#chimericnotion

[shoes-that-cut-eyes-that-burn]

FYI, anime from that gif is apparently Kyoukai no Kanata, and I'm very curious about it too.

Hey, sweet! Thanks for letting me know!

[laurenbanka-blog]

Your rules for writing are a much needed thing and I plan on using them during my NaMiFiWriMo next month. So thanks for that, Sleepy Hollow, and Continuum. And generally being awesome.

:D thanks, friend. I'm starting to recommit to one of my longform fiction projects, and I have some unhelpful rules that I've internalized (show don't tell every tedious detail), and so I'm trying to define actually helpful terms of engagement with this project. 

In the past I've only ever been able to write ANYTHING if I'm telling myself it's secretly a prose poem.

[oscar-moreau-blog]

1. Props to you guys for trying to get this project off the ground. Does a mixed kid proud to see something like this on his (or her) feed by chance. 2. I see you're auditioning voice actors for Jay, but do you a list of other roles you're interested in?

Thanks!  And none for the time being, but in the future Marina Regina will invite more guests onto her show.  Concepts of characters should be coming out later this week - pretty much every character is fair game to maybe someday be a guest, and therefor require a voice actor.  :-)  

[laurenbanka-blog]

i can always count on Mikkel to <3 my posts about writing.

[cinder-ember]

Question Thingie...

Tagged by socpuppet

Rules: post the rules answer the questions the person who tagged you asked write 11 new ones tag 11 people and link them to the post

1. What is your favorite emoticon to use?

I don't? I grew up roleplaying via chat programs like gchat and such, so I prefer to describe an action or emotion, rather than rely on a symbol *shrugs and grins*.

2. How many languages can you speak?

Fluently? Only English. Bits and pieces? Japanese and Spanish? Only the cusswords? German and Portuguese.

3. What is a book that you read over and over again?

I've read most of the Terry Pratchett 'Discworld' series more than a few times, but if I had to select one book, it would be 'Night Watch' from that series.

4. What was the last thing that made you cry…in a good way?

Oh jeez....I can tell you the last time I cried, but not the last time I cried because something was good.

5. On a scale of garbage dump to “I can eat off the floor but would be afraid because you’d take my head off,” how clean is your room right now?

Just washed the sheets (but the bed isn't made), vacuumed just a couple days ago, and piles of laundry (clean and not) are kinda everywhere. I'd say "I'd eat in here, but not off the floor."

6. Cake or cookies?

Cupcakes. They're more portable.

7. Name a fandom you love, but are more of a lurker in.

I'm a lurker in every fandom. I used to write a lot and role play a lot, but that's diminished over the years due to a number of factors (stopped writing so much, found tabletop roleplay games, college, etc.)

8. What is your favorite accessory?

*blink* Accessory...those are those things people wear to add "color" or "pop" to an outfit, right? *looks down at the t-shirt and sweatpants* Umm...give me a minute to see if I even own any.

9. Introvert, extrovert, or something in between?

Gregarious introvert. I get along quite well with people, and even enjoy interacting with large groups of people, but doing so drains my emotional capacity to deal with them.

10. The last book/movie that made you cry was…?

I re-read 'The Green Mile' recently, and had to stop to blow my nose a couple of times.

11. If you had to choose, would you be an elf, dwarf, man, or hobbit?

Actually had this conversation a couple days ago (though in the context of whom among my roommates was who in the Fellowship). A hobbit, most definitely - good food, gorgeously designed rustic houses, every excuse to go barefoot, and no complaints about a person's weight or shape.

Tagging: hyriel, chimericnotion, my-blue-snog-box, apollonian-sidhe, leaping-lemur, sorcyress, lamdiel, socpuppet, murderoidz, heathercrider, maguiresab, and anyone else interested.

1. If you could meet anyone in history, who would it be?

2. What is the last thing you do before you go to sleep?

3. If you had $10 million, would you still be working/going to school?

4. Do you believe in love at first sight?

5. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

6. What is the signature dish that you cook?

7. What is the best piece of advice you've received?

9. Do you drink coffee or tea? How do you take it?

10. Do you sing in the shower?

11. If you could have any super power, what would it be?

[cinder-ember]

paint and paste and stitch and awl 10/31

you wake in the morning, and being the process of putting the mask on once again, the daylight made to race right by with paint and paste and stitch and awl.

Carmine lips, khol-painted lashes, a touch of green to highlight the color, atop foundation, concealer, spreadable ceramic to hide

the tired, the run-down, the broken

the wear and tear of every day, everyday smiles and bright, fake happiness to prove to the world that I

am worth the time and effort spent on me, am worth more than the first appreciative glance, more than the office decoration who files your paperwork and scrawls your signature across customer documentation.

Because without the mask it's

"You look tired. Are you getting enough sleep"

"You look pale. Are you sick?"

"Smile! You never know who is watching."

Exactly. You never know who is watching.

Never know who's making decisions about my worth and usefulness based on my appearance alone. What I do, what I've done for you, doesn't matter.

Or so the world would have you believe.

But I can't fight the preconceived notions of the social hierarchy on my own. Can't fight it from outside, battering away at the walls of assumptions and patriarchy and shame and lies and misinformation with nothing but my empty hands and words on paper which do as much as poster glue to dissolve the atomic structure of concrete. 

So I wake in the morning and being the process of putting the mask on once again.

Because I can stand up and smile, a flash of sharp, fanged white between carmine lips, and prove that pretty can be just as painful as power.

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[cinder-ember]

She's a mystic in the sense that she's still mystified by things... 8/31

Discover something new every day.

Today is the 220th day of the year. There are 145 days left until year passes it's sell by day and end up in the past.

Today in history, a photographer took a photograph of a zebra crossing

(Oh so sweetly insects trilling, Oh, here comes the sun) and

Richard Nixon resigned from the office of the president and

They raised the wreckage of the H.L. Hunley after 136 years on the bottom of the ocean floor.

The first verified use of the word 'polyamory' is the proposal for a Usenet newsgroup back in 1992.

Demisexuality is considered a subset of asexuality related to romantic orientations.

Asexuality is difficult to define due to the diverse population and sects of behaviors it relates to.

I am not a fan of olives on pizza, dust on my hands, or people who use a 3-inch binder to contain 2 sheets of project paper.

Life is pain. What Wesley neglected to mention was that unless you experience the full spectrum of life, from pleasure to pain, excitement to boredom, front to back, left to right and side to side...

You don't Live.

Don't ever become wonder-stale.

Discover something new. Every day.

[cinder-ember]

An ode to cheese plates, apples and white wine 6/31

Life is like a fancy cheese plate.

First, you're never quite sure what you're going to be tasting. Sharp or mild, acidic or buttery, fruity, earthy, oily or nutty.

Much like you're never quite sure how that next conversation is going to taste. Anger or joy, guilt or contentment, laughter, sadness, petulant or strange.

Oh, sometimes you can get a glimpse of what you're about to experience. The smooth, buttery conversation with a familiar face; the acidic trip between shelves of blue-veined contriteness of something long avoided.

Apples are a whole different story.

Apples come in three different colors, in a multitude of combination thereof. It's not hard to guess what kind of apple you're about to taste - the sour of green, the intense sweet of red, the mellow smoothness of yellow.

Friends, like apples, come in few flavors, with a multitude of subtle combinations.

This is not to discount the myriad of friendly-type peoples outside of the Malus domestica - the pear, the grape, the strawberry, cranberry or even the olive.

But a friend is an apple - sweet, tart, crisp or soft, applesauce or tarte de pommes.

And so you have apples, and cheese - friends and conversations - all the makings of a fancy hors d'oeuvre platter requiring several different kinds of knives, and maybe even those silly sword-shaped cocktail toothpicks.

All you're missing is the alcohol.

But that...might just be another poem entirely.

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