Memes and LOLs

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15 days meme

Day 01: Introduce yourself. List your likes and dislikes.
Day 02: Make a bulleted list of everything that happened in your day.
Day 03: Smile! We want to see your teeth today. Post a self-portrait.
Day 04: Share your favorite quote/song lyric.
I had a lot of trouble coming up with an answer for this one. First of all, I totally forgot about the 'quote' option and just focused on song lyrics. Naturally. Then, I faced the Herculean task of choosing just one lyrics as my favorite lyric.

I started going through my songs and realized that my favorite songs did not necessarily contain my favorite lyrics. I mean: they have good lyrics, but it's more a combination of the words and the instrumentals that really make the song for me. And then I started thinking: in order for it to be a brilliant lyric, should it have to be brilliant on its own, divorced from its musical context? "For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti" by Sufjan Stevens is one of my favorite songs. I thought it had really awesome lyrics. But reading the lyrics all on their own, none of them struck me as particularly great. And the most poetic lyrics were not my favorite parts of the song: my favorite part is when Sufjan sings "I did everything for you" over and over again at the end of the song. It's the repetition of that one single line, over and over again, that adds this incredible emotional weight that drives home the message: I did everything for you. Can I really say this is my favorite lyric when it's really the delivery of said lyric that stands out for me?

Then I had a Tylenol PM and a glass of wine and stopped asking questions.

I finally decided on a lyric that is not only beautifully sung, but stands well on its own as a quote, a motto, or a piece of poetry. It's from The Weepies' song "Can't Go Back Now":

I can't really say why everybody wishes they were somewhere else,
but in the end the only steps that matter are the ones you take all by yourself.

Truer words: never spoken.

(WARNING: Puppets. But not the super scary kind.)

BONUS:

Day 05: Share your favorite recipe.
Day 06: List 5 countries you'd like to visit.
Day 07: Provide pictures of 5 celebrity crushes.
Day 08: Create a bucket list, whether or not your aspirations are rational.
Day 09: Describe your food consumption today.
Day 10: Share some of your current favorite tunes.
Day 11: List some of your favorite tumblrs.
Day 12: Set a goal.
Day 13: Provide the HEX code(s) of your favorite color(s).
Day 14: Post a Youtube video that makes you laugh/inspires you.
Day 15: Make a voicepost in another language besides your native one.

random images of funny

I've been collecting all sorts of images, gifs, and nonsense oh my desktop lately. In order to finally do something with them and move on with my life, allow me to share the LOLs.


First: I think this is my absolute favorite moment from the two-part opener:

OMG, Doctor, ILU you are PERFECT! ♥

Rory: don't worry. ILU2 ♥


The next few pics are all from Texts from the TARDIS on Tumblr. I spent a good half hour paging through that thing: I am finally starting to get the point of Tumblr, even if it still frightens and confuses me...











Now for Nerdy Book Humor!

I used this on the Book Rec Meme banner already, but it still cracks me up. (And I want this tote bag!)


Not necessarily funny, but: I like graphs. :P














Ok. Yeah, this post was incredibly long, so sorry for that! Now: off to do something productive-ish.

Comments

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I love that kind of obsessive attention to detail: makes me feel less alone in the world. :P

[switchbladesis.livejournal.com]

I'd feel better if the last fic I posted didn't have a giant BLAH in the middle of it. That I didn't notice. For three days. Literally-I just didn't feel like finishing that sentence, typed BLAH, told myself I'd go back to it, never did. This was after both betas had looked at the story, so they didn't have a chance to catch it. I do these things because otherwise, I am not fit for public consumption.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

JSYK: I totally do that! (Write "blah" or something similar in place of actual words that refuse to write themselves.) I'm surprised I've never posted them that way before!

I have an even nerdier story, though: when I'm writing fic, I always type in the HTML tags (bold, italics, and suchlike) as I write so that I don't have to go back and type them in later. (I'm sure it makes it super fun to beta my work!) I post my work to 3 sites: LJ and AO3 both accept submissions in HTML, but fanfiction.net has this weird document uploading system that just screws everything up. They used to let you post with HTML markups, but then they changed, and in the meantime: all of my work was posted with the tags showing. People commented on my work and never mentioned it for months. Very embarrassing! (And annoying.)