Terminal Pancake Velocity

fantasy: Vetinari is so smart and cunning and has everything perfectly under his control

There's something about lazily studying Mandarin Chinese that's made language learning seem far more approachable. It would be cool to be fluent one day, but I've always been clear with myself that I don't have an actual goal with this besides maintaining a streak in my language app for a certain amount of days. I can quit whenever I want, which is remarkably good at making me not quit. Sometimes I have days where I study Chinese for hours because I'm having a good time, but mostly I'm lazily plucking at this language for sometimes literally a one minute a day. After a year of doing that, even though Chinese is so difficult and different from English, it turns out I can still get from knowing absolutely nothing to knowing slightly more than nothing in a pretty short period. An incredible jump in knowledge with not that much work. In fact, the gap between English and Chinese is so vast that microscopic progress feels incredible. When I have to write out literally any pinyin by memory, and I get 75% of the letters and none of the tones correct, I feel like a genius. Today I almost spelled 音乐会/yīnyuèhuì correctly on my first try, and I wanted to call everyone over to see how I effortlessly nailed two-thirds of it.

"going out to get milk" is a common turn of phrase used to describe a man abandoning his family.

"ooh i wonder what happens in the locked tomb" i say before i read the locked tomb

The real question is are there any good nonbinary equivalents to aunt/uncle bc I refuse to be a Pibling

Confusing problem: I’ve had the same silverware since I was 18 yet my supply seems to be slowly dwindling. Every once in a while I’m like “how am I out of spoons? I have five” and then I count and no, it’s four now

“In the old days, people valued their things! They used the same set of silverware all their lives”

(nods parsle-y) (nods thymely)

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