Nothingman's Blog About Nothing
If I Hate You More Than Myself We’ve Got A Problem
I like to think I’m an acquired taste, like old whiskey or arsenic in your tea
So this is usually the part where pretension comes out in full and beautiful force but this is going to be the first time in a long time I'm going to be honest. My name is Clarence (Hello), born in 1988, i got my undergrad degree in Sociology (with a concentration in Women's Studies) and I'm utterly terrified. I'm scared of everything, people, my own feelings and sometimes even being but really there's nothing much to be done about that despite what I say. And I will say a lot about how my life has no meaning and i want to die (which is the majority of the time) but sometimes it seems like life is worth living for and everything in it is a spectacular explosion of awe inspiring wonder (which is usually a three week span some time in March). If it seems odd to read think what it might be like living it. So to get off the topic of terror I prefer stories. I like to read them, I love to live in them and there is nothing better to me than a story so I guess this blog is a story mostly about me. Don't bother trying to find themes, connection or messages in what I post cause there really aren't any (unless they are completely accidental).
This blog is a story about what I find, what I feel and what I think so to that end I collect things to post or reblog. Its not meant to be anything truly meaningful or interconnected, just fun (mostly fun for me if you don't like it you can fuck right off) This is collection of all the the weird and interesting links from around the net that I find, comics, technology, comedy, current events, sociology, general geek/nerd interest, a little pornography and more weird stuff (seriously its become about 65% clusterfuck of the strange stuff which is also why I don't feel bad about continuing to name it Strange World). I think it makes for the closest representation to who I am that I've ever done and it just keeps growing bigger which is most of the fun. And don't be disturbed if i in several post warn about my soon to happen suicide (I have yet to actually do it so we're all probably safe for a few more years). Please feel free to talk to me and don't mind the depressive tone i will probably be using. I like to think I'm somewhat fun if also a complete idiot.
Please feel free to talk to me by letter in my ask or by following me on other social networks but please just throw me a message about who you are so I accept the request I have no patients for spamming (send me an ask here if you want to be a friend on Steam.
By the By it goes without saying you should make sure children don't read most of this (I like swearing and naked women of all shapes, colors and sizes).
You can Check me on Good Reads to Find out what I'm reading or send me Recommends
You can Also check me on Steam, I game a LOT (But its mostly solo RPGs)
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- Gun Machine by Warren Ellis
- The Difference Engine by William Gibson
- Wheel of Time 14 - A Memory of Light -by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
- Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
- Shadow Ops 01 - Control Point by Myke Cole
- Shadow Ops 02- Fortress Frontier by Myke Cole
- Demon Cycle 01 - The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett
- Demon Cycle 02 - The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett
- Demon Cycle 03 - The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
- Milkweed 01 - Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
- Milkweed 02 - The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis
- Milkweed 03 - Necessary Evil by Ian Tregillis
- Hellequin 01 - Crimes Against Magic by Steve McHugh
- Hellequin 02 - Born of Hatred by Steve McHugh
- A Natural History of Dragons, A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
- Blood Oranges by Caitlin R. Kiernan (as Kathleen Tierney)
- Fair Coin by E. C. Myers
- Quantum Coin by E. C. Myers
- Hexcommunicated (Agent Tepes Book 1) by Rafael Chandler
- Stay Alert (Troubleshooter Rules 1) by Allen Varney
- Hard Times in Dragon City (Shotguns and Sorcery 1) by Matt Forbeck
- Playing For Keeps by Mur Lafferty
- Birth of the Dread Remora (The Scattered Earth book 1) by Aaron Rosenberg
- Rojan Dizon 01 - Fade to Black by Francis Knight
- Surface Detail (A Culture Novel - 9) by Iain M. Banks
- The Hydrogen Sonata (A Culture Novel - 10) by Iain M. Banks
- 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Feed (Newsflesh 1) by Mira Grant
- Deadline (NewsFlesh 2) by Mira Grant
- Blackout (NewsFlesh 3) by Mira Grant
- Spellbent (Jessie Shimmer 1) by Lucy A Snyder
- Shotgun Sorceress (Jessie Shimmer 2) by Lucy A Snyder
- Switchblade Goddess (Jessie Shimmer 3) by Lucy A Snyder
- Redshirt: A Novel With Three Codas by John Scalzi
- Throne of the Crescent Moon (Book one of the Crescent Moon Kingdoms) by Saladin Ahmed
- The Human Division (Old Man’s War 5) by John Scalzi
- The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle 01) by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Wise Man’s Fear (Kingkiller Chronicle 02) by Patrick Rothfuss
- Sharp (Mindscape Investigations 02) by Alex Hughes
- The Grim Compay (Grim 01) by Luke Scull
- Etiquette and Espionage (Finishing School 01) by Gail Carriger
- Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
- Discount Armageddon (InCryptid 01) by Seanan McGuire
- Midnight Blue-Light Special (InCryptid 02) by Seanan McGuire
- Rosemary and Rue (October Daye 01) by Seanan McGuire
- A Local Habitation (October Daye 02) by Seanan McGuire
- An Artificial Night (October Daye 03) by Seanan McGuire
- Late Eclipes (October Daye 04) by Seanan McGuire
- One Salt Sea (October Daye 05) by Seanan McGuire
- Ashes of Honor (October Daye 06) by Seanan McGuire
- NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
- Nightlife by Rob Thurman
- Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows 01) by Kim Harrison
- The Good, the Bad and the Undead (The Hollows 02) by Kim Harrison
- Every Which Way but Dead (The Hollows 03) by Kim Harrison
- A Fistful of Charms (The Hollows 04) by Kim Harrison
- For a Few Demons More (The Hollows 05) by Kim Harrison
- The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows 06) by Kim Harrison
- White Witch, Black Curse (The Hollows 07) by Kim Harrison
- Black Magic Sanction (The Hollows 08) by Kim Harrison
Every time I look up I just added 15 more books to my reading
I wonder how authors feels when their entire bibliography is read in like 2 days and if it will effect publishing like binge media consumption effected TV
Also my eyes burn after 2 days of reading everything Seanan McGuire
I feel like the line between paranormal mysteries/noir and paranormal romance novels is about paper thin. When the blurb on the back of your book talks about fighting demons, finding killers and averting disaster, I feel greatly cheated when half the book is about people having sex or their totally not creepy (but really it is) relationship. And oh there might be a demon or two.
Edit: 9 out of 10 times you can tell when this is gonna happen in the novel you are reading based on the gender of the protagonist, If it is a woman it’s almost guaranteed to happened but never with a man.
I have never actually read The Great Gatsby or The Catcher in the Rye, we did To Kill A Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men
… I think it was because we were a black school, got to do a book with some people that look like us in it somewhere.
I’m reading a metastory about stories told using a story in a story
this book is awesome
Kingkiller Chronicle, read it folks
that beautiful feeling when a book you read turns out to be a series and the next one is out in a few days
Sharp (Mindspace Investigations #2), by Alex Hughes, (April 2, Roc)
HELL FUCKING YES
All this time I have still yet to read the first Culture Novel Consider Phlebas read almost all the rest including The Hydrogen Sonata still need to figure out what went on in the Idiran War
I just realize there’s this weird “reverse out-of-print” thing happening in our generation where we now have to deal with (while increasingly rare occurrence) books only existing in paper form (usually marked up ridiculously on Amazon if you’re lucky) but absolutely no where online in any format
Why does every “urban fantasy” novel with a female protagonist have sometime of were-shifter alpha as a boyfriend all the time?
In addition why are they (the were-shifter alpha boyfriend) extremely creepy? “I broke into your house” is the new “i got you flowers”
I really want to know how you get the job of book cover model
“Hey, i need you to stand in front of this green tarp and hold this prop for a few minutes, also give me your best vamp”
so far:
- Gun Machine by Warren Ellis
- The Difference Engine by William Gibson
- Wheel of Time 14 - A Memory of Light -by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
- Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
- Shadow Ops 01 - Control Point by Myke Cole
- Shadow Ops 02- Fortress Frontier by Myke Cole
- Demon Cycle 01 - The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett
- Demon Cycle 02 - The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett
- Demon Cycle 03 - The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
- Milkweed 01 - Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
- Milkweed 02 - The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis
- Hellequin 01 - Crimes Against Magic by Steve McHugh
- Hellequin 02 - Born of Hatred by Steve McHugh
I think I’m off to a good start.
In 2007, author Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, but he hasn’t given up on writing yet. But for Discworld, Pratchett wants the series to live on past his ability to write it, so he’s passing the torch on to his daughter Rihanna Pratchett.
So haven’t been tumblr active cause i was doing that reading thing i tend to do