Jenn M

Researcher, kpop fan, fashion victim, lover and commentator on politics, pop culture and everything in between

[Aaron Stanford Fan News 🔥🎬 @AStanfordNews]

Things Ariel clearly states she wants:
- To be out of the water
- Spend a day warm on the sand
- Not to be reprimanded
- Be a bright young woman ready to stand
- Know what the people know, ask questions, get answers.
- Learn about fire
- Wander free
Etc.

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[Meg🌸 @Megneato]

"People are saving you every day" is genuinely one of the most heartwarming and profound things I've ever heard.

[Adele Bloch @adele_bloch]

how to increase your surface area for luck:

> get off your phone
> say yes to spontaneous plans even when you're tired - some of the best nights are unplanned
> talk to strangers - at coffee shops, events, literally anywhere. serendipity maxx
> smile at strangers when you walk outside
> lean into the random things you feel a pull toward even if it doesn't initially "make sense"
> make a bucket list and work your way through said bucket list!!
> stop opting for boring hangs. switch things up with your friends. try something new!!
> start a random hobby just for fun - pottery, dance, improv, cooking. anything that makes your soul come alive
> stop walking around with headphones on everywhere you go
> show up fully when you're with people. put your phone away. being present is the greatest gift

your time to live life is happening NOW so stop saving it for later!!

lets go PLAY!!!

[Node 🗿 @NodeOfWeb3]

This isn't even a hot take, it’s just a hard political truth in Westeros. Lannister gold can buy sellswords and temporary alliances, but it can never buy the kind of absolute, generational loyalty that the Stark name commands.

The second Tywin died, House Lannister’s power immediately began to rot because it was built entirely on fear and debt. Meanwhile, the Starks can be completely stripped of their castle, and northern lords will still gladly march to their deaths in a winter blizzard just to seat a Stark back in Winterfell.

[Miss P @missphavin]

Fandom spaces "solve" the loneliness of loving something by making the object communal, but I think the tradeoff is that meaning stops being yours & something abt the hive mind can distort admiration of that thing. I sometimes instinctively avoid really popular things bc of this

[emmie @sweetposting]

Hard pill to swallow but when you do this, NT people just think ur making it about urself (you are)

The solution is to be curious about the other person, and ask questions. When they reciprocate, then you can relate. Theres a certain rhythm that you have to keep up.

[Don’t Search For Me @lizzylemondrop]

No. Literally no one is saying that! We are telling you to be a fucking adult be responsible for your own needs rather than demanding everyone around you figure them out and anticipate them! Omfg

[a.j. ⚧️🛸 @normalmaxxedaj]

i am actually starting to get a little tired of people overreacting to normal sexual advances from other people in mostly appropriate contexts. and ofc i’m not talking about physically grabbing unsuspecting people or flashing or anything genuinely gross like that, but if you are an adult and get into social situations, sometimes other adults will express sexual interest in you. you haven’t been raped because someone hit on you. assert a clear boundary if its unwanted, you can do it. tired of everyone living in fear of initiating normal adult relationships because you never know who is mentally 12 years old about sex and will crash out if you are sexually comfortable and open about that around them

[woop_wooper7 @woop_wooper]

you guys are expecting your friends to parent you, parents have to white lie and manage around their children to get to things, your friends are other grown adults who have no obligation to play 4d chess to fucking hang out

[Jenn M @JennMaddockCan]

That whole scene where he says “why don’t you ask the stars themselves” is one of the most romantic scenes ever.

[ash 🍂 @soundsmythprod]

the bit in Husbands of River Song where River is saying "the Doctor doesn't love me, he won't come for me, a sunset can never love you back" and Twelve steps up and says "hello"

[kaity @kaitybella]

what is this ‘waiting’ for two hours thing. I’m not waiting two hours for anyone. we’re canceling whatever our plans were

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

I’ve been telling people this for years.
GRRM pissed off millions of customers but he don’t give a shit. He got his bag. But his legacy is being such an epic bum ass bum that he crippled an entire genre, ruined consumer sentiment, and killed off an entire generation of epic fantasy authors.

Romantasy and LitRPG grew as a direct result of filling the smoking crater George left in the industry. New writers could no longer get deals to write epic fantasy unless the entire series was in the bag, and nobody can afford to gamble that much time to write that many books they may never sell.

Publishers no longer took chances on new series because customers had got burned by lazy shirkers like George and Pat. Agents wouldn’t represent new epic fantasy unless the whole thing was done. It hurt Indy because dudes had to convince customers that they weren’t bums too. Except when book one makes $50 total, because customers said Im not starting a new series until it’s done! they sure as shit ain’t writing book two. So it’s a self fulfilling prophesy of suck.

In the comments Dunning-Krugerands are saying this isn’t true. Look at guys like Brandon Sanderson. Wrong. Guys like him, or me, who already had established names, reputations, and fan bases were fine. We had enough customers who trusted us we could still do new things and people would come along to make it economically viable.

For example, the only reason my epic fantasy series got picked up is because I was already successful and could guarantee a viable level of sales off my existing fans. Newbs don’t have that. And over the ten years it took for me to write the six books to finish it, the entire time I heard from potential customers, nope, not gonna start a new series that might not finish because of George.

I am fine during this because I’m still gonna make a couple hundred grand off each of those just off my existing fans. Newbs make two bucks an hour, say to hell with being a writer I’m going back to my day job, and you all missed out on the next great author and his absolutely brilliant series, because you were too mad at billionaire George shoving twinkies in his mouth instead of writing.

Nope. Guys like me and Brandon are fine. George’s profound laziness screwed over the new guys. Customers and the industry quit taking chances on new guys. We will never know how many excellent fantasy series we missed out on, robbed by George’s laziness burning so many customers.

Some writers gave up, but others moved into different genres. Which is good. But it sure does suck if epic fantasy is your jam. LitRPG is close but different enough it blew up during this time frame because that’s where the talented went.

Being such a pretentious, bloviating bum that you damage an entire industry and strangle a generation of aspiring artists is quite the legacy.

Kal (who is a good writer btw, check out his books) asks what can we do about this? For me personally I’m just gonna continue mocking George’s work ethic in the hopes more normies realize what an outlier he is, and how they should expand their horizons to read other authors who aren’t stuck up, know it all, dickheads.

And before anybody starts barking at me that I’m such a hypocrite because I’ve not finished all my series, sorry I’ve only finished three of eight so far, and have only written THIRTY books since George’s last one, the next MHI comes out in December, and the last two books are next year, and I’m not planning on retiring anytime soon (if ever).

[gfriend lyrics bot @lyricsgfriend]

“if only i could run through time and become an adult, i’d hold your hand in this cruel world.”

[KeepCalmAndDrawl ☦️ @FormerlyFormer]

Sense and Sensibility played with **balance** and tradeoffs - both concepts foreign to moderns. So every adaptation runs to either “yay, rebel!” or “shut up and be demure” - whereas Austen delicately explored how to have a bit of spirit without being a socially disruptive trainwreck.

[blue @words_salad]

For those unfamiliar with the story, she spends years keeping at bay the threat of 100+ men who want to claim her and her home using nothing but her wits and intellect. She’s just as smart as Odysseus and this is as much her story as it is Odysseus’, if not more

[Claire A 📚 @CoffeeandIrony]

Hm so the thing is that Austen, being stunningly brilliant, threaded the needle between two subtle things: 1)all her heroines are strong women with their own minds and wills, somewhat in defiance of society's norms at the time AND 2)a very clear value in all her work is that of upholding the standards and mores of polite society; over and over, her villains and fools commit the sin of being rude, reckless, impolite, and are punished or at least written unsympathetically for it, while those who know how to behave properly in each situation, how to move through society with grace, dignity, and the right thing to say in each setting, are portrayed with admiration and as the heroes. This is *essential* to understanding her work.

[Knowing Better @KnowingBetterYT]

I don't know why Gen Z has this belief that mental health is a get out of jail free card when it comes to the societal contract.

If your disability or disorder makes you behave in a way that is indistinguishable from an asshole, society will view you as an asshole.

[Shiny Happy Person @HRH_SHP]

It absolutely is disrespectful of other people’s time, though. I won’t fight you over it, I’ll just stop including you in invites. You’ll miss job opportunities and not even know it. People will dread doing anything with you with a timetable. It’s a failing for sure, and it gives out a “it’s my world, everyone else is just living in it” narcissistic vibe.

[AshleyStevens @The_Acumen]

I don’t know that explain to some of you that you have to be active participants in your own lives. You have to do things, even if those things are uncomfortable, you don’t like them, they’re hard, difficult, or it takes multiple attempts. It’s your life, you gotta live it.

[yaphouse annie @traphouse_annie]

i get really really fucking tired of this discussion every time it crosses my screen. i need you to adjust all of your plans by 20 minutes so that you trick yourself into being on time. figure out coping mechanisms for your short fallings for the love of god.