nathaniel stuart

you can't read the page if you're printed on it

fwarg asked: 9, 10, 21?

9: What were you doing at 12:30 this afternoon?

I’m from the future. It’s 12:18 in the afternoon. TOMORROW.

10: Have you ever told somebody you loved them and not actually meant it?

Only when my own understanding of the word wasn’t on point. Otherwise, it just seems like a dick move.

21: What is the last thing you said out lot?

“Thanks, dude!”

aayla asked: And four

4: Ever been told “it’s not you, it’s me”?
Not verbatim, but certainly variations of it. And hey, they were true; I DATED LOUSY PEOPLE. :P

aayla asked: One

1: What would you name your future daughter?
Snow. ;)

1: What would you name your future daughter?
2: Do you miss anyone?
3: What if I told you that you were pretty?
4: Ever been told “it’s not you, it’s me”?
5: What are you looking forward to in the next week?
6: Did you go out or stay in last night?
7: How late did you stay up last night?
8: Honestly, has anyone seen you in your underwear in the past 3 months?
9: What were you doing at 12:30 this afternoon?
10: Have you ever told somebody you loved them and not actually meant it?
11: Could you go for the rest of your life without drinking alcohol?
12: Have you pretended to like someone?
13: Could you go the rest of your life without smoking a cigarette?
14: Is there one person in your life that can always make you smile?
15: Is it hard for you to get over someone?
16: Think back five months ago, were you single?
17: Have you ever cried from being so mad?
18: Hold hands with anyone this week?
19: Did your last kiss take place in/on a bed?
20: Who did you last see in person?
21: What is the last thing you said out lot?
22: Have you kissed three or more people in one night?
23: Have you ever been to Paris?
24: Are you good at hiding your feelings?
25: Do you use chap stick?
26: Who did you last share a bed with?
27: Are you listening to music right now?
28: What is something you currently want right now?
29: Were your last three kisses from the same person?
30: How is your heart lately?
31: Do you wear the hood on your hoodie?
32: When was the last time a member of the opposite sex hugged you?
33: What do people call you?
34: Have you ever wanted to tell someone something but didn’t?
35: Are there any stressful situations in your life?
36: What are you listening to right now?
37: What is wrong with you right now?
38: Love really is a beautiful thing huh?
39: Do you make wishes at 11:11?
40: What is on your wrists right now?
41: Are you single/taken/heartbroken/confused/waiting for the unexpected?
42: Where did you get the shirt/sweatshirt you’re wearing?
43: Have you ever regretted kissing someone?
44: Have you hugged someone within the last week?
45: Have you kissed anyone in the last five days?
46: What were you doing at midnight last night?
47: Do you miss the way things were six months ago?
48: Would you rather sleep with someone else or alone?
49: Have you ever been to New York?
50: Think of the last person who said I love you, do you think they meant it?

VGT!!!

I’m alive! I’ve finally cut my hours at work, and I reached the end of the week last night and didn’t feel like I’d been hit by a bus that was driving a bus! I’ve got a thousand and one things to do, but now that I’m finally feeling like I’m not being fed on by something, I’m a little more resolved to tackle them.

  • I got back into an isolation tank! I’ll be going again!
  • I’m reading back through an old manuscript and seeing how much work it needs before deciding whether or not to throw it at the Vogel Award to see if it sticks!
  • Finalising the pitch package for SamSquared this week - we’re down to budget and finalising the incentives now.
  • I’ve wrapped up all four of the savage non-fiction books I had on the go at once! (I need to start some shorter books.)
  • I’m messing around with feldenkrais and bowen treatments for my jacked spine - so far, slow good.
  • I seem to only have badass go-getting over-achievers in my life anymore, and goddamn if it isn’t putting the spurs to me.

Have you had a very good week, sweeties?

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

George R.R. Martin

There is only one god, and his name is death. And there is only one thing we say to death: not today.

Syrio Forel

Love is a gateway drug.

redbrickroad

That nonsense about Bush being a patriot reminds me of how he supposedly won an election because Americans would rather have a beer with him than John Kerry. It brings back those memories of liberals turning his malapropisms and misstatements into books, and the more recent goofy obsession with his paintings, which resemble the kind of outsider art usually made by mentally handicapped men who also knit hideous sweaters for feral cats. All of those things point to him being likable, or at the very least, a goofball who’s fun to laugh at, which is a far cry from what he actually is: a man responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people and the weakening, in almost every imaginable way, of the country he was supposed to be running. If you need any evidence that democracy is a fatally flawed system that results in the election of smiling sociopaths who don’t care if they burn down the world in a fit of arrogance, just consider that George W. Bush got elected president, twice.

I Guess We Need to Say It Again: George W. Bush Was the Worst | VICE

And I will eat you slowly with kisses.

Anne Sexton (via hellanne)

(via fwarg)

Are the mystics and sages insane? Because they all tell variations on the same story, don’t they? The story of awakening one morning and discovering you are one with the All, in a timeless and eternal and infinite fashion. Yes, maybe they are crazy, these divine fools. Maybe they are mumbling idiots in the face of the Abyss. Maybe they need a nice, understanding therapist. Yes, I’m sure that would help. But then, I wonder. Maybe the evolutionary sequence really is from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, each transcending and including, each with a greater depth and greater consciousness and wider embrace. And in the highest reaches of evolution, maybe, just maybe, an individual’s consciousness does indeed touch infinity — a total embrace of the entire Kosmos — a Kosmic consciousness that is Spirit awakened to its own true nature. It’s at least plausible. And tell me: is that story, sung by mystics and sages the world over, any crazier than the scientific materialism story, which is that the entire sequence is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing? Listen very carefully: just which of those two stories actually sounds totally insane?

Ken Wilber