they/them's the breaks

Not going to try engaging with anything she says because it's all crap, but aesthetically why does she dress so shit? These people have more money than God they could at least put in an effort while trying to get us Sodom and Gomorrah-ed

Oh come on, everybody knows that online is the exact same thing as real life, let's not pretend that chapo didn't singlehandedly ruin Hilary

What do you reckon about "debts"?

Man it's been a minute since I played Origins, but yeah I think I remember mage being a pain in the arse, super fiddly

Ohhh yeah that's a funny one lol. You even meet Sten again in a later game and he just kinda no-sells it

Dragon Age Origins?

Can't believe that out of everyone that went to my school it was the massive Tory bully that got done for selling secrets to China and not any of the actual gay commies (me and my friends)

Hasn't happened to me once, skill issue

Oh yeah, when I say enforced I very much mean externally imposed and not just self-enforced. No man is an island but all women can be North Korea (self-loathingly isolationist in pursuit of some fantasised independence as a defence against inevitably being let down/attacked by the Other)

Oh for sure. I mean it's even been years since I read Normal People so I can't really recall sufficiently to say tbh, I just have a general memory of my impression afterwards which was of sort of bleakness and enforced narcissism

Thinking back, I'm not sure that Rooney's so much giving way to men as almost making out like they're completely unimportant, which is a choice but not one that really turns out well in her books at least. Not read either of the others you mention.

/ but this is interesting too. I certainly came away from Normal People feeling kinda grubby and depressed without really being able to say why.

I mean I'll be real, I was just thinking about someone on twitter doing speech bubble retweet of a woman wishing that the attempt to make New Adult a publishing category had been more successful as she writes stuff that's probably too mature for YA's age bracket but that's what it'd get lumped into

The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing us to be afraid of being cringe

Some people are way too fond of dunking on any woman tweeting about writing at all. Like be chill, YA fiction is not ontologically evil or whatever.

So much going on here! All of it absolutely wild!

Help! My Priest Told Me He’s Leaving His Priesthood for Me. He wants to be with me in Holy Matrimony.

We need to leave this world behind slate.com/human-intere...

Shit, the Russians must be desperate if they're talking about buying weapons from North Korea lmao

Jail²

Oh this isn't an angle I'd seen, what's this?

Oh it's an incredible item in the art of clickbait for sure, but definitely, get your purgatory in now

What I’ve Learned From Sleeping With (a Lot of) Married Men The most complicated thing about cheating is how uncomplicated it often is. The more you do it, the more you realize everyone’s kind of doing it.

www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a44...

Need the prop take on the "I love being the Other Woman actually, but not because I'm horribly insecure at all" Jezebel article

Always was a fan of God punishing people in the desert for worshipping false idols

Alexa, show me a headline calculated to give @jailrespecter.bsky.social an aneurysm/send her on a roaring rampage of incarceration

They're turning the damn chimps into gamers. Unacceptable animal cruelty.

Ugh, I wish there were more good Chinese restaurants in the UK that weren't horrifically expensive. It's mostly either takeaways, which are delicious but obviously aren't the pinnacle of the art, or "fusion" restaurants where a starter is like 20 quid

Sometimes you just need a really big fish supper covered in chippy sauce, and you know what? It works every time