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Doug. Thirtymumble. A cubicle in Seattle. I write and make up stuff. I have irrational dislikes of gnocchi, movies with writer protagonists, and Kurt Russell.

I’ve observed a personal pattern over my last few NaNos. I tend to have a Eureka Moment, a creative breakthrough of some kind, about once every ten thousand words. So as long as that pattern holds, the question becomes, how fast would you like to get to your next breakthrough? I like NaNoWriMo’s answer: Get your ass in the chair, do your quota, and at most, it’ll be six days.

Posted June 3, 2012 at 3:08 am 1 notes

#nanowrimo#sometimes the breakthrough is something like#wow#this painfully sucks#but you'd rather have that realization after six days than after six [larger time unit]s#anyway#doug has a lot of writing to do

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Posted June 2, 2012 at 11:47 am 8 notes

#alexa davalos#will kick your teeth in

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sophistory:

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

[…] try to imagine fandom’s reaction if the next big Holmes adaptation to come along had Holmes and Watson as British, yeah - young black British men, living case to case on a council estate in a dodgy area of London. How fandom would react if Sherlock Holmes didn’t employ street kids and homeless people like trained animals to do his bidding, but instead was part of that invisible underclass; if instead of having his eccentricities tolerated~ by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making. If he had to choose between buying the week’s groceries or palming a twenty to a bored constable for the chance to spend five minutes on a crime scene, in the hope that whoever’s under enough pressure to deal with crime rates in the neighbourhood will pay him enough for a perp to feed himself and Watson for a month or two. If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch; if his arch enemy weren’t Moriarty, but the systemic poverty and inequality that has him helping out his oppressors just to get by, and that makes the other side of the law look more tempting to someone with his skills every day.

Posted June 1, 2012 at 1:25 am 5019 notes

#ugh gimme#goddamn that's a hot idea#because I mean#sherlock#minus privilege#leaves you with this utterly transformed character#who's down in the same shit his clients are#and yet there are still badass peacoats#221b baker towers

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Posted May 31, 2012 at 1:44 am 77 notes

#actually I want to see the reverse#han solo with his suit and cigarette#dismissively tearing down chewie and luke#before gulping a scotch#star wars#mad men

Posted May 31, 2012 at 12:01 am

#love this planet#it's one of my favorites really#mount rainier

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farewell-kingdom:

Rune Guneriussen

Posted May 29, 2012 at 12:03 am 488 notes

#at night#all the lamp kami flicker on#sometimes you can catch one#and give it a new home on your desk#rune guneriussen

Where tourists (in red) go vs. where locals (in blue) visit in Seattle, judging by pictures uploaded to the internet. Dots in yellow could be either. Fascinating, Captain.

Where tourists (in red) go vs. where locals (in blue) visit in Seattle, judging by pictures uploaded to the internet. Dots in yellow could be either. Fascinating, Captain.

Posted May 28, 2012 at 8:47 pm 3 notes

#pleasing data visualization#seattle#tourist-free safe havens include#cap hill#alaska junction#ballard#fremont#pretty much anywhere other than downtown#and the downtown-facing side of alki#good to know

animalstalkinginallcaps: I AM SO TIRED. TELL ME ABOUT IT. I AM LITERALLY JUST EXHAUSTED, YOU KNOW? WORN RIGHT OUT. POOPED. THAT’S WHAT I AM. JUST PLAIN POOPED. I MUST HAVE LOOKED AT A HUNDRED THOUSAND AVENGERS GIFS IN THE LAST HOUR. OH MY GOD, I KNOW. I CAN’T EVEN COUNT THE NUMBER OF GOTYE REMIXES I LISTENED TO TODAY. THE INTERNET IS HARD. IT TAKES SOMETHING OUT OF YOU. IT REALLY DOES.

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animalstalkinginallcaps:

I AM SO TIRED.

TELL ME ABOUT IT. I AM LITERALLY JUST EXHAUSTED, YOU KNOW?

WORN RIGHT OUT.

POOPED. THAT’S WHAT I AM. JUST PLAIN POOPED.

I MUST HAVE LOOKED AT A HUNDRED THOUSAND AVENGERS GIFS IN THE LAST HOUR.

OH MY GOD, I KNOW. I CAN’T EVEN COUNT THE NUMBER OF GOTYE REMIXES I LISTENED TO TODAY.

THE INTERNET IS HARD.

IT TAKES SOMETHING OUT OF YOU. IT REALLY DOES.

Posted May 28, 2012 at 6:05 pm 2516 notes

#hahaha#troof#okay time to close ze web browsers

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Posted May 28, 2012 at 11:08 am 7 notes

#chiwetel ejiofor#plus#dat peacoat#you are pulling that look off sir

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David 8 can record, process, understand and express many complex emotions, but he will never know true human feelings such as love, grief and compassion.

Posted May 27, 2012 at 11:25 pm 241 notes

#prometheus#fassbot#sorry what?#I am just trying to claw my way out of the uncanny fucking valley

Favorite things in the world: Glaucus atlanticus, the world’s most adorable sea slug. For reals. psychokatze: Blue Glaucus <3

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Favorite things in the world: Glaucus atlanticus, the world’s most adorable sea slug.

For reals.

psychokatze:

Blue Glaucus <3

Posted May 27, 2012 at 10:43 pm 4 notes

#glaucus atlanticus#favorite things in the world#yep it's basically a pokemon#except you could fit a dozen inside a pokeball easy

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Posted May 27, 2012 at 4:23 pm 10 notes

#yep#aristotle aristotle was a bugger for the bottle

"The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish. The world has no grounds whatever for complacency. The Titanic couldn’t sink, but it did. Where you find smugness, you find something worth blasting."

Terry Southern (via Advice to Writers)

Posted May 27, 2012 at 1:31 am

#good luck wrimos!#and all you smugness blasters out there#nanowrimo#nanowrimo quotes

Posted May 27, 2012 at 1:21 am 3 notes

#turn up the happy#katamari damacy#ol' foofy love

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Posted May 26, 2012 at 11:13 pm 114 notes

#YES#I'm reminded of these three all the time at work#creative team#mad men