uh oh!

lesbian texting their straight guy friends: it genuinely worries me that people are going to start with Vineland and get turned off to Pynchon forever. it’s not even that challenging but it’s like…others from him are so superior in basically every way?? this happened with Inherent Vice too like ok let’s all KILL OURSELVES

Are we forgetting this was one of the supposed draw cards of QUIBI? Being able to watch short horizontal videos, but vertically? You remember QUIBI? You remember how that played out? And now, everyone's doing this. Great.

teenage girls in fiction: hes so cute i wanna slow dance with him at prom :3 hehe

I am Mohammed, I live in the northern besieged Gaza Strip, I am 21 years old, I have always tried to create a beautiful future for myself in which I achieve all my wishes. I had ambitions and dreams, but they evaporated because of the war, but I still want to achieve them despite the siege. During the war, I lost many things, including my university, my dreams, my job, and some friends. Despite that, I still want to achieve my dreams and ambitions. I want to rebuild my life again, so please help me in that and rebuild my life. Therefore,

of note: 95% of libya is desert, and giraffes are not found there! but this predates not just the libyan desert, but the entire sahara desert it's a part of! giraffes aren't found there any more and this is a memory of a time when things were giraffier

found a free real estate (raspberry bushes not far from my building that nobody else is apparently interested in) and realized that I probably looked like some sort of cryptid to the people just going about their business.

me watching as every wikipedia article changes from “is” to “was”

Sometimes when i walk into a large empty public restroom with stalls, I will pick a random stall towards the end of the row. However, it seems like whenever someone enters while I'm doing my business, they pick the stall directly next to mime even if there are ten others available! I'm wondering if I'm a magnet or if this is something people do.

New local scandal is an old woman who will walk down to her mailbox in her robe, then, when no cars are driving by, lay down next to her mailbox as if she’s fallen or been hit by a car. Tourists will stop, help her up, and walk her to her house. Then, after they leave, she’ll repeat this until she’s bored with it.