“Is this what it means to be the best, Alex?”
DOGMA (1999)
dir. Kevin Smith
Round 3, side A
Best book siblings?
Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie (Chronicles of Narnia)
Propaganda under the cut
Round 3, side A
Best book siblings?
Ponyboy, Darry and Sodapop Curtis (The Outsiders)
Meg and Charles Wallace and Sandy and Dennys Murray (A Wrinkle in Time)
Propaganda under the cut
Round 3, side B
Best book siblings?
Jake and Tom Berenson (Animorphs)
Gregor, Margaret « Boots » and Lizzie (The Underland Chronicles)
Propaganda under the cut
bookish question of the week !!
🐚 if you could erase one book you’ve read from your memory completely, what would it be?
growing up is an endless process of me looking back at younger versions of myself and being like…. wow she was so young. but look how well she did with what she knew
how lovely to think that there is a future me out there thinking this exact same thing about present me
hey, we made it this far - we can handle what’s next
bringing my little typewriter to work with me is always fun because so many customers do a double take and go "what on earth is that" and then i get to infodump about my best friend the neo alphasmart 3000 who has seen me through many dangers
That is such a fascinating device!
Does it just store whatever you're typing on a memory device?
(cracks knuckles) okay SO! this is essentially just a portable keyboard with a screen, it has eight blank documents available to work in (you navigate between them by pressing the file keys at the top). "home" takes you to the top of the page, "end" takes you to the bottom, ctrl-w displays the word count. once you're done with a file, you connect the keyboard to your PC using a cable and press "send" and everything you've written is transferred over. it's an absolute godsend for people like me who get distracted within seconds when writing on a laptop or a phone. you can adjust the text size, but i keep it large because it stops me from going back and editing what i've written. (i'm a firm proponent of the "write now, edit later" method - my first drafts are always crap and i typically don't read through them until the whole thing is done.) also you can pour superglue into it and it still works fine which is a great quality for any electronic device
We used to use these at the college journalist conferences I went to and they rule.
hey writers with ADHD, a suggestion for you. it's much easier to access the Hyperfocus Superpower when ten bazillion other things online aren't pulling at your attention
I've looked into such devices recently - heck, my best writing laptop ever had a tiny built-in screen only a little larger than this
typewriters are making a comeback, too, plus they're available in digital form for easy file transfer
Ya know when people told me "when you're finally safe enough that you can leave survival mode and start to let go of and process your c-ptsd/trauma things are probably going to get really, really bad before they slowly start to get better" I thought that was reasonable. I did not understand that by "things are going to get bad" they meant "you're going to find yourself in the worst mental state of your entire life, but dw, that means it's working" and tbh I simply wish someone had been more clear.
Not letting these stay in the tags, damn.
Let yourself be Goop.