From Love & Anxiety

imagine if every chapter in a real book ended with an author's note

"sorry guys i think that chapter kind of got away from me😅 if you see me projecting my own religious trauma onto these characters no you didn't. but seriously that was more than 20 pages maybe i have issues lol... well the next one is a doozy. ivan will finally confront smerdyakov properly. stay tuned!"

having viral posts is all fun and games until you have clowns in your mentions being like "well, op, i bet you also didn't know THIS" [haughtily explains something i absolutely would and do know] like add whatever to my posts that you think is informative just don't direct it at ME! i know! i just didn't include it in the post i made in 20 seconds because i didn't think 30,000 of you would see it!

The mammalian desire to stand at the edge of the ocean.

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental