Sunbird

Oh man, Lark, 100% of this post is awesome!! I super super love birds, especially owls, so I am like totally jealous that you get to work with the raptors up close. Do you get an employee discount or free yogurt at your workplace? What instrument do you play in the band? (Marching band, right?) Today's been an exciting day for me. There was some good and some bad, but I think on balance it turned out mostly good. Bad things that happened today: I was involved in a car collision--first time it's ever happened to me while I was the driver. Good things: I and the other driver involved in the collision both walked away from it completely unharmed (I didn't even scrape my neck on the seatbelt or anything), and the damage to both our cars seems to be pretty superficial, even though she T-boned me right in the passenger door. There was also no shouting or apparent hard feelings in the aftermath while we exchanged insurance info and waited for a police officer to arrive after I called 911. The officer, once he arrived and heard both our sides of the story, determined that I was not at fault, which I'm hoping means that my auto insurance rates will not go up and that repairing the dent in my door will be paid for by insurance. More good things: I found a fledgling robin in a flowerbed after work. They are so storming cute! <3 I also attended a book swap at my local library and came home with Richard Paul Evans's entire 5-book series The Walk, all in pristine condition and four of the five in hardcover. And when I got home there was a very friendly kitten waiting to greet me and jump up in my arms and cuddle.

I played a couple on Saturday with Silverblade and a few other Sharders, and although I didn't keep strict track of the time, it didn't feel like all that long. Maybe 15 or 20 minutes per round? Our games were set to end one one player reached 9 points.

Lol @Oversleep that kinda reminds me of the whole "dihydrogen monoxide is hazardous to your health" joke.

Or those posts that claim "Only geniuses can get this answer right!" when it's a math expression that depends on basic knowledge like knowing your proper order of operations.

When your phone's Internet browser automatically opens to the Shard because that's like the only site you visit on your mobile.

If the first week of August is problematic, I can also do the second week of the month.

I think if most people guessing agree to give up because we obviously don't know what it is, then at that point we should move on.

That premise sounds somewhat familiar... I think I might have heard it mentioned at Salt Lake Comic Con possibly. So I Googled "being a different person every day" and got a lot of results from mental health forums, but I also found a TV miniseries called The Beauty Inside. With a little more digging, I found Every Day by David Levithan, which seems to match the description you gave, Quiver.

On a related note--those posts that say stuff like "1 like = 1 prayer!" or "like/share if you love Jesus. Ignore if you love Satan!" NO. If I want to send someone prayers, I will actually pray for them, and my decision to flood or not flood my friends' newsfeeds with spam memes does not have anything to do with my spiritual status.

Worst film adaptation ever, hmm... I haven't seen Dune so I can't really comment on that one, but both the Percy Jackson movies totally butchered the books. Eragon was also badly adapted, but at least as just a movie it was still entertaining. The Vampire's Assistant was awful. I thought Inkheart was kinda lame but not as bad as some of the others. Also @Orlion Determined maybe it would have been more accurate if I had said "A book with no plot is not a book I'm interested in reading."

@TwiLyghtSansSparkles I don't think it would be disrespectful to use your OC as the minister. When you are writing stories in alternate history, you're letting readers know upfront that the "facts" of your story are not the facts of actual history, so I think as long as you don't stick the actual minister's name on a different character and portray him in a bad light, you won't be doing anything offensive. Or another possible option you might want to consider would be to mention the real minister's name but not insert him directly into the story--maybe he used to be the minister at that particular church before the start of the story, but something happened during the upheaval caused by the emergence of Supers to remove him from the narrative. Maybe a villainous Super killed him or something. Of course, it's your story; do what you think is best. I'm just allowing my fingers to post the random ideas my brain is spitting out upon reading your post.

Lizard

That's just like a Calvin and Hobbes comic I read once. XD A few nights ago I dreamed that I was back in my parents' house in Ohio and I kept finding all these HUGE freaky bugs. Some of them looked like normal spiders, but really big (by American standards of spider size, anyway--I'm sure all the Australian Sharders will laugh at my calling spiders 2 inches across "huge"), but others looked like the devilspawn of a mating between a chasmfiend and a Venus flytrap. I was super weirded out because I was wearing open-toed sandals and kept expecting them to crawl on my feet and bite me if I didn't watch where I was stepping like the carpet was a weeping angel. And I know exactly where that dream came from--last week I found two separate large, freaky-looking spiders in my bedroom and bathroom, respectively, and was unable to catch them and flush them down the toilet, which is what I usually do with large freaky spiders.

I think the very fact that you are saying this about it is an indication that it's probably not a very good book.

For some reason I want to say Resident Evil even though I know that's probably wrong.

Just a small-town girl, living in a lonely world... She took the midnight train going anywhere.

@Oversleep Lol. Anyone listening in to my computer activities would hear a lot of Peter Hollens music and a lot of me laughing or "awwww"ing at memes and kittens on Facebook.

I knew a guy in high school who regularly wore a hoodie whose back was covered in movie spoilers. "Darth Vader is Luke's father" and "Soylent Green is made of people" and "The kid's therapist is dead" and so on.

@Eki True. Hadn't thought of that.

Started reading the latest from Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song, tonight, and have made it about a third the way through. So far very enjoyable.

HAHAHA Saving that meme for future use. XD

That depends on how surreal your dreams about the occasion were...

I feel ya, Jondesu. Politics on Facebook seems to turn people who are normally reasonable into monsters. But from what you told us, it sounds like you're off to a good start to an intelligent discussion rather than a flame war. I hope it stays civil.

@Slowswift Could you give us another hint?

As you said, unlikely but possible.