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Posted in The sanctuary Posted 6 years ago

@Another Movie Addict: I am personally not too fond of the electric...thong thing...looks uncomfortable...
Posted in The sanctuary Posted 6 years ago

@Another Movie Addict: Loving your avatar! It looks so badass!
Posted in Luc's Coins: Temporarily Closed Posted 6 years ago

@Mortician: I will give you 11k volts for squidplay, arachnocratic and ombre secretary if that sounds fair. (I based it off the price guide)
Posted in Themed Weddings Posted 6 years ago

Yeah I would have loved to have had a themed wedding but unfortunately we were trying to stay within a budget. So we booked a really cozy old timey restaurant that looked like a 13th century tavern and that was about it! XD Oh I did wear the Lord of the Rings necklace that I found at a comic con. And that was themed enough for me. XD


Posted in Just joined Posted 6 years ago

@Hachi: Welcome to Voltra Hachi! Were you by any chance named after the famous Hachiko?
Posted in Hazer's Unholy Horde: A Hangout Posted 6 years ago

ah yes I was so looking forward to the wedding!
Posted in The Writer's Cafe - OPEN! Posted 6 years ago

@Quoth the Raven: Its kinda hard to explain. I'll try not to spoil too much.

It deals with lots of issues like morality and justice. "How do you know when a crime has been paid for?"
A poor man stole a loaf of bread for his starving family once but kept adding to his sentence by multiple escape attempts. He finally gets released after 19 years but he has nothing and noone will be good to him because he is an ex-convict. So he steals from a couple more people because he is angry at the world. One of the people he steals from is kind to him despite what he did and changes his heart. He then resolves to do good but has to hide who he is and plays cat and mouse with a detective who is trying to pin him down for theft and send him back to jail for life. The detective wants to make him pay for his crimes by following the law to the letter, but the poor man wants to repay the kindness of a stranger by doing as much good in the world as he can. All the while a rebellion is brewing in Paris and it turns into a bloody mess. He has to make really difficult choices as one after another heartbreaking event occurs.
Everything is woven together perfectly, and every action has a consequence for someone somewhere.

I know a couple movies have been made about this book but reading it is somehow different. The author really knows how to use words to make you hurt with empathy for his characters.
Posted in The Surge [Breaking!]: Event Closing Posted 6 years ago

Welcome to the team Dipper and Deaa!!
Posted in My puppy won 3rd place in our first dog show! Posted 6 years ago

@sunny: Your puppy is so cute!!!!
Posted in Share poems that you love! Posted 6 years ago

@sunny: Wow, that gave the poem a whole new meaning.. It makes so much more sense now! Thanks for telling me.
Posted in Share poems that you love! Posted 6 years ago

@Quoth the Raven: That is really romantic. I guess that is how it feels to grow old with someone you love. Its not always sunshine and rainbows but it is still so beautiful. I love it so much. If I could do my wedding again I would wish to include that poem in it.
Edit: I just realized it could be interpreted as coming from a parent or a good friend as well. That's so awesome!

@sunny: oooh thats harsh, sounds like a curse. Thanks for dropping it off!

Ah remember those days when you tried everything you could to get out of going to school? Here is a cute and funny poem to brighten your day.

Sick
By Shel Silverstein

“I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
“I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I’m going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I’ve counted sixteen chicken pox
And there’s one more--that’s seventeen,
And don’t you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I’m sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button’s caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle’s sprained,
My ‘pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow’s bent, my spine ain’t straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What’s that? What’s that you say?
You say today is. . .Saturday?
G’bye, I’m going out to play!”
Posted in The Writer's Cafe - OPEN! Posted 6 years ago

@Quoth the Raven: Ah don't worry too much about it. Even with your fave writers not every book/story/poem is a homerun, sometimes you just feel "eh..its alright." Same thing with movies or music really. So yeah I understand you having mostly favorite books instead of writers.

I remember when I first discovered I liked classical literature. It was after reading Les Miserables. I felt like my heart was cut a thousand times, and when I thought it couldn't get any worse, it did. I have been wanting to read The Hunchback of Notre Dame by the same author but I am... chicken. If its not as good as Les Miserables I will be disappointed and if it is just as good...well hello death by a thousand cuts XD
Posted in The Writer's Cafe - OPEN! Posted 6 years ago

@Quoth the Raven: I don't mind you gushing about your favorite writers. I like to hear about them and maybe learn more about them from different perspectives.
I also find your siren story really intriguing. I hope you share the finished piece here. It has alot of potential, I can feel it!
Posted in Hazer's Unholy Horde: A Hangout Posted 6 years ago

@Rallaa: Yep Hazer never spells horde right. I have been trying to train him but its just one of his quirks XD

Or maybe..he likes to view his followers as little collectibles..