Whinging
HD wrote a poem that uses the line:
“Helen of Troy and the highbrow hotties”
and she won’t let me post it here.
Our living room is “PAPER” themed
HD and I went to Ikea and bought four bookcases.
One, we will paint silver.
One, we will paint turquoise.
One, we will paint gold.
The last, we will mod podge with pages from an old encyclopedia dictionary that only covers letters L-Z.
Yes, I am documenting this process. Yes, there will be pictures. Yes, we will finally be able to move the hip high stacks of books lining our living room walls onto actual shelves. Soon, preciouses.
Soon.
I never thought I would find a venn diagram that so accurately represents my inner dynamic.
(via the-bookiwrite)
One Sentence Pitch: A Brainstorming Session
1. Pretend John Green wrote this.
2. “Pretend John Green wrote this,” Kate said.
3. It’s hard to be optimistic in an apocalypse.
4. “It’s hard to be optimistic in an apocalypse,” John Green said.
5. Ugh, Caleb thought.
6. “Wait, why would optimism smell bad?” Andrew interjected.
7. Caleb hates mostly everybody, but the world’s probably going to end if he can’t manage to pull his shit together.
8. “What the—” Kate said. “Caleb!”
9. They were five teenagers huddled at the far end of a long table in a room that smelled of stale bread and cold disappointment.
10. Yeah, it might save the world, but Caleb’s not interested in trouncing through some runic wasteland with a bunch of misfits—until he’s presented with a wordless dare that could only have been sent by his missing father.
QUERY CONTEST—One Sentence Pitch Letter
Attention writers! If you have a manuscript you’d like us to read please send us a one sentence pitch of your novel. Include the genre as well as the age group it is written for (YA, Adult, Middle Grade, etc.) Make it tantalizing, exciting, representative of your work as a whole. Make us want to read your manuscript. Ends Friday May 24 at 5pm
Like, reblog, follow—get the word out!
Send to either our ask box or our assistant/Tumblr-in-Chief (dburby@hsgagency.com)
“One sentence! Just one?!” she said before imploding.
The glow worm, Arachnocampa luminosa, is unique to New Zealand. Thousands of these tiny creatures radiate their unmistakable luminescent light inside the Waitomo Glowworm Caves.
We imagined this, too. Maybe we are nature psychics.
(via iflovebeblind)
Blood Falls, a Natural Time Capsule Containing a Unique Ecosystem
This five-story, blood-red “waterfall” pours ever so slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valley. Geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, and believed the red color came from algae. Its true nature turned out to be more spectacular.
Roughly two million years ago, a small body of water containing an ancient community of microbes was sealed beneath the surface of the Taylor Glacier. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, the microbes have remained isolated inside a natural time capsule, in a place with no light, oxygen, or heat.The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the seepage its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the microbial subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.
More photos of Blood Falls can be seen on Atlas Obscura
When you make things up, then discover they are real life: writing a book.
(via odditiesoflife)
"Young adult fiction, at its best, exposes the complex emotional terrain of adolescence: the joys of maturation; the pain, confusion, and humiliation of growing into a different self. Young adult fiction also tells necessary stories about what happens to girls and boys as they try to make sense of their bodies and their desires, their changing relationships with family, friends, and themselves."
— Roxane Gay, “To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Erica Lorraine Scheidt’s ‘Uses For Boys’” (via annaverity)
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Science!
what the fuck is this science bullshit
gif 1, explosive polymerization of p Nitro Aniline Video
gif 2, Sodium Polyacrylate mixed with water Video
gif 3, Sodium Acetate Video
gif 4, the smoke is vaporized wax, can still catch fire and travels back to the wick Video
gif 5, Ping Pong balls + Liquid Nitrogen in a trash can Video
gif 6, electrical treeing Video
gif 7, heating Mercury Thiocyanate Video
gif 8, ferrofluid sculpture Video
gif 9, flammable gas lit in a glass jar Video
*Edit: I found the mercury thiocyanate video for you guys. :D
FOR SCIENCE
(Source: randomweas, via gingerbreadwizard)
-Neil Gaiman (Make Good Art)
(Source: amortentiaquill)
