The Home of Mood Whiplash

Masks by Jym Davis

1. the narrative style stays exactly the same, and
2. the protagonist reacts to increasingly appalling and monstrous terrors with precisely the same aplomb as he reacts to various Society Mishaps in the first part of the novel

• Rakish dandy who spends three hours on his cravat every morning
• Romantic poet (who dies of consumption)
• Whaler c. 1850, in love with a harpooneer
• Late Victorian occultist
• Ambiguously gay Victorian/Edwardian groundskeeper
• Oxford student with a dark secret, c. 1910
• Bertie Wooster
• The subject of a J.C. Leyendecker illustration
• Climber in the Lake District during the Golden Age of Mountaineering
• Teddy boy

• Hermit who lives in the Mysterious Forest
• Dissatisfied Proconsul about to start a Civil War
• The Faerie Queene
• Dead poet guiding tourists through the layer cake of the afterlife
• Maîtresse-en-titre
• Goatherd

• everyone in college is eccentric. everyone
• you wanna wear full on Victorian suit? the girl in pajamas who clearly hasn’t slept in three days supports you
• everyone is too preoccupied to care as long as you’re polite and follow class etiquette
• multiple high school diplomas? eh. same stuff. multiple BAs? Enjoy learning chemistry AND art history! All in detail!
• wandering around campus at 3am? that’s just the lifestyle tm
• no matter how old or young you look it’s not really that weird, there’s sixteen year olds and sixty year olds doing BAs somewhere
• big schools are very anonymous so nobody’s gonna bother to hassle you

• been at the same campus for 57 years? seems legit

How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation

I couldn’t figure out why small, straightforward tasks on my to-do list felt so impossible. The answer is both more complex and far simpler than I expected.

www.buzzfeednews.com

“The modern Millennial, for the most part, views adulthood as a series of actions, as opposed to a state of being,” an article in Elite Daily explains. “Adulting therefore becomes a verb.” “To adult” is to complete your to-do list — but everything goes on the list, and the list never ends. […]

[…]

That’s one of the most ineffable and frustrating expressions of burnout: It takes things that should be enjoyable and flattens them into a list of tasks, intermingled with other obligations that should either be easily or dutifully completed. The end result is that everything, from wedding celebrations to registering to vote, becomes tinged with resentment and anxiety and avoidance. Maybe my inability to get the knives sharpened is less about being lazy and more about being too good, for too long, at being a millennial. 

“Oh, and me: Aquaria!” 💜

• attracted to persons regardless of their gender 
• and/or attracted to all genders
• people with a really pretty PRIDE flag

• special bisexual snowflakes
• calling bi people transphobic 
• confused

• Attracted to two or more genders
• Can be attracted to all genders but prefers to use bisexual as a term/label
• People with a really cool pride flag

• Transphobic
• Disregarding of nonbinary genders
• Confused