I miss tumblr

I miss the gifs, (hard g as in golf no matter what they say) I miss the lingo (it's true, you can't tell a tumblr joke in real life--no one gets it), I miss the recurring posts, I miss being able to freak out over something (the Mentalist...even though I didn't follow anyone who watched it, I don't think...but Once Upon a Time, definitely, and Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, and--and the trailers for things and i even miss those jerks who keep posting sad things about the future fate of Fili and Kili and I miss the analytical minds of my dear fellow fans, scrutinizing every frame of a gif to determine a character's motivation and the actor's prowess... though I've done a bit myself here:

Notice how smoothly and softly Loki's cape sweeps after him? It just gently waves after--and boom his legs are kicking Thor in the chest, hard, not just a little, that is all the force he possesses because he's furious and he is lashing out at the thing which has hurt him which is his brother, but if you were to focus on what you could see, the visible-ness of his cape, you'd miss the coiled spring about to jump at you. It's a metaphor for Loki himself, and probably completely unintentional.
also what did Thor think he was going to do. that just occurred to me. hm. Well, you can see Thor ready to--hm. Maybe Thor thought Loki was going to jump up, get a height advantage, and he was aiming for the staff but he didn't count on just how furious Loki is.

See. I miss that. I miss being able to do that with others.
I guess mostly what I miss are my fellow tumblers. the camaraderie of people who have foolishly let such characters as the ones you see above into their hearts and lives and hold on to them lovingly.
Also, I miss the Squire's Tales, as I'm not reading any more of the books without being able to liveblog my reaction to it. They aren't the same, I discovered, without the other two (three? there was a new one recently...well recently when I left, anyway) there to laugh as Gerald Morris breaks my heart, stitches it back together, hits my chest, but magically heals the whole thing and leaves me eagerly waiting for the next book.

Man, I miss tumblr. I've got 55 days...well, 54 now, I think, no more like 55. til after Christmas when I know who the next Doctor is. I shall be regulating my time there, but still. I remember that post that goes around every so often, 'what if logos told the truth', you know, with Youtube being FunnyCatVideos, etc, and tumblr being 'home'. I guess it's really true.

Also I know probably all of you who even read this blog have no idea what I'm talking about but I need to rant. That's what blogs are for, I guess. Also NaNo is about to start and I'm excited for that and killing the hour before...wait why am I typing.
Oops.

So. Um.
Have fun, people, if any of you are native tumblers hello and say hi to the blue for me, if you aren't I'm not necessarily recommending you get one but I am so *shrug*. Also, to the native tumblers, I would like to express my sympathy...my empathy, rather, as I feel it same as you, to the onslaught of feels November is about to produce.

Also.
I get to see Thor: The Dark World in 7 days. I am happy about this. Land,  I miss tumblr.

(and I can't figure out if that's good or bad. mostly I miss the people, so that's good, right? but then there's the fascinating cast of life ruiners grinning devilishly from their TV shows and movies that I also miss. Or do I miss other people's reactions to them and the fact that they're rather similar to mine? I'm confused. I miss tumblr.)

National Novel Writing Month 2013

It's nearly November, which is, as the title suggests, National Novel Writing Month, commonly abbreviated to NaNoWriMo.

NaNo, for those who don't know, is a contest--if one could use that word--wherein you write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. 30 days for 50,000 words. (some crazy people get it done in 3 days. I'm not one of them.) It is a month of wild abandon, building worlds, making characters and killing them off, bringing them back, sending in plot ninjas to increase your wordcount, valiantly fending off plot bunnies, sending your main character to the top of a volcano and back just because you can, and other such reckless creative energy.

It is so much fun.

It takes you from saying "I want to write a novel" to "I have written a novel" (at least...if you can manage to edit it...but that's for December. and January.) and inspires confidence, no matter if you do or do not reach the goal of 50,000 words. If you write two chapters, two paragraphs, two sentences--that is more than you had before, more than existed in the world before. They went from being in your head to on paper (or computer screen, yes, but paper is the traditional way of thinking of it. You can write it out, if you want).

There are rules, and there are sticklers for them, but NaNo is about creativity more than rules, and you can bend them however you like. Don't want to write 50k? Then don't. Want to write two novels? Write them. Writing nonfiction? Fanfiction? Scripts? Plays? Whatever you do, it is probably more than you have done and it is going to be a blast.

I personally am going to try to write my entire novel within the first 6 days of November. (So as to reward myself with going to see Thor: The Dark World on the 7th when I finish. Christopher Eccleston makes one brilliant word count reward, what can I say.) I'm furiously scribbling thoughts and sketching out characters and building my universe and figuring out how things work there and envisioning sequels and waiting for midnight, October 31st, to begin writing. Or is that midnight, November 1st? That night. As soon as I can begin. That's when I'm going to type out my story and see how fast my fingers can truly fly.

Oh, this is going to be fun.

The official website can be found here: http://nanowrimo.org/