alternate universe where the cat king traps edwin in port townsend by simply placing a sleeping cat on his lap

i expected project hail mary to be Ouch, emotionally, but i did not expect it to also be this hilarious

the struggle between 'i am NOT going to write romance, i'm going to write exclusively Not Romantic relationships because there's not enough variety in media and i'm bored' vs. 'what the fuck are these writers doing, i could write a better romance than this. give me the pen'

possibly one of my favorite things ever is when a character really loves someone, or they're sad for some reason, or they have a dream that they're working towards, or they're a lot kinder than they think they are… and everyone around them knows it, but THEY don't know that everyone knows about it. it is especially good when their friends feel immense affection for them because of the thing. get PERCEIVED and CARED ABOUT, idiot

maybe if i just think about initiating a conversation really hard, it'll happen without me actually doing it

my friends. if any of you are awake right now i need you to tell me to go to sleep

QUESTION. do you guys pronounce the word 'onion' as 'ung-yin', 'un-yin', or some other way [< tell me how you pronounce it if so?]

oh my god i'm gonna cry?? murderbot's own governor module hack.... returned to it by another secunit. hello.