#funtiems

[bastetsbard]

10 Books Meme

Seeing as @carolinawrenn, @specializationisforinsects, and @randomcat1832 all tagged me for this, it got me to actually do it! (I promise I’ve got the characters one coming @pipkin-the-hellion...)

I really love these tag memes, please keep doing so <3 <3 <3

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. 

1. Herodotus’ Histories

2. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

3. Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

4. Voyage of the Basset by James C. Christensen

5. Dinotopia by James Gurney

6. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

7. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin

8. The Rejected Body by Susan Wendell (read parts of, really need to finish reading)

9. Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon

10. Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

(I could go on a while here, but also, if we start getting into short stories and novellas... my bonus four in that category are 11. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, 12. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 13. Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer, and 14. The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov.)

Tagging (NO PRESSURE, only if fun!) friends and mutuals who have NOT already been tagged by one of the above (I think): @pipkin-the-hellion, @myvampirepuppy, @knittedpie, @patrocool, @namelessennes, @siixofdoves, @britt1243, @muse-meter, @aristoteliancomplacency, @hellowildcat, @desidarling123, @americanbeautiies, @wylanvanfeck, @weasleyclan, @linearao3, @nevermindmorpheus, @bigwidogastenergy

[jupitervega]

I was making these growling sounds for fun and giblet-lee79 was like "why" and I was like "it's better than my whale impression" and as soon as she opened her mouth to say don't I went WEEEEUUUUURGH

[i-gwarth]

watching Back To The Future with greendragon-threebroomsticks like

                                   ^Svetla                                   ^me

[tale-wind]

so fyi everyone on the dreams room chat is practically flawless k

[a-noble-lady]

Claimed

Dear Severa,

I saw you harassing Brady in the market the other day. He is a gentle, delicate flower and is easily swayed when pestered. It is because of this that I sternly request that you cease in these endeavors. I shall not pester if you turn to other commoners for your abuse, but leave Brady be.

Sincerely,

Maribelle

[[a letter because they didn’t have texts]]

[bokunokimono]

Have a new blog post up, with a few more details on last Sunday's Nikkei Matsuri ^_^

[quachtheresa]

Peace Corps Update #2

Wah so many updates in one day.~

So my pre-service nurse got back to me pretty fast, considering how many cases she probably has. Thank you~. Anyways, her professional opinion was that due to my current condition (I'm gonna remain mum on what it is), it is unlikely I'll be medically cleared "at this time". She's also consulting with her medical adviser. We'll see what they say. ._.

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Because my reply-to-reply is stupid and I don't feel like fixing it

rated-michael said: Do mannequins really count? They aren’t exactly alive even when alive…

Yeah, I'm not sad that they're all "dead" and I wasn't really rooting for them, because they were all murderous and I frown heavily upon that sort of thing.

But you can't call yourself a pacifist when you kill a bunch of (pseudo-) people? I have no problem with him killing the Bad Guys, but at least let's call a spade a spade here.

I'm pretty sure the doctor says that he's a pacifist in future episodes, but this might just be me mis-remembering things? Either way, it doesn't make sense to not use a gun if you're fine "killing" a bunch of mannequins/daleks/cybermen/weeping angels/sylveins/etc.