March 2012
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Your Voice As I Fall (Brittana)
Tonight, my head is in your lap as the night floats in your room and you slowly paint my skin with your fingertips. I’m tired so I’m afraid to close my eyes. I’m crumpled up as close to you as I can be as you lean back against your headboard.
I haven’t seen you enough today. One of your hands is warm in my hair, the other traces my fingers and palm, the inside of my wrist,...
“Time is constantly passing. If you really consider this fact, you will be...”
– Norman Fischer
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"Solitude" by Anna Akhmatova
So many stones have been thrown at me, That I’m not frightened of them anymore, And the pit has become a solid tower, Tall among tall towers. I thank the builders, May care and sadness pass them by. From here I’ll see the sunrise earlier, Here the sun’s last ray rejoices. And into the windows of my room The northern breezes often fly. And from my hand a dove eats grains of wheat… As for my...
Student of the Written Word: John Steinbeck’s... →
1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Write one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with floe and rhythm...
February 2012
174 posts
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“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a...”
– Stephen Fry
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hangedlikeadog asked: Forgive me if you've already discussed this, but what's your dream garden, inside and out? What would you grow? What would you do in it? What's your favorite thing about gardens?
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theinfernaldesiremachine replied to your post: What I’m getting from all of your answers is that you’re a fairy. Maybe Tinkerbell, or something else very sparkly and cute.
It wasn’t really her fault, though; fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
Oh my god, yes. I forgot. But now I must assume that I am...
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lajeunefilleenfleur asked: Which makes you happier: puppies, or gardens?
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confusedanon asked: Thanks for your answers! Would you elaborate on the puzzle? I'm particularly interested in how you put images together. To what extent do you study the piece-the shape of the knobs and the cutouts, the particular shading and the way it is oriented and its relation to the other pieces? My question may not make sense. Can I ask an unrelated question? Is there a book that once you were finished...
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a-considerate-clown asked: The odd numbers. You don't have to answer all of them, if you don't want to. And i'm going to stop typing befor I get even more akward. Um so yes the odds if you want to.
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i-just-have-a-lot-of-feelings asked: What I'm getting from all of your answers is that you're a fairy. Maybe Tinkerbell, or something else very sparkly and cute.
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youreterriblemuriel asked: 1, 3, 4, 7, 20, 23, 27, 30
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iheartbrittana asked: Proust Questionnaire - 1, 4, 5, 7, and 28 :)
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i-just-have-a-lot-of-feelings asked: 7, 8, 15? :)
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fangirlcentral asked: 1,21,30. :)
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confusedanon asked: TMI questions: What is your preferred writing utensil? Pencil or pen? If pen, is there a particular color of ink that you prefer to write in? Does the color of the ink change depending on what you're writing? What is your approach to working on jigsaw puzzles? As a child, assuming you had stuffed animals, did your stuffed animals "live" on your bed or on shelves around the room(or...
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neverindanger asked: Twenty-two has alwasy been my favorite number. If you please: What are your favorite names?
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lajeunefilleenfleur asked: Ooh, ooh! 1, 3, 10, 27, 28, 30 (I'm greedy)!!
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Proust Questionnaire - Ask Away! →
lajeunefilleenfleur:
Your most marked characteristic?
The quality you most like in a man?
The quality you most like in a woman?
What do you most value in your friends?
What is your principle defect?
What is your favorite occupation?
What is your dream of happiness?
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
What would you like to be?
In what country would you like to...
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you...”
– Markus Zusak
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“For indeed my life is a perpetual question mark – my thirst for books, my...”
– Anaïs Nin (via troubled)
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Dreaming of Hair (Li-Young Lee)
Ivy ties the cellar door in autumn, in summer morning glory wraps the ribs of a mouse. Love binds me to the one whose hair I’ve found in my mouth, whose sleeping head I kiss, wondering is it death? beauty? this dark star spreading in every direction from the crown of her head. My love’s hair is autumn hair, there the sun ripens. My fingers harvest the dark vegetable of her body. In the...
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Almost-Kiss Sketches
lajeunefilleenfleur:
She smells so warm and soft in her pajamas, even from this far away. From the bar stool at her kitchen counter, you watch her scoop perfect crescents of strawberry ice cream into two matching bowls. She arranges each curl like a rose petal, nesting them tight and parallel.
The pink tip of her tongue peeks through her lips - flushed where she bites it in concentration.
You...
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Silence and the Strength to Face the Tragic: A...
brittanyisinlovewithsantana:
“You have to want to listen to [silence], and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn’t always talk. Sometimes—sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.”
— Danny Saunders, The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
“That happens to me all the time. My lips move but only dust comes...
(I've Never Reached An Answer) I'm Only Given... →
alittlefoolish:
Because it was about time.
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Anonymous asked: Hey, do have like a list of the... →
themostrandomfandom:
Hey, Anon!
Here is our current Brittana U faculty roster:
* Lauren: Head of the English Department
* The Good Reverend: Head of the Religious Studies Department
* kairos27: Head of the Science Department
* Samantha: Head of the Mathematics Department
* Roch: Adjunct Professor of General Brittana Studies
* Muriel: Professor of Media Studies
* Kelly: Associate...
“There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated...”
– Wendell Berry, from “How to Be a Poet”
in Given (via proustitute)
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Crazy Brittanalyst Grab-Bag: Part LXI
themostrandomfandom:
People are awesome. Just saying.
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In which JJ kills me with the truthfulness of her third answer.
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Lima Heights Adjacent: A story we all know... →
themostrandomfandom:
Once upon a time, there were two girls, one blonde, one brunette. Both of them were very beautiful and popular; everyone knew who they were.
The girls were best friends, but for years people suspected that they might be romantically involved with one another. After all, their touches tended to…
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Swimming
gleedcanon:
Quinn is momentarily confused; she thought she was on her way somewhere in a car… to meet Rachel… but now she’s in the choir room with everybody. She thinks something must be wrong; she feels a horrible pressure on her left side, but then Rachel walks in and Quinn gets distracted.
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This is strangely beautiful. And hopeful. (Faberry, Brittana, The Unholy Trinity,...
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I sing the body electric: Laundry →
All of the Brittany smell should be out of it by now, washed clean by her own detergent, blown out of the fibers by the dryer. But it’s not. It clings, stubborn and impossibly delicious, to the core of the shirt Santana holds to her nose, breathing in its warmth and color.
“Babe, what are you doing?”
“Just” - Santana shakes out the shirt in her hands and folds it into thirds - “checking to...
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One of the Reasons I Write Brittany
Darlings, this is difficult for me. In fact, I’ve been trying to work up to writing this essay since the beginning of last summer. There’s the question of how open and honest to be, and there’s the question of how much this will hurt.
I love Brittany for a million reasons. I find out a lot of those reasons as I watch Hemo’s performance, and I find out a lot of them as I...
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“Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I’m beginning to believe...”
– Arundhati Roy in The God of Small Things (via astrangerhere)
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explodinganyway replied to your post: What are your favourite colours?
MISTY GREY!? That’s my colours :)
Hmm. I love mist, and I love you… seems legit, then :)
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explodinganyway asked: What are you most likely to notice when you first meet a person?