Ennui (she/they)

This works, btw. I drank 4 bottles of water today before my first Coke Zero, and three more later.

I also have this one now. For Night Water.

I bought myself a red water bottle the size of a soda bottle and I’m going train myself to drink it first every time I want a Coke Zero to see if I can increase my water intake at home.

Thank you!!!!

It was the darndest thing. After crying for two hours I realized that all of my Sims bars were in the red. I took a 30 minute shower and drank 36 oz of water and ate something and I turned back into a human person.

You would think 10 years of drugs and therapy would have taught me this.

Eventually the Insomnia debuff converts into a damage multiplier.

Antifa is not a terrorist organization. It’s not an organization. It literally just means “anti-fascist.” What the fuck is happening?

You are so bright that sometimes people are burned by it, but that’s not on you. Do not dim your light for the comfort of others. Sunlight is a disinfectant.

(Text I sent to my sister this morning)

Tell the people you love that you love them every single day. It can be a 😘 in the group chat, it doesn’t have to be a big deal.

Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

I try to pick older Scouts because they need more help, and I have a strong preference for Samoas over Caramel deLites, so those are my criteria.

I’m getting my cookies from Khoi.

digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/madele...

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

Erin does this list every year: www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans...

My message of the afternoon to the group chat:

“I found the 2026 trans Girl Scouts list. Got a high schooler in his last/senior year of Scouts and his first year presenting as male and it’s kicking his ass in in-person sales.

Who wants cookies?”

I propose, in the face of the increasing inaccuracy of predictive text, we refer to the errors of autocorrect as “auto incorrect.”

Changed my opinion on ballpoints forever.

I wasn’t familiar with the name, because my area of interest was limited to cursive as taught in K-12, so I looked him up. What an interesting person! Thank you for the tag.

Ballpoints are mostly garbage, but occasionally I will stumble upon one that makes me pause. Usually around a $2.50/$3USD price point. The Uni Jetstream Lite Touch, for example.

Maybe I can cheat carpal tunnel by learning to stop worrying and love fineliners.

So like a nettle?

I have a bone deformity on the final knuckle of my middle finger that causes dents to form in my skin when I hold pens too tight and wrong.

Oh, hard same. Now the battle is just keeping on budget.

So many advancements in writing technology in the past fifty years, and yet in the past year I’ve become increasingly obsessed with fountain pens.

I’ll ask around!

My usual resource for these things was a 1500+ member Discord server with members worldwide, but it closed at the end of the year and my new ones are much smaller.

One of the many appealing things is that brain twitch of “why does that say soebra” to “it says zebra actually” to “but zou (ぞう) means elephant…” and you get to go on that journey a thousand times in your own head and laugh about it like one of those window peeping Sickos.

The current point of controversy in the tight circle of people I discuss handwriting with is whether redesigning my lowercase Z to look less like a ZB/DN lowercase Y and more like a そ is clever or aesthetically offensive.

I’d be happy to keep looking with you!

I hate that teachers can’t take the time to work one on one with students on things like that, and that parents can’t really take time to do it with their kids either.

🤔 Many non-Latin alphabets are written right to left. Maybe that’s a lead to explore!

See my response to Kris above! ☺️

I always feel like I’m locking my wrists and I have my utensils in a death grip. 🤔 But it’s entirely likely that I’ve just learned bad habits.

I checked a couple of resources: this one looks promising? You might also consider joining a stationery or fountain pen enthusiast forum, subreddit, or Discord to get tips from actual lefties (I’m not) who will be very excited to welcome you to the hobby.

cursivealphabet.cc/blog/left-ha...

The time will pass anyway. Might as well give it a try. 💕

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Favorite fountain pen?