Thursday, September 25, 2014

The Review Competition

A few hours ago I was sent the finalists for the Gordon Edgley Book Review competition, where people had to review books that they (or anyone else) had never actually read. These reviews were BRILLIANT. We got some of the best, most imaginative responses back, and it was not easy picking winners.

But picking winners is what I had to do, and so the winners are Patricia Snake, Sophie Carter, Ella Corkum and Katie Roberts-Malpass.

Huge congratulations to the winners, and a huge congratulations to EVERYONE who entered. You have kept me entertained...!

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Tanya Halcyon (Kas) said...

*stares at Sil*

Okay then...

*rushes forward to hug her*

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(*dies of happiness*)

Inky Flame said...

(Why are you so happy?)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(*hugs Inky tightly*)

Star Inkbright said...

Hmm. This mgiht end up being too much information.

"Some asexual people are happier on their own, others are happiest with a group of close friends. Other asexual people have a desire to form more intimate romantic relationships, and will date and seek long-term partnerships. Asexual people are just as likely to date sexual people as we are to date each other."

That's in answer to the first part.

For the being-attracted-to-people non-sexually -

So me, potentially being asexual and all, doesn't really know what sexual attraction IS.

But I've read a ton of analogies, and there's one that works quite well in this context.

Imagine walking past a coffee stand and you smell coffee, and you can appreciate the smell of the coffee without wanting to drink it.
That's aesthetic attraction.

Imagine walking past a coffee stand and you smell coffee, and it makes you think of drinking coffee and you think you wouldn't mind a drink of coffee.
That's sexual attraction.

Imagine walking past a coffee stand and you smell coffee, and you kind of stop and salivate because you really really want some coffee.
That's sexual desire.

And basically, every asexual person is different and everyone experiences different things, and some of us DO actually experience sexual attraction but still class themselves as asexual for various reasons, but as far as I know, I don't experience sexual attraction.
But I still experience aesthetic attraction. Obviously. I mean, I can think my rainbow-coloured elbow-length fingerless gloves look amazing, and I'm aesthetically attracted to THEM.

Also, asexual people can also be aromantic (not romantically attracted to anyone), but on the other hand asexual people CAN still be romantically attracted to people and they can identify at heteroromantic, homoromantic and biromantic, but like, I only just worked out that I AM probably asexual and I have enough self-doubt going on as far as my decisions on that go, so I'm leaving romantic attraction for now. So I have no idea how any of it works. :P

And as far as love goes, there's a ton of different types of love. I, personally, have never been in love with anyone, so my only frame of reference is friendship-love and family-love, and I think everyone can experience those. Yes?

Garret Falcone said...

(*continues lying on the floor* *waves* hello everyone how are you all?)

Inky Flame said...

(*gets crushed* nice ...to see you...to)

Star Inkbright said...

Okay.

Random question-answer that was much longer than it needed to be over. :)

Inky Flame said...

(Hey Cookie Monster, I am good
U?)

John said...

*Pokes Sil* Why so happy?

Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

*Runs into blogland wearing a grey anorak looking soaked and a little flustered. In his hand is a syringe*

Inky!

Inky! Where's Inky?

Star Inkbright said...

O_O
My mum just gave me a letter with a load of rockclimbing session dates on it and told me to pick whihc ones I want to go on.
Dammit.
It's so damn COMPLICATED.

O_O

Why do my rockclimbing centre see the need to add improvements to their rockclimbing sessions? I was fine as I was.

Star Inkbright said...

Hi Trip! :)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(*calms down as best I can and releases Flick*)

Inky Flame said...

(Inky is here
Heya trip!)

John said...

GREETINGS, MR. CASTALAN.

Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

Hey Star, Sil!

Look, Inky! A syringe filled with werewolf cure serum!

Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

Hi Blake!

Garret Falcone said...

(I'm ok thanks)
(if i seem buzzy its because i found my favorite pair of fingerless gloves and i have them on right now)

Commander Sophia Keating (N7 Operative and Council Spectre) said...

(I am back.)

Inky Flame said...

(Inks TC is kinda in a coma so I'll take over
Really! That's brilliant Bach?)

Star Inkbright said...

What I REALLY need to do is book myself in a session, see what everyone ELSE is doing, and then follow suit.

:/

Tanya Halcyon (Kas) said...

(Thank you for the answer, Star.

*starts thinking into it*)

Garret Falcone said...

(Hello trip how be you?)

Inky Flame said...

(*sighs* all that talk about dates and stuff got me listening to elephant love medley from moulin rouge)

Inky Flame said...

(*sighs* all that talk about dates and stuff got me listening to elephant love medley from moulin rouge)

Jai (Silente Tempest - St Of Sinners) said...

(*hugs Blake* Life. Life has made me happy. Life. *squeals and cartwheels and jumps for joy*)

Star Inkbright said...

(:/
I'm not sure there's a cure for werewolfism. Like, the whole thing . . . there's so much of Inky that is gravitated towards werewolfism, like, half her mind, and then there's the whole society thing so I'm not sure that, if I was her, I would even want to be cured. :/ Werewolves seem to have so much community . . .)

John said...

Trip, is that syringe just filled with a bunch of drinks from your bar?

Inky Flame said...

(*sighs* all that talk about dates and stuff got me listening to elephant love medley from moulin rouge)

Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

Really? A coma? Caused by what? I have the solution to a lot of her problems, how do I solve this one?

Star Inkbright said...

@Tia: Have fun thinking. :) When I'm not dying from how indecisive and self-doubting I am, it's actually rather interesting . . .

Inky Flame said...

(*sighs* all that talk about dates and stuff got me listening to elephant love medley from moulin rouge)

Trip Castalan, Lord of The Hobbits, The Fourth Most Popular Folk/Parody Banana Thief In The Land said...

I'm fine thanks Tony, you?

John said...

*Stands perfectly still until Sil has stopped hugging him*

Something is wrong. Everyone else, I can understand. But for her to hug me, something is wrong.

Star Inkbright said...

"We recommend that you book a minimum of two sessions because we will e implemtenting an individual learning plan for each person attending to help them improve their new skills."

. . .
what the fuck

I do this as a RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY. It's not meant to be SCHOOL. -_-

Garret Falcone said...

(Inks do you know of the band the blackout?)

Star Inkbright said...

*be
*implementing

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