i am so fucking tired of whedonisms. You can tell from a mile which writers had their creative instincts shaped by sitcoms and which had their creative instincts shaped by books, and personally I have a preference for books by people who care about books

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I've never been a person with a full movie going on in my brain as I read a book; I don't picture things, I don't remember what characters look like unless it's plot-relevant or they're supposed to be particularly hot. so it's WEIRD to read and feel all the undrawn-details around the edges.

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the best I can describe reading a book in Japanese is "it appears in my brain like an uncolored coloring-book, and the more words I look up and the more grammar I figure out, the more the colors and details get filled in."

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Husband asked me what I want to do for my birthday and ????? I’ve been grilling on my birthday grill all month, we took Moosie to the bookstore and all got some books with my birthday discount. I guess we could get sushi for dinner?

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If you need separation from a parent, and this wave of bad-faith articles is getting in your head, take it from someone who just lost an estranged parent: even in fresh grief, the necessity of the estrangement remains clear to me. People arrive at estrangement after exhausting other options.

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