"Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."

Of course it's The Golden Compass. Yeah, the Most Awesome Book in the Universe makes a bit of a lackluster first impression. But who cares? Lyra goes on to ride polar bears and blow up buildings and shit. This sentence just makes ( Read more... )

[Spoiler alert: major spoilers for The Hunger Games and His Dark Materials trilogies, minor spoilers for The Gemma Doyle trilogy, The Mortal Instruments and A Song of Ice and Fire series.]

So a note on 'shipping. I was lurking browsing The Hunger Games tag on tumblr, and of course there was the usual smattering of stupid 'shipping fanart. But there ( Read more... )

Just signed up for tesserae and got randomly sorted into District 10. And I was like fuckdammit. I wanted District 3 because, dude, I'm a physics major at UC fucking Berkeley and, like, I belong in 3. Seriously. (Though a friend of mine said I would be from 4 because the water is my home and I swim like a fish. I would have been fine with 4. I also ( Read more... )

The girl walked through the tall grass, knife clutched in hand, telling herself that killing the little girl would simply be like using a bolt gun to prepare the beef cattle for slaughter at home in District Ten, a job she’d done a thousand times. Of course, a bolt gun didn’t really kill the animal, and there wasn’t a whole lot of blood involved, ( Read more... )

oh my god this is therapeutic.
i always laughed at diaries, but writing in this stupid blog is insanely calming (even if i do feel like an egomaniacal wackjob who thinks my life is interesting enough to blog about--fortunately, i don't advertise this very much. lj is private for me. but i acknowledge that this is on the internet, so if anyone reads ( Read more... )