I am seventeen. Like in that Winger song from the eighties that no one seems to have ever heard. Good tune. "She's only seventeen... daddy says she's too young but she's old enough for me..." Story of my life. lol.
I like Harry Potter.
I like other books.
Hmm...
I'm in school. I like to write. I like short, choppy sentences. It's a love affair, really (just don't tell my boyfriend).
I have this really deep, sexy, gritty lust for starting stories... then never finishing them. It's a damn shame because I think I write well. I wish I could finish something.
Please feel free to leave me reviews all you want. Really, it's no bother.
I'm writing a novel because I'm awesome like that. It's an allegorical horror using zombies to showcase themes of survival, appreciating life, explore theological issues, and generally talk about why it's so dang hard to grow up in a world full of zombies. It's deep, man. Plus horror is just fun to write. Stephen King is my idol. Also Chuck Palahniuk - that man is sick. He is sick, and I love it.
When it comes to writing fanfiction, there's nothing better than: a canon character / original character romance. I'm sorry. I'm all for deep philosophical issues ('why are we here?') and complex moral dilemmas ('trapped on an island and starving; do we eat Fred?') but romances are fun.
The HP ships:
Oliver/OC (Love my neurotic Quidditch boy.)
George/OC (I once saw an icon that had a twin with a kissy face and it said 'Weasley love you long time.' It was intriguing.)
Remus/OC (He's so smart and huggable. But not on full moons. But then you just want to take care of the poor, cute, sickly boy.)
(NO) Harry/Hermione (Feels too much like incest.)
(NO) Draco/Hermione (Just stop. Please. Please?)
Current Loves: A Clockwork Orange (book, not movie), Fight Club (book, not movie), Zombies (any and forever), Night of the Living Podcast (look them up, they're amazing).
A Clockwork Orange: changed my life. This is one of the greatest works of the modern age. I mean, good -vs- evil, choices -vs- what we're dealt; it's a complex web of moral ambiguity and theological philosophy. I fell in love with the ideas presented and all the background English major-y stuff I get to explore.
Narcissus and Echo
-by Fred Chappell
Shall the water not remember Ember
my hand's slow gesture, tracing above of
its mirror my half-imaginary airy
portrait? My only belonging longing;
is my beauty, which I take ache
away and then return, as love of
teasing playfully the one being unbeing.
whose gratitude I treasure Is your
moves me. I live apart heart
from myself, yet cannot not
live apart. In the water's tone, stone?
that brilliant silence, a flower Hour,
whispers my name with such slight light:
moment, it seems filament of air, fare
the world becomes cloudswell. well.
11 - 19 - 07 - Today I discovered the most beautiful sentence I have ever read: A reluctant elevator-boy went for a box full of straw and some milk, to which he added on his own initiative a tin of large, hard dogbiscuits-- one of which decomposed apathetically in the saucer of milk all afternoon. -- from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It spoke to me for some reason. Lovely book.
12 - 30 - 07 - I just wanted to recommend Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. It's a fantastic work, no wonder it's an enduring classic, and I never thought I'd say something so old could be so scary, but the themes are so inherent to humanity and resonate even in this day and age that it's still terrifying. "Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul of both hope and fear." Lovely.
3 - 7 - 08 - Just finished The Awakeningby Kate Chopin. Not something I would have chosen for myself (AP Lit class) but I really enjoyed it. Good piece of Victorian literature - utterly scandelous by their standards. It's a great character read.
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