is reading a book in public performative... is having a boyfriend embarrassing... all of these queries were sufficiently addressed by our patron saint jemima kirke when she said "i think you guys might be thinking about yourself too much"
"Congrats on completing your thesis and on graduating! I hope to read your work one day!" how hard is that to say as an established lesbian writer to a young lesbian writer who is still finding her voice and is hopeful of adding to the local literary canon.
“Only in dreams, in poetry, in play […] do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.”
— Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
Emilia Clarke describes the six-step memory palace method she used to learn Russian for Ponies
"I had this amazing language tutor called Fabian, who was incredible. We did this very complicated, six-step process that involved a memory palace and making stories out of the individual sounds of the words"
"We would break them down into individual syllables, and each syllable would have an image that came out of it"
"For example, 'pochemu' is a word, so for 'po-che-mu,' I would visualize what those things were. Maybe there's a cow for 'mu' and a dog's paw for 'po.' We would make that into a story, so I learn the story, and then we put the story in a memory palace"
"I've learned the story to learn it in the memory palace, so 'po' is over here and 'mu' is over here. In every scene that I'm doing Russian, you're witnessing my brain going into the room, finding the story, and doing the words - which is why I can't speak it"
Hmm, let's see. Kindle Unlimited is banned in my country. Libraries do not exist in my country. Authors will never pick me as a reviewer if I'm not a book influencer/ from a developed country.
So, IF I did want to buy your book and support you... I can't.
I don’t care about book piracy discourse coming from American authors because they will never understand what it’s like living in a third world country with no public libraries, books that costs 3x your salary, or bookstores that don’t even have recent books in their inventory
i think it's important to have something to look forward to every day or every week, so when life drains you, it’ll help you to remember that you need to keep going a little longer because there's something waiting for you at the end of the week that might make you smile again.
how massive of a loser do you have to be to see a stranger sharing something that brings them joy (something so playful & innocuous!) and decide to act hatefully towards them? you guys are so miserable!