Mind Palace

I read books, watch telly and blog about it occasionally. - - I love quotes the way Sherlock loves his murders - - I ship practically everything thrown into my path, such as British actors with myself. - - [But particularly one that involves a high-functioning, sociopathic genius and a sucker for jumpers.] - - Johnlock today, Johnlock tomorrow, Johnlock FOREVER! 2014 Reading Challenge Fifi has read 0 books toward her goal of 30 books. hide 0 of 30 (0%) view books

[fuyu-shi]

Inktober (3)

[16-17th October 2015] Tsukishima Kei and Yamaguchi Tadashi from Haikyuu! (This was supposed to be platonic. I swear it was.)

[fuyu-shi]

Inktober

[3rd October 2015] Tsukishima Kei from Haikyuu - recreation of the talented meyoco’s art.

[4th October 2015] Nishinoya and Tanaka from Haikyuu - recreation of the Bodhisattva faces Nishi and Tanaka pulled off from the manga. (Tanaka looks like a special needs child. Forgive me.)

[6th October 2015] (smol) Aomine Daiki from Kuroko no Basuke - style inspired by this meyoco art.

[8th October 2015] Kuroko and Midorima from Kuroko no Basuke - recreation of this one KnB fanart that I can’t seem to find now.

[9 October 2015] Generation of Miracles (centered on Murasakibara) from Kuroko no Basuke - art style from s-haa.

[arminizewithme]

UREN JEAGER

I JUST PAUSED EPISODE THREE ON THIS PICTURE OF EREN AND I’M FREAKING SOBBING

JUST

HUMANITY’S LAST HOPE EVERYBODY

[fyeahcontroversialcharacters]

Defense of Mikasa Ackerman (Attack on Titan)

http://www.tumblr.com/blog/anti-masque

Character: Mikasa Ackerman

Fandom: Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin)

Reasons for Being Hated (as noted by the submitter): One-Dimmensional, Mary Sue, cares about no one but Eren. Boring and gets in the way of Ereri.

Additional Info: A“Mary Sue”, is too strong, gets in the way of various ships, too “bland”, “emotionless”, (or for some people) shows “too” much emotion, has an obsession with Eren, one-dimensional, has no character at all, useless/no point to the plot, outshines too many characters, clingy, the “badass” stereotypical character, has no flaws.” *Headdesk*

I wonder about some of you people sometimes, and your uncanny habits of reducing generally well-rounded characters down to, two or three quirks or archetypes. Maybe it’s just lazy, stupid, human nature to take what surface level traits we see in others and categorize them based off of said traits without bothering to dig any deeper into their persona. I find this particularly evident in the reception of strong female characters such as Mikasa. Anyhow, its this sort of mindset that I plan on subverting, breaking down and/or turning it on its head, before pushing it down the stairs and laughing at it in this defense.

So let’s crack on, shall we?

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[enerjax]

Benedict revisiting a few of his greatest hits, maybe? :>

[whybenedict-deactivated20141123]

my heart aches when john and sherlock look unhappy when they’re not together

[ccballard]

Cross out what you've already read. Six is the average.

[eldrewand]

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible - Council of Nicea Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen

Persuasion - Jane Austen The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan Life of Pi - Yann Martel Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Moby Dick - Herman Melville Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Hamlet - William Shakespeare Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

[johnlockbxtch]

8 isn't that bad, is it?

[sherlockspeare]

A Scandal of Bigheads

[sarcastic-and-ingenious]

This made me laugh harder than it should have…

[johnlockbxtch]

Let It Snow - Maureen Johnson, John Green, Lauren Myracle

An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train and sets off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House ( and the hash brown spoils), and the fate of a teacup pig falls into the hands of a lovesick barista.

-Goodreads

My take:

Despite having read this Christmas book in the middle of mysummer vacation, this book has proven itself worthy to be called a 'pleasant summer read'. In general, that is. Of course, if I were to review each short story without considering the one that precedes/succeeds it, I wouldn't be as forgiving. Let It Snow starts out with Maureen Johnson's fantastic 'The Jubilee Express', which was funny, sarcastic, crazy, romantic and swoony in one cleverly delivered piece of contemporary art. I loved Jubilee, and I would sell a liver [not really] to bring Stuart to life. Him and his mother. It was amazing. Period. Following that was the less-swoony-but-still-acceptably-sarcastic-and-over-the-top-crazy 'A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle' by John Green. This one takes the outline of the usual John Green Adventure Plot Line, in which the main character goes on a silly expedition with another boy of a different race and a girl with an odd nickname. It was John Green-esque, meaning that it was unique (well, I say unique) and fun, but somehow it failed to do what his other books did. Last was the horrible, nauseating 'The Patron Saint of Pigs' by Lauren Myracle. The main character was an attention-crazy, self-absorbed, overly-dramatic, impossibly-forgetful, self-pitying cry-baby. Yes, the story was supposed to be about her transformation from this whiny brat into this I-don't-even-know-what, but even the transformation itself was (for lack of a better word) stupid. It was ridiculous. One page she was this clumsy baby and the next OH SHE WAS WISE AND NO LONGER THIS CONCEITED GIRL WITH ALZHEIMER'S. Goodness...  This was Mean Girls without all the funny sarcasm, and by that I mean that practically all the characters gossip and fuss about insignificant things - and no one is there to make snarky comments about them. This was a cringe comedy - only without the humour. Not only that, the last chapter of this story was supposed to tie up the previous two stories and all the characters met up in Starbucks in what was supposed to be a huge explosion of an ending, but what ended up happening was Lauren Myracle taking all those perfectly set up characters from Maureen Johnson's and John Green's stories and stripping them away of all the things that made them great characters. Their wit and subtlety were gone gone gone... along with that 5-star review I was preparing to give. Sigh. Maureen Johnson, you've got yourself a new fan. John Green, keep up the great work. Lauren Myracle... Uh...

4/5 stars!

[bongjoonhoe]

The Book Thief (2013)

We’re hiding a jew.

[johnlockbxtch]

KILL ME.

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[aiwa-sensei]

30 day OTP challenge - 3. Gaming / Watching movies

…I don’t even know. I’m sorry.

[biddie5]

If I don’t become famous for this I’m going to be sad

[persephxone]

First and last lines

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[florielle-deactivated20141022]

The Method of loci, also called the memory palace, is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises. In basic terms, it is a method of memory enhancement which uses visualization to organize and recall information. Many memory contest champions claim to use this technique to recall faces, digits, and lists of words. These champions’ successes have little to do with brain structure or intelligence, but more to do with their technique of using regions of their brain that have to do with spatial learning. x

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[johnlockbxtch]

Colours meme: Lavender for Selfless love

(Lavender is a pale tint of violet, the term may also be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light, medium, or grayish violet colors, as well as some pale or light blueish-indigo colors. The color pale violet inspires unconditional and selfless love, devoid of ego, encouraging sensitivity and compassion. Culture: the tone of lavender described  as [true] lavender or floral lavender became the symbol of homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s. For that Lavender roses are sometimes given by LGBTs to each other on Valentine’s Day or may be given to those entering into a same-sex marriage .)

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