1. Malted Milk
2. Jammy Dodgers (the custard ones)
3. Chocolate Chip Digestives
4. Custard Creams
5. Rich Tea Fingers

Watching Before Sunset. AGAIN.

I’ve finished making I’m Not There gifs for today. My aunt & gran came so I didn’t get many done. I’ll finish tomorrow. It’s a stunning film. I’ve got one more to upload. I’m about halfway though. I was going to tidy my room today but it just didn’t happen. Oops.

All is well now. Tea, Regina Spektor & emails from Marth.

I’m crying too. More than I’ve ever cried at any piece of television.

Fucking hell.

[SPOILERS]The most surprising thing to me, was that I didn’t even care when Moriarty died. I wasn’t glad, I wasn’t upset. I just felt like I didn’t care about him as a character at all.[/SPOILERS]

Anyway. Yeah. Incredible television. Incredible acting.

In November of 2010, for the second time I heard someone mention Nerdfighteria at a NaNoWriMo meeting. I looked it up. I bought Paper Towns, I started refreshing youtube every 10 minutes on vlogbrothers days. I met a few fellow nerdfighters here and there. Earlier this year I bought Looking for Alaska. Through Hank’s projects and John’s books, all the knowledge and lessons and laughter I get from their videos, all the inspiration I get from other nerdfighters; I might not have 5000 posts on YourPants, but these 2 brothers have changed my life in lots of small ways, for the better.

I am, of course, an avid reader (+ writer) and I really admire the authors I like perhaps more than I should. But I’ve seen their names around; for book signings and such. I think about it. I daydream about it. I don’t go.

I don’t go because I admire these authors so much and I probably wouldn’t be able to form any words to say to them. I don’t go because there will be lots of other people there. Awesome people full of the same admiration, but I wouldn’t have the words to say to them either.

I’d stutter, I’d shake, I’d hold back tears because I’m ashamed at my own lack of ability to deal with social situations.

This isn’t a post to rant about e-readers or anything, but I value the book as a material object. I like books that are falling apart from so much reading and rereading that people just can’t let go of. I value when I get first editions, or when I pick something up in a thrift store and someone’s written a little note inside it ‘For Julie, Xmas 1986. Thought you’d like it.’

And so, I truly value the little J-Scribble in my copy of The Fault in our Stars. I truly value that the author took so much time throwing out boxes of used sharpies to do something so wonderful for his readers — old and new, outgoing or terribly anxious.

Because I wouldn’t have made it to a book signing if it was across the street.

I heard the thud of it falling through our letterbox. I dashed out to the door, shrieked [yes, the postman heard] and ran into the kitchen, trying to happy dance while holding it, putting the other letters on the side, in front of my mum and gran.

Then I ran up the little flight of stairs while ripping it open, gazed upon it’s beauty while giggling and still happy dancing (my happy dance is little more than jumping up and down, spinning around and grinning).

Then I remebered it was signed. I ran back in the kitchen, opened it, saw my pretty red j-scribble and then shoved it in everyone’s faces.

Then my gran asked who John Green was. And I was like ‘Do you know what youtube is?’

She didn’t know what youtube was.

I had to explain Nerdfighteria to her, holding the book in my violently shaking hands, slightly hyperventilating.

Anyone else got it yet? How did you respond?

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Just felt like posting about it because otherwise I’ll probably completely forget for another 6 months.

There’s a line in Dead Poets Society, when Robin Williams [I’ve forgotten the character’s name] is standing on the desk, and he says ‘I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.’ and then he has his pupils all stand on the desk one by one.

After seeing that, I got rid of my bed which was annoying me, and slept on just a mattress, to see things in a different way. As simple as it was, it really inspired me. I spent a lot of time in my bed, reading or using the internet, and moving that space where I lived most of my life down 2 and a half feet felt like a dramatic change.

It helped me see the world in a new way. Then I moved and got an actual bed again, and that was dramatic too. But now I’m so used to it, to the house and the gorgeous view and living the majority of my life at this height.

Sometimes I find myself lying in bed at night, wishing I’d had the inspiration to create something in the day I’ve just wasted, and I find myself wanting to roll over, and sleep on the floor.

etrelle:

Sometimes I feel as though I was born to the wrong family. My brother just stepped into my room and, having observed that I was reading, said something about me addicted to books. I told him there were worse things to be addicted to and you know what he said? Of course you don’t. I haven’t told you yet. He said, “You’re wasting your time.” This, coming from a boy that would rather spend most of his day sleeping and the rest of it playing GTA. Oh, brother, I love you to death but you are so very, very wrong. 

I am the only person in my immediate family that really reads, has ever really read. I own more books that probably my mother, father, and brother have in their entire lives combined. Even though my books have that certain way of keeping me company when I feel alone, sometimes I feel much, much lonelier when I realize I can’t talk to them avidly about characters and bookish things because they just don’t… get it.

I have this problem too. My brothers are younger, one is autistic and can’t really handle reading. He loves the idea of reading and owning books, but he can’t focus on them at all and so he doesn’t actually read. Another is 11 and already obsessed with keeping up with trends and being what is conventionally considered cool and mature. The youngest doesn’t mind reading if I read to him, but I don’t get the chance to do so very often, and you can hardly discuss Vonnegut or Fowles with an 8-year-old.

My mother is, and I in no way mean to insult her, less intelligent than me with regards to reading and academic subjects, she seems to shun creativity a little, she’s never read and she never read to me when I was younger or encouraged me to do so. I’ve been buying her books with a DVD version of the same book for the last couple of years. She reads maybe 5-7 books per year, but it’s an improvement. So you or anyone in the same boat could try that.

And, of course, if anyone wants to talk about books with me my ask box would be pretty glad of it. Particularly TFIOS which is set to arrive on the 14th.

I’ve recently finished Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5 & I’m currently reading the Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

sinnersmakethebestsaints:

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Before Sunrise (1995)

Reblogging this because my girlfriend absolutely loves this movie, and for that reason I’ll watch it tomorrow.

Picked this particular post because I think these pictures closely match at least a part of our relationship.

♥

I need to get the DVD pronto. ;-;

Only have Before Sunset. But you should definitely watch that one because the beginning is just, asdfghjkl;, you’ll understand when you watch it.

And the end just made me like ‘I’M GOING TO THROW MYSELF OFF A BRIDGE NOW.’ Since I watched it the day after you visited.

I think these movies will be startlingly relevant to my life however long I live. And honestly, they feel like a really personal thing to me because there’s so much I can relate to, so many snippets of dialogue that mean a lot to me, and it scares me when people close to me watch/whatever the things that make me feel like that, because, and perhaps especially with these films, it feels like I’m letting someone into my mind, it feels like I’m letting someone into my daydreams. I don’t think there are many things more personal than daydreams.

Anyway, I hope you like it.

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Top Five Fandoms You’ll See:

• Sherlock
• Doctor Who
• The Hour
• Misfits
• Criminal Minds

Top Five Celebrities You’ll See:

• Amber Heard
• Ben Whishaw
• Benedict Cumberbatch
• Dakota Blue Richards
• Matthew Gray Gubler

Top Three Other Topics You’ll See:

• Before Sunrise/Before Sunset movies
• Lots of books
• Artsy stuff

Do I Make Graphics? The occasional gif, I might make some graphics sometime.
Do I liveblog? Rarely.

My askbox is: constantly empty but hopelessly optimistic.

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