#im sorry to all the hermans out there.. if you're out there

[coolestclowns]

Hermie my boy, I'm sorry, but if we get a "Hello, Normal." Responded with "Herman." I will laugh

[wrishwrosh]

Sorry to come out of the blue like this, but you've mentioned that you're a fan of Herman Melville, and my friends are tired of listening to me talk about how much I've loved re-reading this travel journal of his from a 1856 trip he took through Europe and the Middle East. This man picks the weirdest things to get cranky about: the loneliness of Rome, topiaries, people being underground sometimes instead of building up into the sky (proof of the darkness of Man). And my favorite, the time he's angry that people are behaving foolishly near a statue he loves ("How little influence has truth on the world!").

My very favorite lines of the journal would do numbers on tumblr if he was writing today, where he has back pain that keeps him in bed all day and writes: "This day saw nothing, learned nothing, enjoyed nothing, but suffered something." I've been thinking those lines to myself ever since I read them years ago, he's so dramatic. I love him!

THANK you for this extremely delightful recommendation! melville is one of my all-timer awful little nineteenth century men, i relish the chance to get into his weird crank head :)) im on like page 3 but merman helville is starting SO strong with this bitchy review of a hotel in yorkshire where he gets in a little snit about the insincerity of the concept of “table service” at “””a restaurant””

my treasured freak. saw nothing learned nothing enjoyed nothing but suffered something. (also if anyone else wants to join the party this transcript is on the internet archive !!)

[businesstiramisu]

oh have you ever read moby dick? if you have, im curious about your thoughts on it. if you haven’t you may be one of the few people i can recommend it to because if you regularly trawl AO3 there’s a good chance you don’t mind reading very long fiction of questionable quality

I have not read Moby Dick, and I'm mostly interested in it b/c Ashley keeps talking about its influence on Unsounded. Well, all the tumblr shitposting about Herman Melville's life and, like, authorial voice helps too, but there's a lot of 19th century literature Like That

OOF, but... looking at most of the the time travel I've been reading this month, I can't say you're wrong, lol. I typically prefer shorter fanfic -- my median bookmark is probably under 10k words, DEFINITELY under 50k, and Moby Dick clocks in well over that at 209k words!

Still, I do intend to check it out at some point!!! I am,,,, very slow at getting around to non-AO3 reads nowadays though, so i dunno when that will be.

Need to reread The Legend of Sleepy Hollow first, though, for Halloween preparation reasons. People should nag me about that.

5. on that subject i should also get back to @forumkedis Aldish Austen Abomination, I was really enjoying that (sorry for falling off tracking updates, FK D:)

[earlyspringtranscendence]

blorbo asks but with napoli players? 👀

im obsessed w u ok

blorbo: driesje <3 scrunkly (according to the correct interpretation of scrunkly just being a weird guy. a real herman gottlieb sort of figure.): mario rui and if it wasnt for his Assets gdl also scrimblo bimblo: hm ok no ones underrated in the naps footieblr society & this isnt the best answer i can give but im gonna say kalidou bc its more a thing for me personally where ive forgotten how good he is bc he was out for a little bit and then he was on internatl duty but like he is . so good. ive personally underrated him im so so sorry king 😔 genuinely best cb in the world glup shitto: again theres seemingly no obscure players on naps !!! they are all loved and lusted for deeply <3 poor little meow meow: lorenzo . politano . fabian . dilfspina horse plinko: dries again eeby deeby: the whole lot of them when they play like shit <3 do u hear that ssc napoli next time u play like ur fighting for ur life despite being a Really Good Team you're going straight to super hell

[thetaylorfiles]

Hi! It's been over a year that I habitually come to your blog to see what you're up to & it's comforting. I hope you're doing well. Anything fun or new happen recently? I've never tried Hinge-- I'll check it out!! Honestly, my roommate and I have been struggling with quarantining, knowing some peers have been going out. We are on the same page about it, tho! And healthwise we're good! Everything else has been ok! I've been writing creatively more, and it feels good. Maybe Taylor inspired me!

It’s been a long time that I come habitually you my blog too! Hahaha! But Folklore brought me back and I’m so glad it did. I’ve really missed you guys. I absolutely love getting to talk with so many cool people. I feel like some of you are my friends.

And now, more than ever, with so much bullshit misinformation being pushed out there and Fox News brainwashing of people, and actual fuckimg conspiracies happening, this blog feels timely in a way. Conspiracies in the real world right now are actually matters of life and death. Ask Herman Cain. And thousands of other non-famous people.

I see my mother reading bullshit that spins in directions that they should never go to and I worry about her aging, fragile mind and I want to ducking smash the fucking far right and their goddamn conspiracies and lies.

So, yeah. If I can spend time on here, having fun talking about a celebrity that I adore, fighting against one tiny conspiracy (that, thankfully, isn’t that harmful), and having fun, then yeah. I’m good.

So, yeah. Check out Hinge! I told my friend that at the very least or best, you could meet a cute girl that you hit it off with and you could have one of those relationships with that we all had when the internet was new and we met people from all over and thought we were in love from talking all the time over IM and the phone. You may not be able to meet up now (unless you meet The One and take the right precautions), but you could have someone to flirt with and be excited about! That sounds so delicious to me! Seriously.

I think everyone is struggling with quarantining. If you’re not, you’re an anomaly. I think I’ve finally accepted it for the most part. But I’m very lucky. I have my best friend with me and I have my kids. I get breaks and I have my parents to see a few times a week.

However, school starts tomorrow. And not only do I fucking loathe homeschooling and teaching like crazy, but I’ve now got two kids who are really in it in terms of curriculum. Last year my girl was young enough that she didn’t have to do much. And my son is on the autism spectrum. Which, for him, means that he sees school as a place where you do school work. And home is for relaxing. He just CANT separate the two.

The last few months of distance learning last year was a nightmare with him. Constant, bad fighting to get him to do anything. And I hate fighting him. He’s not trying to be bad. His brain just works differently. I got him to do a few assignments a day last year but he didn’t learn shit. I had to beg him or bribe or fight him on it. It was AWFUL. And I hope to god it’s now like this this year.

If I could, I’d say, okay, take a gap year. (Which btw, the schools should be saying that to everyone. Elementary kids (or all) should just get a gap year till we can do in person learning). Don’t do your work and you’ll just start next year at the grade you are now. But then he’d lose all his friends. And do you know how hard it was for him to make friends? He finally has this small group of girls and boys that love and accept him. I can’t take that away.

Plus, my daughter is now in 2nd and she’s got a full day every day. I just don’t know how I’m going to do it.

On top of that, this summer has at least given them their good mental health back. At the end of last school year I was dealing with depressed, anxious, angry children who felt suffocated and untethered. It was scary. Bad mental health for them both. I did what I could this summer to make it better for the both of them. And it worked. But now we’re going back into it and my sunny, happy kids are going to turn depressive. They both have said some alarming things when like this.

Kids just aren’t meant to be kept home, away from everyone.

Sorry. This got way too poor me. Thing is, so many of my friends are dealing with the same thing. Do you know how many 5-7 year olds I know that are now in therapy for deep depression, anxiety and self harm? It’s scary.

But we’ll do our best!! Got some ideas and I’m hopeful. And dear god let Biden win so he can eventually turn this around.

Wow. I’m so sorry to vent like that. Thank you for listening.

Hey. Do you ever want to talk off asks? My DMs don’t work. I can’t get any DMs. But if you send me a private anon, I can answer you privately and I’ll give you my number and we can text. I do it with another friend from here too. Would love to chat more! As long as you’re cool with someone who sometimes takes forever to reply and sometimes replies rapid fire. Hahaha