That One Girl

Writer. Teacher. Dreamer. Bisexual. MFA Student. Virginia Tech Alumni (BA). Radford Alumni (MS). Lover of literature, puppies, hedgehogs, philosophy, flavored water, diet coke, caffeine pills, and hybrid cars.

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Life--

Brittany Maynard has delayed her chosen day to die. It was scheduled for this Saturday. I hope she continues to choose life.

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I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

Neil Gaiman (via maxkirin)

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Only a few more days until NaNo!!! I hope all of my fellow writers out there are getting their creativity-caps going!!!

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Platonic Male-Female Duos for Nano--

I'm going to have a same-age-male-female-friendship in my Nano novel that is completely platonic. I hope that any potential readers understand that men and women can be friends and not lovers.

I have so many wonderful male friends that I'd never get into bed with. So there's that.

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Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

John Wooden (via maxkirin)

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This song is actually about me. My wife, Tove Lo, wrote it for me!

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Brittany Maynard--Euthanasia vs. Suicide

Why is euthanasia more humane than suicide? The wording--I mean, those words mean the same thing, which word we choose to use in any given situation is simply semantics.

I think that we should have our own choices in life. We should be able to decide if we live or we die. Despite my own beliefs against abortion, we should be able to make that choice too. More choice is always good. We live in the land of the free--but suicide/ euthanasia is not abortion. With an abortion, there is often regret, but a woman can live with regret. When Brittany Maynard ends her life, she no longer has the option to regret. She'll be dead. We can dress suicide up in its Sunday-Best and call it "humane euthanasia," we can make it painless, we can even glamorize a woman's last days on the cover of People magazine--but it's still suicide, it's still death, it's still the final decision that Brittany Maynard will ever make.

I know that it's easy for me to sit here and judge. It's easy for me to sit here and condemn those that choose to die like Brittany. I have struggled with mental illness. I have nearly crossed the one-way road to oblivion, but I've always made it back to the other side--back to life. But I have never been diagnosed with incurable brain cancer. I have never faced certain death. Uncertain death? Yes. Uncertainty of my desire to live? Yes. Fear I may not see tomorrow? Yes. Certain death? No. I have not walked a mile in her heavy shoes, but I know myself. I may not know a lot of things about the inner workings of the universe, but I know myself. And I know that for my family, for my friends, and the person I love--I would choose to fight. I would fight until there wasn't an ounce of fight left in me. I would fight even if I was certain to lose.

I hope that Brittany Maynard rests peacefully when she ends her life in three weeks. And I hope that her family, the ones left to live with her decision to die to spare them suffering, does not live (and perhaps even die) burdened with all the regret she'll never have the opportunity to experience.

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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Stephen King (via wordsnquotes)

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Alpha--Check Mate

I am an alpha. I've always known this. My father proudly declares that he raised me to be an "independent woman." And he did. But I am more than simply independent--I like to be the boss.

In the past, I have dated people that were betas. It always seems like the best fit initially. After some length of time, however, I always get bored. I always get tired of dating someone that asks "How high?" when I tell them to jump.

For me, betas are boring. I was raised by two alphas. I know that loving and marrying another alpha is committing yourself to a life of passion (on both sides of the spectrum). My parents love the crap out of each other and that love is the only reason they've managed to deal with each other for a quarter of a century. Because the other side of the all-consuming love they share is anger, frustration, and constant combat. When I was younger, they'd get physical with each other. Older and wiser now, they use words to wound each other instead (and believe me, the words hurt far worse and far longer).

My entire life I have sworn I would never have a relationship like my parents...but I've come to realize that I'll only be happy with another alpha. A beta cannot give me what I need. Here's to hoping I can find a calmer-than-my-parents way to share a life with another alpha.

Being human is hard.

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No one defines you but you.  

By Artsy Artichoke

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I love this!

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If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it’s real?

Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust (via wordsnquotes)

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My other future wife. When marriage equality became law on October 6, a friend suggested I invite her to come celebrate gay marriage with me in VA!

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I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via quotes-shape-us)

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Source: http://insidetv.ew.com, my edit

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Meet my future wife, ladies and gents!

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Rosie Hardy

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Books--it's a way of being.

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My favorite picture from the internet this week.