“She will take it back some day.” -Pink Floyd
slowly but surely
All y'all sound like a despondent Victorian with how many commas you throw around, meanwhile I, a concise and admirable writer, who uses short sentences to precisely convey mine intent, like unto Hemingway, am blameless before God, and have made no such transgression in the eyes of my fellow man, all words being consistent, to the point, and simple without a compound sentence to be seen—
My legal writing professor instructing me to be concise v. any Supreme Court decision before the 1960s
I’ve been trying to leave Rome for a few weeks now, but all their roads have this weird design flaw
Hotelius Californium…
Sokka: have you ever seen something that just like, changed your life forever?
Suki: yeah, you
Sokka:
Sokka: okay that’s really sweet and definitely makes me feel bad because I was going to show you this picture Aang made of Fire Lord Ozai out of noodles
your last words before you die are the 3rd line of the last song you listened to. what are we saying ladies?
The fact that humans can be killed through physical means is so ridiculous to me
Like this sounds wild but like. hear me out. a person is such a ridiculously infinitely complicated web of thoughts and feelings and beliefs and such an unbelievably huge amount of knowledge and the idea that you can destroy that by holding a pillow over someone’s face for three minutes is absolutely surreal. The idea that you can remove knowledge and emotion and memory from the world with a physical object is literally unbelievable. people are literally infinitely huge and complex and the fact that you can kill the person by killing the body is wild. I’m sure this is incoherent but I hope you get it
It’s like. Imagine you threw a fist-sized rock at the empire state building and the entire thing and everything inside it collapsed into dust. That’s what the existence of human death feels like
So much of geek/nerd culture has been shaped by women over the years, and yet people often overlook it all. They’ve not part of some new “SJW agenda,” they’ve been there since the beginning.
Take up space and don’t apologize!