every trendy knitting pattern u can see on etsy was first posted on facebook in 2011 by a middle aged turkish woman

Yeah i believe the technical term for this is 'real estate fraud'

The time Marie Kondo said "you can thank a a shirt you've never worn for teaching you about your taste", thereby making it NOT A WASTE literally rewired my whole brain. Acknowledge the thing and move forward, even if that means leaving the thing behind.

I’m rereading the Fellowship of the Ring (I haven’t read the trilogy in many years) and was struck by how Tolkien has Gildor (of the House of Finrod) be the first named elf to meet the hobbits. It’s the first connection between the immortal elves and the mortal hobbits (named and in-text interaction for the reader, anyway), and I really love the sort of calling back it makes of Finrod and him meeting Men for the first time. A repeat of that early kindness and kinship between two different people. It's not exactly the same, of course, but there’s enough of that echo for me to think that Tolkien chose Gildor to be from the House of Finrod on purpose.