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Happy Birthday QOO TWW Aug 2, 2019 22:09:35 GMT -5

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Post by shrimp on Aug 2, 2019 22:09:35 GMT -5

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WOO TEE!

FAVORITE WT TRIBUTE?

+ 1 more how dare u from wimdy

GIVE ME A WT WRITING QUOTE YOU LOVE<33!
"It sure sucks being in Panem, also tylerjames is cool!" - All of their characters, don't fact-check this
definitely not D'Arcy Mason d6b [Tyler] no way

I’m on mobile but that Aranica post u did as soon as you cake back was! So! INTERESTING! AND FUN TO READ!
umber vivuus 12b 🥀 [dars]

As a nervous, sleepless girl, years before she imagined having children of her own, Marisol swore not to let tragedy be the sum of her family's story. Thinking now of the bright flowers and brighter smiles in the booth not far away, squeezing Yani's hand through their mittens as she wraps back around to the chorus—un día llegaré otra vez, indeed—she knows it never was.
cameron

"and things that don't make sense have a way of deciding to make sense anyway around Ophelia."
✨ zozo.

weather seems strange
Tom

"I tried," ve tells vis family, pausing to scrunch vis face against the urge to cry. The moment passes. "I really tried."
Baby Wessex d9b [earthling]

As far as you're given to understand the idea, you've had more adventure in your life than you ever looked for, and nearly more than you could have survived—several District border crossings' worth, the kind that etched footsteps and razor wire into your dreams. -Name Opinion (A World That We Design)
kap

She tears her hair out of her face, slams her fist against the railing at the edge of the roof, and leans over it as if to vomit or to batter herself on the force field below until she cracks through it or dies trying. Instead she screeches, wordless and ragged, until her voice gives out and leaves her gasping—then again, and again, until she can't distinguish her own voice from her rock buzzing in furious chorus against her heart, pouring out a quarter century of rage and helpless grief.

And love. Still, always, ardent and seething and excruciating and unwavering long after the Arena carves out even hope, love.
shrimp

I mean like everything but this sticks with me: "As the sun finally crawls high enough to burn through the fog, exploding dawn into morning, Wander folds into the waves."
sbeeg

"They'll never have another of those fights. That's not the relief Yaron always thought it would be, not when no one will ever put her to bed and smooth her hair down again or any of the other things she convinced herself she was too old to miss, either.

At least it will stop hurting soon.

--Yaron Raidan"
wimdy

It’s all just saltwater.
Sunrise Rainier D2 // [Thundy]

GIF SPAM!

Tyler

a bunch of star trek gifs
Dars

Knuckles

cameron

zoe

goat

Tom (I couldn't find anything fun :jobbing:)

I can't get this link right on mobile but

aya

Kay

Kap

Geebs

Windy

WHAT SHOULD WT NAME THEIR NEXT CHARACTER?
Nora Pinephrine
- Tyler

Who/What/Where/Why? Four siblings??
- Dars

name 2, or 2 name 2 furious
- Cameron

teewoo
- zoe

florida man
- goat

I feel like Balthazar is a name that should be in wt's wheelhouse? :thinking: I'm really bad at names.
- Tom

1-7 words chosen at random from www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/archive
- Aya

Carpe Diem
- Kay

Philomena?
- Kap

Eman :eyes:
- Geebs

Maple, because they love maple
- Thundy

Raiment
- shrimp

Cheesesona!!!!!!!!!!!! Not as a name but u kno
- Windy

ANY BOOKS WT SHOULD READ?
The Golden Compass
- Tyler

The Song of Achilles is beautiful and gay and surprisingly easy to read most of the time, if u have time for some dense, bordering purple prose type stuff that’s also gay, I’d suggest the entire Raven Cycle
- Dars

tears to triumph by marianne williamson
- Cameron

his dark materials!
- Zoe

the weight of the stars by kayla ancrum
- Goat

I heard there's a hunger games prequel coming out
- Tom

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
- Kay

The Dry, by Jane Harper
- Shrimp

"Jackaby" by William Ritter
- Kap

Is this a place where I can somehow get WT to suggest to everyone else a book to read because I think they have read more books I'd like to read than vice verse
- Geebs

I would recommend a book if I had not already lended them most, if not all, the most recent books I’ve read asdfghjkl
- Thundy

I feel like you might appreciate Octavia Butler's Dawn? And also The Three Body Problem which we talked briefly about.
- Windy

WISH WT A HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Happy Birthday WT!! If the bees had knees they'd be you!
- Tyler

HAPPY BIRTHDAY U BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING!!! I’ve really enjoyed seeing you around, always ready with the react button, always ready to engage in some interesting conversation, and always willing to be the sweetest person ever. I hope your special day is as amazing as you deserve it to be!!! Also I am writing this at 7 am as I drink my morning coffee so like apologies for lack of grammar fjhdbjfd ANYWAY HBD BB ILY XO
- Dars

Happy birthday hope it's a good one <3
- ems

what if i dont want to. jk kimora HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAFAEL U ARE WONDERFUL IN ALL CAPACITIES. your ability to remain level and kind and fair in all interactions is remarkable and commendable ok ily
- Cameron

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET ANGEL! u make this site a happier, kinder, wiser, better place! have an awesome day my friend!
- Zoe

happy birthday wt!!! ur the best ily i hope u have a wonderful amazing fantastic day 🎂💞🥰✌️
- Goat

Happy Birthday, WT!!! Hope your birthday is a fantastic day! I always appreciate your openness of listening to me talk about anything and everything that comes to my head! I hope your birthday holds lots of fun and good things and that you enjoy the day! I appreciate you! Have a great day ^^
- Tom

Happy birthday wt!!
- Aya

Happy birthdayyyyyy WT! <3 So happy you're on the site. We are all better for your steady presence. <3
- Kay

Happy birthday, WT! I truly hope you have an outstanding day! Birthday hugs from me to you!
- Kap

You're hilarious, wicked smart, and I could listen to you talk about language for the rest of my life. Happy Birthday! <33
- Geebs

Happy birthday WT! I hope today's filled with lots of good food and good fun. Thank you for being so kind, and driven, and brilliant. You always challenge us to be better writers, players, and people, and it's a privilege to be able to read your breathtaking prose. Treat yourself to some nice books today, we love you! <333
- Shrimp

Happy birthday! I know you said that you haven’t always made an occasion of your birthday, so I hope today you get to have some fun and eat some good food. I’m going to be cheesy: thank you for being such a great person. I don’t think there’s a kinder person in this whole world (sorry, everyone else), and you deserve the best. I hope today is awesome, because that’s what you are.
- Thundy

HI AGAIN. You are seriously such a wonderful presence. From the very start, i loved the emotion and precision in your writing. I am so happy that you're back, not only because I've been able to read more of what you've been writng, but also because now I get to call you a friend. You are funny and thoughtful and have such wonderful taste in restaurants and games and books, and i never tire of hearing your opinions. You are entirely you, and it is wonderful. Love you, and happy birthday
- Windy

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Happy Birthday QOO TWW Aug 3, 2019 2:42:50 GMT -5

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Post by WT on Aug 3, 2019 2:42:50 GMT -5

HI HELLO I love you all and am sitting here jotting notes on an imaginary clipboard as I read through the name and book recommendations and emotionally waving my hands around at the quotes and messages? y'all make my life and the world at large so much better and I'm glad to know you, thank you for these messages and for your friendship and for being your lovely selves <33

also,
Is this a place where I can somehow get WT to suggest to everyone else a book to read because I think they have read more books I'd like to read than vice verse
sure hope by "suggest to everyone else a book" you meant "talk A WHOLE LOT" alfkjsdfsdf. I'm indecisive! gotta make multiple suggestions because maybe you won't like a thing, I don't know!!

(first @ Tyler and Zoë I love HDM so much, hello, have my heart forever. I'm due for a reread tbh! can't wait to cry at the end of every single book again!) (I have not read anything else that y'all recommended so I'm psyched to go through the list, thank you again <3)

here's some things I've read recently and enjoyed:

So You Want to be a Robot and Other Stories, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (who recently changed their name, so you may find this under A. Merc) – collection of speculative fiction short stories ranging from the title story, to one about a personless shadow navigating an ~~extended metaphor for depression~~ enchanted garden to get to the shadowless sorcerer they fell in love with, to one about the ghost of a dog holding on until she can say goodbye to her dad. this book means a lot to me in ways I have trouble describing other than with a capital-I Important and a lot of waving.

Imperial Radch (starting with Ancillary Justice), Ann Leckie – a person who is/was/is also a spaceship embarks on a mission to take down an ancient military empire with her own hands. Breq is furious and brave and often harsh and sometimes kind and has an unshakable sense of justice and I'm in love with her. (she also doesn't have any idea how the hell a gender works—literally, the Radchai do not do gender at all and Breq finds the whole idea sort of baffling—which is very relatable.)

Water & Salt, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha – the first poetry collection I ever read front-to-back. joy and grief and family and war and an eye for the mundane details that make life beautiful and worthwhile even in the hardest of circumstances.

The Murderbot Diaries (starting with All Systems Read), Martha Wells – anxious self-hacked security bot would really, really love to watch soap operas in peace, but all these dramatic events and some kind of gross ""having feelings about people"" nonsense keep getting in the way. these are novellas, so quick reads, but they also repeatedly socked me in the emotions.

"but WT you obviously have A Thing About Robots and I maybe don't care about robots?" fINE OKAY. read Water & Salt, first of all, but also, the next things on my list are 1. FINALLY getting around to N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series (about a far-future earth wracked by repeated apocalyptic disasters, and the people who try to hold them off) and 2. Kate Griffin's A Madness of Angels (about a sorcerer who wakes up two years after his murder to find himself fused with a young god born from the voices in telephone wires). I can promise nothing about these because I haven't actually read them, but I am very excited about them.