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my mom wasn't home Featuring curiouslypuzzling with the wonderful oven accompaniment
curiouslypuzzling said: Love that self promotion :P
yeah well, if I'm gonna get sixteen questions on anon than I might as well promote myself, right? It took me a really long time to fill out. You try finding a song that describes your love life ;)
romanadvoratrelundar tagged me, so...
This is a different kind of tag. Here we go! Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag ten friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.
1. The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
2. The Soulless series by Gail Carriger
3. Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
4. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
5. Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
6. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. The Eyre Affair/Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
8. The Secrets of Droon series by Tony Abbott
9. Regarding the Fountain series by Kate Klise
10. Case Closed/Meitantei Conan manga series by Gosho Aoyama
(These are in random order, and childhood favorite chapter book series abound here. I miss living in an area with a Bookmobile.)
Once you get this, you have to say 5 nice things about yourself and pass it on to ten of your followers (if you want to)!
1. I’m a kind guy.
2. I’m a pretty good listener.
3. I play guitar fairly well.
4. I have a YouTube channel with over 3,000 subscribers, so yeah, I’m kinda proud of that (s/o to my subs yo, y’all are awesome).
5. I’m an artsy kind of guy; I like doodling and design and stuff.
Pretty neat idea here!
Tom.
Well there have been a lot of important people with that name in my life, and since I can’t choose one, this is gonna be a super long reply.
My first “Tom” is a boy I met here on tumblr (he calls himself Tommy, actually, but we’ll go with it) after I posted a picture I drew of me meeting Tomas Kalnoky, the next Tom I’m going to talk about. Well we ended up talking and basically became best friends, and now we talk every day. He lives in Scotland which makes me so sad, but we came to really enjoy ourselves and love each other’s company despite being so far away. It sounds completely ridiculous, but I’ve never really felt so connected to someone before. He’s the only thing that keeps me feeling okay at all, and I really appreciate that more than I can say, and I hope our paths can cross in real life some day; it would destroy me if I lost him. We were thinking of possibly having a visit some time this coming year, and I really hope that can happen!
Alright, Tom #2 is Tomas Kalnoky from Streetlight Manifesto. He isn’t technically someone I know in my real life, but I met him once and I like this story. The songs he writes mean the world to me, especially one, “A Better Place, A Better Time.” Two years ago I was extremely suicidal and getting ready to end my life, and just as I was about to do it that song started playing on my iPod playlist. Basically it’s a song convincing someone to not commit suicide, and spoiler alert: it worked. Since then I’ve felt a huge connection to the man whose song convinced me to keep going, and I’ve considered getting the words tattooed on my arm once I’m old enough. I had the opportunity to meet him last weekend, and unfortunately I was just too emotional and starstruck to really thank him for what he did for me, so I just said hi, shook his hand, took a picture with him, and hugged him goodbye. I really regret not saying more, and I’m writing him a letter that tells this story, hopefully getting a reply back. One of my friends is personally delivering it to him, so I’m really excited to hear what he says.
So there you go, two stories of two Toms in my life. Neither is perfect and neither is finished, but I’m optimistic about both of them and what the future holds, because both are very important in my life, whether my best friend or a distant person who accidentally saved my life.
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