Sometimes I cry

Actually, no, I don't think that friendships dropping like flies in your late 20s and early 30s because no one has time for that between overwork and family obligations and marriage and kids and partners and the ritual of the time slayer is normal and ok. No I don't think deep conversations and spontaneous adventures being replaced with a tired coffee every six months is a normal part of growing up. I don't think that emotional intimacy and soul bonds disintegrating in the face of practical inconvenience is a fact of life. I think that means something is deeply deeply wrong with our society and I will never forgive it for the friends I've lost

Like I just think we need to make sure post-retirement Shane has a relatively safe hobby that is both enriching and challenging for him so that he doesn’t kill himself cave diving within one year. And I think that hobby could definitely be tying up his husband in beautiful knots and riding his dick while surveying his good work.

Live blogging Phoebe 3

I feel like I’m seeing the rest of a painting right now

“Do you think Phil baby trapped Dan with their audience” - my best friend

Science has proven that potatoes truly are the funniest root vegetables

our drink of calypso is minging

The reason you can't be the next J R R Tolkien isn't because you don't have the talent, but because you're not the right kind of unwell. Tolkien wasn't bent for fantasy worldbuilding; he was bent for constructed languages, and got into fantasy worldbuilding in order to provide a material context in which to ground the notional evolution of the languages he invented. If you want to be the next Tolkien, you can't start with the worldbuilding; you've gotta find something extremely specific to fixate on, and develop it in such depth that inventing a world to contain it is genuinely the most logical next step.

dan picking the number 2009. like sure man he knows his audience he knows how to play his audience but also he really is that romantic. he liked having 2009 as his number on a level deeper than "this is gonna make the phannies go crazy". it was probably the first number he thought of.