canadian-riddler

[canadian-riddler]

Ah, I found the post where you explained it. What exactly did I comment on Armin's posts you didn't like? Or are you just jealous that he answered me multiple times and I even met him in person? ;) How do you even know that this blog was tied to me? As far as I know I never connected it with my facebook. Nevermind then. I just liked a drawing of yours once and it's kinda rude that you shut someone off who you don't even know who just wanted to make a compliment. Guess you don't like compliments. Your loss then.

No, Hunter, I just don’t like you.

[canadian-riddler]

Honestly it’s crazy the amount of people I know who just gave up on their health. And it’s not a matter of time or money. They have those things. It’s more they just seem to expect to die in their sleep in their fifties. And maybe they will, but the preceding 10-15 years are going to be incredibly increasingly miserable

It reminds me of two coworkers I have

One will occasionally talk about going to the gym after work, to which the other (about twice his age) will say something along the lines of ‘why would I go to the gym? I’m already tired. If I go to the gym, I’m just going to go to get more tired!’ followed by laughing as if he just told the funniest joke ever. But like. He goes home and has a glass of wine and maybe smokes weed. Both of those things make you tired, but at least one of them is good for you

[canadian-riddler]

As far as I know you never told me anything and why you blocked me. We've never even met or interacted. Unless you might have been on twitter and you were either Nat or Dees but even then I have no idea why you know about my tumblr as I never shared it there. Or maybe you're Grill/Aisha

I blocked you on your old blog. I told you why then. The fact you don’t even know who I am but feel entitled to come scream in my inbox because I won’t let you engage with my Armin posts is unhinged.

Either way, stop going to people and demanding to know why you’re blocked. All you need to know is they don’t want anything to do with you. The reason doesn’t matter. Leave them alone.

[canadian-riddler]

the-scottish-costume-guy said:

The thing is there probably are spaces like that? There are at least some businesses near me that are open Christmas day because they are family run by non-christian families. They are shut other times of year for their own religious celebrations. Ive heard of some cinemas being open too, plus places set up for people without families to gather. If none of these things are available to these guys that is a shame.

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No, you're right. Those posts are from the Ottawa subreddit. Businesses in general aren't open - other than places like Tim Hortons and McDonald's - other than like Chinese restaurants, which are always super busy on Christmas (and New Year's). Bars specifically in the evening on Christmas Eve? A couple. Not many. Our theatres are open.

Free activities on Christmas Day, though? Other than just spending time outside, not really. You can go to church, obviously, but as far as free indoor activities that's about it.

[canadian-riddler]

and really, this is where you realise what the series REALLY is. a guy who couldn't get over the fact that the woman he loved didn't marry him stalked her kids after she died and made them look like the sweetest, kindest, smartest, bestest kids who ever lived because they were hers. meanwhile, he also never got over the fact that his sister was, at one point, going to marry someone he didn't like, so he went out of his way to describe that person as being ugly, unhygienic, stupid, bad at everything, cruel, and just generally awful. Count Olaf is obviously not even close to being a good person, but you have to wonder just how much of what you're told about him is actually the truth, given that some of those 'qualities' contradict several of the things he's able to do. In these two pages, even our unreliable narrator who hates this person has to admit, if indirectly, that he hasn't been telling the whole truth about him

both times I read this part of this book, I had the feeling like there was a far more interesting story than the one I was reading sitting just outside of it, somehow

[canadian-riddler]

I don’t know if you can even say literacy is the problem, given people will happily swallow even complex misinformation if it confirms their biases

[canadian-riddler]

Marvelbros will try and trash filmbros by making up hypothetical films that sound fucking amazing, they'll be like "would you rather watch escapist superheroes or a 3 hour Yugoslavian film from 1971 about the friendship between a homeless man and his dog over the course of the dog's life" and I'll be like obviously it's the latter????

[canadian-riddler]

There was also this guy, who thinks we need free third spaces that are open on Christmas because their friends and family don’t want to hang out with them that day

Like. You do understand that the people who run third spaces probably don’t want to work on Christmas? You do understand people shouldn’t have to work on a day most other people get off just because you’re lonely?

‘Are there any bars where the owners DON’T let their employees close early so they can go celebrate Christmas with their families?’

[canadian-riddler]

‘Are there any bars where the owners DON’T let their employees close early so they can go celebrate Christmas with their families?’

[canadian-riddler]

forcing every character into romance or found family ruins character discussion imo

[canadian-riddler]

Dexter has Jon's truck lol

[canadian-riddler]

both times I read this part of this book, I had the feeling like there was a far more interesting story than the one I was reading sitting just outside of it, somehow

[canadian-riddler]

I hate the ‘fanfiction is a gift’ narrative so much

[canadian-riddler]

This person was gone for two years because of real life problems. They posted 2 chapters in 11 days and expected a big welcome to make up for what they were missing in real life. They didn’t get it, so now they’re bitter and angry the readers weren’t sitting around waiting for them, anxiously wondering where they went. They describe the two chapters as a gift, as though they’re being magnanimous, but they’re also saying anyone who clicked it should praise them just because they posted something.

This kind of thinking not only destroys the hobby for you, but puts unrealistic and unfair expectations on readers.

This is why you should never write for validation

[canadian-riddler]

This is why you should never write for validation

[canadian-riddler]

in ten years all the kids with parents who have to be high on weed to hang out with them are going to find out and they're going to be questioning if their parents even liked them or not

[canadian-riddler]

I don’t really miss having a microwave. If anything, not having one kind of forces me to cook