Happy Halloween, everyone! Later on today I'll be launching a new little blog project in honor of the season, but first — this week's recommended reading! It turns out I save a ridiculous number of links over the course of a week — seriously, I had 50+ links in this list before I culled it down to about 22. You can find all the links I've saved on my Pinboard. But these are, I think, the truly must-reads.

( Links to read over the weekend )

I still feel like I don't have a lot to write about, but I have been doing a lot of reading. (ReadKit has been, if you'll permit a little melodrama, an absolute lifechanger.) I have a Pinboard account where I save links I think would be interesting to people, but I thought: Hey, why not make a weekly links post like all the other cool kids on the net? If nothing else, it will give me something to post about. (It also gave me a great excuse to spend an hour messing around in Keyboard Maestro, creating the best macro for putting this post together. Few things make me happier these days than messing around with Keyboard Maestro macros.)

So, for your weekend reading, may I recommend:

( This list of links )

I feel a weird kind of anxiety whenever I think about blogging again on Dreamwidth. What would I write about? I don't feel articulate enough to write about anything of interest, and my life is pretty dull.

I've been struggling with words overall for months now. I hardly RP anymore. The tags I write keep getting progressively shorter and shorter. The actual quality of my writing is steadily declining. Almost every time I go to write, my mind goes blank. Actually blank.

I'm not sure what the point of this is. Odds are good that I'm just going to post this and then vanish into the deep again — inarticulate keysmashing on plurk, reblogging things without commentary on Tumblr, saving articles on Pinboard. I'm not unhappy with life right now. But I guess I've lost the sense that I have anything worth saying.

I miss it.

001. Sleep. 002. Love. 003. Pain. 004. Sand. 005. Glass.
006. Church. 007. Moonlight. 008. Happiness. 009. Tears. 010. Laugh.
011. Cry. 012. Silence. 013. Sun. 014. Sing. 015. Twist.
016. Empty. 017. Blossom. 018. Harp. 019. Control. 020. Leave.
021. Psychotic. 022. Hope. 023. Alone. 024. Viridian. 025. Gasp.
026. Smirk. 027. Piece. 028. Fly. 029. Elope. 030. Stay.
031. Moment. 032. Eternal. 033. Wish. 034. Darkness. 035. Poem.
036. Sick. 037. Turbulence. 038. Malevolence. 039. Sugar. 040. Peace.
041. Embrace. 042. Dark Eyes. 043. Hands. 044. Youth. 045. Ignored.
046. Mistake. 047. Stars. 048. Pluto. 049. Fortune. 050. Hate.

Pick a canon we share + character(s) + a prompt and i will write something for you. length varies; love does not!

Because not everybody reads Bleach for the endless battles and penis contests.

( a work in progress )

This episode was doing so well. SO WELL.

( spoilers )

Legend of Korra is definitely better watched with a friend. My roommate had missed the past two weeks, so we watched the last three episodes together and spent the entire time laughing about Verrick as Stephen Colbert. It was great.

But this week's episode...

( spoilers )

Honestly, my main thought about this episode?

SKY BISON BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They justified the existence of this episode. I mean, I liked the rest of the episode, but. Come on. Sky bison babies.


( Real spoilers behind the cut )

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about.

( spoilers )


I had other thoughts, but I'm home with family for the weekend, so they've kind of flown out of my mind. But all in all, I enjoyed this episode a LOT more than the premiere, and I'm legitimately excited for next week.

I still need to rewatch it... I think that I'll appreciate it more on the rewatch. There were a lot of things in book 1 that I hated at first and then ended up liking when I rewatched it. (Same goes for pretty much the entire third season of Avatar: The Last Airbender)

But as a first impression? I was pretty underwhelmed. ( spoilers )


Overall, my thoughts are: Thank God for fanfic. But I still can't wait for next week. Love is blind.