Jennifer Moriarta

people will say they’re hopeless romantics but they’re not even furiously jerking it to the memory of laying their head on someone’s chest and hearing their heartbeat 🙄

(guy who's not getting anything done voice) I need to learn every skill and all information

sorry to anyone who followed me for anything. you're not getting that

this is so sad he doesn’t even know there’s a double barreled shotgun pointed at him

Pacific spiny lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis)

Asunder is basically the most classic way to be torn, and if you're looking to be cleft, in twain is a vintage but stunning choice

Miss Piggy tied to the mast while Statler and Waldorf heckle her from the sea

#she was watching the penguins with what I will anthropomorphically project as skepticism

grab your nonbinary unspecified body part and do something vague to it

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

A few weeks ago my own grandmother asked me why I bother with rereading the odyssey and I told her “Well, it’s a good book.” and that somehow shut her up. She never shuts up when she dislikes something that you like.

Yeah that’s good. I used to TA for a GE British Literature class and I always suggested to students who struggled with medieval and early modern texts to try listening to an audiobook or watching a performance at the same time while they were reading and that helped a lot of them.

Do you want to watch your favorite movie at my house and then watch my favorite movie at yours? Do you want to take photographs of each other and then draw the photographs and then describe the drawings? Do you want to put on the same perfume and then get really sweaty and compare smells? Do you want to pass a mouthful of water back and forth as many times as possible?

My one boring tip to anyone in their 20s is to resist the temptation to rot in your room every time you get a free moment. Dismiss any neuroses you have about going outside and "being perceived". Be a dictator about it, plan your hangouts like they are binding commitments. No excuses! Go to the bar with your friends. Be kinda hungover at work. Socializing is like exercise; even if you don't feel like you want to, you should still do it because it's good for you.

Need a movie about William the Conqueror "Our age of darkness is ending"