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Drabble & Drawble Meme
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May. 26th, 2009 @ 02:28 pm
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Drawble meme
The next five people to comment in this post get to request a drabble or drawble of any pairing/character of their choosing that I am familiar with from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level.
I'm adding a disclaimer for m'self - no Sirius or Pettigrew. Anyone else is fair game. :) |
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Dreamwidth
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May. 19th, 2009 @ 05:05 pm
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I'm now on Dreamwidth thanks to Curia (Ayla) :)
http://serpenscript.dreamwidth.org/
Will do my best to cross-post.
My fics on IJ will always be posted at serpens_fic, on Dreamwidth it'll just be my serpenscript journal.
I will try to continue the drabble series I'd begun before. I've been fighting bronchitis, and I don't have insurance for the meds, which means it's a long, dawn out coughing spree for 1-2 months....I'm living on OJ and onion soup T_T
But I do have a working computer, am slowly getting caught up on fandom, and getting dragged into more things than I ought XD
To Do:
Finish drabble series
Write HermioneBigBang
Sign up for Art BLU
hp_prisonerfest***
Snupin Darkfic
Snupin Sekrit Project
Prompt for Snupin Fantasy Retro Fest
See, I'm crazy!
Signups for PRISONERFEST (http://community.livejournal.com/hp_prisonerfest/) end in SIX DAYS. If you like darkfic, it's a good place to go.
Speaking of Darkfic, it's Darkfic!month at Lupin_Snape! If I wasn't overloaded, I'd make a contribution. Maybe I will anyway, I've submitted something 2 years in a row, hate to break that! :D |
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Catching Up
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May. 4th, 2009 @ 02:12 pm
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After roughly a month without my computer, I have it back! The motherboard had died, and you know how THAT is, when it's a 7 year old computer - replacement parts aren't compatible anymore! So in getting a new motherboard, i had to ALSO get a new processor, video card, and power supply...and we threw in some new memory while we were at it. It's much quieter to run now - and very fast :)
However, I've lost 3 weeks, roughly, at LEAST, of people posting. I'm afraid I've missed sign-ups for at least once fest I was stalking, but I can't even remember which comm it was announced through! T_T It was a dystopian/prison one or something. :(
And I have SO MUCH FIC to catch up on, I'm half-afraid to get started again. Not to mention my HB fic....which is so far from complete I half wonder if it's even worth trying again.
Ah well. It's hard to think clearly with 3 weeks of back-work, a bad head/chest cold & cough, and real life issues. I do have ONE thing to look forward to: I ordered my first ball-joint doll! On sale <3 She's a tiny felixdoll Momo, and she should be here by mid-May :)
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Filehosting Images?
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Apr. 2nd, 2009 @ 06:17 pm
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Hey guys, I could use some advice - I have an assortment of adult fandom art done for different fests; I'd had them hosted in a private Imageshack account, but it seems the TOS has changed/become more strict, so I need somewhere else to host (as in, they purged my account). Any suggestions? |
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The Pimp-Your-Fic-Journal Meme!
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Apr. 1st, 2009 @ 09:26 pm
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How it Works: Get people to read something, whether it's fic, drabbles, or WIPs. Get them to comment on it! Because everyone knows it's comments that keep us unpaid writers writing. Comment should say something about the writing, and include a person/pairing and a one word prompt.
For every person who comments: a 100 word drabble with their pairing/prompt.
Or: Comment on several prompts, or go-all-out with a review, reccing, pimping your journal elsewhere: 500-1000 word fic with choice of pairing, brief prompt, and rating*
Lastly: Tag five other people to take up the torch!
My fic Journal is new and has, I think, one friend T_T So I might offer a drabble for friending, assuming people won't friend for the drabble and then unfriend. I wrote my fic journal for people to friend without worrying about disagreements over personal or political beliefs.
I know *I* need to work on commenting too, and it doesn't help that I am active in fandom one month and then disappear the next. So I'd love to see others take up this meme too, though I don't mind if people modify it.
People to tag: hmmm, no idea o_O Aha ha, I'm already failing at my own meme! Baaaaaaaaa....
(*restrictions: will not write over PG-13 for minors)
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More Drabble-age
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Apr. 1st, 2009 @ 04:25 pm
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I re-wrote Ghosts when a little less sleep-deprived, it's better now - I think?
"Ghosts"
Also parts 1-3 of a new Harry/Draco drabble series has started, with an eye towards daily posts to completion.
Title: Definition of 'Free'
Pairing: Harry/Draco, background Ron/Hermione
Rating: will vary, up to R
Warnings: slavery, slash
Word Count: each part is 200 words
Part One
Part Two
Part Three |
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*Gasp* Drabble-age?
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Mar. 27th, 2009 @ 01:09 am
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Trying my hand at writing again. FOr some reason, this came to mind at 1-sleepy-am.
Title: Ghosts
Pairing: Neville/Luna
Rating: G
Word Count: 300
Mostly Neville found he didn't mind losing his memories, not when it meant forgetting the horrible things that had happened - things he was only able to guess at, later, from reading newspaper articles and looking at the photographs thrust at him, all in hopes of jogging a memory that, recalcitrant, refused to return.
His Grandmother dragged him to visit his parents, all apparent pride vanished, full of nothing but hot air and bitterness that he had forgotten everything he owed his parents.
He knew he had lost a lot of bad memories, but he was fairly certain, too, that he had lost a lot of good memories, too. Especially when Luna came to talk to him, in her distant abstract manner. It was to her he confessed the strange phantom-memories he had. "When I walk around Hogwarts, I don't know the place at all; but still my feet feel like they've never walked anywhere else, and when I'm in the greenhouse and close my eyes and breathe, I sometimes feel like if I open my eyes, my memories will be staring right back at me."
She'd responded by asking him if it'd be a venomous tentacula or a Mimbleous Mimbletonia. He'd snorted a laughter and said it was likely a mix of both, if the Daily Prophet had it half wrong and the Quibbler half right. He was surprised he remembered the two plants.
Later, Luna had suddenly interrupted their perusal of the latest copy of the Quibbler to look at him intently, dreamy eyes unusually focused. "It's normal, you know; memories, like people, have ghosts. Some people find ghosts scary, but I actually think they're quite reassuring." She smiled, "In a way, I think it's our memories telling us we haven't - quite - lost something very precious."
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Christmas and fests
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Dec. 27th, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
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So far I have received all but one of my fests due - and the one I haven't I won't, because the Mods are inhuman and don't accept actual emergencies as, y'know, EMERGENCIES. It's their loss, but I'm definitely not going to hold back from telling the person who SHOULD have received from me, "This was going to be your art, blame the Mods for not getting it". Cruel, but maybe it'll kick some sense into the Mods heads.
I'd give it to her anyway, except I'm very much of the mind that as it was done in an exchange, that I want something in return for it, damnit! I worked hard to cater to someone's wishes, and I was supposed to get something in return. And because of life out of my control, I got seriously cheated. So any advice? What SHOULD I do with it? It's Snarry art (was for the Snarry Swap).
Anyway, Christmas - wasn't as bad as i thought, though I had to grit my teeth a few times. Church paid for counseling, because I needed to learn to deal with certain people without melting down (re: MiL and violent BiL). I was afraid that by getting help for myself, they'd see it as me admitting ALL the problem was me, and none of it their own. And that's EXACTLY what they did, of course. *sigh* I did learn some good ways of dealing with them, but their smug "I'm right and you admitted you were wrong" attitude really makes me want to wax violent on THEM. Yea, I need to deal with my fear issues and my struggles to communicate with them - but THEY need to deal with their control issues (MiL) and violence/anger issues (BiL). ARGH.
At least MiL will be GONE soon....anyway, Christmas. I and the MiL were really the only one to 'give presents'. Ostensibly because no-one else could afford to (and I'm PRETTY sure we're the worst off financially of everyone, but I found serviceable, enjoyable presents at a Bloody Dollar Store, I'm sure they could have, too). The boys all got to pick out their own gifts, but us girls didn't have a choice - she wanted to buy girly things, so girly things were what we got. .....come on, a PEDICURE KIT? I'm almost 30 years old. I think I've outgrown those kinds of things! It wasn't even an adult-looking kit! And badly-scented candles, oil scent infusers in more sweet girly scents,stationary sets (like I even have friends to write to!)....the only thing I thought actually NICE was the heating pad stuffed with herbs, so it smells nice when heated. Urgh.
And my hubby didn't wrap anything for me. T_T It made me sad. |
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Dec. 23rd, 2008 @ 01:49 am
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I really shouldn't be depressed that nothing I've done this season has been recced, but I am.
I'm also hating the never-ending snow/shovel/snow/shovel cycle, or the inlaws making me hate Christmas like never before.
I *am* liking the awesome new RP I've found. |
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Dec. 17th, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
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Can I just say I am pissed beyond belief at the Snarry Swap Mods for their utter intractability? Yes, I fully understand the no-extensions rule, but for fuck's sake, I wasn't asking for an extension, it was ONE DAY late, due to extenuating circumstances beyond my own control. I sure as hell wasn't having fun this weekend, I explained why it was one day late - My assignment was COMPLETE, it was GOOD, it was totally what the recipient wanted, and because you're so completely unwilling to overlook ANYTHING, not only do *I* get screwed, my recipient gets screwed too.
I successfully completed a Snarry Hols assignment, a Snupin Santa assignment, two Yule Ball assignments, a Draco-Ginny assignment, Smutty Clause assignment, and a pinch-hit Dramione exchange. And because I was ONE DAY LATE after being attacked by a dangerous family member, even after sharing the extenuating circumstances, you still say,
"Since you missed the deadline, we have no other choice than to give your assignment to a pinch hitter."
That's utter BULL. I'll have to let the poor pinch-hitter taking my place know that they had to rush to turn out something all due to the Mod's intractability.
Merry Christmas, huh? Not only is my 'family' fucked up and violent, I have to deal with idiots online, too! |
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Dec. 12th, 2008 @ 07:54 pm
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Gacked from celandineb.
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment***
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick***
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov***
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace***
Vanity Fair***
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
Zatoichi
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Quicksilver Exposition
Wicked
The Canterbury Tales ***
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray***
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables ***
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
***Only required to read a portion for school, though I have read the full books
Every book read for school is also bolded, because I never once recieved a reading assignment for a book I hadn't already read, something that annoyed my teachers to no end. I once took an Oxford Lit Mayterm course, where we had to read a book a day essentially - and I had read all the books at least once, and some several times. My classmates hit me up for notes T_T What can I say? I was a Biblioholic. When I ran out of my own books-of-choice (fantasy), I read whatever I could get ahold of - which was everything from classics to encyclopedias to textbooks and medical books. *nerd* >_ |
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Reveals are Up!
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Dec. 10th, 2008 @ 06:31 pm
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For the dmhgficexchange at least. This fic wasn't at all what I wanted to be, and it changed/morphed several times while writing it, but I wasn't horrified by how it came out, either. :)
The Tower [G] for </a></a>![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) angelps7</b>
Title: The Tower
Author/Artist: Serpenscript
Rating: G-ish
Disclaimer: Were they actually mine, they might have actually had character development. As it is, they're a mighty fine sandbox. I make no money from them.
Warnings: Fluff, of a sort. Odd conversation. Misuse of Divination.
Summary: Malfoy's gotten pretty good at playing the role of reformed-Draco. Hermione thinks he needs to go a step further.
Notes: I started and abandoned so many ideas. But in the end, I kept coming back to this one. I hope you like it! Thanks to my beta E, who knows who she is. Any remaining mistakes and bungles are my own.
"Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire."
-Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
I. Avarice
If you like it please nominate it to move on to the next round:
http://community.livejournal.com/dramione_awards/24908.html
***Note: ALL my fic and art are now only being posted at my journal for fic, serpens-fic:
http://serpens-fic.insanejournal.com/
I've decided to do it that way for people who may want to read my fic or enjoy my fandom art, but do not see eye to eye with me on other things. I actually had to defriend some people - something that's never happened before in all my fandom years! - when some comments I recieved were downright rude and insulting. It's odd, since - most people don't even READ my blog. I suspect some folks went and dragged their friends into the fray *twitchtwitch*
Anyway, by separating the two, I can filter this one a little more and leave politics and ideals out of the other. Which for the sanity and feelings of all involved is a good choice, yes?
So if you're here JUST for the fic, you don't get along with those who don't agree with your views, *and* you can't agree to disagree without getting nasty about it, you may wish to remove Serpenscript from your friendslist and add serpens-fic instead. I won't feel insulted - likely I'll feel relieved. I *really* hate drama. Thanks! |
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Dec. 8th, 2008 @ 10:22 am
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Life, Part Deux
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Dec. 3rd, 2008 @ 01:30 pm
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Life news:
1) We've found a car! By the end of the week we should have wheels for the first time in almost a year. Being able to buy groceries = pure bliss.
2) Our washing machine broke. Mainly, the agitator isn't working.
3) I only have a few more exchange assignments to finish....maybe 7 was too many? O_O
4) We have a foot of snow ALREADY. Ew. AND a big ice storm - on the biggest travel night of the year (Sunday following Thanksgiving).
5) I got a laptop for $25. It's a Compaq Presario 1200 with a 6 GB HD and WIN98, so I pretty much got exactly what I paid for, but hey, it works. Or it did for a few weeks. T_T Hubby's going to take it apart and try to fix it.
6). The MiL has a serious boyfriend now. She celebrated Thanksgiving with him. It's severely disturbing to me that a year ago we celebrated this holiday with papa, and a year later his grave is fresh and she's celebrating with the new beau. Oh, AND she wants to move with him.
7) In light of that news, we're going to MY parents' house for the Holiday - I haven't been home in 2 years. And listening to them rant about my utter fail-ness as a daughter can't be any worse than some of the things the MiL said.
8) Someone stole our card/bank info and charged $500 in plane tickets to our account. We caught it same day, and informed the bank, but they still let it go through. It was worth a 2 week paycheck to us - why yes, we DO live on that little - it took them over a MONTH to look into it and refund the money.
9) Being poor leads to some interesting things, like eating eggs that expired 2 months ago, and making sandwiches for work with applebutter that expired in *2003* - scary, but it still tasted good.
10) A friend of ours told me to my face that "Adoption was freaky". And whatcha know, I'm adopted??? I told him he better start back=pedaling before I kicked him hard enough to ensure the ONLY way he'd EVER have kids was by adopting.
11) I'd hoped to visit a good friend over Thanksgiving, but he came down with a high fever and was really sick the whole time I was home. So, no visit :(
12) Mom and dad were actually decent - mom more so than dad. I didn't get told I was too fat 3 million times by dad, and he was only a little surly. It was nice to actually get along with them. And mom gave me a TON of felt, so I can do fun crafty stuff! :D Really, I just need a pair of sewing scissors, and a fabric marker or two.
13) During that ice storm mentioned earlier - we were driving mama's jeep back - and even creeping along at less than 10 mph with 4WD, we slid on an offramp and hit the guardrail. Bent the bumper/fender whatsit into the front wheel - the front light plastic stuff was broken too, but the lights still worked. Ugh - I hate that sickening fear, the feeling of the car sliding and knowing you can't stop it and you're GOING to hit, and it's going to be a mess - just before you hit....
14) I hate driving in the city. In the country, pedestrians aren't dumb enough to cross in front of an oncoming car, during an icestorm, when there's no traction, when you're sliding downhill because the whole street is an iced-over steep downcline, and then cuss at you because you somehow just BARELY managed to miss their idiotic bodies.
...life is fun, eh? |
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Oh did I mention our country is going to hell in a hand basket?
If I didn't, let me reiterate - WE'RE GOING TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET.
Nov. 4th, 2008 @ 11:05 pm
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Lots of folks are voting today. Lots of folks are trying last minute to sway the undecided. I know how I'm planning to vote, and no, I'm not announcing it. Why? Because the drawing of lines and sides is ridiculous.
But I can tell you, when I vote:
It won't be based on a person's skin color or race.
It won't be based on religion.
It won't be based on gender or sexual orientation.
What WILL it be based on?
A person's choices and their integrity at making and sticking to choices, even if they're difficult. That and that alone should be a person's qualifications.
Besides, as I see it - either way, the country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
Nov. 4th, 2008 @ 04:10 pm
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Your result for The Which Ancient Language Are You Test... Ogham
You are Ogham, an ancient alphabet used by a number of peoples in northern Europe and still in limited use by some people in Europe as a "secret language". You're all structure and tedious to use, but have outlasted all opposition so far and will likely continue to do so. Just don't expect to be liked. Take The Which Ancient Language Are You Test at HelloQuizzy
That kind of amuses me.
My birthday is this weekend; of course, as luck would have it, everyone and their mother (including mine) will be out of town this weekend, and for most of the month! Happy birthday to me, eh?
I guess I'll count the $300 increase to our escrow and the $50 raise to our utilities bill (we haven't even turned on the HEAT yet, and it's freezing!) as birthday presents. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to get a job and call THAT a present. :(
Oct. 2nd, 2008 @ 10:47 am
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Title: Five Times Books Didn't Have All the Answers
Word Count: 471
Pairing: RW/HG
Rating: PG13 for mention of bits and bobbles
( Five Times Books Didn't Have All the Answers )
Sep. 10th, 2008 @ 10:58 pm
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To those on my friends list who can't shut up about the elections:
Either recognise that being in a country with individuals who can vote means at least SOME will vote differently from you, or move to a country with a dictator. Seriously!
I am SO sick of reading rants about this candidate, that candidate - they're people, you know? I get so utterly revolted and sickened by humanity during election time. I stop reading my non-fandom friends journals til it's well over, except the decay's crept more and more into my fandom friends' journals too. It's to the point I have this vague, ill-feeling dread every time I go to check my friends list.
And the people who say "If you vote X, I can't be friends with you" - are we honestly kindergarteners again??
I hate politics. I always have, and I always will. It brings out the very worst in people, no matter WHICH side you're voting for. It's like throwing a bunch of monkeys into a compound - the poo starts to fly. THIS is why America gets nowhere - no one's concerned with who might do America the most good, or who can bring together both parties (can they be called 'parties' when there's nothing remotely fun about them? Why not call them 'armies' or 'teams' or 'rivals' or something?). Everyone IS concerned with who can dig out the most TRASH on someone.
Someday it'd be cool to have an election where instead of mudslinging, people make daisy chains and have contests on who can dig up the most GOOD about other people....but people just aren't able to get along maturely, I guess.
If you want to defriend ME because I can't stand listening to people bicker about politics, feel free. I reiterate: I LOATHE politics. I loathe listening to people TALK politics. I loathe the level of pig-headedness people descend to during election time. I hate how people lose their humanity and sanity during election time.
And I really just wish people would grow up and STFU.
Sep. 6th, 2008 @ 05:58 pm
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If the world is so full of lonely people, why don't more of them meet each other?
If so many of us are lonely, we should never be alone. It's a sad, twisted paradox....
....that just makes you feel all the more lonely.
May. 27th, 2008 @ 02:53 am
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