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lettersforburning replied to your post :I’ve decided to dedicate my novel ‘to all the...
All of this. YES.
iamthelightening replied to your post: I’ve decided to dedicate my novel ‘to all the...
Okay wow love the dedication. Also ANNE CARSON. Dude. Dude.
Thanks for the support I am terrified.
In which I was tagged by anthonyblanche
Rule 1. Post the rules Rule 2. Answer the questions the tagger set for you then make 11 new ones Rule 3. Tag 11 people and link them to your post Rule 4. Let them know you've tagged them
1. What song lyrics most accurately describe the day you've had? When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend / get a coffee and the paper; have my own conversations (Lua is the song of my life)
2. You and a character from the last book you read/movie you watched are hanging out together. What is the first thing you guys do? I cry because I'm hanging out with Siegfried Sassoon. Then I guess we have a tea party and gossip about the BYTs?
3. What is your favourite kind of tea? Darjeeling!
4. They are making a scented candle and naming it after you. Describe said candle. It's small and white with little pink flecks, and it smells of pine, cut grass and dog roses.
5. Stretch out your left hand. What can you reach? My phone, a pen, and an inkwell.
6. What is your earliest memory? One that sticks out in my mind is when we had the chimney swept in our old house and a dead bird came down. That, and my father reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats to me at bedtime. 7. Who was your favourite fictional character as a child? Hermione from the Harry Potter series because for some reason I identify with bamfy bookish girls with silly cool ancient Greek names. Also I had a crush on Lord Asriel okay don't judge me. 8. What is your favourite song to sing along with? Either Mr Brightside by The Killers or Psycho Killer by The Talking Heads 9. What is the best decision you've made in the past week? I'm notoriously bad at making decisions, so there aren't many from which to choose. I suppose the decision to spend less time on Tumblr (as you can see it's going wonderfully). 10. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be? My uncle's house in Scotland because it's pretty and I can get lost in it, or Lofoten in Norway because it's lovely and desolate, or London because the theatre. 11. Tell the people of Tumblr something about you which we presumably don’t know already. I'm hypersensitive to touch, so I really really love soft things like my blanket and my cats. When I was a baby my mother used to put my blanket over my face because it was the only thing that calmed me down when I was throwing a wobbly. 1. Meaning behind your URL? 2. Character from a book with whom you most identify? 3. Are you a morning or an evening person? 4. Do you have any daily routines? 5. Think of a close friend. What do you like about them? 6. Do you get on well with children? 7. What was the first book you ever read? 8. If you could only listen to one album for the rest of your life, what would it be? 9. What would be the title of your autobiography? 10. What is your favourite item of clothing? 11. What do you think of these chain question whatsits?
lettersforburning replied to your post: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK MY BROTHER JUST TOLD ME THAT...
Disown your family
Eep we cannot do that!
lettersforburning replied to your post: amariefox replied to your post: Went to see Les...
Anne Hathaway scares me for some reason. Like there is something very dark lurking beneath the surface.
Really? I don't know much about her, but I really liked the way she responded to that interviewer who brought up the upskirt shots someone took of her. I don't know, she was just incredible, I want to be her friend so she can sing for me all the time.
lettersforburning replied to your post: I just spent an hour and a half on the phone with...
I don’t know how anyone sells anything…I would SUCK at that. But good luck!
It's because I'm a really fake person when I'm not on the internet.
The best way to sell stuff is to act just like Zooey Deschanel, this is true.
Thank you!
boxofoctaves replied to your post: Really though I cannot stand Benedict...
I don’t know anything about him besides that he’s popular among girls on tumblr, what did he do?
lettersforburning replied to your post: Really though I cannot stand Benedict...
I don’t really know anything about him besides the fact that he has a horrible name. I’ve never watched anything with him in it.
Great minds think alike?
Well he is probably best known for being the star of BBC's Sherlock, a modern adaptation of Sherlock Holmes in which he plays Sherlock Holmes. It's very big on tumblr, you may have noticed and if you haven't I am jealous.
Sherlock is a tricky one, a part of me doesn't want to say it's a bad show, but a lot of the time it is and it's good points; that it's Sherlock Holmes at all (I love Sherlock Holmes), the style and look of the whole thing, Rupert Graves is in it, definitely do not make up for it's short comings which include a lot of misogyny and racism and queer-baiting and this tired tired tired idea that because someone is a genius they are allowed to be douchebag and that's awesome. The nail in the coffin for me involved Irene Adler, my literary hero, the woman who beat Sherlock Holmes being reinvented as a "lesbian" who just needed some sexy Benedict Cabbagepatch to convert her and who lost and who needed saving by said Mugwump. Series creator Stephen Moffat, current head writer of Doctor Who, who you may have previously heard me complaining about because he is Satan a little bit, has come under fire a little for writing the show this way and B.C defended him at an awards show. When he introduced Moffat he had this little speech where he mentioned that Moffat was married so he couldn't be a misogynist har har har aren't people silly, they just don't recognize his genius.
More recently he has complained in interviews about "posh bashing" and how hard it is to be an upper class wealthy person. He's spoken about the London riots in a, well:
"I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road," he says. "But those eejits saying they're doing it for socio-political reasons? Fuck off, no you're not, you're on a jolly and you're getting away with it. It makes me want to belt them, make them lame for a bit so they're dependent on other people's mercy…
He's also commented on Elementary, the new CBS modern version of Sherlock Holmes with Lucy Liu as Watson (so far it's amazing and I'm not just saying that because I love her), saying he told his friend Johnny Lee Miller he'd rather he didn't take the part, he thought the idea was ridiculous but he understood that Johnny has to keep his wife in fancy clothes or whatever.
Basically he is a rich, posh, successful, incredibly privileged guy who whines a lot about how hard it is to be all of those things, who says ridiculous stuff and stars in a ridiculous show and a lot of people love him but I can't for the life of me figure out why because his face is like Cthulu's face.
Hi do you all know Joseph aka lettersforburning? Of course you do he's lovely. Also he just wrote a story and it's called Playing Female and I just read it - it's really, really good and you can read it too on monkeybicycle.net and you should.
Whispering at the coals
Thanks for the lovely responses to the project idea everyone! So here's how it could work: You choose a poem or flash you'd like to read. Go to soundcloud.com and register if you aren't already, then simply record yourself reading your poem in your best campfire voice. I think we should aim for the end of the week, why not just keep it stress free. Lyrics and stories should come easy sometimes.
Send the soundcloud link to me in my ask box or if that won't work, to wheresthebread[@]hotmail.com, or upload it yourself and I'll share/reblog the links here with a wee bit about who you are.
Who'd ever like to join could you reblog if you do that sort of thing and/or leave a note here. I'd love for this to work and have many voices.
