#we're all on the same page here

[ahedderick]

"Buy children's books!" "YEAH! Buy children's books!"

Children's books

I just sent two books to my littlest niece, and now I get to feel happy about her being happy to read them and also just s-l-i-g-h-t-l-y happy that my brother will have to read them aloud 7,942 times. As one does. ^-^

he he he

[natdeviantrat]

didn't think it was possible but assad and eric may end up giving jacob and sam a run for their money when it comes to saying unhinged shit about their ahem workplace relationship

[xxplastic-cubexx]

chat i think im gonna be sick

(Powers of X #6)

[punctuation-completionist]

okay, so, i just realized i never said this, but if i ever reblog something from you and you want me to take it down, please do just shoot me an ask explaining which post it is and like. try to make it clear that's what you're getting at (ie, if you just send me "fuck you never reblog my stuff i hope you die" i am not going to understand that inherently as a request and more of as a dick move)

because, genuinely, i don't wanna be reblogging something that you're uncomfortable with and if i ever fail to read the room, it's probably a mistake and i would love for you to tell me that i made one.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Jane: My take on the walrus knocking on your door versus a fairy knocking on your door thing is that I don't believe in magic or fairies whatsoever and I'd still be more surprised by the walrus. A fairy knocking on my door means I've made one bad assumption about how the world works; a walrus knocking on my door – in Washington, in February – means I'm wrong about a great many things.

[eightyuh]

Why does Freya seem to want to murder Glen (although deep down we all want to maul him one way or another)

Freya gets cute aggression!

[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[maximusboltaqon]

my villain origin story is the belief that inhumans r copying xmen just because theyre both a group of people that have superpowers. everyone is a group of people with superpowers dipshit it came free with the fucking superhero comic company

[mortellanarts]

No one here follows me for writing but I would like to inform the chapter 2 of this is only 3/5 done and already double the word count of chapter 1 which means 24k so far lmao they were not kidding that post-ztd aftermath do have many characters to account for in conversation

[rinbylin]

谁说我儿子一个人？ who said my son is on his own? x

[inevitabledonutspree]

Relativity falls, but Dipper is trans.

Mabel is very proud of him 👏

[walterdecourceys]

i went to church for the first time in my memory (though i know my mom brought me when i was a baby/too little to be by myself) last sunday (not cause i've decided to go hard lutheran, i got roped into being part of church choir) and my frame of reference is so small with christian church i just spend the whole time wondering what you would have thought of it all sjdfhsd. there was a baptism and it took forever but the baby was very cute

i'm honored that you thought of me actually... i thiiiink lutheran theology is pretty similar to reformed (denomination i grew up in) theology since they're both directly based on the work of reformers 🤔 i don't think i can come up with the differences off the top of my head. either way i'm sure i would have had many thoughts about it.. infant baptism alone i could probably go on for a while about

anyway i hope services are not too torturous for you 🫡 if you get bored you can read some of the pew bibles that's my top tip. exodus is fun

[mantisgodsdomain]

We ought to write more Pokemon fic some time. We want to recreate the Pokemon Manners/Human Manners cheat sheet that we made a few years ago we think that this site would like the Sliding Scale Of Politeness When Greeting A New Pokemon You've Never Met Before.

[nostalgia-tblr]

I reckon I have at least one more sifki fic in me, somewhere. Because look:

They've definitely fucked, haven't they? (I made a gif to prove it. It's a fact now. A gif-proved fact.) There's a turbulent history there, I know it in my bones. I want to squish them together on the virtual page and see whether they fight or they fuck, or if - which I think is most likely - they do both of those things and also at least one of them cries for the lost innocence of the past and for the lost hopes of a misplaced future.

[coquelicoq]

In talking about Chaucer (p. 74), I said that, in general, puns and verbal connections of sound were unimportant and not to be sought out; and now, you will say, I have been using them to explain cruces in Shakespeare. Alas, you have touched on a sore point; this is one of the less reputable aspects of our national poet. A quibble is to Shakespeare [Johnson could not but confess] what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind.... A quibble was for him the fatal Cleopatra for whom he lost the world, and was content to lose it. Nor can I hold out against the Doctor, beyond saying that life ran very high in those days, and that he does not seem to have lost the world so completely after all. It shows lack of decision and will-power, a feminine pleasure in yielding to the mesmerism of language, in getting one's way, if at all, by deceit and flattery, for a poet to be so fearfully susceptible to puns. Many of us could wish the Bard had been more manly in his literary habits, and I am afraid the Sitwells are just as bad.

William Empson, 7 Types of Ambiguity, ch 2 pp 100-101

i'm sorry this is so fucking funny. that pathetic loser shakespeare who loved puns so much it cost him everything, except of course his status as the most famous, most read, most immortal english-language author of all time. but everything else, he lost and it's all because of how weak he was to resist a pun :/ pouring one out for my sad little girly man who could have had it all if only he was better at writing, the thing he is the most famous guy in the world for.

even empson, who disagrees with johnson that shakespeare "lost the world", is like, too bad our favorite poet is susceptible to the thing that made him famous :/ really tragic that the guy whose wordplay we've been talking about for 300 years likes wordplay :///

also i can't get over writing a book about the types of ambiguity and NOT INCLUDING PUNS?? sorry but puns are ambiguous! that's where their juice comes from! imagine liking ambiguity so much you write a book about it but never mention puns except to dunk on them. imagine being a POET and POETRY CRITIC who looks down on sound-based ambiguity! could not be me!!

[wife]

reading about peoples experiences with childhood loneliness on reddit is like wrow... i'm a special girl i see