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Oh look.

I seem to have found another one. ::asinine voice:: Funny how these things just keep popping up.


Which Buffy Musical Song Are You?
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... And they say the B/A-ers have the stronger internet fan-base. Riiight. I typed "buffy" into the quizzila and got about ten quizes, with three being specifically Spike or B/S-centric. I typed in "angel" and got about four results, only one of which hadn't already been listed under "buffy", an it wasn't relationshippy at all.

geekdom

Heh. Heh heh. heh.

You are 22% geek

OK, so maybe you ain't a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you're probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

explosives

Take the What Explosive am I? quiz by PhoenixSpirit001

I ahve no friggin idea what that's supposed to say about me. Maybe that I'm overall non threatening but can be very pointedly nasty? That I'm a surprise that blows up in your face and leaves you horribly scarred if you underestimate me?

I don't know.

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"You laugh at me because I'm different.
I laugh at you because you're all the same."

That was written on the black t-shirt of a boy that just walked past. I wanted to tear it off his overly-buff chest and run away with it.

writing

The following are the most important things I've learned so far about writing, complied from my muddled brain and its recollection of 13 years of public school English, as well as movies, conversation, an inordinate amount of books as a kid, and an overabundance of internet fanfiction:



1. The key to diction is conveying the most amount of meaning with the least amount of words.

2. Variety in sentence structure is the difference between comic book dialogue bubbles and people like Stephen King, Tolkien or Mary Shelley.

3. Grammar rules can never be broken, but they can be skillfully bent and twisted beyond all recognition, and come out the better for it.

4. There is nothing that is so instantly disatisfying to see in a story as rapid unexplained change in tense. It ruins everything.

5. A good thesaurus, above all people or things in this polluted little world, is your best friend.

6. If you want to use a word but you're not 100% sure what it means, you should look it up and save yourself from some extreme embarrassment later.

7. Never use the same word twice in a sentence, unless it serves a particular purpose in the idea/meaning that sentence is mean to convey.

8. Like in art, not every piece written by a famous author is sacred. Some it is crap written back when the famous writer was normal person.



... and this is me wasting time because I don't want to revise my story homework in fiction writing class.

Deja Vu

Here's the semi-autobiographical short story I'm about to turn in for my fiction writing class. Title:( Deja_Vu )

And before you ask, yes, my grandma Marje is a bit weird. But she's also my favorite. The fiction aspect here, or semi-lack-thereof is iffy, and difficult to explain. But I doubt my instructor will care.

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I've been listening to Linda Rondstat's 'Long Long Time' on repeat for nearly a half hour now.

I think I'm going to cry now.


On the plus side, there's a new Buffy tomorrow night.