#sauntering-vaguely

[handfuloftime]

sauntering-vaguely replied to your photo “Who’s ready to graduate in three hours? Not me.”

GOOD LUCK!! when are you back in VT?!

Thanks!!! I just got back. So tired. 

[wearemarvels]

Ladies and gentlemen, sauntering-vaguely is coming to visit me in January and I am frickin' PSYCHED

[danishprince]

sauntering-vaguely replied to your post:defying-augury replied to your post “(my birthday...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

thank you!! :D

[wearemarvels]

Once you receive this, you have to say 5 nice things about yourself publicly and then send this to your 10 favourite followers!

costumecanuck also sent this to me, so I guess it's a sign that I should probably do it.

1) I was blessed with a natural affinity for understanding and performing classical texts. I've trained professionally for almost ten years to hone my skills, and I'm proud of all I know and have accomplished as an actor for my age. The best compliment I ever received was from a professor at AADA, who said I was the best Shakespearean actor of my age that he had ever met.

2) I'm a generous and giving person, even though I've been duped and walked over a million times. I don't think people are kind enough in this world, and it's always worth it to help a friend or a stranger, even if you don't ever "get anything back".

3) I'm really proud of my education. I'm almost 24 but I graduated from one of the top universities in the US in less than 4 years, with two degrees (a BFA and a BA), I went to an elite acting conservatory, and in another year I earned an MA in a science that I adore. The job markets in both my fields are small and competitive, and I may never work in either of them, but damn if I don't look good on paper.

4) A thing I like/hate about myself is how empathetic I am. It's why I love superhero stories and fantasy/sci-fi so much, because I find it ridiculously easy to immerse myself, and I end up learning a lot more than I ever expect. It also makes me a good friend in times of need, because I'm a good listener, and, if you need it, I give good advice.

5) My physical aesthetic makes me look like I belong in period drama. Put me in a fur cloak and I look like I belong in Game of Thrones; put red lipstick on me and I belong in the 1950s; cut short bob? 1920s. Corset and crinolines? Hellooo Restoration.

... This took me over an hour. But now you know.

[alyosius]

 Man, these things are taking me back to like, the early days of facebook, before my paranoia about surveillance ruined the whole experience, and I love it.  Tagged by the class-A renegade Shakespearian sauntering-vaguely. 

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.  A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle.

Sometime, I might really describe, in full, how this book is a placeholder in my life, documentation of the rift on either side of which I measure my own memories: before and after this.  

2.  Alanna: The First Adventure, Tamora Pierce.

And so did young Alyson discover their fascination with passing.

3.  To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

"Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!"

4.  The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

We had some battered copy lying around our garage for years and years, and something about the cover and the description on the back terrified me.  There was some sentence in a review about gangsters being the American heroes and sex the American pasttime, which seemed to 10-year-old Alyson like the ultimate testament of depravity.  Somehow this weird, uncomfortable association stuck with me all through 11th grade, until I was actually leafing through a copy in English class.  My teacher had just started reading the first chapter out loud to kill time, and I swear, something in me stood up and stayed perfectly still, listening like I knew what Fitz was going to say.  I hope having sex is like reading this book for the first time, I really, really do.  

5.  Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson

See: why I survived high school At All

5.  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

Never thought I'd identify with a character as strongly as I did Scout Finch until I read this sucker last year.  Certain images are just fixed: Cranley's hair swept over his head, Stephen crouched in bed writing the villanelle, the bird-girl, the dinner table dominated by Dante.  I've only read this twice, but it's a collection of absolute images, which, as far as I'm concerned, are perfectly recognizable, knowable in the sense that they are ideas perfectly represented by their art.

6.  My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George

And then I did go to the Catskills, and didn't succeed nearly as well as these books led me to believe, and we all almost contracted giardia.

7.  All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot

See: why I stayed in the veterinary program for an entire year

8.  Another Country, James Baldwin

Closely tied with Invisible Man here in that it was the first time I think I saw music enter prose and inhabit the story.

9.  Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez

Okay, so, I've never actually gotten past the first chapter of this book, because every time I start it I am so fucking mortified by my own science writing I can't continue.  Natural history and social history are treated as one extended landscape.  Lopez made environmental science real to me.

10.  Will in the World, Stephen Greenblatt

It's not really literary criticism, but Greenblatt's a critical scholar and it shows.  This book made me feel like there was something still left to be discovered in literature, that I could access and make new, that this, like science, was an open field.

I don't have ten people lined up, but I'd love to see happilyeverafterattheend, jareths, harrydosh, days-of-reading, and cloudedpages give this a go.  (No obligation, though, of course, and I apologize if you've already received this!)

[space-feminist]

sauntering-vaguely replied to your post:Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have...

(that’s my way of saying you seem cool, mutual follower, let’s be friends, without actually coming to your inbox to say that)

Thanks, you seem cool too. I suppose we can be friends.

...just so you know, you could have come to my askbox. I should not be intimidating to talk to at all. 

[space-feminist]

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.

I was tagged by sauntering-vaguely, which confuses me as I don't believe we've ever spoken. Though we both like Hamlet, which is good enough.

1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

2. The Harry Potter series

3. The Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus series

4. Ghost Ship (a Star Trek: TNG novel)

5. The Princess Diaries

6. Hamlet

7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

8. The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System

9. The Hunger Games

10. The American Girl books

I do not tag because I do not know who to bother.

[danishprince]

icryyoumercy answered your post: okay tumblr, real talk- who would win ...

Tybalt. Kid’s got more lives than a cat. And he’s used to fighting dirty, which Laertes isn’t.

tybaltlicious answered your post: okay tumblr, real talk- who would win ...

this question will haunt me for the rest of my days (I’ll get back at you later with a proper answer)

marcepanowapani answered your post: okay tumblr, real talk- who would win ...

Tybalt.

sauntering-vaguely answered your post: okay tumblr, real talk- who would win ...

Ah man, Tybalt. They have really /really/ similar styles (lots of power, very correct classical form), but Laertes has never fought outside of the training grounds, and Tybalt has a dozen Verona street brawls under his belt. Laertes knows how to fence, but Tybalt knows how to /fight/.

most of you seem to think that tybalt would win, and yeah, you guys have a point, especially regarding the fact that tybalt really knows how to fight in brawls whereas laertes, as far as we know, has only ever fenced in a more structured training environment.

plus there's the fact that tybalt kills mercutio by actually stabbing him with his sword. laertes only kills hamlet because the tip of the sword is poisoned. so if there's no poison around, i think i'd say tybalt as well.