#lettersforburning

All of this. YES.

iamthelightening replied to your post: I’ve decided to dedicate my novel ‘to all the...

Okay wow love the dedication. Also ANNE CARSON. Dude. Dude.

Rule 1. Post the rules Rule 2. Answer the questions the tagger set for you then make 11 new ones Rule 3. Tag 11 people and link them to your post Rule 4. Let them know you've tagged them

1. What song lyrics most accurately describe the day you've had? When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend / get a coffee and the paper; have my own conversations (Lua is the song of my life)

2. You and a character from the last book you read/movie you watched are hanging out together. What is the first thing you guys do? I cry because I'm hanging out with Siegfried Sassoon. Then I guess we have a tea party and gossip about the BYTs?

3. What is your favourite kind of tea? Darjeeling!

4. They are making a scented candle and naming it after you. Describe said candle. It's small and white with little pink flecks, and it smells of pine, cut grass and dog roses.

5. Stretch out your left hand. What can you reach? My phone, a pen, and an inkwell.

Disown your family

Anne Hathaway scares me for some reason. Like there is something very dark lurking beneath the surface.

I don’t know how anyone sells anything…I would SUCK at that. But good luck!

It's because I'm a really fake person when I'm not on the internet.

The best way to sell stuff is to act just like Zooey Deschanel, this is true.

I don’t know anything about him besides that he’s popular among girls on tumblr, what did he do?

lettersforburning replied to your post: Really though I cannot stand Benedict...

I don’t really know anything about him besides the fact that he has a horrible name. I’ve never watched anything with him in it.

Great minds think alike?

Well he is probably best known for being the star of BBC's Sherlock, a modern adaptation of Sherlock Holmes in which he plays Sherlock Holmes. It's very big on tumblr, you may have noticed and if you haven't I am jealous.

Sherlock is a tricky one, a part of me doesn't want to say it's a bad show, but a lot of the time it is and it's good points; that it's Sherlock Holmes at all (I love Sherlock Holmes), the style and look of the whole thing, Rupert Graves is in it, definitely do not make up for it's short comings which include a lot of misogyny and racism and queer-baiting and this tired tired tired idea that because someone is a genius they are allowed to be douchebag and that's awesome. The nail in the coffin for me involved Irene Adler, my literary hero, the woman who beat Sherlock Holmes being reinvented as a "lesbian" who just needed some sexy Benedict Cabbagepatch to convert her and who lost and who needed saving by said Mugwump. Series creator Stephen Moffat, current head writer of Doctor Who, who you may have previously heard me complaining about because he is Satan a little bit, has come under fire a little for writing the show this way and B.C defended him at an awards show. When he introduced Moffat he had this little speech where he mentioned that Moffat was married so he couldn't be a misogynist  har har har aren't people silly, they just don't recognize his genius.

More recently he has complained in interviews about "posh bashing" and how hard it is to be an upper class wealthy person. He's spoken about the London riots in a, well:

"I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road," he says. "But those eejits saying they're doing it for socio-political reasons? Fuck off, no you're not, you're on a jolly and you're getting away with it. It makes me want to belt them, make them lame for a bit so they're dependent on other people's mercy…

He's also commented on Elementary, the new CBS modern version of Sherlock Holmes with Lucy Liu as Watson (so far it's amazing and I'm not just saying that because I love her), saying he told his friend Johnny Lee Miller he'd rather he didn't take the part, he thought the idea was ridiculous  but he understood that Johnny has to keep his wife in fancy clothes or whatever.

Thanks for the lovely responses to the project idea everyone! So here's how it could work: You choose a poem or flash you'd like to read. Go to soundcloud.com and register if you aren't already, then simply record yourself reading your poem in your best campfire voice. I think we should aim for the end of the week, why not just keep it stress free. Lyrics and stories should come easy sometimes.

Send the soundcloud link to me in my ask box or if that won't work, to wheresthebread[@]hotmail.com, or upload it yourself and I'll share/reblog the links here with a wee bit about who you are.