Fireweed

Nice! Great proportion and shading. I absolutely LOVE the photo of your friend, it's brilliant. ^_^

So Meep, you think that the differences in how men and women express love are based completely on conforming to gender roles? Obviously, we [i]express[/i] love differently (introverted VS. extroverted

Hmm... Haylen sounds kind of feminine to me, though you specify male. I think of a guy of 16 or so, kind of "feminine" but not in a flamboyant, stereotypical ...

Very true, kokobeans- the character's motives must be believable. What are really interesting to me are characters who's actions may be ruthless, but are committed for just motives, because then ...

So we're reading Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in my Lit. class, and it deals alot with the nature of men's love VS. women's love. We had to write about whether we ...

I think that entirely evil characters are usually very unrelatable and unrealistic. I personally believe that no one, or at least very few people, are purely good or purely evil. ...

I like controversy in books, it can be very thought-provoking and effective if used well. But I'll echo everyone else: it HAS to happen naturally. Controversy should be used to ...

I think it's pretty cool, the simplicity works. I love the lines and the color contrast, and how your face isn't the focus like in a typical portrait picture. It ...

I love The Golden Compass! It's so brilliant, the universe, the characters, everything. I'm planning tho read the rest of the trilogy soon.

Prolly either Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carol or Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 is a great book, really interesting, but odd... It wasn't the ...

I've been meaning to read "A Thousand Splendid Suns," it sounds really interesting. Depressing, though.

These are all reeeally impressive. The rose pictures especially are gorgeous. I know, really constructive, right? -_-

Chocoholic, I agree with you that the term "emo" gets thrown around too much, and I realize that poetry that is dark or expresses sorrow isn't necessarily emo. I associate ...

I'm reading [i]Jane Eyre[/i] by Charlotte Bronte and liking it, though I haven't had time to get very far. I read the [i]The Golden Compass[/i] ages ago, so to refresh ...

Yeah, the book was better, but I did like the film. It was visually beautiful, but you didn't get the beautiful language of the book.