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Random Thoughts/Things?
Random Thoughts/Things?
I wasn’t really sure what to call this thread, but I’ve had this idea floating around in my head for awhile now. Basically, anyone can post anything here. Any random thought you have, any random thing that happens to you, any random question that pops into your mind. Have fun, and don’t be afraid to be random.
submitted by Leeli
(January 11, 2019 - 8:20 am)
(January 11, 2019 - 8:20 am)
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater: urban fantasy with welsh mythology, sentient forests, incredibly developed characters, and light romance.
The Nevermoor series by Jessica Townsend: incredible worldbuilding and complex characters. kind of whimsical, but it does have some darker themes.
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: this was already recommended and i'm sure you've heard of it before, but it's really good! complex and detailed worldbuilding, morally gray characters, heists, and banter; need i say more?
The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer: i've only read the first book (Cinder) but if sci-fi fairy tale retellings with fantasy elements mixed in are your thing, I'd give it a shot :)
(May 9, 2023 - 7:54 am)
Y'all~ I got some threads that don't deserve to dieeeeee :>
> Flip the script, from Spellbound (love xem<3 )
http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/509264
> Peer editing Thread, from Lupine (It's been a while since I've seen them?)
http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/506863
> World-building and Writing, also from Spellbound
http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/511827
> Dead (as in incomplete) Stories, by Starli (miss her :'( hope she's doing well)
http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/509262
> Writing Contest, brought to you by pangolin (also not as active anymore :( )
http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/483940
> THE PROMPT EXCHANGE, presented by yours truly!!! I love that thread lol, so much creativity and engagement
http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/502014
OK those were a bunch of Inkwell ones, but also pls also visit (and hopefully post!) on the Avatar (no, not the movie(s)) thread by Kitty Cat (just saw them around for the first time in a while!!), Pudding's Place
http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/puddingsplace/node/508361
That's all for now! :)
(May 8, 2023 - 9:51 am)
I mean, I'd say I'm still fairly active, though life has been a little busy lately..
Anyway, I'd happily revive the Writing Contest! I'll do it as soon as I finish this comment, in fact :D
(May 8, 2023 - 12:21 pm)
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HIIIII! I haven't been on as much as usual lately, so maybe I just missed your comments much then. Nice to see you're still around! :)
And yayyyy more writing contest!
(May 9, 2023 - 9:54 pm)
Hiii! It's nice to see you too :)
(May 10, 2023 - 6:09 am)
Oh I forgot about the peer-editing thread! Maybe I'll post some of the novel I'm writing there and critique a few other stories.
(May 8, 2023 - 1:08 pm)
I feel so non envolved bc I haven't been one here super long.. :)
Those older threads sound cool though.
(May 8, 2023 - 4:21 pm)
I was talking to my girlfriend yesterday. And I had the idea to tell my parents about my sexuality two days after my birthday (the third of july). She thought that was a good idea. I was also thinking of telling my parents about my relationship with her (they don't know).
She thinks the sexuality thing is a good idea. But the relationship thing..she responded by saying "I don't know if I'm ready for a committed relationship. I've never been in one." So I say ok. I respect these wishes, I do...but. A while ago, she and I were talking about a character. I said simped for him. She responded by saying you know you have a girlfriend right?
And now with what she said...it just feels like I'm being played with. If any of you have been in a situation like this, do you have any advice for me? (I sent her something about this yesterday. I'll update you all on her response).
(May 9, 2023 - 6:16 am)
From what you said, it doesn't seem like you're being played with. Feelings are just very complicated.
(May 9, 2023 - 10:31 am)
math is my archenemy but i realized that i'm not actually as bad at it as i always say i am; i just viscerally dislike it. i like the word "viscerally," but i always have to look up what it means. tell me, do you put the quotation marks inside or outside the comma? this is a Great Enigma i have yet to solve. oh, the fascinating idiosyncrasies of the English language. I enjoy being verbose. this is possibly the most digressive (that's a word, right? (even my sentences about being digressive are digressive)) paragraph i have written.
i read on the Internet somewhere that Suzanne Vega wrote "Tom's Diner" partially because a photographer friend of hers had told her about a feeling he had had, of being an observer and not a participator in life. and i think that song does really capture that feeling quite well. everyone around the narrator is absorbed in someone else, or themselves. anyway, i bring this up because i kind of feel like that myself, sometimes. everybody else is living and doing and i'm just kind of... existing. that person in the back of the room who's always reading a book. reading itself is a very observant thing. you're dropping in to stare at the fictional lives of other, fictional people. English is so weird: if i hadn't added a comma, that sentence would have implied that you are fictional.
if they ever make it an Olympic sport, i could digress for America. this post probably isn't intelligible, but it's definitely random.
(May 9, 2023 - 10:47 am)
Just everything about this: yes.
(May 9, 2023 - 12:02 pm)
did you know bone china is actually made of bones??
(May 9, 2023 - 12:35 pm)
*stares at post*
I have no idea when bone china is but nevertheless, I'll be avoiding it.
(May 9, 2023 - 2:22 pm)
I'm gonna be that one person who goes "well, technically..." at the end of every single sentence everyone else says. Which can be super annoying sometimes but here I go anyways:
Well, technically, it's only sometimes made of bones, and even then it's not really bones, it's really bone ash. Bone ash is actually made from bones, but it isn't actually bones. You make bone china by mixing china clay, china stone, bone ash, or a mixture of all three with porcelain clay and then you fire it at a lower temperature than other porcelain.
All of that I just learned from the google snippets feature in about three seconds so I don't actually know how reliable that is, but oh don't you just love being that one annoying person who says "well, technically..." all the time but actually has only three seconds' worth of experience on the topic.
(May 9, 2023 - 3:36 pm)
Haha, yeah. I read the same google articles you did :) and while I agree they're not technically always totally really made of bones, they are APPROXIMATELY MADE OF BONES AND HEY IT'S COOL
I'm sorry if I gave false information, that wasn't intended...
(also I am that kind of person too, so full respect to you and no annoyance felt)
(May 9, 2023 - 6:06 pm)