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I'm the kind of person that finds everything interesting. Also known as a nerd. Nerd is a compliment.
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#ooohhkay I tend to notice hands chests and beards#we're going with facial hair#because I have a type for hands and chests#but I pretty much like all beards in general
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I cannot emphasize enough how much of a life hack it is to exclusively be friends with, date and marry people who are not constantly mean assholes to you.
#my mom likes to say what great examples my parents and grandparents set of staying married#and I think it's more the great examples they set of ACTUALLY LIKING YOUR SPOUSE#ESPECIALLY the men of liking their wives!#God knows where I'd been if I hadn't known there were men out there who are the opposite of mean assholes#advice
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Tangential but I think this is the only time I've seen people frustrated about there being too much sheen. Normally it's "I bought this ink that's supposed to sheen and it didn't sheen! Why do they call it a sheening ink when it's so hard to actually get it to sheen?!"
Ngl i prefer the 2016 version purple on the right.
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#ha I hope for Louis's sake he doesn't have to make any stops on a hill#many good lines in here by I think my favorite is If you go out of your way to hit it I'm going to hit you#writing
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#I love the understatement of Kind of... you knop... betraying him#I also love The sun gives life not takes it away#writing
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(Whoops this is a long one)
When we stop at the end of my street, I notice something to talk about. He grabs the handle I didn’t notice is between us and clicks it into place, and then as we speed up again he clicks it back and forward, one, two, three. “You– You drive–” I say, gesturing at it, because I’m pretty sure it’s called ‘driving stick’ but I’m not sure enough and I don’t want to sound silly.
“Yeah.” He smiles.
Now I have an excuse to watch him a little bit. “How?” I ask, which also sounds silly, but Brandon takes it seriously.
“Mom wanted to make sure I learned. And we have another car but this one’s older so it’s the one I usually drive.”
“Did you learn on the other car?”
“No, I learned on this one. Mom said it was better to learn everything at once than to learn to drive automatic and then have to insert learning clutch and stick into what I already knew.”
I thought the clutch was another word for the stick.
“I don’t know how she’d know. I mean, she did have to insert clutch and stick, she didn’t learn stick until she was in her twenties, but I don’t know how she’d know if it was easier or harder.”
“Why’d she learn in her twenties?”
He answers so quickly his voice overlaps mine: “Dad taught her.”
I look over at him as he shifts for a traffic light. He grins back at me.
“Just like that? He just–”
“Apparently at some point they were talking about cars and he said he couldn’t imagine owning one that wasn’t a stickshift, and she said he better teach her then.”
“Were they engaged yet?”
The light turned green, so his eyes are on the road and he shifts up as he thinks. “I actually don’t know for sure? I always thought no. The way she tells it, it’s like this bold move. Almost like a proposal in itself.”
Yeah.
I want that. I want a moment where I can tell him how much I want him around for the rest of my life, and I want it like that, where I don’t even quite have to say it. But of course I can’t have it now.
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saw a poll about dry/humid heat and like OBVIOUSLY everyone preferred dry heat but. would love to know what everyone considers to be “too hot”
me personally it’s a hard cutoff at 75°F. don’t need anything more than that thank you 🫶🫶🫶
#I like some sleeveless weather#as long as there's air moving and I'm not doing anything strenuous I'm comfortable up to like 82-83
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Wait, so you said that you can learn to trust others by building friendships, but how does one go about doing that? Wouldn't someone I don't know be creeped out or annoyed if I suddenly walked up and started talking to them?
Friendships are built of repeated low-stakes interactions and returned bids for attention with slowly increasing intimacy over time.
It takes a long time to make friends as an adult. People will probably think you're weird if you just walk up and start talking to them as though you are already their friend (people think it's weird when I do this, I try not to do this) but people won't think it's weird if you're someone they've seen a few times who says "hey" and then gradually has more conversations (consisting of more words) with them.
I cheat at forming adult friendships by joining groups where people meet regularly. If you're part of a radio club that meets once a week and you just join up to talk about radios, eventually those will be your radio friends.
If there's a hiking meetup near you and you go regularly, you will eventually have hiking friends.
Deeper friendships are formed with people from those kinds of groups when you do things with them outside of the context of the original interaction; if you go camping with your radio friend, that person is probably more friend than acquaintance. If you go to the movies with a hiking friend who likes the same horror movies as you do, that is deepening the friendship.
In, like 2011 Large Bastard decided he wanted more friends to do stuff with so he started a local radio meetup. These people started as strangers who shared an interest. Now they are people who give each other rides after surgery and help each other move and have started businesses together and have gone on many radio-based camping trips and have worked on each other's cars.
Finding a meetup or starting a meetup is genuinely the cheat-code for making friends.
This is also how making friendships at schools works - you're around a group of people very regularly and eventually you get to know them better and you start figuring out who you get along with and you start spending more time with those people.
If you want to do this in the most fast and dramatic way possible, join a band.
In 2020 I wrote something of a primer on how to turn low-stakes interactions with neighbors and acquaintances into more meaningful relationships; check the notes of this post over the next couple days, I'll dig up the link and share it in a reblog.
#advice#I've always been on the Stop demonizing small talk It serves a great purpose train#but I'm also so bad at providing cues for other people#gotta work more on the Inspiration type of cue
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[ID: illustrations of an iguana, ocelot, atlas moth, tree boa, chameleon, and ring-tailed lemur, presented as die-cut stickers. below is a colorful illustration of a leaf-tailed gecko perched upside-down on a branch, surrounded by wavy leaves. end.]
This month on Creature Mail Club I present to you animals of the understory forest layer, including a whole bunch a reptiles and cats and bugs :-) support me on Ko-fi by the end of April for critters in your mailbox!
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1k words with inspiration: literally 10 minutes or less of writing. a breeze
1k words without inspiration: i will do it. i will take the ring to mordor
#in honor of the flash fic I just posted which was about an hour from start to Post#and which I was astounded to find is like 750 words#writer
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This is not right. This is absolutely not right.
That's not how James talks. First of all, James would not be able to say that kind of thing without fumbling around so much you'd have to tell him to spit it out already.
Second of all, when he did manage to spit it out it would not be that poetic. "It's still you"? "By my side at the end of the day"? Uh-uh. When James told you he wanted to be in a relationship, he literally said, "I wanna be in a relationship with you."
Also James is engaged. And is not the kind of guy who would propose to somebody if he didn't mean it.
So... what makes the most sense here is you're looking at an illusion spell.
Not that it makes a lot of sense, because who would bother with an illusion spell just to flirt with you under the guise of your ex? But James eloquently declaring his love for you out of nowhere when he's engaged to somebody else-- that makes no sense.
So do you call the fake James out? Or do you...
You're not sure if you want to let him stew and think of some clever way to let him know you're onto him, or if you want to ghost him and really let him stew, but you like both those ideas better than calling him out now.
"Ooh..." you say thoughtfully. "I... So I don't know if you know this but I'm in a relationship now. And, um... I have to think about it, you know?" You meet his eyes with what you hope is a shy expression. "I have to think about it."
"Of course. I understand. But I have this chance. I had to take it. I'll never forgive myself for letting you slip through my fingers the first time."
No way is this James.
You get his number, claiming you don't have James's anymore, and as soon as you can you casually wrap up the conversation and get out of there.
About to text James, you hesitate. Texting him seems a little personal when you haven't spoken in a while. You DM him instead. You're never going to believe this, but somebody under an illusion spell as you just said he thought we were endgame.
It's a few hours before you get an answer.
Jesus, that's insane. A few seconds later, Hi, by the way. I feel like I should ask how you've been before grilling you about this crazy dude. Or girl? Seriously, what even the hell?
You're good. I think we're pretty caught up on each other's lives. Congrats on the engagement, again
Thanks! Congrats on the song charting!
I mean, charting doesn't mean it was actually on the radio
I know, I read your post. Still awesome. And they did play it on the radio here.
Aw, thanks. I did hear they did that
My mom got a video I think. Anyway, about my imposter?
I'm in town, ran into "you" getting coffee, we sat down to talk, and then he starts with the "I've never moved on from you" at which point I'm thinking, like you said, what even the hell? Who would do that? Anyone who knows we dated isn't into me. As far as I know.
Oh shit it might be my fault
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We were talking to people at Ashley's friend's house the other day and I mentioned we dated. Which makes me sound like a namedropper but it fit the conversation, I swear. Someone must have overheard. I am so sorry. I would never have thought.
Dude, why would you? You can say we dated. It's not a secret
So what did you do?
Nothing yet. What should I do?
Write a song about it?
You stare at your phone. And do like a 'this is based on a true story' post with it? Genius. Fucking brilliant. The idea is already taking shape. I can call it Don't Mess With My Ex
Love it.
Hey, when's the wedding? I think I'll do a little something for you and Ashley
I know I should say you don't have to but that would be very cool
You don't have to say I don't have to. It's happening.
It's really something to go from hoping to someday find your way back to someone, to being happy you're with someone else and happy for him and his someone else.
Maybe you'll write a song about that too.
You are back in your hometown for the weekend, and run into your long lost love. You are both happily in a relationship now but while you sit for a coffee and laugh about the old times, he suddenly gets very serious and says “it’s still you, you know? The person I see by my side, at the end of the day”. And your heart stops.
#it really is something#my James is married and I'm engaged and I'm so happy for all of us#my writing#if you couldn't tell one of my favorite tropes is Something They Would Never Say#I don't get to use it as much as I'd like to
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Do I think you can write songs in first person where the narrator is not you? 100% Do I generally get annoyed when people describe songs or explain lyrics by saying "It's about how Morgan Wallen/Dua Lipa/Halsey/etc is..." if Morgan Wallen, Dua Lipa, Halsey, or whoever have not actually said the 'I' in the song is them? 100%
But if you start your career off saying all your songs are about your real life, and you never say you've stopped writing all your songs about your real life, and people are constantly speculating what your songs say about your real life and you don't object but cheekily encourage it (to the point of changing lyrics when your life changes), then yeah, for you specifically I'm going to assume the narrator is you, and I'm going to raise my eyebrows at the above.
(And because I have a liberal arts degree and learned to do my research, I did my research. Not only did I not find her saying the song wasn't about her, I found her describing the album as "An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up." i.e., saying the whole album is about her.)
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Before I can get out my phone, she passes hers across the table. I’m about to type in my name when I realize she already has it filled in. I add my number, and then I have an idea. “I’m going to take off the last couple letters,” I say.
“Gabrielle?” she sounds out, giving it the feminine pronunciation instead of ‘Gabriel’, which how you’d spell my name without the last two letters.
“Gabri,” I say. It’s hard to say normally, without the pause between the syllables and the dramatic singing of the second one, the way my dad says it. “My dad started it when I was little because it sounded more fun. It sort of stuck.” The piece missing from that is that the only person it stuck with was my dad— and the only other person I've gotten to call me that is Brandon. I don't want Sonya getting suspicious because Brandon seems to have a special nickname for me. And I don't want Brandon to stop calling me Gabri.
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A hiker, clearly shaken, enters a remote English village pub, his clothes all torn and he's full of scratches.
"You won't believe this," he says to the bartender. "I was attacked by a leopard!"
"Really?"
"Yes! A leopard! In England!" The hiker sits down and orders the strongest liquor they've got. "I tried to run, but it was if course much faster than me."
The hiker gets his glass, empties it, and asks for another. "It sent me to the ground with a mighty push from its paws, but weirdly enough it then just gave me a really sad look and left."
"Ah, you met Father Andrews," the bartender says, matter-of-factly.
"What do you mean?" asks the tourist, confused.
"Father Andrews was our priest. A truly kind-hearted man, loved by all. His only goal in life was to serve his congregation as well as he could. So when he one day found a lamp with a genie, his very first wish was to be a loving shepherd to the community."
"That's nice "
"Absolutely, if only he hadn't been so prone to spoonerisms."
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for your 100th dragon you should use only 100 strokes/lines for the dragon. or if you have already gone past 100 do a dragon with the amount of lines corresponding to the number it is.
ex. 294th dragon gets 294 lines/strokes
personally i think it would be a neat challenge
#100- 一百 (yībǎi / one hundred) - Just connect the 100 dots to make a dragon! 🐉🐲💕
A bonus so you can try for yourself if you want :3c
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You know what I'm a slut for? When a character visibly drops a ruse. Like, the way their face changes the moment they give up a facade and reveal themselves.
This applies to revealing love, apathy, anger, evil intent. I mcfuckin love it.
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