October 2012
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maryirishhoran:
If I ever saw one of my celebrity crushes in real life I wouldn’t approach them. Instead I would pay a homeless man twenty bucks to punch me in the face in front of them. Because based on all of the fanfiction I have read they would then rush to my aid and then invite me back to their apartment to get an ice pack and then I say something cute and witty that makes them want to...
August 2012
2 posts
“Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its...”
– Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
May 2012
2 posts
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Reasoning With Vampires: New Moon →
reasoningwithvampires:
What I hate the most about New Moon: Meyer romanticized suicide. I understand that teenagers (and grown-ups, too) have volatile emotions. A broken heart really can seem like the end of the world. People get depressed and feel like they have nothing to live for. I know. Though I’m not a person…
Meyer apparently missed the message behind Shakespeare’s Romeo...
January 2012
2 posts
“Scholars
Logic does well at school;
And Reason answers every question right;...”
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“Let your smile change the world. Don’t let the world change your smile.”
– Unknown
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
7 posts
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Frankenstein and Eragon
For those who do not know what deus ex machina is, it’s like a magical wand that can solve all of the hero’s problems in unlikely ways. Deus ex machina is Latin for “god from a machine”, and ancient Greeks and Romans used it during plays to smooth out plots. Authors are not encouraged to use this plot device because most cannot use it properly, and the audience often ends...
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“You… an’ me. Ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna...”
– Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
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Ophelia
Am I the only one who strongly dislikes Ophelia? The girl is a spineless wimp! Sure, she deserves to pitied. Hamlet acts like such a jerk to her after all, but that’s only because he feels like she betrayed him. She does, unwittingly. But she should have had enough brain cells to ask Hamlet whether he was seriously insane or not instead of taking her father’s words as the Gospel...
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Maximum Ride
There’s nothing worse then when a perfectly good series suddenly swerves off course and wrecks in La La Land. It makes me want to grab the author by the throat and demand answers.
Take, for example, the Maximum Ride series. The series started out fantastically. I actually really enjoyed the first three books. Seriously, what adventure fan wouldn’t want to read about a group of...
