(not so) secretly a total geek

okay I've committed myself to finally reading The Way Of Kings this weekend (we'll see if 900 more pages in three days is doable I'm not committed to finishing but I think I can manage if I try) and I'm gonna be so real, why are the curses in this book like this. I mean I know the answer (Mormonism) but it pains me 😭

for real tho it feels exhausting that ive seen this whole "woman should be allowed to abstain from X beauty standard" -> "i perform X beauty standard, am i evil? do you think im evil? please forgive me i came up with a dozen excuses 🥺" since like 2015 (and i know its been going on longer than that) like girl thats not the poiiiiint

look me in the eyes. repeat after me. "i face societal pressure to perform this beauty standard. i should not face that pressure. i conform to this standard. i am rewarded for performing to this standard. i need to respect women who do not perform this standard. this is not about whether or not i am a sinner for wearing makeup."

Humans are like "let me hold the thing. Let me pick it up. It's cute and I want to hold it, I want to wrap my weird elongated front feet around it, I want to encircle it with my freakishly long, oddly flexible front toes. I HAVE to hold things I HAVE to or I'll die."

There's a line in the book epilogue that implies that Book!Grace does end up full Left Hand Of Darkness-ing it with the Eridian pronoun situation. And while I don't actually think that Mr. Taught Middle School In 2020s San Francisco would do this, I do think it's really funny to envision a version of things where the Eridians are like "Well we don't know what this 'gender' is so we will just all match signifiers with Grace :) as a gesture of friendship and respect :)" And poor Grace is like "No please you don't have to . . ." but he's too late. He's just making logs like "Okay I know this is gonna look really bad at Second Contact and I did try to explain things but they were really insistent :( I'm sorry Ursula :("

pride flag for nonbinary asexual aromantic individuals that just says "not gonna do all that"

Adhd is genuinely life ruining and not even for productive shit either, I've been sitting here wanting to listen to music and instead wasted five hours doing nothing. The music app is literally open I just have to reach over, grab my headphones, and press play. The easiest task in the entire world, and yet I can't do it

if youre in the US (especially the northeast + michigan) i would avoid bagged salads/greens and generally wash your produce very thoroughly unless you want the diarrhea parasite