Thorn Wilde

I'm very for a point system. Say, the amount of stats to fill in multiplied by 10? That way, if you have 5 slots, you have 50 points, and you can choose to just stick 10 points in each stat if you like, but if you want to have more points on one stat (say, strength), it'll be at the cost of another stat (say physical appearance).

Marvel were gonna make Ant Man. I'm still waiting for that, it would be awesome. Also, in Iron Man's defence, he got three movies, and when the first one came he had never been portrayed live action on screen before, ever. I'd call that pretty "new". Also, Robert Downey Jr.

It was really very tasty. I should think that if you want it properly spicy you can add powdered ginger and ground chilli as well.

I fucking love your dad!

I came across this and I just don't even know. Peter Capaldi modelling in 1983.

Insomniac Folklore––The Scariest Thing in the Dark http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2a3mU_0e2Ts

That was so cute! The scene with the kiss and both of them on the phone made me wish I was a better artist, cause I really want to draw it... You're a great writer, and if you don't want to believe me, believe the umpteen reviews you've got on one short story. You're legendary!

I think Richard Armitage and Idris Elba would both be awesome choices! That said, I actually like Ben Affleck. I think he's a good actor who has, sadly, been saddled with some really bad scripts in his day. I thought his performance in Dogma was fantastic.

I just mean that when everyone's voted who wants to vote, if several of the options are tied, we can combine. But yeah, that setting does sound fun, doesn't it?

Wait, I'm, what, a year older than you? I had a fricking walkman. Not the walkman phone, the actual walkman, the one you put cassette tapes into? I had one of those. And then, when CDs really hit big, I got a Discman instead, so I could listen to music on the go. I even had time to have a MiniDisk before Apple came with the iPod that really put mp3-players on the market. Now, I know it wasn't exactly common in 1994 to have your own computer if you were 5, but my dad worked with computers so I've always been surrounded by computer stuff. I used to play with circuit boards in his study while he coded, so... Yeah. I remember exactly when I started using USB-stuff, and that honestly can't have been until about 2001 in my case... Around the time I got my MiniDisk The computer I had before then had its own ports for the mouse and keyboard, and there wasn't much else to plug in. Hell, in 2003 my computer still had a floppy-drive, which I still used. As for the smoking thing, my parents would bring me to concerts when I was a kid, and we are talking seriously smoky folk clubs here. I remember when the indoor smoking laws passed in my country; it was the 1st of January 2004, and in December I sat in a café with my then boyfriend, who smoked, and his best friend, and they were lamenting the passing of the law and having to go out into the cold to smoke between coffees after the new year. I have pretty strong memories on the '94 Winter Olympics because they were held in Norway and you just! Couldn't! Get! Away! Olympics, everywhere!! They even gave us a longer winter break that year, two weeks instead of one. It was crazy.

Wentworth didn't ping on my gaydar, but there have been other people who have who have later come out *cough*Ben Whishaw*cough*. So I believe you.

I'd like to join. I'll fill in the character sheet when the setting's been decided. Also, would just like to point out that a lot of the options above work together, such as sci-fi/future fantasy in a dystopic setting with cyberpunk overtones (which doesn't sound too different from an RPG I've played called Alpha Omega).

Tasty sauce for stir-fry I just composed: Ginger beer Low-sodium soy sauce Chilli flakes Sesame oil Sesame seeds Corn starch Fry whatever you're making stir-fry from (I just used sliced pork and onion) in sesame oil. Add sesame seeds. Add ginger beer. Add soy sauce to taste. Add chilli flakes to taste. Mix corn starch with a bit of cold water, add to sauce until you've got the consistency you want. Serve with rice or noodles, top with more sesame seeds. Om nom nom!

Oh, my first series that I was completely hooked on was Animorphs. They're not technically good (okay, so they're complete crap, really), but I really loved them when I was a kid, so they hold a special place in my heart still. :3

Install hola unblocker and try again.

Hm, read the article now, and I know the feeling they're describing... The head-tingling thing? I know I feel that, but I don't think I get it from auditory or visual stimuli... I think I get it from reading. Does that make sense?

I love being touched. I like having my hair touched, my shoulders rubbed, my hand held, anything. It makes me feel closer to people and it makes me feel closer to myself. If I'm alone for a long time, what I miss isn't the conversation or anything like that, it's the touch.

Oh my God, Sword of Truth! I used to love those. Read up to The Pillars of Creation, but then that one was just SO BORING and I couldn't take it anymore. First couple of books were pretty great, though.

I like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which is a trilogy in 5 parts) and His Dark Materials (which is just a trilogy). Also Harry Potter, still, and A Song of Ice and Fire. And The Dresden Files. Heh, when I started this list I was like, do I actually read any book series anymore? Apparently I do...

That was awesome!

I agree with this. I love thoughtful reviews. I lost a couple of readers when I made a certain plot choice in Nemesis, and these people told me why they had decided to stop reading and I thought that was really great. Didn't make me change anything that time around, but I loved having that dialogue with my readers. During Lavender & Gold, I've had a lot of readers comment on the choices made by my characters. Some really like Ben, some really like Mark, some really dislike the way one or the other of them handle difficult situations, and I've taken into consideration the opinions that my readers have formed of my characters when I've written on. It makes me happy when people take the time to tell me why they don't like something about my story. It means they care, and that's lovely.

I learned about it in school. That gay people were also persecuted in Nazi Germany. I didn't learn that they weren't released from the camps, though. I've been to two concentration camps. Well, three, depending on how you count. I went to Auschwitz & Birchenau in Poland when I was 15, and to Theresienstadt in the Czech Republic when I was 17. We were given a pretty thorough education of what had gone on there, about political prisoners and gays and gypsies and Jews and disabled people and everyone else. It was horrible, but I'm glad I went.

Truth, bro. Well into the 70 and, I believe, even 80s there were still many, many parts of the western 'civilised' world in which you could be punished for having same sex relations. In fact, the year I was born, legislation was passed in England and Wales preventing local government from 'promoting' homosexuality and 'teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship'. That was in 1988. Too many people take their rights for granted.

Lol! I draw your attentions to the following quote from the end of the article: What about every American's right to live free from discrimination?

The photo in that article is from 2010. It also says that the statement is consistent with an e-mail sent a month before she got arrested.