Marjorie Rose

everyone is meeting me in the grotto

parallel universe

Asking bc i was throughout 3rd-grade reading class, we had a unit on Greek roots a unit on Latin roots where we’d focus on like 2-3 roots a week (eg -graph- -phon- -pod-) and basically learn all the most common words with that root or variations of that root (phonograph, pedestrian) and we’d be like quizzed on our ability to derive the meaning of a word from it’s roots and affixes etc. I don’t know how common this was but it was pretty useful imo for understanding how like the actual language worked and then how to guess the spelling of a word you heard out loud or guess the pronunciation/meaning of an unfamiliar word (not as useful now that we all have pocket dictionaries orz)

I need to hit eva stratt with a car [remembers that people might read that as "I want to brutalize a woman for being mean" and not "I want to put Character in a Situation"] hit her with a car lovingly [remembers I do actually sympathize with grace's whole deal and that was pretty fucked] but not too lovingly [remembers about the 4.5 billion people] well unless she'd like it to be more loving [remembers about antarctica and the sahara] wait I probably can't hit her with a car if she's in jail [remembers that I believe in restorative justice] she should be mitigating the harm caused by her actions instead of being in jail [remembers I'm a prison abolitionist] no one should be in jail [remembers what this post was about] I need to hit a jail with a car [remembers I can't drive] I need to hit a jail with a bicycle and also eva stratt is there

I need to hit ryland grace with a car [remembers pure sweet fuck all] why am I on a spaceship with mysteriously well toned muscles

goddamn I think so much about paragraph breaks. I get annoyed when I like everything about what I'm writing except for the physical way I divide those words into sections.

Sometimes the only difference between a sentence being just a sentence versus being a punchline or a gut punch in how you group it with other sentences. Which is cool. However. Also deeply stressful. Like much of writing.

The thing about Richard Silken is that he probably could stand to log off a little bit, but also at a certain point you probably should just stop bothering him. "We kept asking this bear about the gay firefighters from Fox then ABC show called 9-1-1 named after the American emergency response number and not after the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001 and then it kept mauling people."