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Em, 30-something, she/her – bi author | watcher, try guys, and anything buzzfeed-adjacent | rarepair & polyship afficionado | also into ofmd lately | I love to make new friends - drop me a line! rarepair sideblog: @rarebuzzships

EM PLEASE - your tag on that poll "[I LIKE EVERYTHING I WANT TO SHOW MY HUSBAND AND THEN WE GO THROUGH MY LIKES TOGETHER AND IT’S VERY CUTE]" IM T_T (affectionately)

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awww bless you honey 🥰

I actually really like the thing when you're starting to get the hang of a new language, enough to understand and say simple sentences but you gotta get creative to get more complex thoughts across, like a puzzle. I remember a time in the restortation school when a classmate who wasn't natively finnish and did her best anyway dropped something and sighed, telling me "every day is monday this week. I have had four mondays this week." And I understood.

I don't think I speak much of spanish anymore, but in the nursing school training period I did there, I did manage to get by with making weird Tarzan sentences. I got a nosebleed at some point and startled another nurse. Not knowing the words "humidity" or "stress", I managed to string together: "This is ok. It is hot, it is cold, I have a bad day, I am sad, I have blood. This is normal for me." And she understood.

And sometimes you just say things weird, but it's better than not saying it. One time, I was stuck in a narrow hallway behind someone walking really slowly with a walker, and he apologised for being in the way. I was not in any hurry, but didn't know the spanish word for "hurry", but I did know enough words to try to circumvent it by borrowing the english "I have all the time in the world."

The man burst into one of those cackling old man laughters that they do when something in this world still manages to surprise them. He had to be somewhere between 70 and a 100 years old, and I guess if there was one thing he wasn't expecting to hear today, it would be a random blond vaguely baltic-looking fuck casually announce that he is the sole owner and keeper of the very concept of time.

ryan and shane’s entire thing being you are stupid oh yeah i’m stupid YOU’RE STUPID we are enemies who have made content almost exclusively with each other for seven years we are friends who want to stick pointers into each others lungs there is no way we would have ever connected if not for chance we are the exact same people in different fonts aliens are real but they are boring but the world is magical but the world may be coming to an end faith and belief only matters if it’s in the person by your side you are REALLY STUPID YOU KNOW THAT you are also the most hilarious mf on the planet let me laugh at your jokes that aren’t funny but also the funny ones too we are divorcing if you get one you get the other we are a package deal.

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)

Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.

Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!

Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks

Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!

Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row

the sky trumpets ep reminded me how much i adore the inherent horror of just unexplainable environmental noise like

there is something so viscerally terrifying about it, the sort that makes your eyes water while grinning ear to ear because the noise is too big, too manmade but too natural at the same time, it's in that perfect space of uncanniness where it could be literally anything but all options are equally way too unlikely because trains don't make that kinda noise but aliens are nonsense too

also love that sky trumpets are the perfect horror for the skeptic brain because sure, you can say they're all fake but what if they aren't? what's making that fucking noise!!! and that's exactly were the horror is kept, the inability to explain, because if you're a skeptic you'll want to explain it too with something that makes sense but NOTHING DOES!!!!!

i fucking love big loud noises where there shouldn't be any