May 2013
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“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely...”
– C.S. Lewis (via catachamadan)
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G R I M E S: I don't want to have to compromise my... →
actuallygrimes:
i dont want my words to be taken out of context
i dont want to be infantilized because i refuse to be sexualized
i dont want to be molested at shows or on the street by people who perceive me as an object that exists for their personal satisfaction
i dont want to live in a world where…
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April 2013
30 posts
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Sometimes I think I'm Doing Parenting Right.
So today The Younger Spawn says to me, “One day when I’m an adult, I’m going to pick flowers from my garden, and then give them to a girl in Africa where we live, where girls can marry girls, and then we will get married and have lots of fun.”
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Twenty Lines
I love making lists of chapter titles; they have a weird poetry to them that makes me eager to get back to work. (In this case back to work on the final part of the revisions for House of Sand and Secrets.)
1- A Plague of Houses 2 - Bone-grinders and Butchers 3 - Glassclaw and Splinterfist 4 - Paper Marriages 5 - Studies in Oil and Ink 6 - Proposals 7 - Two Crows 8 - Pretty Collars 9 - Fire, Ash,...
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On Building a House
I don’t update this blog very often because I feel like I never have anything to say, but people do occasionally ask me for world-building posts which I never do because I’m all…uh…I dunno, it just happens.
This morning I was avoiding my actual work by mucking around with my Hobverse wiki* where I try and keep track of all the tiny pointless details of the When the Sea is...
When I meet another Cape Town photographer
mothercitymazing:
Accurate.
“Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch...”
– ― Lev Grossman (via thewildphoenix)
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New Leaf Literary & Media, Inc.: Tweet Your Author... →
newleafliterary:
Hooray! Our author event is today at Powell’s Books in Beaverton, OR!
If you can’t attend the event, there’s still a chance for you to participate. Log onto Twitter between 10AM and 10PM EST today and use #NewLeafYA to ask one of our Powell’s authors a question. If it’s chosen for the Q&A…
Why Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" Video Makes Me...
jazzylittledrops:
So this video started going around my facebook today, with about a dozen of my female friends sharing the link with comments like, and “Everyone needs to see this”, and “All girls should watch this,” and “This made me cry.” And I’m not trying to shame those girls! I definitely understand why they would do so. And I don’t want to be a killjoy. But as I clicked link and started...
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Every now and again I stumble across a part that...
“I’m sorry. Run that by me again.” The muggy air in Dandelion’s shack seems to have grown heavier and sweatier and thicker. My words get lost in it.
He steps right up to me, and before I can move, he presses at my forehead with his index finger, almost overbalancing me. “In here,” he says, “is a ward against death.”
“And that means I’m …” No. Freaking. Way.
“It means,...
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Browse Inside Unbreakable by Elizabeth Norris →
liznorris24:
Here’s your chance to read the beginning of UNBREAKABLE!
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I might be revising House of Sand and Secrets...
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“My feet leave deep marks in the boggy ground. Poison-green grass sucks at my ankles as I draw closer to the river.
What is it I think to do here in this abandoned wasteland - cast myself into the water like one of the desperate and pathetic heroines of the epic poems I hate so much? Not even Jannik is worth that kind of ridiculous display. I pause, sinking a little, black mud...
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I have 46k of this...I should finish this book.
Walk slower. Make it seem like you’re gradually slowing down, and it’s totally random and has nothing to do with the weird guy sauntering along behind you.
Also, George, stop talking to yourself.
All questions of my current state of sanity aside, there’s just something about this guy that’s bugging me. At least, I think it’s a guy – I haven’t actually...
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March 2013
35 posts
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Julie P.: My experiences in tech: Death by 1000... →
juliepagano:
In Once Upon an Internship, I learned early that sometimes being a software engineer means death by 1000 cuts because you don’t have the power to make it stop. Even the tiniest little things add up to something big – sometimes it’s really death by 1000 paper cuts.
The cuts started early. I’m…
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