nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- how much sunscreen you wore
- if you offered other people sunscreen
- if you told others to wear sunscreen
if your leftist queer space leaves no room for me, the most mean aggressive annoying anti social person you can imagine so i can constantly make everyone walk on eggshells around me as a sign of some sort of moral superiority, is it really a safe space at all 😥
at some point I need to write a full substack essay about how rare it is to find writing about taylor that is neither bootlicking and sycophantic nor catty and vindictive. it exists! I’ve read it! but so much of the press is more about the person writing it than it is about her
i am begging the curriculum-makers to include a modicum of linguistics in k-12. no reason to go in-depth, just things like "there is no scientific dividing line between a language and a dialect" and "the way someone speaks doesn't mean they're stupid", etc.
@LissaJoStewart Exactly! I’m also team female muse, but I feel like I should acknowledge that there are other potential grammatical interpretations if I’m going to complain as much as I do about 🧣 swifties twisting her words/grammar 😅
@LissaJoStewart “All Of The Girls You Loved Before CAN’T be about a man because ‘the one’ is referring back to ‘girls’!” bothers me 😅
I’m not saying it’s about a man, but it’s not gramatically impossible— “the one” as used here is a common phrase that doesn’t necessarily require an antecedent!
Theres no one property that *is* "Biological Sex". Changing even one of the properties that make up the cluster is making concrete and real changes to your sex, and the act of transition makes profound changes to many of them
@lostinink_ Everyone in This Room Will One Day Be Dead by Emily R. Austin! Atheist lesbian accidentally gets a job at a Catholic church and gets dragged into solving the murder mystery of the woman who was in her job before her! It’s so funny and such an amazing portrayal of mental illness
sometimes a work of classic literature is good because you read it with a good English teacher in high school and sometimes a work of classic literature is bad because you read it with a bad English teacher in high school. very simple, really.