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Author Topic: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)  (Read 16190057 times)

Sappho

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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118380 on: December 23, 2013, 09:05:55 am »

I wrote an "ask" message to Neil Gaiman on Tumblr last night:

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Just reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane. It's very upsetting but also very important, somehow. Thinking about you as an author and a person, and realizing that you have really changed my whole life, in very tangible ways. Yet you don't even know I exist. So... Hello! I exist. I am a person whose life you changed. Thank you for being you in a world that constantly pushes us all to be someone else. And for making me feel like I can be me, too.

He really has changed my life. Written books that helped me survive very difficult times, published advice that pushed me to become a writer for real, and more. I know the guy gets countless messages every day and I didn't expect a response.

But... I got one. Just "Hello. Thank you." But... He read my message! And he considered it worthy of a response! Neil Gaiman wrote to me!

I've never been a giggly fan girl, but right now I look like a 12-year-old meeting the Backstreet Boys, or whatever it is 12-year-old girls are obsessed with these days.

I asked him on twitter if it's bad that I couldn't handle ocean at the end of the lane and had to stop reading.

He gave me a one word reply "No."

That book was fucking painful to get through, no doubt. And it gave me nightmares. Still, it was brilliant, like everything he writes. And it's amazing that he actually writes back to people. I've written him a couple of times before with no response, so I was really overjoyed to get this one.

The same fingers that typed Neverwhere typed three words to me. And he even thought about me while he was doing it. *swoon*

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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118381 on: December 23, 2013, 09:51:14 am »

I wrote an "ask" message to Neil Gaiman on Tumblr last night:

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Just reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane. It's very upsetting but also very important, somehow. Thinking about you as an author and a person, and realizing that you have really changed my whole life, in very tangible ways. Yet you don't even know I exist. So... Hello! I exist. I am a person whose life you changed. Thank you for being you in a world that constantly pushes us all to be someone else. And for making me feel like I can be me, too.

He really has changed my life. Written books that helped me survive very difficult times, published advice that pushed me to become a writer for real, and more. I know the guy gets countless messages every day and I didn't expect a response.

But... I got one. Just "Hello. Thank you." But... He read my message! And he considered it worthy of a response! Neil Gaiman wrote to me!

I've never been a giggly fan girl, but right now I look like a 12-year-old meeting the Backstreet Boys, or whatever it is 12-year-old girls are obsessed with these days.

I asked him on twitter if it's bad that I couldn't handle ocean at the end of the lane and had to stop reading.

He gave me a one word reply "No."

That book was fucking painful to get through, no doubt. And it gave me nightmares. Still, it was brilliant, like everything he writes. And it's amazing that he actually writes back to people. I've written him a couple of times before with no response, so I was really overjoyed to get this one.

The same fingers that typed Neverwhere typed three words to me. And he even thought about me while he was doing it. *swoon*
What was so special about that book (Ocean) o.O? I mean, I read it and I liked it a lot but that's apparently not even half as much as you two liked it...
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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118382 on: December 23, 2013, 09:52:50 am »

I wouldn't say I liked it.

It was well written, and played with my emotions quite skillful, but the emotion it chose to instill was fear and dread.
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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118383 on: December 23, 2013, 10:38:08 am »

Ah. I felt somewhat the same, until it became clear that
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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118384 on: December 23, 2013, 10:39:33 am »

Yeah, it wasn't that I liked it... It was that it affected me deeply and disturbed me profoundly.

I guess it played on a feeling I've had my whole life, of knowing certain things are true and having no one believe me, and feeling like the world is falling apart around me. (Didn't get my autism diagnosis until age 24, and until then everyone constantly accused me of being a hypochondriac and making things up for attention. The anxiety and stress of not being believed caused other psychological problems as well...)

Neil Gaiman has affected my life in many ways, but this particular book just really upset me and gave me nightmares. His other books have helped me through difficult times, though, and his advice and interviews and such have changed the way I live my life and see myself, and have made me a better writer.

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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118385 on: December 23, 2013, 11:16:28 am »

Not sure whether I have written in this thread yet, but I thought I'd share a bit of my life, too.
I just wrote the first part of an exam that is set up in one of the fairest ways that I have come across yet. Not only did they choose to not cram all the knowledge of the semester into a single exam at the end but split it up into two, thus asking things we had done a maximum of three months ago, but they also allowed us to bring any kind of literature, notes, or even the entire script of the lecture. Needless to say, we had 60 minutes for all of it and the timing was pretty fast, but they gave us the opportunity to read all of the questions for as long as we wanted to before starting to write. I wasn't that well prepared, but if I had been, I definitely would have gotten an (to me at least) incredible grade.
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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118386 on: December 23, 2013, 11:26:48 am »

Alright, I'm getting fat, and it's not even Christmas yet.
Time to start exercising a bit.
The reason I'm saying this in the happy thread is that I actually kinda WANT to start exercising this time.
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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118387 on: December 23, 2013, 11:41:04 am »


wtf?!?

O_O
Ahem.

DAMN, SON!
I only got 750, 770 and a 640, and I was proud. One would hope you're ecstatic.
I'm an STEM major, okay? We don't have good writing scores.

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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118388 on: December 23, 2013, 12:00:26 pm »

Gave my sweetheart her Christmas gift, and she absolutely loved it, if her reaction was any indicator. I also met her family, all of whom seem to really like me. Probably in part to me giving them a bunch of pumpkin spice cookies I made.
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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118389 on: December 23, 2013, 12:05:12 pm »

Or they're all allergic to pumpkin and they're just trying to shrug off the attempted murder.
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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118390 on: December 23, 2013, 12:56:03 pm »

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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118391 on: December 23, 2013, 02:12:06 pm »


wtf?!?

O_O
I'm disappointed in you, Sky. Only a 790 in Writing. You should be ashamed of yourself
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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118392 on: December 23, 2013, 02:15:02 pm »

Well. At least I can now safely dismiss all of Sky's academic worrying as complete nonsense :v
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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118393 on: December 23, 2013, 02:23:53 pm »

Well. At least I can now safely dismiss all of Sky's academic worrying as complete nonsense continue dismissing Sky's academic worrying as complete nonsense as I have this entire time, because holy shit Korean schools are insane. :v
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Re: [⑨] Get back to starbound guize. Cirno kickstarting burritos. (Happy thread)
« Reply #118394 on: December 23, 2013, 02:30:42 pm »


wtf?!?

O_O
I'm disappointed in you, Sky. Only a 790 in Writing. You should be ashamed of yourself

You better hope Sky's browser displays abbreviations.
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