quote from “Welcome to Night Vale” by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor –
“A random number (12,739), the quality of light at time of transaction (“fine”), the general feeling of the weather outside (“looming”), her current thoughts on the future (“looming, but fine”), and a quick sketch of what she thought hearts should look like, instead of the pulsing lumps of straw and clay that grow, cancer-like, into our chests when we turn nine years old.”
quote from “Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits: A Novel” by David Wong –
“Soare cu Dinti. It’s a Romanian phrase a social worker had taught her years ago— it meant a day that looks bright and inviting when viewed through a window, in which the air is actually cold enough to burn your face when you step out into it. It translated literally to “Sun with teeth,” unless the woman had been lying to her.”
Of all the
conflagrations of online outrage that have burst forward these past couple
years, few have elicited as much long-lasting passion as the concerns over
“manspreading.“ The
term—which I really hate typing without scare quotes—refers to the phenomenon
of men taking up too much…
so i was searching scanned archives of historical books for references to the names of the amis outside of les mis, like you do, in order to try and find clues for why hugo picked the names that he did. i found a few things (which i’ll make a post about later), but i wasn’t…
A time-traveling vigilante named Mister Justice takes evidence from the past to condemn criminals in the future; the government uses a young superboy to take him down.
