a is for awesome

viaandrea:

Been really enjoying the Table Top series with Wil Wheaton on the YouTube channel Geek and Sundry. I’ve enjoyed it sooo much I had to make an animated gif of my favorite part of this weeks episode Ticket to Ride.

P.S. I even bought Zombie Dice!!

horseecomics:

“Get Hold of The Power of Words”

This one is for my fellow Skyrim fans. If you haven’t played it, then you probably don’t know what all the fus is about.

I always wondered why my steed would attack dragons. Now, I realize that it was Horse and he wasn’t havin’ none o’ that dragon nonsense.

SIDENOTE: 

On Twitter, I asked my followers to name the baby for me. The first response was from my friend Emmy, who suggested “Stormaggedon.” I asked her if “Geddy” would suffice, to which she agreed.

As promised, here is a list of the other responses:

Edgar Shackleford
Gary Glitter
Darth
Hans Olo
Tyrone
Tarquin
Corbin Dallas
Fhloston
Giblet
Fontanel 

wilwheaton:

(via xkcd: Share Buttons)

imwithkanye:

The Hunger Games, if directed by Roger Corman. [ew]

wilwheaton:

Nope. Still no context.

thenelsontwins:

theatlantic:

6 Writing Tips From John Steinbeck

1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.

3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.

5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.

6. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.

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Excellent.

I will try these tips, and hopefully something good will come of it. 

BY THE HAMMER OF….uh…well, that should be obvious.

wilwheaton:

I don’t know about you, but this is the most terrifying RAGNAROK warning I think I’ve ever seen.