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wanttobeatree

someone special to my heart

Aug 23, 2009 22:14

This is my book stack. I trip over it at least once a day. Please admire how it is just a book or two away from being the perfect height for a bedside tea mug table - making it educational AND practical! - whilst I pretend that I am a writer.

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bibliophilia, hormonal hormones, tree can't write, i don't know what else to tag this with

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karabou August 23 2009, 21:23:15 UTC

And here I was hoping you were writing a J2 Odyssey!AU with alien abduction...

wanttobeatree August 23 2009, 21:25:57 UTC

HOW DID YOU KNOW! It becomes a LOTR crossover in chapter 23, too.

karabou August 23 2009, 21:26:53 UTC

Because it's only what I've been DREAMING OF.

wanttobeatree August 23 2009, 21:28:56 UTC

Cannot stop imagining Jensen as Legolas. FUCK.

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wanttobeatree August 23 2009, 21:32:53 UTC

Wait wait wait, the baby turned up on her doorstep as a BT engineer or the alien did?

(Um um oh shit now I am imagining some bizarre J2 alien abduction AU in which alien!Jared tries to woo Jensen by pretending to be an electrician.)

karabou August 23 2009, 21:43:53 UTC

(Um um oh shit now I am imagining some bizarre J2 alien abduction AU in which alien!Jared tries to woo Jensen by pretending to be an electrician.)

I'D READ IT.

nerthus August 23 2009, 23:12:40 UTC

Ha, my 27 year old niece, who is one of the most pragmatic, no-nonsense type people you might hope to meet, insists quite vehemently that numerous times when she was between 11-13 years old she would awake in the night to find little gray guys like the aliens depicted most often on tv and in books standing at the foot of her bed just staring creepily at her and seemingly 'communicating' with each other in total silence; she would be 'frozen' in her bed, awake and aware and terrified but unable to move or speak, and then she would start to feel unaccountably sleepy and be unable even in her panicked state to stay awake. She'd get up next morn still remembering in remarkable detail aspects of her nighttime visitors and she still insists that she did NOT dream them or mistake some familiar object in her bedroom for 'alien' shapes. She works now in a NICU hospital unit with very sick newborns and has never been a fan of sci-fi or into Star Trek or aliens, etc., not even as a child. So I've always wondered just what DID go on with my niece ( ... )

wanttobeatree August 23 2009, 23:18:49 UTC

I think that sounds like sleep paralysis, tbh. Seeing/hearing strange things, being unable to move or speak, going back to sleep or waking up properly - it all sounds very sleep paralysis-y. I get it quite often and it can be SUPER SCARY and v. realistic.

nerthus August 23 2009, 23:23:21 UTC

Yeah that's what my son told her, as he's suffered with that since he hit puberty. But my niece stubbornly insists that she knows when she's lucid dreaming and can tell her body is 'paralyzed' to keep her from maybe getting up and injuring herself in her sleep and when she's 'awake.' I think she just doesn't realize how 'real' sleep paralysis can feel, if my son's sometimes harrowing accounts of it are any indication. My older brother, however, (he is NOT my niece's father, he's her uncle) is a HUGE ufo/aliens fanatic and reads every book and magazine he can get on the topic and watched those History Channel ufo specials, etc; and he would LOVE to be abducted by the gray guys, ha. He might change his tune if they 'probed' him, however!!

laulan August 24 2009, 06:13:46 UTC

MY LOCAL LIBRARIANS ALREADY THINK I'M SOME UFO-OBSESSED NUTJOB.

Man, I feel you there. I don't even want to know what my local librarians think about the girl who checks out nonfiction books about gay farmboys, Dune, and several fantasy books for young children, all in one go. (Hopefully not that I'm some sort of farmer pedophile.)

Also! Books as a bedside mug table! I have totally done that! They are excellently useful.

wanttobeatree August 24 2009, 15:41:22 UTC

The worst thing of it is, after talking to my dad about the abduction story I was planning, he bought me Open Skies, Closed Minds from a sale in the library - on the same day I went to the library to get the other books. And OBVIOUSLY I got muddled and tried to renew that one along with the others, so now my librarians KNOW I OWN A BOOK ABOUT ALIENS TOO.

So very useful. Although considering how frequently I trip over my book stack, putting mugs on it is a risky sport.

laulan August 25 2009, 06:21:24 UTC

Ahaha at least your dad is awesome? I say go with it--just wear a "The Truth Is Out There" shirt or something next time you go to the library, then ~*~BLIND~*~ them with your intelligence the next time you say something unrelated to crop circles or slow-dancing torture.

I used to think it was my book stack bedside table, but it turns out I trip over my mugs when they're on the floor right next to my bed, too. I am no graceful swan, apparently.

dangomango August 24 2009, 15:36:48 UTC

ALIENS ARE REAL

I have actually read most of those books :D

wanttobeatree August 24 2009, 15:38:59 UTC

I BELIEVE IN THE POSSIBILITY OF ALIENS! I don't believe that they like to while away their afternoons probing Americans and mucking around with corn, though.

I have read three of them oh god /o\