words in a published romance novel intimate scene that immediately make me ring the ‘i know what you are’ bell: mewl, croon, keen, lave, syrupy, intrusion

also this book suffers from what im going to call "anime syndrome" in that any potential place for subtlety, nuance, and trusting your reader is replaced with a hammer of TELL DONT SHOW

please.....i beg you......i am picking up what you're putting down 😭😭

With the assumptions in place, the main event: why are people distrustful of democracy?

Put simply: because they're told to distrust it. They're told it's betrayed them, that it's failing. That's why people are becoming disillusioned—& it's why some support parties who say so. But WHO'S SAYING IT?

I don't know why I didn't realize before now that "pipe dream" is a drug reference

Okay, New York Times Spelling Bee, I'll make you a deal. Let's each put in a hundred bucks every time you don't recognize the perfectly legitimate word TONTINE, and then whichever of us lives longest gets it.

This morning when I was in the coffee shop waiting for my order a woman came up to me and asked if I could do up the button on the back of her shirt because she lives alone and doesn't have anyone to help her

It made me kind of sad but also glad that I could do a small nice thing for a stranger

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

My wife questions the wisdom of introducing a two year old to Spinoza, but how else is she to master Hegel? Kindergarten is only a few years away

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones