… the more books you write. Oh, another is coming out? I fancied I would say. Pray ring the bell for scones.
They lied.
Now that people have Unspoken ARCs I am constantly checking goodreads, even though I KNOW that reviews are not for authors, and THIS WAY MADNESS LIES.
The fact that other people have ARCs and I don’t makes me sad. I’m petty like that.
In other news, David Weber’s main characters always pull on their noses when they think. This, to me, is an odd habit. Unless they have really large noses.
Also it should be noted that Bahzell Bandakson only does this twice in the whole series. Well, nobody ever said he was after being so good with the thinking, now did they?
I remember thinking this so many times during high school and university.
Me too!
Oh, so true!
Neil Gaiman (via booksandnerds)
… My mother asked me to give up books for Lent once. I was so quiet. She wanted to talk and interact more.
Two days later, with me pressed up against the bathroom door and her inside, with forty-eight hours behind us of me being the noisiest person in a house full of… well, my siblings, who played ball indoors and ducked witches in bathtubs, with me reading off the back of cereal boxes and being like ‘POTASSIUM, interesting, let’s have a discussion!’, with me desperate to talk and joke and share ideas and act out stories, anything, anything… my mother begged me to go get my book.
You cannot keep confined to one world a child who is used to being able to escape and adventure through thousands.
(via sarahreesbrennan)
This happened to me too. Well, not the part about my siblings ducking witches in bathtubs, but something similar!
Every Traveler speaks of it in hushed tones, and many of them give it a cutesy nickname: “the Big Black” is currently favoured, but in the past it’s been called “the last,” “the swallowing dark,” and “Clarence Clemons playing flat” (and wasn’t that an annoying week). Most Travelers avoid it like…
I never thought this would happen to someone in my school. Please guys help us. Reblog this and get this known. I can’t even imagine what her family is going though right now :/
OMFG I KNOW HER WHAT THE FUCK
WHO WHO WHO
Commodore, it will get you laid.
Looks like the people who made that ad actually thought a nubile young woman would come up and go “Oh sir, what a big piece of hardware you’ve got there!”
JESUS CHRIST I THINK I HAD ONE OF THESE THINGS
well, it was my ex-husband’s. or really originally his dad’s. but he took it to college with him. it might have been a later IBM thing in a similar case but 5.25” floppy drive? tiny screen? OH YES.
And can you believe we used to access the internet on that shit? NO REALLY WE DID. 1200-baud modem and we could get to all of Usenet.
…none of you remember Usenet, do you?
never mind, i’m just gonna walk on the beach and listen to the mermaids…
Girl I was all up in the usenet. I was mentioned in more than one newsgroup FAQ. I had an anon.penet.fi account. It was on.
That’s right, you’re one of the five people on tumblr who’s somewhere around my age. I keep getting followed by and following all these people who are amazing and funny and clever and they’re not even old enough to drink yet and I start wanting to shake my cane a little, you know?
I completely support shaking one’s cane at the young whippersnappers.
One of my teachers in 1988 was super into computers and he had one Commodore 64 and two others that ran on tape. Cassette tape. He was my favourite :D (I was seven)
Ha! I am a whipeprsnapper hehehe. First computer we got was a 386 iirc, used it all the way through high school. I remember what a big deal it was when hard drives started coming in multi-gb sizes.
And CD’s omigod, and CD-writers!
Fixed it.
Give this ALL THE NOTES please.
Nom.
do you think sea monsters reblog pictures of really delicious looking ships and add captions saying GET IN ME HRRGLARBL
Made me lol. Totally like me!
