Dogs, Tweets, and Satos

Hi.

August is on its way and as the weather keeps holding everything in place and fighting against gates of rust, I’ve been lazing around, listening to the dot dots of key-pushing, completing a few assignments, babying somebody, and reading, writing, examining words, and watching photosets/gifs of characters I adore.

Last Saturday I woke up to my mother looking at the TV as The Olympic Games ran live. John Green has been tweeting eagerly about the competitors/teams, and I am absolutely enjoying seeing his tweets pour down my timeline.

So far he hasn’t sworn. Yet.

And I got this book 

Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know 

and the reviews are enticing – it does look promising, especially with that dog staring into your soul on the cover (and the title even uses the oxford comma, although I try to establish not to judge any work of literature that lacks it) – so I hope I garner more and more knowledge about dogs, considering the aforementioned reasons and the fact that the author is – surprise surprise! – a dog lover herself. 

There are two girls I love so much – one the namesake of the other.

My Asami Baby

(and all the other dogs

try to chase me

but here's my number

so call me maybe)

(I'm embarrassing myself online.)

and my Queen, who appears on Legend of Korra

©

I'll be back this August! Hopefully, yes!

Choked by Scarf

Looking for Alaska by John Green SPOILERS (kind of).

As I walked into the other room, textbooks in my arms, I could finally relax. The silence was deafening; the bulb though made its own noise. And so I climbed onto the bed, but only after I picked up my copy of Looking for Alaska by John Green. I sat on my space, wrapping my pink scarf around my neck and wondering if it would attempt to choke me again as I sleep tonight.

Last night, I had reached the ending of the aforementioned novel. It surprised me, honestly; I admired the characters through Pudge’s eyes. Especially Pudge himself – the narrator. I still cannot unlatch my head from the beautiful piece of literature I had swallowed. I want to rant about it in real life, but I see myself not able to because people will not listen and my hands on the keyboard are already BFFs – so why not take over their friendship status?

I learned stuff:

1. Life can be really complicated.

2. Anyone and anything can suddenly go POOF anywhere and anytime. This can affect you in many degrees.

3. Plenty of people do assign themselves to religion just because they just want to go to heaven. 

I’ve known these numbers, but the book enunciated them upon me. Heavily.

Alaska was a big question mark for me, and I know she was this too in Pudge’s perspective. She was a character that struck me and stuck with me. Her death shocked me, and whatever her true reasons were behind it I would still be hit with the whole thing.  
The disappearance of someone is tragic. It always is. Behind those MISSING posters/fliers are sad, wailing parents. The death of someone hurts even more; a missing person (with the possibility of still existing somewhere) can still send hope to relatives and friends, but a DEAD individual will kill YOU, the still existing one. Hope will be unreachable in your vision, and it only leaves you mourning and wishing.

A lot of people would want to live in heaven after their life on Earth ends. I would speak for Christianity. People will believe it just because they want to claim a spot in the afterlife they believe and want, and some will only join in the religion only because they desire THAT. Not because they believe in God. Their prayers and all are summed up into their hypocrisy now, I guess.

I learned another thing:

     4.  I love fictional characters.

I had already known this, but this made it even truer. It pains me to know that they are “fictional” all over and over again. These young, old people I read about and watch on TV give me hope and angst and sometimes more problems but I teach myself to handle it because I love them. This is apparently “obsessive” but not much people will probably read this blog post, so I shall label my situation in my own words: devoted. I could be labeled “uninteresting” publicly, but so far nobody truly knows/understands me but my loved friends in books and screens.