it’s a common misconception that the term “brilliant bisexual” refers to intelligence. the term actually refers to the scale of brightness for the natural bioluminescence that occurs in approximately 80%-87% of all bisexuals. the brightest bisexual ever recorded was of course freddie mercury, but interference from the intense rock show lighting prevented an accurate measurement from ever being taken.
Ice in Sunlight is free for the next five days. It’s currently at 4/5 stars on Amazon with 46 reviews, so I guess that means it’s pretty good. It’s also available in a German-language edition and in paperback.
I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling pretty downbeat and crummy lately. This is a story about learning to be soft after tyranny has made you hard, about struggling to find the courage to believe in kindness when you’re all too familiar with cruelty. It’s a book I still care about very much, more than a year after writing it, so I want to share it with as many people as possible.
(I’m considering making it permanently free, but since that’s a little logistically difficult it might not happen for a little while, so if you want a freebie novel, grab it now.)
It would mean a lot to me if people would reblog this!
If nothing else [Johnny Depp’s casting as Grindelwald will] willhelp me sympathise with Dumbledore when he shows up in later films.
I too know the experience of having a wild crush on Depp as a teenager only to later feel horribly guilty about it once it came out what an arse he was.
We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives. Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table? They should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it. As for being discontented, a man who would not be discontented with such surroundings and such a low mode of life would be a perfect brute. Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (via prawnofsatan)
This is a person who moves through time and space and history, and all kinds of situations, and reacts to them, ultimately – despite the way the different versions of him may appear – he reacts with kindness.
And that is how everyone involved with Doctor Who should be and how everyone who is a fan of it should be.
If they’re not kind, they’re not receiving the show in the proper way and they’re not really a fan of it.”
Verylisa 