Lizzy

It’s telling people that they need to change because they are currently unlovable, and expecting them to somehow love themselves more in response to that feedback.

Angels in America: Part I
Angels in America: More Life

When my friend found out how long it is and that it has two main parts (Millennium Approaches + Perestroika), she asked if it was a “Wicked situation”

My greatest accomplishment this year is convincing my friends to watch Angels in America (the HBO adaptation)

I’ve seen college writing instructors say that they only provide detailed feedback upon request (and it’s rarely requested), because most students don’t read detailed feedback if you give it, they just look at the grade.

similarly, if you check out a niche book from the library, you should get matched with everyone else who also checked it out. @ whoever checked out the French translation of Angels in America, we should be friends and/or possibly get married

this post brought to you by me getting outbid on the Tony Kushner postcard in The Common auction :(

I think whoever outbid me should have an enemies-to-lovers romance with me. at the very least we should be friends

dating app where you get matched with people who bid on the same item you did in an auction. a) they obviously share some interests with you, and b) if you end up marrying each other, you can co-own the desired items

I’m very excited for this book, and it’s currently Read Now on NetGalley, so get on that!

Yes I know LOTR does it and it feels weird to me there too

Honestly I’m fine with that because the word “September” (for example) just makes me think of my job and dentist appointments and rent and taxes. For me, it’s a little too real for second-world fantasy.

As a kid, I used to go to a small zoo that had an aviary w/ a floor to ceiling window. I discovered that if I flapped my arms like wings & hopped from side to side, a raven in the aviary would flap its wings & hop along with me, mirroring my movements through the window. That’s my favorite bird.

I got a whole linguistics degree and I could have just done weed instead

In that case, seems kind of baffling that San Diego isn’t in the top 10?

I’ve tagged books set in the early 2000s as “historical fiction” on Goodreads and I’m not sorry

And the majority of medical school students in the U.S. are women!

My wrath is as fearsome as my countenance is splendid, Charlie Brown

I like how this implies, “You might *think* you want tuberculosis on your penis, I know it sounds fun, but that’s a popular misconception.”

I do not love standardized tests, but when people say we should eliminate the SAT because rich kids have an advantage, I always wonder which aspects of education they think rich kids do NOT have an advantage at

Three headlines, from three different news outlets, which mention Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by name while referring to her partner as “her boyfriend” and “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Fiancé”

Or when a headline mentions a famous man by name but leaves his non-famous wife unnamed. They do in fact do the same thing with famous women who have non-famous male partners.

Same thing when people see a headline referring to an unnamed “grandmother” and say “They would never say this about a man!” Yes they would. Which you would know if you bothered to run a search on news articles with “grandfather” in the headline.

There is no shortage of instances of actual sexism, we don’t need to invent imaginary ones!

BlueSky post reading, in part, “never heard anyone say ‘male founders’ and prefer entrepreneurs or CEOs ‘who are women’ over ‘female founders.’”

I see so many posts that say “I never see people say this about women!” but if you spend 30 seconds and run a search on the phrase “male founders” you will see that it is not rare.

obviously him too but I don’t think anyone was in any danger of thinking that we would welcome him into the fold

the bisexual community preemptively repudiates bill clinton, like, just in case

We each brought out a wrapped package, and she got a funny look and said “I think we might’ve gotten each other the same thing.” I said I didn’t think so because they weren’t quite the same size. Turned out one of us bought the hardcover and one of us bought the paperback.

My best friend and I unwittingly got each other the same book for our birthdays (which are within a few days of each other). It was Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh.

I think they *want* it to be true that AI is bad for the environment, bc they hate AI for other reasons and they think environmental concerns are a trump card in arguments. If you invented a type of AI that was good for the environment, they’d just be mad at you for taking away their trump card.

I’m reminded of California’s Prop 8 in 2008, where all the economic analysis suggested that keeping gay marriage would be good for the economy bc people spend a lot of money on weddings, but voters voted to ban gay marriage anyway. People like oppressing outgroups more than they like having money.

singing “Lincoln in the Bardo” to the tune of “Michael in the Bathroom” from Be More Chill