Not Quite Normal

I finally made the meme I've had in my head for over a year

Yeah, I made something similar awhile back and it’s still relevant:

not everything in a story has to or should be "realistic" but in my opinion there's a level of illusion that should be maintained, and I think that's the actual problem that many people try to pinpoint with the "unrealistic" criticism. Dialogue shouldn't be written like an actual transcript of human speech, but should contribute to the illusion of a real person speaking. A character is a tool of the story, not a narrative, but we're trying to maintain the illusion that they are a person. Worldbuilding should exist to serve the story, not to be a perfect simulacrum of how every aspect of nature/society etc. would actually play out for real. But there should be the illusion that it could be real, that organizations and systems would operate in such a way, that people might behave in such a way.

Internal consistency matters more than whether something is accurate to real life or not.

The rules I made for myself for surviving suicidal ideation are as follows... While I've still had attempts, but I haven't had any for more than 8 years.

I love these

Drink some water is a good addition... Water can include cordial, fruit juice, a cup of tea (the amount of caffeine in the tea is not diuretic enough to make a difference). Your body isn't discriminating about where the H2O comes from.

I would definitely emphasize taking a shower. Even just a quick rinse off can help, but it’s even better if you wash your hair.

At a grocery store I used to work at, the system abbreviated butternut squash as “Squash Butt”.

Guys, before you commit, before you even consider dating her...find out if she's a feminist.

Women should be able to open things

Extremely legitimate. Somebody invented a system where the twisting motion doesn’t act against the vacuum by separating the two parts of the lid, I don’t understand how it hasn’t taken over the entire world yet:

The two part lids are home canning lids. Sometimes used for small batch commercial canning, but they are recommended for smaller batches and reuse, unlike one-piece canning lids. (Yeah they’re jars and it’s called canning, historically the whole “preserve food by putting it in a pressure cooker in a container that will become shelf stable” thing is called canning regardless of if the container is metal or glass.)

there are a lot of jars men can’t open either unless they are at the top of the curve for grip strength, and some even they can’t get. this is why we got those jar opener circular clampy things, and why men also sometimes do the “hold it under warm water” trick.

*reads the ten thousandth ‘is Batman or Bruce Wayne the mask?’ debate*

Bruce doesn’t have split personality disorder and Batman isn’t “the real man.” Bruce and Batman are BOTH the ‘real man’ because the ‘real man’ cannot be separated either from the foundations of who he is as a person or the way in which he lives out his beliefs.

There’s a reason my favorite mental image of Batman is him in the Batcave, suited up but with the cowl off so you can see his face. That’s the most honest version of him.

Some of my best ideas come when I see something another writer has written and decide I want to take their idea in a completely different direction, and the next thing I know I’m thirty pages deep into a notebook of where exactly my different take would go, complete with themes and characters and maybe even some dialogue.

Stars is both an incredible love song and a profoundly amazed recognition of God’s love.