Alex.Is.KG

I write (mostly YA); I speak (mostly English, Russian and French); I love (mostly nerdtastic things). Here there be words, whimsy, and fandom. I can be found elsewhere on Twitter (@AlexisKG) and blogging (at litfromwoe.blogspot.com).

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Jamsan

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YA Highway: bananaleaves: look i know i keep going on about poc in noir, poc in...

bananaleaves:

look i know i keep going on about poc in noir, poc in noir but like why isn’t there more poc in noir? and especially woc?

this is a genre that’s wholly built upon this notion of cynicism about justice, and corruption in the law, and people who seek vengeance in lieu of being…

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An Abundance of K(C)atherines

+3 photo, +3 extra members (hi, Katherines-for-the-day, Jess, Gabrielle, and Jen!), +style for Ms. Hepburn!

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Harry catches his first snitch.

+3 for scene, +1 for DC tourbus/Navy Memorial!

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Cakes have gotten a bad rap. People equate virtue with turning down dessert. There is always one person at the table who holds up her hand when I serve the cake. No, really, I couldn’t she says, and then gives her flat stomach a conspiratorial little pat. Everyone who is pressing a fork into that first tender layer looks at the person who declined the plate, and they all think, That person is better than I am. That person has discipline. But that isn’t a person with discipline; that is a person who has completely lost touch with joy. A slice of cake never made anybody fat. You don’t eat the whole cake. You don’t eat a cake every day of your life. You take the cake when it is offered because the cake is delicious. You have a slice of cake and what it reminds you of is someplace that’s safe, uncomplicated, without stress. A cake is a party, a birthday, a wedding. A cake is what’s served on the happiest days of your life. This is a story of how my life was saved by cake, so, of course, if sides are to be taken, I will always take the side of cake.

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This is perfect and lovely.

Eat the damn cake.

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This is worth remembering.

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Exactly.

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2 weeks ago

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Theme: Cavalcade

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No. 9 / Mike Lemanski

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1 day ago

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Beauty Queens

+5! (@taratlk, @JessicaWalrath1, and Gabrielle)

1 week ago

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Eleanor & Park reading Watchmen together on the school steps.

+4 (featuring @taratlk as Eleanor, and @nextjen as Park)

1 week ago

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A Visual Guide to the Gender Diversity of the Senate’s Hearing on Sexual Assault in the Military

[Image: C-SPAN]

2 weeks ago

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jtotheizzoe:

Fast-Track to Orbit: Expedition 36/37

A Russian Soyuz capsule launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Glorious Kazakhstan this afternoon, carrying U.S. astronaut (and space veteran/mechanical engineer) Karen Nyberg along with cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and Italian astronauta Luca Parmitano to their rendezvous with the ISS. They will spend a mere six hours catching up with the space station before they dock later tonight, a new pedal-to-the-metal path to orbit recently adopted by ISS-bound craft. In addition to lots and lots of science, the crew of six that will be aboard the ISS will take part in the Winter Olympic torch relay later this year.

Will Karen Nyberg entertain us like Chris Hadfield did with his gorgeous photos and video experiments (and his great Tumblr)? We’ll see. But word on the street is she’s more of a Pinterest fan.

Godspeed, Expedition 36/37. Here’s to six of you being great of behalf of seven billion of us.

P.S. - Howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com is correctly showing “6”, in case you’re wondering.

2 weeks ago

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