I am desperately and madly in love with a girl, and now all of the love songs finally make sense.
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Nerd Love Works
I feel like bragging about my folks today. If anyone ever wondered where my nerdiness comes from, it is most definitely from my parents. They may seem normal to most, but deep down they are the truest nerds that have ever walked the planet.
My mother is a Trekkie. My father is a Star Wars fan. I don’t know what the name is for that. Star Warsian? I don’t know. Neither does he, so he just says that he likes Star Wars. The two have some good banter on the topic, most often happening while we are watching one of the two shows. Dad says that Star Trek is too boring. Mum says that Star Wars is just mindless fighting. It’s like the South Pole and North Pole under the same roof. And yet I know for sure that whoever I get married to, I would want my marriage to look like theirs. They basically met through nerdiness, because my Mum wasn’t really interested in my Dad at all before they started dating. She thought he was just a big brawn-before-brain kind of guy. But she learned that he was far more than that. There’s more to this, but that’s a story for another time.
But there is one thing that brings them together. What is that? J.R.R. Tolkien. When we were eight, my Mum read The Hobbit to us at night. When we were thirteen, we were finally allowed to watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy with Dad, and every year, without fail, we sit down to give it a watch. I can’t think of a single year that we have not taken the time to do it, even while I am in college.
My parents were the first ones to watch the first “The Hobbit” movie, not me. I got the review of the film from my mum the next day while I was trying to study.
And when my parents heard that I was writing a fantasy book, it was as though their dreams came true. Both my Mum and my Dad have been keeping tabs on it the whole time, and have even helped make many of the creatures and some plot twists.
So if you ever feel like your nerd romance will never work out, take my parents as an example. It totally does, and they’ve raised some epic children as well if I do say so myself.
The moral of this story? Being yourself is the best thing you can ever be. If you want to get a true soul mate for life, don’t be afraid to show who you are. It might be pretty awesome.
Nerd Love Works
I feel like bragging about my folks today. If anyone ever wondered where my nerdiness comes from, it is most definitely from my parents. They may seem normal to most, but deep down they are the truest nerds that have ever walked the planet. My mother is a Trekkie. My father is a Star Wars fan. I don’t know what the name is for that. Star Warsian? I don’t know. Neither does he, so he just says that he likes Star Wars. The two have some good banter on the topic, most often happening while we are watching one of the two shows. Dad says that Star Trek is too boring. Mum says that Star Wars is just mindless fighting. It’s like the South Pole and the North Pole under the same roof. And yet I know for sure that whoever I get married to, I would want my marriage to look like theirs. They basically met through nerdiness, because my Mum wasn’t really interested in my Dad at all before they started dating. She thought he was just a big brawn-before-brain kind of guy. But she learned that he was far more than that. There’s more to this, but that’s a story for another time.
But there is one thing that brings them together. What is that? J.R.R. Tolkien. When we were eight, my Mum read The Hobbit to us at night. When we were thirteen, we were finally allowed to watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy with Dad, and every year, without fail, we sit down to give it a watch. I can’t think of a single year that we have not taken the time to do it, even while I am in college. My parents were the ones to watch the first “The Hobbit” movie, not me. I got the review of the film from my mum the next day while I was trying to study.
And when my parents heard that I was writing a fantasy book, it was as though their dreams came true. Both my Mum and my Dad have been keeping tabs on it the whole time, and have even helped make some of the creatures and plot twists. So if you ever feel like your nerd romance will never work out, take my parents as an example. It totally does, and they’ve raised some epic children as well if I do say so myself. The moral of this story? Being yourself is the best thing you can ever be. If you want to get a true soul mate for life, don’t be afraid to show who you are. It might be pretty awesome.
Love in Ten Lines
Special thanks to the blogger for Memorphilia, who has nominated me to join the “Love in Ten Lines” poetry challenge. I don’t normally get too much into poetry, but I thought, hey, it’s a challenge, what can I do? So now my reply to this.
The guidelines, for all others who want to be participants:
1. Write about love using only ten lines.
2. Use “love” in every line.
3. Each line can only be 4…
Love in Ten Lines
Special thanks to the blogger for Memorphilia, who has nominated me to join the “Love in Ten Lines” poetry challenge. I don’t normally get too much into poetry, but I thought, hey, it’s a challenge, what can I do? So now my reply to this.
The guidelines, for all others who want to be participants:
1. Write about love using only ten lines.
2. Use “love” in every line.
3. Each line can only be 4 words long.
4. Nominate around ten others who would be interested in the challenge.
5. Let ’em know you nominated them.
6. Title the post “Love in Ten Lines.”
7. Include a quote ’bout love.
So here’s my go at this:
Strange Love
Love never gives up,
Still love must not
Run towards unreturned love.
Love endures all things,
Still love must not
Lust towards unrequited love.
Love is always hopeful,
Still love must not
Hope towards nonexistent love.
This love is strange.
Nominations:
Double U Poet
The Midnight Writer
People, Things, and Life
The Dusty Poet Corner
But I Smile Anyway
And that’s it. I don’t know a lot of poets on WordPress, mainly prose writers. I should get around to fixing that. Thanks so much to each of you. You have all guided me at some point along the way of my writing journey. Until I decided to join WordPress, my writing was moving at not much more than a crawl. Now it has changed into an all-out sprint. (As you’ve probably guessed by now, this isn’t one of those challenges where you copy and past near verbatim what the last blogger said.) Thank you all for joining me in this, even if I’m not the most reliable for day-to-day blogs. College and such.
Anyway, anyone is able to join up, this doesn’t just go to those I nominated. If you’re interested, just start typing! Typing takes you all manner of wonderful places.
Love Is In the Air… KILL IT!
As you all know, it’s Valentine’s Day, the day of love and kissing and Cupid and WHY DOES THAT SMALL CHUBBY INFANT HAVE WINGS AND A WEAPON??! GET AWAY FROM ME FOUL DEMON!!!!
For those who are not interested in love and winged weapon-carrying infants, it is also Singles Awareness Day. It is that wonderful day in which everyone pays no attention to the singles except the singles themselves, and unless we are ok with being single we sob ourselves into a corner. I knew a single like this. Don’t be that single on Valentine’s Day. There are great reasons to be single!
There’s no work involved with being single, unless you are excruciatingly attractive. Most people are not excruciatingly attractive. If you are, I feel bad for you, trying to be single. You soldier on, single attractive person. Someday someone will not bother you long enough for you to be comfortable being single.
When you are single, you don’t have to go buying flowers or dinner. You can save all that money for cool things for yourself! When you are single, you don’t have to think, “How is this person doing? Have I called them today to let them know I love them?”
(Unless that person is your momma. Or your dad. Then that’s ok.)
You don’t have to remember your significant other’s birthdays if you’re single! You don’t have to worry about your anniversary, because it doesn’t exist! You can dine out where you want as lazily as you want and never go fancy! You can eat ramen all day!
There is no time spent wasting thinking of your significant other! You may now use that day-dreaming time wisely and write a novel! And then you can have relationships in that novel! And you never have to worry about the real-world effects, because it’s ALL MAKE BELIEVE!!!
In simple language, being single is awesome.
In the world of Soldier Chronicles, love is also in the air. For those who are new to the blog, I am also a writer and talk about my book a lot. I’m the biggest fanboy of my own literary universe. I cried the first time one of my characters died, and I WROTE IT. I have some severe problems.
In the second draft of the first book, there is a crazy love triangle… pentagram… thingy… going on. I can’t explain everything, but here goes with the basics. This involves no spoilers, because there are no names! Or genders! Which makes it even more confusing!
Person A is in love with person B. Person B is falling in love with Person A, but Person C is desperately trying to win over person B and isn’t a big fan of Person A at all. Person B likes person C as a friend and confidant but is in love with Person A, which makes Person C’s attempt for acknowledgment even sadder to watch.
Meanwhile, Person D, friend of Person B, is in love with Person C and has been for some time, and is not sure whether to tell Person C of their affections or let them get Person B so that they can be happy. This all becomes even more convoluted when another line is drawn in the second book, when two of these people previously mentioned who are totally unexpected to get together… do. And you’ll never see it coming. So it’s more of a square on cocaine than a pentagram.
I made this really, really complicated, and I don’t feel bad at all. Your feels will fly everywhere. It’ll be like high school all over again, but making a little more sense.
Anyway, if you are single, enjoy being single! If you are in a relationship, adore that significant other! Have an excellent day, darklings! Gabriel, out!
Gabriel to Earth 