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Happy Birthday Sharikqah :-)
Happy birthday, Sharikqah! Hope to makesome other good post here soon. Hope it's a really good day, and Godvwith you for all the year. -
New original story: The Time of the Orc, chpt 1
First chapter of another original fantasy story. Should be 3-4 chapters.
The Orc Empire has conquered the Elven Kingdoms, and stands poised to wipe out the last resistance. The future may depend on the choices of a single soldier...a single Orc.
A story of war and redemption, rated T
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New Original story: The Selfish Giant
My first fictionpress story ever. A disturbing parable of ego and redemption.
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/3072107/1/The-Selfish-Giant-A-Testimony
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love for God
I've never even thought before of raging at God, or questioning Him directly. I honestly find it hard to like the ideas that He may want me to completely drop comics, anime and athiest writers, that so many people in the world are going to hell, and that homosexuality is wrong. I can understand and argue why all these things are just. I just can't ( Read more... ) -
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Listed more anime on ebay. I don't know how many will sell, but I want to get rid of some of them. I ended up destroying all the DVDs for Baccano, Basilisk, Dead Leaves and Lone Wolf and Cub this evening as well, because the content was so unholy, and to show that I could. It was suprisingly difficult; Terry Pratchett mentioned that any bookburning ( Read more... ) -
Bereavement
My Granmother died this weekend, while I was in Loughborough sorting my thesis out. She'd just come out of hospital a few days ago, after recovering from heart and kidney problems and getting a pacemaker fitted. I'd been worried on that account for the last month, but when she was readmitted over a chest infection, I didn't even consider that she ( Read more... ) -
Literature and pain
I've always thought that illustrating true pain and despair are some of the most important purposes of literature and storytelling. With my fairly comfortable life, I assumed that a picture of the world's grimness would be necessary for me to feel compassion and empathy for child soldiers and trapped bureaucrats. What message could be more vital ( Read more... ) -
Anime sale
Over the next few days I'm going to be putting virtually my entire collection of anime manga and graphic novels on Ebay and/or Amazon to raise money for the Darfur appeal. I'd really like to move some stuff, so do see if there's anything you'd like. Nothing should be priced higher than £8. I'd be happy to listen to best offers for the prices of any ( Read more... ) -
Thesis
Finally have comments on 1st draft of thesis back. There some large mistakes I could've changed if I'd spent more effort on it rather than getting the first draft in as quickly as possible 4 months ago, and an underlying lack of professionalism and presentation I'm not sure what I could have done about. This is the first PhD thesis I've written, ( Read more... )
