AJ's Words of Wisdom

I'm AJ, and I'm a dancer and writer. Writing blog: @athenajbrooks. Dance blog: @dancerdiaries

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[amethystmoons]

They were right things really do be coming to pass.

[bookofmormonmemes]

and it came to pass and it didst not stop coming to pass

[amylrox723]

Look, needing to get my car repaired sucks. But every time I need to take my car in, I get a little consolation in seeing these Manly Men Who Work On Cars(TM) slide into my pink and purple floral-patterned seat, place their hands on my sparkly steering wheel, and drive it into their garage while keeping the most serious professional face. It amuses me.

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

does anyone else have like, an almost pathological avoidance of media that you think you’d like? i keep finding myself either consuming whatever i already know or things I know will be mediocre because i just. don’t have the time or energy to get really into something new

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

like “oh god this looks like it was literally made for me. if i engage with this, it’ll take me two weeks to recover. better not”

[amylrox723]

I believe that when your odometer reads all 7s your glove box should pop open and spill out a ton of money like at a casino

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

that time in high school when my computer died and i was so deeply distraught i legit wrote an entire obituary for a laptop

[marlsbys-dragons]

Where is the obit Gaud, come on don’t hold out on us

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i had to dig so deep through old backup files to find this, enjoy!

RIP (In loving, random access memory)

After a long illness, my beloved laptop, 3, while surrounded by family and tech support, succumbed in the night to an internal error. My laptop leaves behind one bereaved admin (me), an estranged guest user, an elderly warranty and a large extended family of synced mobile devices and browser bookmarks. Friends, we are gathered in this subdomain today to honor the memory, both RAM and hard drive, volatile and non-volatile, and mourn the data loss of a beloved digital companion. Caches to caches, rust to rust. Though its hard drive may be wiped, its chassis refurbished, and its processor sold for scrap, its torrent downloads and browser history will live on in our hearts, and eventually come back to haunt me.

[kaispeakshermind]

Caches to caches, rust to rust

[mistakenforacorpse]

I am sorry for your data loss

[i-got-the-feels]

I am sorry.

It must have been a lot to process.

[itsreallystupid]

another one bytes the dust

[architeuthisducks-blog]

do y'all think the parallel mouse America is like also dealing with resurgent mouse fascism or have they been doing better

[catididnt]

if An American Tail taught me nothing else, it taught me that the parallel mouse America is probably dealing with the worst parts of human America

[duckbunny]

don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.

[gaynfl-moved]

being so staunchly anti generative ai while everyone around you is "i used chatgpt" and "i asked grok" and google search is useless and every company is implementing ai and every single celeb is taking ai money and partnering with ai is like... it's so jarring. why can't you see the harm like i can? why are you so lazy? why are we making society this stupid? can we please stop? it's killing people does that not matter to you?

[draconym]

Had a dream that I drew this dragon and felt disappointed when I woke up that it wasn't real so I drew it all over again.

[mixmioart]

🦇Service Mindset🦇

Don’t be rude to whoever has the midnight shift at McDonalds

[catasters]

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #827:

always leave your readers guessing. how’s the main character going to get out of this one? what will the antagonist try next? why am i in this windowless van being driven around and forced to read an unedited manuscript? am i being taken somewhere nice

[writing-prompt-s]

You’re a villain, but you typically hold back. You’re into villainy for a quick robbery, or just some laughs. But not any more. Today is the day to show them that making you mad is a BAD idea.

[mrblazeflappybird]

Next time, the supermarket will think twice before discontinuing my favourite orange juice

[yourplayersaidwhat]

Context: our sorcerer's cousin became a cultist of Tiamat and we ended up fighting and killing him. As he dies we get this rousing speech:

Sorcerer: Oh cousin, I remember the time you brought that potato salad to our spa day...our feet all slathered in that potato mash...it made out feet so supple. Now I will never have your potato salad again! Oh cousin!

Warlock: "That is the most horrific thing I've ever heard someone do with potatoes. And you--" *points to our wizard* "--killed someone with them so that's saying something!"

[amylrox723]

@whovianpanhead what is this and why am I not involved

[amylrox723]

oh shoot, I have a follower. I guess i'd better start being funny again.

[daisywords]

rb this and put in the tags a song that makes you feel insane about characters and situations. I need some writing juice