really, cat? you have a six foot tall, VERY expensive cat tree and you want to lie in the shoe box that i’m about to throw away? ungrateful is what you are, cat. un. grate. ful.
Reblog if you have mourned the death of a fictional character.
Cf. The Affair of the Black Armbands. (And my avatar.)
I think the reason why twentysomethings are so fixated on age is because we feel a pressure to be a certain way at 23, at 25, at 29. There are all of these invisible deadlines with our careers and with love and drinking and drugs. I can’t do coke at 25. I need to be in a LTR at 27. I can’t vomit from drinking at 26. I just can’t! We feel so much guilt for essentially acting our age and making mistakes. We’re obsessed with this idea of being domesticated and having our shit together. It’s kind of sad actually because I don’t think we ever fully get a chance to enjoy our youth. We’re so concerned about doing things “the right way” that we lose any sense of pleasure in doing things the wrong way. Youth may be truly wasted on the young.
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| — | Why Do Twentysomethings Always Feel So Old | Ryan O’Connell (via kstewarts) |
“Last summer in the bowels of my closet, I found a tiny folded-up piece of paper, which turned out to be an eight-year-old love letter that my fifth-grade sweetheart had written me back in elementary school. It was all horribly misspelled and hilarious, and I realized I must have stashed it away so my parents couldn’t find it. The letter closed with “Plez write bak so i know you feel the same.” So when prom time rolled around, I did. On the same piece of paper, I wrote: “Sorry this response is so late, I’ve been totally swamped for the past eight years. Anyway, I just want to let you know that the feelings are totally mutual and I was wondering if you would want to go to prom with me.” I left the note for her to find during her first period class.”
;________; TOO SWEET
Love: it finds a way. :)
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I need this: a room full of soft rocks.
Why didn’t anyone make this sooner? I hate when people only use the word “said” in stories.
THANK YOU
BLESS YOUR COW
BLESS THIS POST.
CAN I MARRY A POST?
WHO EVER MADE THIS I LOVE YOU!
GOD BLESS
Stephen King, in his book On Writing, basically is incredibly anti-this. I’d explain his reason here but instead I’m going to say go read the bloody book.
I used to take that as gospel but now I’m making up my own damn mind and will use what I feel appropriate where it fits. If I can get a decent resolution on this I’ll probably print it out.
Use those sparingly, really. Said is supposed to be an ‘invisible’ word. It’s especially annoying when writers always go out of their way not to use said. It pulls me right out of the story.
Stop abusing said bookisms.
In most cases, the word “said” would work just fine, and using said bookisms detracts from the dialogue. Avoid drowning your dialogue in phrases such as exclaimed, murmured, shouted, whimpered, asserted, inquired, demanded, queried, thundered, whispered, and muttered. These words make it sound as if you have fallen in love with your thesaurus. If the dialogue is strong enough, “she said” and “he said” will do. If the dialogue is not strong enough, rewrite the dialogue instead of using said bookisms to bolster it.
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You can use said bookisms once in a while. Think of them as those little silver candies you use for decorating cookies.
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If you decide to use a said bookism for a dialogue tag, make sure it’s physically possible. Can somebody really laugh a line of dialogue?
Quotes from “Stop Using Those Said Bookisms,” the Editor Shrieked: The Use and Abuse of Dialogue Tags By Anne M. Marble
As a reporter I can only use said, noted, reported, stated, explained and pointed out. Argued only when there is no consensus and I’m writing about a report and echoed when not directly quoting another source concurring with another. Ruled only on court decisions. My life, *sigh*
NO THIS IS AWFUL BURN THIS NOW SAID IS A PERFECT WORD USE SAID USE IT ALWAYS SAID IS THE BEST WORD DO NOT USE THIS STUPID STUPID LIST. Thesauruses DO NOT make good writing!
Ents never say anything that is not worth taking a long time.
this is how i think of trees
Oh my gosh yes
Omg my love
how about a kitten apocalypse where everyone gets bitten by kittens and turns into kittens lets have one of those
Yes plz
