tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post4031215147035669560..comments2023-09-07T10:40:00.762+01:00Comments on Stranger Worlds: The Nutella Sandwich DayEmilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-36475394395595059102016-11-21T18:02:01.106+00:002016-11-21T18:02:01.106+00:00Right! So, I'm still slightly confused about h...Right! So, I'm still slightly confused about him / why you brought him up. But I am amused all over again by this comment thread, because I just spent a while flicking through TCATT reading comments (couldn't resist! AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING IT BACK AND ALL YOUR AMAZING COMMENTS LOVE YOU BRO) and saw a) you said Fetterman reminds you of this Milo from Atlantis (must look him up!) and b) all the tea hilarity. (Of Corrie crying, eg.) XDEmilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-35488133543107929692016-11-21T00:09:33.562+00:002016-11-21T00:09:33.562+00:00(Sorry! A grad student whose major is English.)(Sorry! A grad student whose major is English.)a.n.g.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03667996517318905980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-57805368574036539222016-11-16T15:59:03.548+00:002016-11-16T15:59:03.548+00:00(Oops! I feel your true-fan-disapproval. XD )
OK,...(Oops! I feel your true-fan-disapproval. XD )<br /><br />OK, yes, I suppose I never DID ask that ... I would LOVE to hear the story of how you got her! She sounds beautiful, I am very keen on whippy tails XD<br /><br />Sally (black lab, 10), Risga (ginger mongrel terrier, looks a little like a tiny highland calf, 7) and Tig (yellow lab, 2).<br /><br />Hahaha. WHO IS FLYING THIS THING? I say that to myself a lot whilst writing XD (I am glad. Do you mean a grad student from England, or a grad student of English? I don't know what Atlantis is. This parenthesis is getting me a bit confused.)<br /><br />You should! The Gloucester and his sons plot was probably more interesting ... I found the whole thing quite confused and confusing. I'd like to see it again.<br /><br />And mine! XD Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-34098331420856318992016-11-12T06:08:26.003+00:002016-11-12T06:08:26.003+00:00(Um, no that's not the same scene. XD But defi...(Um, no that's not the same scene. XD But definitely go rewatch it. It's hilarious!)<br /><br />Uh, I don't know? You never asked, "Ashley, do you have a GREAT DANE you're hiding up your metaphoric sleeve, hm?" Ahem, her name is Posy. Yes, I know it's technically spelled Posie, but she's my dog, and I prefer the spelling Posy. I'll email you soon and tell you how I got her. Because there is a story there. But she's huge and she is a mottled color of black, lighter black, and grey. She also does not have her ears or tail docked. So her tail feels like a whip if you happen to be standing behind her when she's wagging it. And she has huge floppy ears. XD I love her. <br /><br />So what are your dog/s name/s?<br /><br />It does work perfectly actually. The whole seasonal vibes. Sometimes too perfectly. *suspicious eyes at WHOEVER IS WRITING THIS THING* Oh, wait. That's me. (Your "But also. . ." makes me laugh. XD If it matters any, I have a co-worker who is an English grad student, and he brings hot tea to work a lot. He also kinda looks like Milo from Atlantis, but that's irrelevant.)<br /><br />I will look for Cumberbatch's performance then. Uh, the storyline was interesting, but I didn't understand half of the Fool's riddles (which makes me feel very stupid). I kind of thought it was fascinating that the plot was taken from a legend. But to be honest, I was more interested in the conflict surrounding Gloucester and his two sons than Lear and his bratty daughters. Although I didn't mind Kent so much.<br /><br />Sass and sandwiches! My two true loves! a.n.g.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03667996517318905980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-61192526380592246902016-11-07T15:49:38.232+00:002016-11-07T15:49:38.232+00:00I don't remember it too well apart from the ch...I don't remember it too well apart from the chocolate ... and the “I'm going to throw you out the window". (I think that's the same scene? Is it? I need to rewatch!)<br /><br />YOU HAVE A GREAT DANE??? WHAT WHAT WHAT?? HOW HAS THIS NEVER COME UP BEFORE?? I LOVE GREAT DANES SO MUCH! THIS IS AMAZING! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! What's she called????<br /><br />All your WIPs start in autumn? Ha, that is interesting. It's a good time to start a story, as the conflict/darkness builds the year is also drawing to its close ... (It's upsetting me *slightly* that as things Build To A Head in SitC it is mid-March. So by the time we get to, like, the Big Battle in SotT it's gonna be, like, midsummer! Not really the same as those EVIL DARK WINTERY vibes XD ) Abel does drink coffee. He's also the only non-British character on that list ... XD (I don't mean to perpetuate stereotypes! But also ...)<br /><br />Ha, not dumb at all, I'm glad it made you smile XD I would 10/10 recommend Hamlet, though go see it first ... (If you can find the Benedict Cumberbatch version online WATCH IT, HE'S AMAZING.) King Lear, interesting! I saw that recently but wasn't a massive fan??<br /><br />I am going to write LesMisBook in the new year, yeah, and I'm so excited! Though as I just said in a different thread (us and all our threads ...) I have not very much plot. So it'll mostly just be sass and sandwiches.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-70605196397148940782016-11-01T06:01:37.992+00:002016-11-01T06:01:37.992+00:00I do so love that scene. Especially the part with ...I do so love that scene. Especially the part with the crumpled flowers. <br /><br />XD I was kind of wondering there. The dog parts feel very realistic, and I like how you got in the head of someone with less dog experience. I do notice that people who haven't grown up with dogs are usually nervous around them just. . .because. But yeah. I've grown up with dogs too. (I actually have a Great Dane back in TX, and I miss her D:)<br /><br />I know that it was idiomatic, it just seemed like a very fitting idiomatic phrase. ;) (But seriously, college and all its critical reading has gotten to my brain. Someone help!) I have noticed this tea trend of yours. But I think everyone has something that they put in almost every story (like the outset of all my WIPs take place in the autumn?). And teas a good writing fetish. Tea-drinking readers will relate, yeah? XD Oh, yes Kit, I remember him. But Abel, he drinks coffee, right?<br /><br />Oooooh! I understand now! Like I feel like I learned something kind of understand now. That makes so much sense! XD Is it really dumb that knowing why they were reading Hamlet makes me smile? (I've never read Hamlet though. . . but I am currently reading King Lear.)<br /><br />(That seems strange that it's part of their grade. *shrugs* But I was homeschooled, man. I don't even know much about the US school system.)<br /><br />(YES! Shatter all the moments! I am so with you. . . readers are going to hate me. *cough*)<br /><br />Gah! Are you seriously planning to start writing it soon?! That's awesome! I hope you have a good time in Kenya too. :D<br /><br />I will have to look into that. ;)a.n.g.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03667996517318905980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-57222126280543898942016-10-24T22:56:03.681+01:002016-10-24T22:56:03.681+01:00Hahaha yeah I had that scene in my head! XD
I'...Hahaha yeah I had that scene in my head! XD<br /><br />I'm so glad! ME TOO. ~ships across several oceans~ So, I don't think she doesn't LIKE dogs, she just doesn't have much experience of them. She's never had one growing up ... her dad would quite like one but her mum is scared of them so that's the end of the matter. I guess her mum has kinda brought her up like DOGS ARE BAD. But she will grow to love JBH's ... :3 (I, like JBH, have three dogs, two big ones and a small terrier, and I know people can find them a bit ... overwhelming. Mine are much worse behaved than his, though, as well as the terrier barking and jumping you'd have one of the big dogs barking her head off, and the other trying to sit on your knee. So actually Nina's got off quite lightly. The bit: Jonathan said, in the jocular tone particular to the owners of badly-behaved dogs, “Don’t worry, they’re friendly!” -- that bit is me. The jocular tone is me. I have, like, zero patience for people who don't like dogs. SORRY NOT SORRY.)<br /><br />Haha I think I whacked the “you know me" on more idiomatically, if that makes any sense, as in it's just a phrase which I think I say quite a lot, but I love how you got all that deeper meaning! XD (Which was totally accurate, by the way.) As for the tea preference ... I tend to assume people prefer tea just because I tend violently to impose my own tea preferences onto others. I can't imagine a non-tea-loving character written by me, it probs just won't happen. The TCATT trilogy is almost literally BUILT on tea. (And so are, like, all my stories ever. I'm thinking of Annika in the cafe ... of Teresa ... of Kit ... *ahem*)<br /><br />Hahhahahaa the Hamlet/Les Mis thing made me laugh! So, he is learning the monologue for the subject Drama. They live in England so they are doing A Level Drama. I do not live in England so I don't really know about A Level, when I actually write the book I guess I'll do some more research ... in Scotland we do exams called Advanced Highers, and for Advanced Higher drama your grade is made up of: a dissertation; a piece that you write yourself and perform with a small cast; and a scene from a play which you perform with a small cast. In my school everyone did scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream ... I guess there's other options on the curriculum but that's what they had to do. So, anyway, I am taking artistic license and imagining that A Level is similar, but I've swapped AMND for Hamlet. And THAT is why he is learning a Hamlet monologue.<br /><br />And I imagine that was far more about the British education system than you ever wanted to know ... you're welcome.<br /><br />(NB: the school show does not make up any part of your grade. So they're not being assessed on Les Mis at all. It's just the annual school show.)<br /><br />(Glad you liked their moment! As I said in the Cinder email just now, I love moments that just blossom a lil bit and then get SHATTERED. Mwahaha.)<br /><br />As if I could do anything other than keep them together! (Spoiler ... LOL hardly. But guess what? I'm actually planning to write this book while I'm in Kenya! I'M SO EXCITED I CAN'T EVEN!)<br /><br />The horticulture is one of my fave things about him. I'm so so sorry you are missing trees! And that your window is not private! These are hard things. But maybe you could grow that jungle anyway?? With a plant that thrives in darkness?? ... ??? XDEmilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-4464602324034535772016-10-24T04:03:18.133+01:002016-10-24T04:03:18.133+01:00A chocolate house "doesn't sound very pra...A chocolate house "doesn't sound very practical." XD This makes me think of that scene with Gwen Stacy and her dad in the Amazing Spider-Man. <br /><br />So I LOVE everything about this! I am shipping them so hard now. And really? Nina doesn't like dogs? But why? I do rather like the bit about coffee and tea. Of course, he knows she prefers tea. He notices her as much as she notices him, she just doesn't realize that. <br /><br />I like how he's so excited about a Nutella sandwich. XD (though truly, what is life if you can't get irrational excited about Nutella?)<br /><br />"That is an obscene amount of Nutella."<br />"I always make healthy choices, Nina, you know me." I do like this. And I like how he says "you know me" casually after he asserted that he knows Nina's preference for tea (although this does take place in the UK, right? a preference for tea is not a huge leap, is it? *wiggles eyebrows* so I might be thinking of that scene in TCATT in which Corrie cries at the sight of tea).<br /><br />So, so true, you can learn so much about a person from their bedroom. It's their own personal space. <br /><br />I am a little confused how reading Hamlet will help him with is Les Mis lines (although I do love that paragraph and JBH, of course, that boy ruined their "moment" XD). And meeting people's parents/family is the most awkward thing ever. They always act weird instead of being their normal selves. <br /><br />Nina and JBH are the BEST together. Just, ugh, I love them. I love them too much. I knew I wasn't sure about JBH before, but now I hope you keep them together at the end. So much. <br /><br />So I love that he brings the country with him and fills his room with plants. And that he likes horticulture. It's so unexpected and. . . cool. I should try having plants in my room. I miss wild trees so much. But then, I never open my window, so any plant I bring inside would die of sunshine deprivation. But my window opens to the road and the park beyond and people go by regularly and can see right into my room and that's far too obtrusive for me. Otherwise. . . I'd grow a jungle in my room! a.n.g.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03667996517318905980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-11142571493992500022016-10-10T16:10:16.372+01:002016-10-10T16:10:16.372+01:00ISN'T HE ADORABLE. The horticulture is one of ...ISN'T HE ADORABLE. The horticulture is one of my fave things about him. I'm glad you liked! <333Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-66923994217883744322016-10-10T16:09:33.271+01:002016-10-10T16:09:33.271+01:00THANK YOU. I ship it too (ahaHAHA CAN YOU TELL?!)....THANK YOU. I ship it too (ahaHAHA CAN YOU TELL?!). I'm so glad! (That you're dead? *ahem*)Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-58742204394111687502016-10-09T17:15:09.919+01:002016-10-09T17:15:09.919+01:00Awww! Comparing this to the first time we met JBH,...Awww! Comparing this to the first time we met JBH, I wouldn't have imagined how adorable he could be with Nina. I mean, horticulture? Nutella? (I love Nutella.) Your character interactions are the best. :DTracey Dyckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03445222618456673198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-19682636489102378342016-10-07T03:41:02.537+01:002016-10-07T03:41:02.537+01:00Hello Guys,
If you are looking for a gift, persona...Hello Guys,<br />If you are looking for a gift, personalized and customized coffee mug with high grade ceramic materials, then this is perfect for you. This is perfect for gifts, wedding souvenirs and etc. This is one of the best website to visit www.gearbubble.com/gbstore/discountstore<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01008967136868867545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-29796761008404725092016-10-06T00:37:29.745+01:002016-10-06T00:37:29.745+01:00EMILY THEY ARE SO CUTE! I ship it. The end. You...EMILY THEY ARE SO CUTE! I ship it. The end. You're such a brilliant writer! Your dialogue actually killed me. *dies*Victoria Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15036742461356732142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-24402369087750462612016-10-01T15:03:26.486+01:002016-10-01T15:03:26.486+01:00RIGHT?! Thanks Skye XD <3RIGHT?! Thanks Skye XD <3Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-77429525268674217772016-09-28T02:16:32.294+01:002016-09-28T02:16:32.294+01:00These two! omigoodness, such a cute non couple. I ...These two! omigoodness, such a cute non couple. I mean freaking nutella sandwiches, I ship it! Skye Hofferthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02385765274513034927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-28375743954514208302016-09-26T20:58:15.567+01:002016-09-26T20:58:15.567+01:00THANKS FRIENDTHANKS FRIENDEmilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-16043615419174327012016-09-26T20:43:14.715+01:002016-09-26T20:43:14.715+01:00Hopefully soon! Though I've not edited it yet ...Hopefully soon! Though I've not edited it yet and it is the 26th, oops XDEmilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-11302959592570985432016-09-25T17:04:07.201+01:002016-09-25T17:04:07.201+01:00i'm getting old and my eyes are getting worse ...i'm getting old and my eyes are getting worse so it took me longer than usual to read this which means i have two seconds to comment before i have to leave the house BUT OMG YES I LOVE YOUR DIALOGUE <br /><br />and goodbye.hawwahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09829730878026235945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-62349881258880567072016-09-24T19:43:10.442+01:002016-09-24T19:43:10.442+01:00Awesome! I can't wait until you post for Star...Awesome! I can't wait until you post for Starting Sparks! :)Lauren Stoolfirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07777860030600932061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-90787351359191437072016-09-24T16:25:59.954+01:002016-09-24T16:25:59.954+01:00I'm so, so happy you like it. I can't wait...I'm so, so happy you like it. I can't wait to write the novel! (Eventually ...)Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-46517696345169903612016-09-24T05:00:08.612+01:002016-09-24T05:00:08.612+01:00aw, thanks! Well, it's an engaging story! Th...aw, thanks! Well, it's an engaging story! There's something in it that's real and relevant. <br /><br />I was just having dinner with my Indian friend and her mother. We were discussing heritage. I couldn't help but think of your LesMisBook. I think Nina's story, and the honest way she tells it, is a story that people need. I'm really looking forward to seeing how the whole thing grows! Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08760994961683034493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-72665090786214813342016-09-23T20:14:38.906+01:002016-09-23T20:14:38.906+01:00Aww Blue you are so nice! I read this comment via ...Aww Blue you are so nice! I read this comment via email at work and couldn't stop smiling, I can't believe you were rereading it! <33<br /><br />Ha, maybe he DOES need a cooking show. He would love that ...<br /><br />That's so interesting. I'm fascinated by the relationship between the way people look, where they're from and where they consider themselves to be from. LesMisBook is all about that national identity!Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08057480293595295502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797055056494841024.post-53908729534964631942016-09-23T03:57:03.423+01:002016-09-23T03:57:03.423+01:00It was only last night when I was re-reading the l...It was only last night when I was re-reading the last LesMisSnippet, wishing for another one! And look at that, my wish is granted!<br /><br />JBH and his food- what a character. Maybe he needs his own cooking show.<br />It was great to hear more about Nina's family. Her brother and my brother have similar stories- my brother (who has a french name) was often thought to be Chinese when he was a baby. Now people think he's First Nations. Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08760994961683034493noreply@blogger.com