Dominic Page

i kind of straight up despise the way a lot of people on the internet attribute "friendlessness" to "being a chud nobody wants to hang out with". no i can assure you there are an infinite multitude of reasons why somebody might not immediately have a large close knit friend group they're always free to hang out with, and believe it or not, not all of them are moral failings

it's hard to talk about this without sounding like a hit dog hollering or discrediting the people i am lucky enough to have in my own life, so to be clear yes i do have friends but also i've been there and could stand to be less there. it is hurtful to see posts that imply that the only possible reason why somebody might be lonely in today's society, online or in person, is that they're a hateful mean asshole who is antisocial in nature and actually must be completely deserving of their own loneliness. no, some people are autistic, or mentally ill, or shy, or overly busy, or struggle to initiate conversations, or grew up in circumstances that made it harder to fall into these kinds of connections and relationships naturally, or any other number of factors. i don't know why people are so cruel and unsympathetic about the prospect.

"I wouldn't want to bother anyone," I say as the thing inside of me eats me alive.

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

Nearly blocked someone for a vaguely annoying reply they made in 2017 then remembered 2017 was 9 years ago. They will live. We can change *opens their blog* nevermind they got worse. Guards

This was written out in real time btw. I typed out the first half, paused, saved it to my drafts, went back to open their blog, then came back to type the rest

“Larper” being used like “poser” is so annoying bc actual LARPers are cool as hell. Get me some armour and a fake sword too

"Write character relationships that are normal" WRONG ☝ CODEPENDENCY BEAM 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

"Write character relationships that are normal" WRONG ☝ CODEPENDENCY BEAM 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥