Katharyn Wood

Katharyn Wood: a nerd and fangirl who writes about dryer aliens. The Dryer Chronicles: Reverse Tumble now available!

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Was just browsing frilly shirts on Amazon.

I laughed so hard I woke my husband who was sleeping two rooms over.

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AAAH

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I was not expecting that sound

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OMG

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area 51 is just the american wizarding school

aliens is a perfect cover story

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hOLY SHIT

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#STUDENTS MAKING UFOS AS PRANKS#IT’S AS TRADITIONAL AS THE TRIWIZARDS TOURNAMENT (via thestarlesswanderer)

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A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.

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The bravest woman on Earth.

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I love her. Forever reblog.

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ppl who don’t dress up for halloween bc it’s too childish are halloweak

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i think you can tell a lot about a person by which harry potter death caused them the most pain

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writing tip #700:

your characters are like geodes

if you want to see what they’re really made of

you must break them

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I read that as “Your characters are like geodudes” and I was quite confused.

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a majestic stealthy cold blooded killer

I don’t know how to tiger. 

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Yeah!

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whenever I read “uwu” I pronounce it as “oo-woo” in my head

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The best and worst thing about being a writer is carrying worlds in your head.

Some have been with you for so long they seem everyday and usual, like a clock on the wall of your home you've always recognized as belonging there. Others are just being born and shaped and you're as precious with them as a first time parent.

You try to do these worlds justice, try to share them with people as best as you can, because you want others to be as fascinated and/or comforted by them as you are.

The tricky part is, a lot of the time they aren't. That's the worst. But the best, is when they are. 

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taco cat spelled backwards is still taco cat

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I hope when people ask what you’re going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you’ll say: Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire; or maybe just: Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.

Cheryl Strayed (via americankitsch)

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And while we’re on the subject, I’d like to say a few words about escapism. I hear the term bandied about as if it’s a bad thing. As if “escapist” fiction is a cheap opiate used by the muddled and the foolish and the deluded, and the only fiction that is worthy, for adults or for children, is mimetic fiction, mirroring the worst of the world the reader finds herself in. If you were trapped in an impossible situation, in an unpleasant place, with people who meant you ill, and someone offered you a temporary escape, why wouldn’t you take it? And escapist fiction is just that: fiction that opens a door, shows the sunlight outside, gives you a place to go where you are in control, are with people you want to be with (and books are real places, make no mistake about that); and more importantly, during your escape, books can also give you knowledge about the world and your predicament, give you weapons, give you armour: real things you can take back into your prison. Skills and knowledge and tools you can use to escape for real. As JRR Tolkien reminded us, the only people who inveigh against escape are jailers.

Neil Gaiman, from theguardian.com (via thensiur)

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Katniss Everdeen revealing the truths the Capitol is covering up

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I remember the first time I got a zit and I was like “THEY HURT!?! I WAS PREPARED FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS BUT NO ONE TOLD ME THERE WOULD BE PAIN!”