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I do think some people need to realize you cannot Amazon prime one day free shipping your way into a friendship/relationship

sometimes it’ll be inconvenient. sometimes you will have to sit through a movie you don’t enjoy and still say, “it was nice!” sometimes you’ll have to forgive them for things, and sometimes you’ll have to have tough conversations. human connection is often about learning how and why and what and when to care about another person. at least the one’s that are worth it. it might cost a couple more emotional dollars, and the shipping is a couple business days more, but it’s worth it.

Public transit is so cool it can turn a 30 minute walk into a 40 minute sitting session

Literally no reason for a guy to be over 5'7". That's just wasteful use of biomass. You had enough material to make four dudes and instead you made three. That thing is blocking an entire isle in the grocery store.

In fact this is not only true but also means that Gandalf is A FULL FOOT SHORTER than Aragorn AND Boromir both!

Wait I think we've finally put together why Gandalf liked hanging out with hobbits and dwarves.

i can’t allow myself to think too much about sensory differences on the erid road trip or i throw up and die. grace can look out at the stars any time he wants. if he wants to fuck around with his telescope, grace can see erid and grace can see earth. grace has a sense of place. for rocky, however, the universe is four rooms wide and there are two people in it

the version of you from five years ago would be genuinely amazed by what you’ve handled since then. sit with that for a second

sometimes you have to sit down and decide "do i think this was a bad narrative choice or is this just the part of my brain that wants to see all my favorite characters end the story perfectly happy and thriving." and its surprisingly hard to tell sometimes because that part of my brain is loud as fucccckkkk.

honestly thinking about it, isn't developing this skill one of the things fanfic is for? You can sit down and explore all the different options, the different narrative choices the creators might have made, how it would look and what it would take for your characters to end up thriving... eventually you get the hang of being able to go "this choice served the story and the arc, it had the emotional impact it was meant to have, the story would be lesser without it" and also "but i want them alive tho" at the same time