AHHHHH AWESOMENESS

[souledoutt]

So last night was possibly the best night of my life. I co-hosted (and also performed this poem) at the first ever poetry slam/open-mic night at my school. IT WAS CALLED THE FRIDAY NIGHT PANDA PARTY. P.S. I'd just like to point out how great that name is. People performed music, spoken word (whether it was rap, slam poetry, or just poetry) or short

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[takkatakkatakka]

ahh that sounds so awesome, i am jealous jealous jealous. congratulations!

[souledoutt]

it was truly super awesome! and thanks!
p.s. i still think we should put together that online international literary magazine thingy we talked about for a total of like 2.5 seconds.

[takkatakkatakka]

oh man, if you really wanted to do it I would so be down with that. what kind of stuff were you thinking, reviews/articles/compositions?

[souledoutt]

I love how I just commented on one of your posts so we're going to be talking in two places at once and it'll be a BEAUTIFUL MESS~

I actually don't know what I'm thinking. But I think it should include all of those things PLUS: poetry, bandom related fics, not bandom related fics, -insert all types of creative writing here- and since it's online, maybe we can post videos of people doing songs (or reading their poems aloud if they're meant to be read aloud)? Though that might me a stretch, but still it'd be so kickass.

I think we need more of a ~crew for this.

[notyourshot]

oh hey that sounds great! being part of something is awesome, but i think it's particularly good when the people you're with are sharing something that is as personal as a poem or a story or anything, really.

[notyourshot]

i want to show you something, can i show you something?

this is an excerpt from Book I of Ovid's Metamorphoses. In this myth, Deucalion and Pyrrha are the only survivors of the Universal Flood, and they are alone on the top of a mountain, watching the waters and worrying about their destiny. Finally they prey etc etc and the waters go away, but they are alone

[souledoutt]

ahhh this is so sad but so pretty. i lovelove: Believe me then, that I, if the sea had you, would follow you, and the sea would have me too. If only I, by my father’s arts, could recreate earth’s peoples, and breathe life into the shaping clay! The human race remains in us.

sometimes i overlook writing like this because it's archaic and hard to grasp for me at first but this paragraph is obviously evidence that i shouldn't do that. this reminds me of this book my dad gave me yesterday, it's called something along the lines of norton's athology of world's materpieces and it's thicker than the bible, written on that bible-y paper, in bible-sized font. but if it's filled with bits and pieces like that^ then i'll most likely read all of it.

oh! and yes. i have aim: buddy holly said
but it hasn't been working for me recently, so when we switch to wireless (on may 6 i believe) i'll be using it again.

[notyourshot]

i know right? and we are the crowds of all the countries. it sounds better in spanish though /o\

yeah yeah! but sometimes i actually like writing like this because it's archaic and so solemn. like, this is the way Love should be proclaimed, you know? Standing someplace high and saying O before every sentence, and stuff like that.

That sounds like a book you should randomly open and pick up random quotes from. Or that's what I sometimes do with bible-y books? Bible seldomly included. Alas, I'm not sure where the Old Testament is in this apartment.

oh awesome. i'll add you now so i don't forget and then uh, may 6 we'll talk, or later but, uh, yeah. i'm girleatsworld.

[souledoutt]

i wish i could put O before every love-proclaiming thing i say but i'd sound like a phony and trite most likely.

i haven't even dared to open the book yet--it's so heavy and intimidating! my dad handed it to me and said, "okay, when you're done reading it in 3 years, we'll talk about it." i was like COOL. actually i really was like "coooooool!" all dreamy and wide-eyed and WOW I GET TO LEARN YAY! because i am a nerd.

is your aim a reference to jimmy eat world? or boy meets world? either way: AWESOME.