{"id":182613,"date":"2014-11-08T22:16:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T22:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/11\/08\/theblogofthefanficcorner-marsdaydream\/"},"modified":"2018-09-13T21:04:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T21:04:03","slug":"theblogofthefanficcorner-marsdaydream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/11\/08\/theblogofthefanficcorner-marsdaydream\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-182613 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/11\/08\/theblogofthefanficcorner-marsdaydream\/attachment\/182614\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_myja5uLRuA1rq86cxo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_myja5uLRuA1rq86cxo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tumblr_myja5uLRuA1rq86cxo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theblogofthefanficcorner.tumblr.com\/post\/102122927718\/marsdaydream-condemnedtorocknroll\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">theblogofthefanficcorner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/marsdaydream.tumblr.com\/post\/101938048597\/condemnedtorocknroll-drinkmasturbatecry\" target=\"_blank\">marsdaydream<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/condemnedtorocknroll.tumblr.com\/post\/101901358028\/drinkmasturbatecry-nudityandnerdery\" target=\"_blank\">condemnedtorocknroll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/drinkmasturbatecry.tumblr.com\/post\/77651096434\/nudityandnerdery-the-fandoms-are-valentines\" target=\"_blank\">drinkmasturbatecry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nudityandnerdery.tumblr.com\/post\/76792049087\/the-fandoms-are-valentines\" target=\"_blank\">nudityandnerdery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/the-fandoms-are-valentines.tumblr.com\/post\/76588394918\" target=\"_blank\">the-fandoms-are-valentines<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/grandtheftautosanandreas.tumblr.com\/post\/71441831862\/douglas-adams-is-the-best-when-it-comes-to\" target=\"_blank\">grandtheftautosanandreas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Douglas Adams is the best when it comes to describe characters<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>they need to teach classes on Douglas Adams analogies okay<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to\u00a0unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Stones, then rocks, then boulders which pranced past him like clumsy puppies,\u00a0only much, much bigger, much, much harder and heavier, and almost infinitely\u00a0more likely to kill you if they fell on you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind\u00a0to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling\u00a0around with some leaves a little way off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It looked only partly like a\u00a0spaceship with guidance fins, rocket engines and escape hatches and so on,\u00a0and a great deal like a small upended Italian bistro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If it was an emotion, it was a totally\u00a0emotionless one. It was hatred, implacable hatred. It was cold, not like ice\u00a0is cold, but like a wall is cold. It was impersonal, not as a randomly flung\u00a0fist in a crowd is impersonal, but like a computer-issued parking summons is\u00a0impersonal. And it was deadly &#8211; again, not like a bullet or a knife is deadly,\u00a0but like a brick wall across a motorway is deadly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And, of course: <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don\u2019t.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>the one that will always stay with me is \u201cArthur Dent was grappling with his consciousness the way one grapples with a lost bar of soap in the bath,\u201d i feel like that was the first time i really understood <em>what you could do with words<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;something that didn\u2019t exactly look like john watson&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>years before the same man plays john watson<\/p>\n<p><em>dude<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to reblog this every time I see it because Adams is very nearly my favorite writer of all time. And I only say very nearly because I can\u2019t think of anyone else but it\u2019s hard to make an absolute statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Where can I buy this book!? I need AT LEAST 10 copies of it\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That would be &ldquo;so long and thanks for all the fish&rdquo; the fourth book in the increasingly inaccurate hitchhikers trilogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theblogofthefanficcorner: marsdaydream: condemnedtorocknroll: drinkmasturbatecry: nudityandnerdery: the-fandoms-are-valentines: grandtheftautosanandreas: Douglas Adams is the best when it comes to describe characters they need to teach classes on Douglas Adams analogies okay \u201cHe leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to\u00a0unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.\u201d &ldquo;Stones, then rocks, then boulders which pranced past him &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/11\/08\/theblogofthefanficcorner-marsdaydream\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4677],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182615,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182613\/revisions\/182615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}