Daydream Masquerade

I'm a twenty-something technical writer and professional day dreamer. I also write other stuff too, mostly sci-fi and sci-fi/horror in the form of short stories and comics. My interests include the typical nerd stuff, writing, and an unhealthy obsession with the news.

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Polk Teacher's Resignation Letter Hits a Nerve

A Polk County public school teacher's letter of resignation has apparently hit a nerve with frustrated teachers and parents nationwide.Special education

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25 Valuable Life Lessons Only "The Sims" Could Teach Us

From relationships to good parenting to understanding the importance of a healthy body image, the Sims have got it all figured out.

[onceland]

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The Nine Types of Unreliable Narrator

I was stunned by the success of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. It was obvious to me that the author was employing the unreliable narrator technique in the story. This came as a shock to many readers...

[huffpostpolitics]

Trick-Or-Treaters Took Over The White House

And the pope even made an appearance! Check out the photos from the sp00ky (but mostly adorable) event here.

Happy Halloween!

(photos by Getty)

[grantgvstins]

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that’s a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

[writetothestars]

I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. And second, you need to read. You can’t be a writer if you’re not a reader. It’s the great writers who teach us how to write. The third thing is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it’s for only half an hour — write, write, write.

Madaleine L'Engle  (via writetothestars)

Because you can never have enough good writing advice!

(via superstitionrev)

[nanowrimo]

Writing stories is hard work. Don’t let your friends or family tell you any different. From the outside, it looks like sporadic tapping on the keyboard, distracted sips of coffee, and long stares out the window. But inside, you’re wrestling demons. You’re about to bring a new story into the world, which is both incredible and incredibly important. Why are stories important? …A good story can mean the difference between life and death for a reader—usually the death is spiritual rather than literal, but spiritual deaths can be just as painful and just as consuming. Storytelling is a part of every human culture because every human needs survival information.

Gene Luen Yang, on the importance of writing your story. (via nanowrimo)

[bigsherlockfan]

Sherlock Merchandise: http://bit.ly/1gqVswI

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Did Arthur Conan Doyle and 'the real Sherlock Holmes' solve the Jack the Ripper mystery?

Ripper author Diane Madsen believes Doyle and his mentor Joseph Bell correctly deduced the identity of the Victorian serial killer

[moma]

Happy Halloween! René Magritte’s creepy, mysterious painting The Menaced Assassin, featuring a murder victim at the crime scene, is on view now. 

[René Magritte. The Menaced Assassin. Brussels, 1927. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2015 C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

[kirby-krackle]

Still the definitive portrayal of the character.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984), “A Scandal in Bohemia”.

[bakerstreetbabes]

She was pretty amazing.

[moma]

What’s spookier in James Ensor’s 1888 painting Masks Confronting Death, the masks or Death himself?  

[James Ensor. Masks Confronting Death. 1888. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels]

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His Parents wouldn't keep him. So THIS is what his adoptive sister had to say…

When her parents brought home Archie, an adopted child with Down Syndrome from Bulgaria, Ace Eicher had a few words to say about her new little brother.

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[nbcnews]

The first World Indigenous Games kicked off last Friday in Palmas, Brazil. The Indigenous ‘Olympics’ brought together native peoples, such as the Maori from New Zealand and the Aeta from the Philippines, to compete and celebrate their cultures. 

See more photos here

[quotethat]

I’ve found that there is always some beauty left – in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (via quotethat)