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Lifted from wildelamassu, because she's inspiring like that.

If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else -- this is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s). (Did sort of break the one sentence rule though. Heh.)


Never the point (Saiyuki)
"You know him, and from the way you looked at that picture I'd say you've got a pretty good idea the kind of deep shit he's in."

After the fall (Saiyuki)
Blood stained his lips and teeth,"Well, it' not like I wanted to, fucking, get old."

The Economics of Theft (X-men)
"Nice Daredevil impression you did back there."

"Dat was nutin' more than any good thief woulda caught. And don' be insultin' me by comparin' me to Daredevil. I do red leather a hundred times better than that boy."

"I bet you do." It was okay. The floor could swallow him up and Bobby wasn't going to complain.


(Will edit when I get home to add sentence from the two novels sitting on my hard drive. Meh. Work is lame when it interrupts your writing time.)

Welcome to the Right.

Taken from Sars, and This is Not Over:

Insane. This man is bugfuck insane. Gah!


Cry? Laugh? Both? Rant about freedom of expression and human rights?

*gives little sob* How can a person ever learn that they aren't a hateful waste of humanity if they never see themself, or anyone like them, represented in the world around them? I'm not that old, but I can't imagine how different my growing up would have been if there'd even been a chance that I might have come across books like James Howe's The Misfits. How much braver might I have been? What kind of stand might I have taken?

Books geared at young people, books that say it's okay to not BE like everyone else. We need them. We all do. And those kids growing up queer in places where you're told from the get-go that being "that way" makes you evil, a sinner, bound straight for hell. What will they do with out someone to give them the hope that the entire world isn't that way?

Friday at work means...

I get nothing done.

So I bring you another meme:

Instructions: Take this list of authors, remove those whose efforts do not grace your shelves, and bring the list up to ten by adding some more that do. New paragraph indicates newly-added authors.

J.K. Rowling
William Shakespeare
Terry Pratchett

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tanya Huff
Ernest Hemingway
E.L. Koningsburg
John Steinbeck
Thomas Merton
Agatha Christie