There's always two of us.

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"I love you but you're doing wrong in a way I cannot condone" and "I hate you but you're being wronged in a way I cannot stomach" are top tier and I need more of them.

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My dietician recommended something I have somehow never once thought of, which is that if you are going to consent to be weighed at a doctor's appointment but are concerned the whole appointment will become about How Your Weight Has Changed, you can ask to be weighed at the end of the appointment instead of the beginning. For years I've been operating as though my only options were 1) decline to be weighed, 2) consent to be weighed but face away from the scale and ask them not to tell you the number, or 3) do it the way they expect, but there are in fact more options if you further permit yourself to deviate from the standard operating procedures of the doctor's appointment

Btw I did this yesterday and it worked out great!

piss poor reading comprehension???? simply drink water and you will have an abundance of piss

piss rich reading comprehension

I'm flattered you say we piss on the rich

If you're a new writer and you're asking yourself "is this too personal, is this too much, will people think this is weird" that feeling is the exact location of your actual voice. The stuff that makes you want to close the laptop is the stuff nobody else could write. The safe version is always worse. Always. I have never once read something and thought "this would have been better if it was a little less honest." go further. It's always go further.

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

I agree! In English second group of books are called Hi-Lo: High interest, low reading level, specifically advocating for adults with low literacy / poor English skills who still want to read books for adults. Gemma Open Door for Literacy is specifically a nonprofit program/publisher that publishes books for this demographic. If you are a librarian or have sway at your library, consider ordering a collection of these!

everything is getting worse and thats why it's SO so important that we have fun and hang out and play and im being serious im being unimaginable amounts of serious

if u write in present tense enough times in a row, you can switch this problem around & get confused when your present-tense narrator is talking abt something that happened in Their past. I recommend this bc it keeps u on ur toes

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