the work requires that you continue

eternally painful that you can't socialize without people expecting you to talk. sometimes I just want to be around. like a cat

egrets in the salt marsh seen from a moving car

I'm a BIG fan of low ranking characters suddenly thrust into a position of authority they're unprepared for. a young princess, too far down the line of succession to merit any training, forced onto the throne when her whole family dies in one attack. a lowly technician on a team who finds themself the defacto leader when a mission goes wrong and every single person above them is captured or killed. a group of strangers comes together for survival, and the only person with any assertiveness gets assigned a leadership role, even though they have no special skills. do these characters rise to the challenge and lead their respective groups to victory? do they crash and burn under the pressure so hard no one ever trusts them again? do they massively restructure their whole society because any system that puts them in charge can't be doing things right?

i owe so much to graceling and fire

when i read graceling as a young girl i was astounded. it was the first time i had ever read a story about a woman protagonist deciding not to have children

petplay except i have rabies so you have to euthanize me

trying to tell myself that the soonest I should hear back from potential job is Wednesday so there’s no need to obsessively check my email but uh. it’s not working

:)