May 2012
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“What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors (Adam and Eve) was the...”
– C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (via an-ge-lo)
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““Porlock”
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One, to dream freely, must have peace,
Uninterrupted; to release...”
– Original poem (fragment), “Porlock,” part 1 only
Oct. 2003
(via herm-anna37)
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“A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be...”
– The Beatrice Letters | Lemony Snicket (via near-and-dear)
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“I have always been a wretched speaker. My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and...”
– : Vladimir Nabokov (via clavicola)
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Little Moments
withcollystrings:
Tonight, Cara and I walked out of Fry’s, and as we were taking our groceries from our parked cart, I couldn’t help but notice the handsome guy walking toward us. He was tall and lean, his sun kissed cheeks said he worked outside, and he had scruffy blonde curls. As he got closer, we heard it. He was whistling. He leaned against the pillar lighting a cigarette. Cara and I could...
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“It is only a gossamer veil.
I see your eyes shine through.
Show your face,...”
– Me!
From the digital booklet I wrote for my album which stoopid iTunes have deleted! Wtf. So if you’ve downloaded the album and want to know about the cinematic context of the music I recorded in appropriate amounts of detail, you can find it here
(via sillywhatwell)
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A Faint Taste of Bitter Almonds: lilajanet:... →
teacupsandcyanide:
lilajanet:
megaupload
I know we had some rough times And I know I shouted sometimes And I know you probably thought I didn’t care
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But we, we had a bond Something I came to depend on And the way this ended really isn’t fair
Megaupload, don’t you know We never wanted you to go It’s…
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Those of you who write original fiction:
petitandrogyne:
Do you ever go out in the day-to-day world and suddenly notice something that your character(s) would adore, or despise, or interact with really?
Because I have this character who’s a plucky Victorian lesbian who has always dreamed of flying a private aeroship.
The point is, she’s more femme than I am. And on certain occasions, I’ve been known to refer to her as if she were my...
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For Novice Writers: the quick test for Are You...
neil-gaiman:
I read a sad case today of a young writer who had had her story rewritten into illiteracy by a so-called publisher, who then abused her in email when she wrote to complain. She wsn’t getting paid for her story — instead she was actually buying copies of the anthology to show people that she had sold a story. And I thought, it is time to remind the world, and to enlighten young...
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ODE TO ASYLUMS
indelibility-poetry:
this fragile air isn’t enough. this is known, which is why you need to exist, to reinstall hope into those who are covered in ripped bandages. mummies in second-hand, arms out, moaning, the truth is this fragile air is the perfect set for monster movies. so thank you, for saving my bleeding friend, my brave rigger. thank you for keeping her ferocious while she breathes...
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Social Waste Product: Fan Art
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swegener:
I spent the morning un-following a bunch of very talented people on Tumblr.
That feels like a really weird thing to say. And it is.
It was nearly a dozen different artists in all, and they were all extremely talented. Part of what moved me to Follow them in the...
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NaNoWriMo excerpt, Chapter 14: Memories
cherryslenberman:
After all, there must have been a reason why he was showing her all of that. She had even felt sympathy for him; sympathy for Lorenz and his fate. He was probably about forty now that Nastasya looked at him calming himself down from the irritation he felt for his new assistant, and all it meant was that he was going to die soon.
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Movie Idea
theemperorofthenorth:
I’ve always wanted to do a horror movie where it turns out everything fundamentalist Christians have said turns out to be true. I mean really crazy fundamentalist Christians. I mean King James Only crazy.
A film where our protagonist slowly discovers that Evolutionists, Catholics, Muslims, Atheists, Lesbians, Magicians, Liberals, J. K. Rowling, Gary Gygax, Al Gore and...
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paleobun:
I could sing if you asked me to, with cracking voice and broken tune. I could sing of the snowblind, rime-ridden banks of the River Iving Where I grew up, each morning crisp as hoarfrost. But I was alone, and I couldn’t sing.
I could draw if you wanted me to, with a pen carved of alicorn. I could sketch the dappled light on green shoots, foam on the river, The sound of fierce...
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For all the people who ask me for writing...
neil-gaiman:
Neil Gaiman
1 Write.
2 Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
3 Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
4 Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.
5 Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t...
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Creative idea: A version of Pale Fire
herm-anna37:
The book is a reprint of a movie script with some screenshots, and running commentary on the film, behind the scenes things, comments on outtakes, things left out of the book that it’s based on…all fictional. The commentator might be the original author, or someone else. They blame the director, the script writer, etc. and we get the idea of a different underlying theme of the...
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#21-Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
thecrocodilehunter:
OK SO you know that feeling you got after reading The Wasteland and you were just so floored by the amount of douchebaggery TS Eliot encompasses and how freaking brilliant he was?
Or that feeling you got after reading Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead where you walked around a little more assholey than usual, a little more independent and for the free market and all that...
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Music progress today~!
I finished keying in my old song from about ‘95, the Frank Sinatra treatment of a passage from Two Gentlemen of Verona. Will record it soon! It’s just piano and voice for now, but eventually I hope to do a big band version with a groovy horn section.
Now for my friend thebardisapoet (as they gave me the impetus after sharing a video with the amazing tenor singer whose name escapes me...
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“I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs...”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias (via phddiscworld)
I very much would like to make a short video of this. It’s so visual for me, especially the amazing alliterative passage at the end, which works almost like onomataopoeia…the hissing wind and blowing sand, the emptiness of the barren landscape,...
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Creative Notes: Finishing Story #3
In a dream I realized how to conclude and publish story #3, which was at a place of near completion last Monday. It can’t finish as I had planned, I regret to say, but I know how to make it work. It broke my heart in the dream and it will break my heart again and again to write the ending and to publish it, but it’s the right finish for the story sequence, and it can stand as a story...
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Mermaid political crime drama? Sweet.
unseilie:
There was a young mermaid queen-to-be fleeing the Pacific after assassination attempts. She had two months before she reached mer-adulthood and her three aunts, who had ruled jointly in her stead as queen regents, were intent on seeing her killed.
Each aunt had a distinct personality and style. The first aunt had the lower half of a shark and was vicious and cruel; her assassins were...
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unseilie:
Someone should write Sherlock fanfiction in which he speaks exclusively in cheesy, outdated slang.
April 2012
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bittergrapes:
The prelude to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major for some reason reminds me of zebras. I do not know why. But all I can think of when I listen to it is zebras.
That is quite interesting! :D
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"eReaders will save trees!"
bittergrapes:
conjuringseed:
phantom-erection:
lightsarenigh:
phantom-erection:
Okay except the part where trees are a renewable resource, whereas heavy metals required for electronics, such as cobalt, are nonrenewable resources that poison the environment and the people who mine them, making environments too toxic for trees to grow there again and threatening all life in the area.
but...
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How to Spell Love
sorunstheworldaway:
String my vertebrae together And personally adjust Each subtle curve. Steal the words I finally said Though they may be more than you deserve. My “love” and your “love” Are just a few letters off. Outline my clavicle valleys In shadows cast by candle light. Let the folds of my ear Bend the currents of your breath, Laden...
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sparrowwingsandfragilethings:
The shadows scrabble at the corners of her eyes, fingers long and thin and pale, too much knuckle and bone, “Let us in,” and their voices rustle and crack like kindling, a burning notebook with too much horror between its covers, “We’re here, we’re here, you can only ignore us for so long, we’re real, we’ll be here until you stop pretending, we have starved for so...
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This is an actual column HP Lovecraft wrote for a... →
the title is a lie; it’s parody.
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I Accidentally a Poem About Neil Gaiman's Hair
curlyfoureyes:
lyndsayfaye:
Neil’s Hair by Lyndsay Faye Whorls of dark matter Create echoes without sound Your follicles Contain universes Sharp and dangerous as Benedict Cumberbatch’s cheekbones If I owned A mirror Possess’d of a strong enough alchemy I would hold it up and Within your hair see Entire worlds Like Caprica And Alderaan And that one Picard landed on where they...
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I may have just written a Sherlock/Nancy Drew...
nerdiegirlie:
I’m such a dork.
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“A popular exercise among High School creative writing teachers in America is to...”
– David Graeber, “Beyond Power/Knowledge: An Exploration of Power, Ignorance and Stupidity” (pdf)
He also says much the same thing in “Revolutions in Reverse,” an essay included in the book Revolutions in Reverse (which can be read in Scribd at the link). I’d been meaning to post a quote from the...
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