it doesn't matter what it is we've got to catch it

I found an old file entitled “Literary Exerpts” (oh, younger me…) on my Neo Alphasmart (which I’d been looking for for roughly half a year and which fell out of my closet when my sister opened my bedroom door and a shelf decided to explode or something).

I remember typing it all up, too - I was on a family trip in a motorhome, and I’d brought a bunch of books and the Neo (woah), and I guess I decided to type up my favorite parts to look at later for ~inspiration~ or something. …It’s basically a few Sherlock Holmes quotes and most of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

The rest of the files are mostly ridiculous angst about Torchwood and Five-Era Doctor Who (which I had just started watching), plus a couple of Sherlock Holmes things, a note from an old friend saying she liked my writing, a Leven Thumps fanfiction (…I need to finish reading that series), a… Monty Python fanfiction? That I wrote about various characters from the show breaking into my house to argue with me about my worth as a person? And also Graham Chapman came back from the dead and the others eventually also just became themselves so I guess it was sort of RPF? I don’t know, a Mistmantle Chronicles fanfiction about Fingal the otter (also ridiculously angsty), and a short fic about Tigger realizing that his friends are his family at the end of The Tigger Movie followed by about two pages of blank space and then a note from a girl I spent one day selling T-shirts with at the track. I don’t know why I had my Neo with me while I was selling T-shirts. I was about thirteen. I was probably insufferable and awkward and I’m surprised she didn’t kill me with it.