My Spiraea Bushes Are Having Their Last Hurrah. They Are Starting To Drop Their Tiny Flower Petals. See

If you're aware of an annoying pattern you keep doing, you've already won half the battle.

being self aware suuuucks like yeah this thought pattern/behavior is stupid and pointless and a symptom. i know this. [does it anyways

shot: all actions are allowed chaser: none are without a price

The Smiling Spider (1887) by Odilon Redon

Both my biologist and math friends are constantly giving me new ways of looking at the world. I have a rich inner life because of this.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: one of the only few bad things about Tolkien's legendarium is that it makes 90% of all other fantasy worlds look either completely or somewhat mediocre in comparison.

Like, what do you mean you don't have a fictional language for your fantasy world? WEAKLINGS

People in their thirties remember the olden days, when it was just you, your Windows 95/98/me desktop with floppy disks, and Nokia 5110 versus the universe.

The loss of “lurk moar” has really ruined the youth culture because under any clip or meme you’ll see kids commenting “context?” even if it is eminently googleable.

It has just occurred to me that data hoarding is the 21st century version of bibliomania.

don't like trivia games. they're a test on everything you could possibly know (that is useless). don't respect a test that rewards breadth of life experience rather than ability to take a canonical set of materials and study the shit out of it. philosophically opposed to that

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has