Amusing Stupidity

"I don't care if he's hot, you need to FLEE"

dont store a knife with the point facing down, it damages the blade. no, dont do that either. when you store it with the point facing up you might accidentally hurt yourself when you try to grab it. dont store a knife at all actually. your blade must never leave your hand, always ready, ruthless and waiting. you know deep down that ever since you learned the stench of blood you will never be able to cast it aside. or just get a sheath for it i guess.

I keep thinking how lucky it is that Grace is a teacher. And not just any teacher, but one who's worked with kids (who are being introduced to more complex concepts for the first time) and experienced scientists (who are extremely intelligent and experts in their fields). There are so many times throughout the book where whatever Grace and Rocky are doing or talking about is made so much easier because Grace knows how to teach someone who is both incredibly smart and also learning drastically new things with little prior knowledge. Despite the situation, he was actually really well equipped and one of the best possible people to make first contact with an intelligent alien species

Not gonna lie, as much as I want to be helpful and comprehensible, I am very proud of provoking that reaction image.

WEAR A HELMET WHEN YOU RIDE A BIKE!!!

And you know, for young writers, this has got to be so detrimental just from the perspective of opening your document and seeing a million corrections that, frankly, don't need to be there. If you're a young writer you're likely not going to have the background knowledge to know what is and isn't a good suggestion, you're just going to see a document that makes it look like you made every mistake possible so clearly you must be a terrible, stupid writer and should just give up.

The fact that no one even gives a shit on posts like these but other writers is lowkey driving me nuts

We should popularize more hispanized phonetic spellings of classic character names like we did with esnupi

loud warning

Rolling on the floor sobbing and crying and losing my mind at “GET INSIDE THE VAAAAAAAAAAN”

I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth

Sympathy: that sucks bro empathy: I feel that compassion: want me to send you some puppy and kitten pictures to make you feel better?

Posts like this make me feel so much better. It always seems like society treat responses to others pain as though empathy is the most important kind. I am around 85% compassionate and this post helped me not feel like I am a monster because of that for once.

"i feel besquintled", said no one ever. because that's not a word.