im guessing its an aroace experience to fantasize about relationships all the time and ship things all the time and be obsessed with romance as a concept but the idea of someone flirting with and seeking you out and actually dating someone and kissing someone seems immensely weird and unnatural to you.

and also if you have had fictional "crushes" that were actually just you liking the character and the character design and confusing that with the fandom expectation of having a character you simp after.

a field of california lilac (saship or ba-kam’ kǎ-lǐ’) living on the black mountain preserve, taken by michelle duong

My favorite form of redemption arc is “I hate that I have morals now”

a weighted blanket is not enough please compress me into a .zip file

First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this

“But listen to me; for one moment, quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.” — Rumi.

i went to my tutoring session early thinking maybe i could ask my professor in his office next door for feedback, but i was too shy

then my tutor assigned anOTHER MOCK SPEAKING TEST

on one hand, the arabic speaking test i just bumbled my way through was only part of my final exam, not like, a career-defining score

on the other hand, i think it's a little easier to perform on this kind of test when the examiner is a complete stranger and not the professor who's judgment i'm very familiar with and can easily visualize as i'm failing to answer his questions

jack rackham most autistic man on nassau walks in on lesbian sex and pulls up a chair to sit down and tell them about his financial business plan i cant fucking deal with this rn

Tragic: in that mood to learn every language but there's not enough time or energy in the day

this is already so validating lol, thank you

once again, please indulge my curiosity.

full disclosure: this is in the context of an oral exam i just took, and i bombed this question, simply couldn't answer it even a little bit. i'm curious how much of this topic is common knowledge and thus how embarrassed i should be lol

you! the person reading this! please tell me one good thing that happened to you today

once again, please indulge my curiosity.

full disclosure: this is in the context of an oral exam i just took, and i bombed this question, simply couldn't answer it even a little bit. i'm curious how much of this topic is common knowledge and thus how embarrassed i should be lol

on one hand, the arabic speaking test i just bumbled my way through was only part of my final exam, not like, a career-defining score

on the other hand, i think it's a little easier to perform on this kind of test when the examiner is a complete stranger and not the professor who's judgment i'm very familiar with and can easily visualize as i'm failing to answer his questions

For the name ask game - Catie, short for Caitlin?

Hello anon!

Send me your name (on or of anon) and I'll tell you what is the closest Arabic name to your name.

I chose the name تَالَة Tāla. It's a common girl's name which means the small palm tree