❁憾

Meaning: regret

Kunyomi: うら

❁憾む　（うらむ）：to regret

❁憾み　（うらみ）：resentment, grudge

Onyomi: カン

❁潮

Meaning: tide, tendency

Kunyomi: しお

❁潮　(しお)：tide, current

Onyomi: チョウ

❁風潮　(ふうちょう)：tendency, trend

❁潮流　(ちょうりゅう)：tide/tendency

❁討

Meaning: chastise, attack, defeat

Kunyomi: う

❁討つ　(うつ)：to attack

❁追い討ち　(おいうち)：attacking a fleeing enemy

Onyomi: トウ

❁討論　(とうろん)：debate

❁討議　(とうぎ)：discussion

❁検討　(けんとう)：examination, investigation

Like. I’ve always sorta understood that things grow moldy or stale or sour or such if left out, but I never really internalized it in a meaningful way.

But now I’m just like.

Yeah. The hungering dust. There exists omnivorous dust in the air that will eat my food if I don’t.

Those bagels have been sitting there for a week. Are we going to eat them soon or are we leaving them for the hungering dust?

Pizza’s been sitting out on the counter for an hour. Everyone’s enjoying the pizza, but if we don’t want “everyone” to include the hungering dust then we should probably put it away soon.

That’s just. That’s how food works to me now. There exists an invisible predator in the air that hungers for your yummies, and it will not hesitate to eat your food if you don’t make the effort to protect and preserve it. And eat what can’t be preserved before the dust can.

“go bad”, it just gets eaten

by something else first

"the ugly duckling transforms into a beautiful swan"

"this girl is not like the other girls and therefore she's better than the other girls"

"this girl was secretly special or superior all along" and the mary sue trope

"love is the answer to all problems and a good marriage solves all problems"

"true love and a kind man cures a woman of her insecurities and desire for independence"