on his hair, which is why it looks like a solid block instead of actual hair. Also, I am now high on ( Read more... ) -
The Severus Snape of my Dreams
This is what happens when I've got writer's block and I can't be arsed to get up out of my swivelly chair. This is how I imagine he looks at Hermione when she's doing something that absolutely perplexes him. If his face looks familiar to you, I used Adrien Brody's for reference. :) Er.. it's gigantic, sorry, I have the technological prowess of a ( Read more... )
