the man who owns and runs the thai restaurant in my town knows me by name. he is one of the kindest and most thoughtful men i know. i started ordering from his place back in january, which was when i got my fibromyalgia diagnosis. back then i was using a walker, had limited mobility in my entire body but especially my hands, and was very visibly in pain. i always ordered the same thing: yellow curry with no meat, potatoes and carrots only (i have texture and other dietary issues). he always made it a point to make sure i could get out the door and carry the food safely. he had his workers package the food so that it was easier for me to open. as i kept coming back and i told him a little bit about my health status, he would always encourage me to keep going. he told me about how the spices he used were good for inflammation and began to edit the recipe just for me so that spices that were even better for fighting inflammation were used. he’d give me extra portions and despite the fact that i would tip every time, i realized later that he never charged my card for them. as time went on and my condition began to get better, especially with the help of a physical therapist, he would make encouraging remarks and tell me how happy he was for me. the day i came in without my walker, he practically jumped for joy, and despite my insistence, he gave me my meal for free that day. i continue to make progress with my conditions and i continue to go to the thai place. this man who does not know me personally and who i hardly know anything about is one of my favorite people. it’s interactions with humans like these that make loving life easier. and his curry really does help my chronic condition. it’s comfort food taken to the next level.
if it had the opportunity, i feel like a cow would walk through a car wash. it would know exactly what to do, it wouldn’t even get scared when the water jets spray
It was number 5, but I still think that’s too high.
So, I had someone on TikTok smugly claim that I was only trying to promote my own work “at the expense of JK Rowling who is a better writer than I will ever be” and you know what? Sure. Here’s a bunch of opening lines I’m pretty damn proud of.
THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS
“It had taken almost a century of denial – and nearly two more of experimentation – before Palamon Keeper accepted it was, in fact, impossible for him to die.”
NOSTOS AND THE FILIGREE LANTERN
“The earth opened up on a Tuesday, just before noon.”
THE LIGHTNING HERDERS
“The first thing Third learnt about the town called Folly was that it had its own weather bubble, but the second - far more interesting thing - was that it was never supposed to exist.”
UNNAMED LIBRARY MYSTERY
“Rogi didn’t know which was worse: the fact someone had broken the spine of the book abandoned in the alleyway or that it was the most obvious trap he’d ever seen.”
HOLOFERNES HOLLOW
“The embers looked like fireflies, pouring out of the skeleton of the horticultural shop.”
the way people treat girl characters in fandom joker-ifies me
no no please go on. explain to me again. why you find the girl that does arguably less annoying and extremely realistic things for a person in their situation is MORE annoying to you than her guy counterparts. please explain to me why you never talk about her. please explain why even though shes also a main character you couldnt even describe two of her character traits btu you can write an entire essay on why those men suck eachother off. please. come closer. im a normal cat
need a new jane eyre adaptation where they finally focus on the fact that jane is a little freak. she is a tiny vessel filled with violent love and violent rage and is just constantly waiting for a moment to unleash one of them and sometimes both. I want people to notice how both her and bertha are tied to a chair when they attack someone. I want the viewer to understand why mrs reed was afraid of her. I want that monologue during the proposal scene to be angry, not just desperate and sad. I want people to get why mr rochester immideately thought “oh that’s my soul mate right there.” because she is a tiny freak, just like him.
only knowing of edward rochester as a regency-era romantic hero when you’re used to what that means in austen books then actually reading jane eyre has been a hell of an experience today. finding out for the first time that this man is bonkers, like absolutely batshit. he talks like he’s arguing with his own reflection in a puddle
This is just Gardiner’s sign list of Egyptian Hieroglyphics A1-B2 with a couple of repeats thrown in at the end. You’ve thrown a vocabulary list at us.
“Kill them with kindness” Wrong. CURSE OF CEASAR
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