Beautiful writing, haunting images. I am looking forward to your novel.
Apartment hunting sucks. I will take the poison and say thanks.
I also have a writing partner and I can say that -- it takes a lot more planning, but the benefits easily outweigh the problems. Instant feedback, fresh enthusiasm when you are out, twice the chance to spot the bad bits, two people doing PR after... I also know many people who cannot write like that BUT do writing experiments with partners, just for practice and self improvement. If you are lucky to have someone, dive ahead.
I want to share this but I am so much afraid that someone will not get the humor and end up spamming my comments with OMG YES BOOKS ARE THE BEST BOOKLOVERS 4EVER and then i will have to cry.
Best of luck. This was engaging, touching and clear.
Why are you doing this to me, Mallory? Did I subtly suggest there is space in my life for another, separate reading list that is, all of a sudden, as desperately needed as air itself? I don't think so yet there you go, making your desires my own.
No thanks for you.
I see your point. On the other hand, I feel that this is demonizing the cane and the wheelchair. Some people use them to get around. If you have dressed up as one of these people, supposedly because you think they are awesome characters, leaving a part of them behind could be considered more offensive.
Dressing as a blind person in general, or dressing as a handicapped person as Jenner did, is disturbing. Disablity is not a game. But cosplaying Daredevil, who is blind, and uses a cane to get around, and leaving the cane out, does not make sense to me. You are effectively choosing to take the disabily out of the hero.
I hope I do not come out as aggressive in asking that, but if you cosplay a character you lift off the whole of their attire. Why would you leave the cane out, specifically? Carrying a white cane around for fun on its own as a prop would be off, sure, but when dressing as a character who is blind isn't it normal? Wouldn't you be cosplaying the character as abled otherwise?
Note that I don't read Homestuck, so I might be missing something.
I think humanity is Adama, and Roslin, and Starbuck and Gaius and a little bit of everything. We do have this little voice tell us to fuck everything and save our skin. But your eventual choices matter more than the various voices. It is normal to see where Gaius comes from but to identify with him means you identify with the choice of thinking only of yourself. Gaius is not bad for having a strong sense of self preservation, but for choosing not to battle it at all for the greater good and instead follow it blindly.
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