Inktober 2016: 8. Rock: Rocking Out

Rocking Out

The word “rock” (today’s prompt for Inktober) has a pretty strange role in the modern lexicon. As a noun, it refers to a stone, which is immobile and resistant to change. As a verb, it has the opposite meaning — to rock is to shake, to dance to music. So how can a word mean to move and to not move? Why is it so drastically different “to be like a rock” than “to rock”?

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Inktober 2016: 7. Lost: Under The Star’s Light

Under The Star's Light

Navigating by starlight is a bit of an uncommon skill in modern times. Once, people needed only a few sighting tools and a fixed point in the sky to orient themselves. Now, it almost seems as though we are lost without a constellation of advanced satellites in the sky telling us where we are. Throughout the past decade and a half, we’ve gone from memorizing our friends’ home phone numbers to tagging them on Instagram; from knowing our streets and paths by heart to using turn-by-turn navigation to travel a mile. Are we more connected than ever before, with our never-ending conversations and wireless data networks? Or are we isolated points in the global sea, like stars in the night sky — so close, and yet so incredibly far?

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Inktober 2016: 4. Hungry: Mogget And The Bells

Mogget And The Bells

When I first started reading for fun, I often found myself with an hour to pick a few (okay, maybe more than a few) books from the local public library to take home and devour. At the time, I distinctly remember prominently seeing the various books of the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix lining the bookshelves. No doubt his choice of titles was helpful here — who could resist the temptation of books like Mister Monday or Grim Tuesday? As it happened, however, I never actually got around to reading the books that I had walked past so many times until sometime in high school. Instead, my imagination was captured by a perhaps lesser-known series: the Old Kingdom, set in a world where the boundaries between life and death are a little more hazy than in reality.

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Inktober 2016: 3. Collect: A Child’s Dream

A child's dream

One might wonder what exactly changes when growing up — from first words and first steps to collecting seashells to putting coins in a piggy bank to reading books to going to work to collecting paychecks to putting coins in a bigger piggy bank, and so on. We work hard so that we can have the opportunity to play more; we play when we should work, we work when we should play. And somewhere along the line, we cross that invisible threshold where we become “grown-ups”.

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Inktober 2016: 1. Fast: Trains passing under a bridge

Trains passing under a bridge

A long while ago, I developed something of an interest in writing with fountain pens. While this is mostly a matter of personal preference — I don’t like ballpoints — I’ve found that learning to write and ink is in and of itself a rather fun pastime. Especially in our modern age of the Internet, blogs, posts on social media, and the like, there’s something intangibly more personal about putting pen to paper.

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2. The Atrocity Archives



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