Probably The Best Advice I've Ever Got Was From My Grandpa When I Moved From My Town And Started A University,

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life, and start figuring out the one I have.”

— Holly Black

You naive idiot please ask someone for help

That innate need to solve all your problems by yourself hits a bit too close to home…

i am LOVING the Magnus archives rn

Only recently started listening to it (im mid S2)

at first idk if I’d stick with it bc not that big of a horror fan :/

but I’ve really warmed up to the overarching narrative formed by individual stories style and the mystery solving

My fav part is the reveal of apathetic cold-hearted Jon being an absolutely crazy conspiracy theorist

I pretended I didn’t believe the statements bc someone is watching

What an unhinged individual

then him becoming a paranoid stalker trying to solve Gertrude’s murder all the while not realising he was the prime suspect BROOOO

creating a toxic work environment & turning into that boss that everyone would hate irl

Then turning his gaslighting onto Tim as well with the “you can’t quit and I can’t fire you there’s something wrong with the archive” (which is valid but the way the convo started with Tim informing him he’s not doing his job as head archivist to Jon kinda convincing Tim of his conspiracies is hilarious)

i would get a lot more done if i spent less time faffing about . but i think 2 hours a day of faffing about is load bearing to my wellbeing. so its more of a "4 hours a day or 2 hours a day" thing

think i had a "moment"

I just saw a guy fully kneeling on the floor of this Asda, comparing two items with a third one set aside as a backup option and is this what attraction feels like?

Good morning, you have to be the thing that saves you

beauty is an emotion actually

Hopefully this is something it's possible to train oneself out of, but it's unfortunate that a day off work doesn't feel like a "real" day off to me if I spend it doing something, where something = like, going out to a place, spending more than an hour or two somewhere other than at home. It's like deep in my bones I feel like a day off should consist of chilling at home doing not much of anything, and the more a day deviates from that the more something in me feels like it's been cheated out of something. But I only get two days off per week and if they're all like that then all of a sudden life is entirely empty. Some people have the opposite instinct, they don't feel like they've had a true day off unless they've gone out and done something, experienced something. That seems better.

fresh out of a research sidequest time to continue my dissertation

spending 20 dollars is easy but once you do it 5 times uh oh