Thoughtcrime does not entail death

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I KNOW, I KNOW, I can be really bad at these things, but I like them, okay? Request away!

( Prompt table )

Prompt table! I think this might help me get back into some character voices, so request as many as you'd like. Any character is fair game, considering most of you just know my BT and PA ones.

( Prompts! )

( Books of 2012 )

Rewatching Doctor Who series 5. I forgot how utterly perfect it was.

It is consistently hilarious to me how fast people in Victorian novels form attachments. Rn I'm reading Bleak House (which I'm supposed to have finished by Thursday which lol no I'm only 12% in) and Esther and Ada are just like LOL WHAT. They call each darling and are so affectionate within like, a paragraph! It's SO ODD. But I've seen it in other books I've read from around the same period, so I guess it's just a thing and the Victorians did have those deep, fast friendships and shit but, whatever, I still think it's hilarious.

Hi, can you tell I'm updating because I don't want to read more.


Also I hate when music artists disappoint me. (Lookin' right at you, Lana del Rey.)

You post a "top five" topic, list, category, etc. for one of my characters, such as "five tattoos Jane would get" or "five reasons Bob recycles." Then I'll reply with the answers to all your top 5 ideas. Serious or fun!

DEAR MOFFAT AND GATISS,

I WILL NEVER BE HAPPY AGAIN.

NO LOVE,
RUTH

P.S. TUMBLR, STOP REMINDING ME, OR I WILL KICK YOU IN THE TEETH.

I like answering questions.

Instructions For The Highly Egocentric Interview Meme:
Comment with 1-5 questions on the following subjects:
• To my characters [I will respond ICly as that character]
• About my characters [I will respond OOC]
• Generic RP/writing questions
• ANYTHING AND THE KITCHEN SINK

You can ask more if you want: if I feel overwhelmed I just won't do them all to be honest.

If you can get your hands on it, please read Caitlin Moran's How to Be a Woman. It's magnificent. I fully encourage people to buy it.

And – just as with winning the lottery, or becoming famous – there is no manual for becoming a woman, even though the stakes are so high. God knows, when I was 13, I tried to find one. You can read about other people’s experiences on the matter – by way of trying to crib, in advance, for an exam – but I found that this is, in itself, problematic. For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who – against all the odds – got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero – Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc – and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed. Your hard-won triumphs can be wholly negated if you live in a climate where your victories are seen as threatening, incorrect, distasteful or – most crucially of all, for a teenage girl – simply uncool. Few girls would choose to be right – right, down into their clever, brilliant bones – but lonely.

Then later, in the introductory bit:

When the subject turns to abortion, cosmetic intervention, birth, motherhood, sex, love, work, misogyny, fear, or just how you feel in your own skin, women still won’t often tell the truth to each other unless they are very, very drunk. Perhaps the endlessly reported rise in female binge-drinking is simply modern women’s attempt to communicate with each other. Or maybe it is because Sancerre is so very delicious. To be honest, I’ll take bets on either.

About subjects relating to feminism, Moran says, "And they have to be tackled. They have to be tackled, rugby-style, face down in the mud, with lots of shouting."

But all those littler, stupider, more obvious day-to-day problems with being a woman are, in many ways, just as deleterious to women’s peace of mind. It is the ‘Broken Windows’ philosophy, transferred to female inequality. In the ‘Broken Windows’ theory, if a single broken window on an empty building is ignored, and not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may break into the building, and light fires, or become squatters.

Similarly, if we live in a climate where female pubic hair is considered distasteful, or famous and powerful women are constantly pilloried for being too fat or too thin, or badly dressed, then, eventually, people start breaking into women, and lighting fires in them. Women will get squatters. Clearly, this is not a welcome state of affairs. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to wake up one morning and find a load of chancers in my lobby.

So, yeah. If you're interested, please read it! I've got my hands on an ebook (I needed it for my Kindle as well as my hands, okay) if anyone wants it. I'm not finished with this yet, I just think she brings up a number of good points. Considering her status people will read this and I think that's great, that's important. And so far this is all presented in a nice, humourous way, which is accessible to the broader public and I like that. From what I've read about it, here, it's being read by quite a large number of people and I'm THRILLED with that, although I'm not going to say I agree with everything Moran's written because I don't.

I'm in coherent and rambly today, YAY.

So, I just heard that it's likely Supernatural is going to run for at least another series (so EIGHT!) and I'm like LOL WUT. I USED TO LIKE THIS SHOW, GUYS. I liked it a LOT. Even when it was a bit naff and occasionally not that great, I was still like OH, I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! But I caught an episode on TV and :(


HOW IS THIS STILL ON, I DON'T UNDERSTAAAAAAAAAND


Also, unrelated, and rather than spam your flist by making another entry shortly: I am loving the shit out of TM and all the interaction and all the characters and EVERYTHING. And I knew I had Megan's voice okay, but I usually go into games (when I've more than one) with a character who has a weaker voice, which was Imogen, and I think I'm getting her more settled so that's exciting! So YAY.

MAY AS WELL.

You give me a pairing (or just one character) and a color, and I'll give you a sentence.

Okay, so. BOTH of my external harddrives have died. This is a huge bugger, because I had 1TB full and 500GB nearly full (I DELETE NOTHING, FUCK CONSERVING SPACE). And now I need to rebuild my collection. But the thing is, past the obvious, I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT I HAD ON IT.

And I desperately want new movies and shows anyway. So! Please rec me shows and movies! Absolutely anything goes!


P.S. THE NEW SHERLOCK WAS FANTASTIC, THANK YOU FOR COMING BACK INTO MY LIFE AFTER ALL THIS TIME, SHOW!

so I'm getting drunk tonight. And I won't be here for when it turns 2012 FOR ME (though I will for you lot, probs) BUT ANYWAY

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I am super glad I know you all. I hope you have a fantastic night. I WILL HAVE A GLITTER AND RUM-FILLED NIGHT, I HOPE IT'S AS FAB FOR YOU ALL <3

SO I FINISHED AMERICAN HORROR STORY.


I think everyone should watch this show, pretty much.

I am a terrible person. My friends keep texting me/facebook chatting and shit with me and being like WE MUST MEET UP and I was so thrilled to see everyone now I'm back in the country but at the same time I'm like UGH, but them I'll have to get out of my jogging bottoms because I'll be leaving the house and seeing real people (clearly, my family doesn't count as real people). And I am lazy and just ;____;. Also I have been terrible at Christmas presents BECAUSE NOW I AM POOR WITH NO CASHFLOW OTHER THAN LOANS :( :( :(.

Anyway. yeah. I mean, I'm excited for Christmas. My familial units may be getting irritated because I keep playing carols by King's College on youtube and trying to sing along which, lol, I can't even sing in my chest voice, idek why I'm attempting to sing this shit but whatevs.

I want to do a meme, because I am antsy and, like, idk. I will not fail with this meme, I PROMISE. I am actually here to do it.

Pick one of my characters (past or present) and list up to 3 things/subjects/quotes/etc that you would like me to extrapolate on....AND I WILL EXTRAPOLATE ON IT/THEM!

SO GUYS. I held Megan Jones at tallymarks. I am excited! PLEASE PLOT WITH ME, IF YOU WOULD BE SO KIND.

She is 'spirited.' It's the word I keep using because it's the word she'd prefer. She's lively and very upfront. She tries to speak out sometimes, but she doesn't really manage it all the time because she's very scared. She's friendly enough sometimes, but at the same time argumentative and will snap at people. She really likes being sarky at people, because this is what I like to do so it goes over to characters >.> Megan is also quite emotional. She's totally a crying person and Hufflepuffs will know this and also probably people in her year. I AM EXCITED, BASICALLY, and I want people to plot with me. I have her mostly done at megalith.

SO YEAH. THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY.

I'm really sad I missed the end of BT and was just a general failboat there the past few months, for various reasons. It was a fantastic game and I am so pleased that I decided to join and got to play with all you fantastic people and your marvellous characters. So, yeah, thanks for making it pretty much the best experience of my RP life ♥.



Also, I AM HOME!!! Everyone is making fun of my accent, because apparently I sound really English with some words. And everyone in England was like LOL YOU'RE SO IRISH. Sad times.

I desperately want to do end of BT stuff, but I have so much to do over the next few days and it makes me want to cry. Which I recognise sounds hyperbolic, but it's really not. That said, if anyone wants to log I will definitely be up for that, even if we have to placeholder and go back and fill it in. IDEC. I'm also pretty sure I won't really be around the day it closes, because that's my last day here/my flight home and just yeah. It's so sad.

I'm even going to change my icon so it's not horrific just for this. Even though it's smiley. Idc.