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"I'm just in the mood for murder mysteries only right now." — 20 hours, 51 min ago
"I'm just in the mood for murder mysteries only right now." — 20 hours, 51 min ago
Until recently there was no debate over the difference between the terms, because rational people generally agreed that you can’t just turn a noun into a verb just because you feel like it, and thus the terms “birding” and “birder” did not
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“Writing is the opposite of performing to me. Performing feels inherently fake. Writing feels inherently real.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“Through writing, I feel power for maybe the first time in my life. I don’t have to say somebody else’s words. I can write my own. I can be myself for once. I like the privacy of it. Nobody’s watching. Nobody’s judging. Nobody’s weighing in. No casting directors or agents or managers or directors or Mom. Just me and the page. Writing is the opposite of performing to me. Performing feels inherently fake. Writing feels inherently real.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“I have over a decade’s worth of eating disorder experience at this point. There were the anorexic years, the binge-eating ones, and the current bulimic ones. The more experience I’ve got, the more I recognize that the body is hardly a reliable reflection of what’s going on inside it. My body has fluctuated frequently and drastically throughout this decade, and no matter how it’s fluctuated, no matter whether my body is a kids’ size 10 slim or an adult size 6, I’ve had an issue underneath it. People don’t seem to get that unless they have a history with eating disorders. People seem to assign thin with “good,” heavy with “bad,” and too thin also with “bad.” There’s such a small window of “good.” It’s a window that I currently fall into, even though my habits are so far from good. I’m abusing my body every day. I’m miserable. I’m depleted. And yet the compliments keep pouring in.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“To teach, if we are called upon; to be taught, if we are fortunate. - 1977, Voyager Golden Record”
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“Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency.”
― All Systems Red
― All Systems Red
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