does the secret fade

You gotta be really publicly passionate about things if you want your friends to text you. Bc people will forget to text you because they’re human. But if you’re really openly the friend who loves identifying ants your friends will think of you when they see ants. And they’ll text you “what ant is this [blurry photo]”. And then they’ll ask you how you’ve been and we should get coffee sometime. But if they don’t know what you love they’ll never know what you like

And then when the ant convention is in town they’ll be like dude… we should go to the ant convention. But they would never think to go if they didn’t know u loved ants

And sometimes you need to ask them to go to the ant convention. But you Will not get anywhere hiding your passions

I saw a post the other day that was like “RIP Grantaire you would’ve loved using AI for stuff” and I can’t find it again but I feel like. He wouldn’t. He strikes me as the kind of person to be like: “Wdym you used ChatGPT to write your essay? That’s so much more work than just plagiarizing a Wikipedia article. God, you can’t even just copy and paste from the first article that shows up on google? There’s so much stuff out there to steal from when you’re too lazy to do your own work. Hell, if you’ve got a nerd of a friend get them to do it. Do your own plagiarism.” Although I do think he’d argue for the use of AI in different fields just to piss Enjolras off.

A crucial part of the bookstore experience is saying hi to all the books you’ve already read