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Author has written 257 stories for Hetalia - Axis Powers, Confessions of a Murder Suspect, Harry Potter, and Rise of the Guardians. Hello, lovelies! I love meeting new people so random conversations are always welcome. I just got an AO3 and Quotev account and will be slowly putting the stuff I have here up on there if any of you prefer those sites. Plus a Fictionpress and Wattpad account to put up non-fanfiction stuff on. (Trying to figure out which I should use) Tumblr account: northofthenorthwritingsandstuff If I have any errors in my work please please please tell me and I'll try to fix them. HUGS 'u' Stories I finished but now may not upload as I had mostly typed them up on here and they were accidentally deleted from inactivity last year when I couldn't log in for a few months: DISCONTINUED STORIES
Sorry about how I jump around so much, I have ADHD and while I'm good at managing my attention with other things, this is my freedom hobby where I just go write then type up whatever catches my attention...so sometimes stories won't get updated too fast, but unless I've marked it as complete, it will get finished eventually. I'm not getting paid for any of this after all, so I just do what amuses me and makes me happy to work on. Thanks for the patience! Favorite Quotes From Stories, Movies, Books, and Life. "Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language." —Lev Grossman, TIME, July 18, 2011 "Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching" -Thomas Jefferson "I know my ideas are best because otherwise I would kill them!" -Russia (Hetalia, Paint it White) "I once killed a man in his own sleep using a mustache and a grape." -Germany (Hetalia) "Because I am one h*ll of a butler." -Sebastian (Black Butler) "Sometimes I like to ride the goat while I swab the deck! And that's not an euphemism for anything!" -Sealand (Hetalia) "The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself'" -Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "It seems quiet and peaceful here, but for some reason I prefer to assume it's crawling with menace and secret abominations." - Emily the Strange (The Lost Days) "It's school as a general concept that doesn't agree with me so well. Though I should be perfectly honest and say that due to my lifelong efforts at avoiding school, I have only spent 13 days in actual classes. (Summary below.) 1. Kindergarten, Day 1: Horrible shock to my system as I realized that unless I did something to avoid it, my year would be spent learning to stand in line, raise my hand before speaking, and share the safety scissors. 2. Kindergarten, day 2: Was expelled from school due to vandalism. Hey, I was young. 3. First Grade, Day 1: Left school with severe (severely FAKE!) case of scurvy. *I'll always have a special place in my heart for that scurvy, which baffled doctors in three towns by resisting even the most determined doses of lime juice and vitamin C tablet, and kept me happily out of school through the third grade. 4. Fourth Grade, Day 1: Was excused from school due to lice. *Actually very small robots I programmed to stay in my hair until mid-June the following year. 5. Fifth Grade, Day 1: Determined to make a real go of school this time. 6. Fifth Grade, Day 2: Was expelled from school for vandalism. Hey, I was still young. 7. Sixth Grade, Day 1: Dragged myself to classes yet again. 8. Sixth Grade, Day 2: Continued to endure general school-related torment as stoically as possible. 9. Sixth Grade, Day 3: Was excused from classes when a tornado destroyed most of the town. Sometimes you just get lucky. 10. Seventh Grade, Day 1: Started school with open-minded attitude (and excellent Plan B). 11. Seventh Grade, Day 2: With heroic generosity of spirit, gave school another chance. 12. Seventh Grade, Day 3: Was expelled from school for possession of a contraband item. *My trusty slingshot. Clearly, they were looking for any opportunity to see me gone. 13. Eighth Grade, Day 1: Was sent home owing approx. 1 million hours in detention for various "crimes" (mostly sass-related). Later, town officials decided that I did not need to attend classes." -Emily the Strange (Dark Times) "That's when I discovered she wears a corset, which is a demented sort of torture implement that prevents woman from bending, breathing, or surviving childbirth. Lily pointed out that it provides excellent back support." -Emily the Strange (Dark Times) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. ~Henry J. Tillman The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." ~Isaac Asimov A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ~Edward Teller That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong! ~Wolfgang Pauli If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. ~Robert Quillen Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ~Wernher Von Braun There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible. ~Richard Davisson Life begins at forty and ends at sixty-five — degrees centigrade. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western. ~John Reader, Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland “That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day.” ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland “Have I gone mad? I'm afraid so. ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland “at any rate, there's no harm in trying.” ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland “what you would seem to be"—or if you'd like it put more simply—"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "The more I try to fathom it, the more elusive it becomes." -Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. "It's all right. We just accidentally stumbled over a genuine question, and the shock is hard to recover from." -Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. "I never make the same mistake twice. I make it like five or six times, you know, just to be sure." -Internet "Did you just fall? "No...I attacked the floor." "Backwards?" "I'm skilled" -Internet Me: I'm finally happy. Life: Lol, wait a sec. -Internet "I've met some pricks in my time. But you sir, are a fucking cactus." -Internet It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance. Churchill, 24 May 1946 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) I never 'worry' about action, but only about inaction. Churchill, 1940s (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward. Churchill, 8 November 1937, Statement for the National Book Fair (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give. Churchill, 11 August 1950, Council of Europe, Strasbourg (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) There is nothing wrong in change, if it is in the right direction. To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often. Churchill, 23 June 1925 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) In politics when you are in doubt what to do, do nothing … when you are in doubt what to say, say what you really think. Churchill, 26 July 1905, North-West Manchester (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent. Churchill, 21 March 1943 You must look at facts, because they look at you. Churchill, 7 May 1925 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) [A politician needs…] the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year—and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen. Churchill, 1902 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope. Churchill, 1958 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Churchill, speaking at Harvard University, 6 September 1943 I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.' Churchill, 17 October 1959 To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Churchill, 29 September 1959, Woodford, Essex (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. Churchill, ‘Hobbies’, Pall Mall Gazette, Dec 1925 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities. Churchill, 31 May 1935 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) Justice moves slowly and remorselessly upon its path, but it reaches its goal eventually. Churchill, 23 July 1929 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) …I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.… Churchill, 4 November, 1952 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on. Churchill, 1940s (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) [Nancy Astor: “If I were married to you, I’d put poison in your coffee.”] If I were married to you, I’d drink it. Churchill to Nancy Astor c.1912, Blenheim Palace (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) It is no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Churchill, 7 March 1916 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Churchill, address to the boys at Harrow School, 29 October 1941 It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. Churchill, 1898 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) …everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others Churchill, 29 January 1952 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else. Churchill, 9 November 1954, Guildhall, London (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) Things are not always right because they are hard, but if they are right one must not mind if they are also hard. Churchill, 9 October 1948, Llandudno, Wales (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong. Churchill, 26 August 1950, Party Political Broadcast (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) The true guide of life is to do what is right. Churchill, 15 October 1951, Huddersfield (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) How often in life must one be content with what one can get! Churchill, 26 December 1943 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) Success always demands a greater effort. Churchill to Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, 13 December 1940, (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) No one should waste a day. Churchill, 30 April 1948, Albert Hall, London (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) This truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is. Churchill, 17 May 1916 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) Let no one swerve off the high road of truth and honour. Churchill, 14 February 1945, Athens (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country. Churchill, 12 May 1948, University of Oslo War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. Churchill, 1950 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) It has been said words are the only things which last forever. Churchill, 10 June 1909, Press conference, Foreign Office, London (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy, then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. Churchill, 2 November 1949, Grosvenor House, London (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen. Churchill, undated; as Richard Langworth explains in his Churchill: In His Own Words,Arthur Ponsonby quoted this phrase of Churchill’s in a letter to Eddie Marsh, explaining that Churchill said this ‘many years ago’. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Attributed to Churchill (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. Attributed to Churchill (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) A fanatic is someone who won’t change his mind, and won’t change the subject. Attributed to Churchill (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all. Churchill, The Second World War, Vol 3 You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory – victory at all costs, victory in spite of terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Churchill, 13 May 1940, in his first speech as Prime Minister If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time. Churchill, 1919 (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words) [T]he shorter words of a language are usually the more ancient ... Their meaning is more ingrained in the national character and they appeal with greater force to simple understanding. Churchill, ‘The Scaffolding of Rhetoric’, 1897 There is nothing that gives greater pleasure to a speaker than seeing his great points go home. It is like the bullet that strikes the body of the victim. Churchill, 28 April 1927 “When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.” “Is it hard?' “The law of gravity and gravity itself did not exist before Isaac Newton." ...and what that means is that that law of gravity exists nowhere except in people's heads! It 's a ghost!" “I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.” “Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?” “The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values “What was behind this smug presumption that what pleased you was bad or at least unimportant in comparison to other things? … Little children were trained not to do “just what they liked’ but … but what? … Of course! What others liked. And which others? Parents, teachers, supervisors, policemen, judges, officials, kings, dictators. All authorities. When you are trained to despise “just what you like” then, of course, you become a much more obedient servant of others — a good slave. When you learn not to do “just what you like” then the System loves you.” “When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.” “Learning is my daily bread. It is wholly selfish, I fear, but I feel more alive in a community of learners than anywhere else. I am a voyeur, a peeping tom. I like to watch other people doing it almost as much as doing it myself. But unexpected (yet dependable) flashes of intuition or dogged discoveries or familiar ideas enlighten and warm me and make my joy complete. Every day.” – Peter G. Beidler in Distinguished Teachers on Effective Teaching, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 28, 1986 “Skills as complex as questioning, listening and response are learned step-by-step; mastery is a climb up a ladder, not a pole vault.” – C. Roland Christensen, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, 1991, p. 156 "Find the ability to give all you have and then forgive yourself for the places you couldn’t reach." Umber Ahmad We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. - Stephen Jay Gould A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ― Charles Darwin The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. ― Marie Curie Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. ~Admiral Arleigh A. Burke "Its the job that's never started that takes the longest to finish" - Samwise Gamgee “In our fulfillment of …responsibilities toward the arts lies our unique achievement as a free society. Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth of colour.” –John F. Kennedy to Closed Circuit Television, The National Cultural Centre, Washington, D.C. November 29, 1962. “History and our own conscience will judge us more harshly if we do not now make every effort to test our hopes by action…” -John F. Kennedy, Television Address, July 26 1963 Favourite Books of all Time: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Spiderwick Chronicles The Golden Compass, and the rest of His Dark Materials Alice in the Country of Hearts Grimm's Fairytales The 4 Emily the Strange books Plain Kate by Erin Bow Lost Voices by Sarah Porter |