...doof.

Your friend’s unpublished fic idea is kind of a dead wife

i also want to read this guy’s dead wife

if you're having trouble sleeping the best you can do is put a bright object close to your face and look at it for at least 30 minutes. if that doesn't work you can close your eyes but make sure to think really hard about a bunch of bullshit

Wow! Local creator discovers new hobby that involves sitting in one place for hours at a time and paying very close attention to tiny details! Surely this will not lead to eye strain or back issues!

"den Umständen entsprechend" is one of my favourite german phrases of all time. Ich sag dir nicht was die Umstände sind, wenn du die nicht kennst ist das dein Problem. ultimate boss of nuance. "it is what it is" but 10 times more german. Ich geh mich jetzt den Umständen ersprechend aus dem Fenster werfen

Auch so ein banger: "Mit dem gebührenden Respekt". Meistens gar keiner, wenn ich die Phrase auspacken muss. Kann man aber nix gegen sagen, weil kann ja auch all der Respekt sein. Who knows? Me. I do. It's none.

there's this weird thing people fall into online a lot, where people assume that if the [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged then people will, naturally, do [perceived-to-be-superior] version of [activity] instead. When really it's just as (or more) likely that if [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged people just won't do it at all.

audiobook listeners are not necessarily people who would otherwise do a lot of traditional reading if audiobooks did not exist, many are people who simply would experience zero books. Booktok romance readers would not necessarily be reading the classics if booktok did not exist, many of them would simply not read. Fanfiction writers would not necessarily be novelists if fanfic wasn't an option, many would just be people who didn't write. You know?

i wont worry about it i say to myself with the always worried disorder