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thewordlover replied to your post: im dressing as a stoner for halloween again
i’m going to be a cloth alien
youre more creative than mee. i had no time to think of anything, so im just going with this. but that sounds cool you should show me pics or somethingg :D
are you going trick or treating?
thewordlover replied to your post: “Finally got to the first episode with Oz in it!”:
O Z
Right? 'who is that girl?'
thewordlover replied to your post: SCREW YOU AND YOUR COOL JOB AND YOUR GREAT BUTT (naw i am only jealuz. u go get 'em)
/whispers/ ha i’m rad. you are, too.
(of course you're rad, we're all rad. the radness runs deep within us all.)
Top 5 fics. :)
*dances happily* thanks bro :)
Okay, in no particular order and with the full disclosure that I really wanted to put Start Quoting Shakespeare and We're Done and An Exercise in Worthless and Play It All Night Long in here, here are my top 5.
1. Family Business aka the Mafia Soup Kitchen AU by luchia
It's basically what it sounds like - John Winchester runs the mob, Sam is a steely-eyed lawyer, and Dean used to be John's second in command before he struck a deal with some people and ended up alive but with serious PTSD. Also some community service that he serves at a soup kitchen, where he meets Castiel, a guy with an even crazier family than his own. All you need to know is that the characterization is great, the blending of au and canon is great, and this has been a favorite of mine since I read it 2 years ago.
2. Odi et Amo by Pouxin
An AU inspired by the Dead Poets Society with the characters from The Eagle of the Ninth. Full disclosure, I've been reading this for the last two weeks, and I haven't finished it because I keep rereading the poetry in it over and over again. Utterly beautiful.
3. The Star and the Catfish/All Things Shining by Askance & Standbyme
These two are a package deal, and well worth time spent reading them. I think it was Askance who was asked what the star and the catfish was, and she said 'It's love.' Poetry, long fics, short stories, the Star and the Catfish are found in many forms, all of them lovely.
4. Taking the Bus to Chinatown by hito
hito writes some of my favorite Teen Wolf fics, and Taking the Bus to Chinatown won out over some of the others purely because Finstock and Mr. Dixon, the despairing home ec teacher are ridiculously adorable. The dialogue in this is golden.
5. How I Survived My Summer Vacation, by Tamika Flynn, Age 12 3/4 by thingswithwings
A Welcome to Night Vale fic with the inestimable Tamika Flynn as the central character, and boy is she fantastic, as is the writing style of this fic. It works in some of the best children's/YA fiction around, and as far as I'm concerned it's all canon. You don't know how good a oneshot can be until you've read this fic.
Eric, Tiana, Nemo, Peter Pan.
Eric: Have you ever helped a stranger? What happened?
Hmm. Well, I gave somebody money for a load of laundry last year because they were short a dollar or so. And then I went home with my own basket of laundry and folded it while watching Firefly.
Tiana: A time you tried the hardest for something.
Well, this is a fun story, and by fun I mean fairly sad. So last year I was on my school's AcaDeca team, and we were a pretty awesome team despite the fact that we rarely studied and half of us were only there for the food. Anyway, in a freak turn of events (I say freak but there were some seriously smart people on our team, so it wasn't too surprising) we won the county competition, taking away the trophy from a rival school for the first time in 16 years! That was awesome.
Now the thing about our county, was that if you won county than you went to state level. We won county, so we went to state, and that was when people really put their noses to the grindstone. We studied a lot, and my particular focus was Language and Literature. I won a silver medal in county for Lang & Lit, and I was hoping to do even better at state, since I had more time to prepare. I studied a lot. A lot. Read the book (Dr. Zhivago) twice, went over the binder and short stories quite a few times. I legitimately tried, and the end result was...I didn't medal. In fact, my score went down at state. So yes, my lovely story of how studying does not, in fact, always pay off in the end. Or something, take whatever you want from it.
Nemo: Your bravest moment.
I can think of two, but one of them is AcaDeca related and I already did a story about AcaDeca so I'm gonna tell the second one.
In 7th grade, my whole class went on a ropes course in this place in the redwoods. A ropes course is basically an outdoors thing that involves a lot of climbing and swinging around in a harness and it's pretty exhausting. At the time, I was utterly afraid of heights. I actually thought that I wouldn't do any of the activities, because I was petrified at the thought of climbing anything.
The first activity we did was climbing this big redwood tree, to a platform 90 feet up in the air. From there we clipped our harness onto a rope and flew across the forest and hopefully not into a tree. Personally, I thought I would just sit back and watch the other kids climb this tree. However, I surprised both myself and pretty much everyone else when I volunteered to climb the tree. And then I actually climbed it. I climbed up a tree using iron bars stuck in the tree, and I shook the entire time because I was going farther and farther away from solid ground, which really was the preferable place to be, and I just kept going. I did every other activity in the ropes course that day (most of which involved climbing), despite my fear of heights. That's pretty much how I got through that fear, and personally I think I was pretty brave. Yeah, it was just tree climbing, but when climbing a tree is something you're completely afraid of, well. It's more than just climbing a tree. It's moving past a fear.
Peter Pan: Something from your childhood that you still love.
I could take the easy way out and say my stuffed giraffe, but I'm gonna go with The Princess Bride. Yeah, it's cheesy and trope filled, but it's a great story and a great movie, and one of the few things I watched as a kid that I still enjoy wholeheartedly now.
Thanks for the asks!
02, 04, 11, 16, 17, 29, 30, 34.
2: what on your body is hurting or bothering you?
As of this writing, I am recovering from the attack of the mysterious insect and have probably about twenty bug bites of unknown origin that are slowly healing and all I can do is attempt to not scratch.
4: what are you listening to?
People making stupid amounts of noise out in the courtyard of my apartment building. Also Near Death Experience by Andrew Bird.
11: are you seriously happy with where you are in life?
I think that “seriously happy” may be an overstatement. There are things that I still want to accomplish and have a lot of work to do to get to, but I think all things considered I am in a pretty good place for the time being. (Ask me again in a month when I’m unemployed. The joys of TV production! On the other hand I’m also whining that I can’t wait for this job to end. So go figure.)
16: are you friends with any of your ex boyfriends/ girlfriends?
I’ve only dated one person prior to my current partner, and we don’t talk anymore. We weren’t really friends prior to dating, and the reason I broke up with him was because, among other things, he had a personality and sense of humor that I didn’t enjoy being around. (Plus really awkward manners. Plus he was weirdly obsessed with the fact that I’d never dated anyone beside him? Also there was zero physical chemistry and I was getting pretty grossed out by having to kiss him.) I deleted him from Facebook and my phone and actually don’t even remember his last name anymore.
17: what is on your wrists right now?
Right now, I’m sitting in bed in my pajamas, so there’s nothing on my wrists. Usually, I wear a watch on my left wrist and nothing on the right, and I take it off whenever I have to type anything for an extended period of time because it’s not comfortable to me to have it knocking against the table or the base of the laptop.
29: how late did you stay up last night and why?
I was up until a bit past 4 AM last night. I got off work at 3 and got home around 3:20, and then I was writing a letter to Reid rambling about how my day went and what my plans for later in the are.
30: when was the last time you talked to one of your best friends?
The last time I talked to my roommate was last night at work (we work on the same show right now) telling her that she should go home and go to bed instead of passing out on the couch in the side office all night (I was reinforcing a message from the guy whose office she was asleep int). I texted nerdy pickup lines with a friend from high school and one of my college roommates last night.
34: are you a patient person?
I like to think that I am patient about most things and pretty zen, but there are some situations where I really just hate waiting - I hate standing in lines at the airport or to get off of a plane. I hate when I am in a hurry and a task takes longer than it should. I hate when someone tells me they’ll be right back and vanish for twenty minutes.
Perhaps this is a little melodramatic, but you're my comrade in the Vanessa Gottlieb Strife. :)
Lord, this is a struggle. =_=
so many basic people, whyyyyy
thewordlover replied to your post“i want to change my sidebar image/gif but what to???”
Will Graham, community (the group), maybe Mako? :)
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lucy liu
mhm okay--thank you for your suggestions a+ job you guys good work
