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slowlikehoney1996

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

#words

rozzed

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

byjove

Someone mentioned how they were having a hard time creating a world for their fantasy fiction geographically because they kept reinventing the island of Britain, which also happened to my good close enemy George R. R. Martin. I would like to suggest North Carolina. I know that sounds absolutely ridiculous but North Carolina has an awesome geographic setup for a fantasy kingdom, I think. Inhospitable barrier islands, constantly shifting shoals in the sound, swamps with alligators, venomous snakes and carnivorous plants, lots of very flat and somewhat sparsely populated farmland, foothills, mines, mountains full of mysterious phenomenon that were originally very difficult to navigate and people still get lost in today. It kind of rocks.

theblogginggoth

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

nadiacreek

This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.

elodieunderglass

This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.

memecucker

unconventiononthelawofthesea

today I sat on a chairlift next to a skier who looked to be in his 50s. he told me a story:

a couple years back, he was skiing in the backcountry and found himself lost. he tried to use gps, but his satellite watch couldn't find a connection. at this point, he chose to take his fireball out of his backpack, and drink to cope with this. he found the fireball frozen, and had to fully invert the bottle to make some drip out. I'm doing so, he lifted his wrist high enough that his watch connected to gps and he was able to find his way out. this, he told me, was divine providence, God had frozen the fireball to help him find his way out. because God loves drunk people.

rosechata

superbloom, saguaro

puppygirllaika

police departments love to be like "we need more money to fight all the crime that's been happening lately" and they show a graph with crime going up at then you look into the numbers and it's like "the ten percent increase in crime was correlated with a ten percent increase in active policing hours" and it's like oh okay so the crime factory needs more money because the crime factory stayed open late to manufacture more crime in order to convince us to give more money to the crime factory. Where can I get off this carousel of misery?

kitchen1

I wish I took a better pic of this writing in a bar bathroom in toronto bc I think of it so often. Be So Completely Yourself That No One Is Attracted To You Or Wants To Employ You

newlyy

Not that I think all marriages are doomed but when deciding who to marry you should ask yourself “is this someone I’d want to divorce?” As in, is this someone I believe would be mature and fair, even when they’re upset and don’t particularly like me at the moment. Is this someone I could continue to trust while going through an adversarial process? And if the answer is no, don’t marry them.

riotd

i’m very self aware. which unfortunately hasn’t solved anything

squigglyworms

love the end of the two towers where gandalf looks into the sunset talking bout "yea frodo had to go it alone it was his destiny and there is no changing it he will be ok 😌✨" and aragorn is like "sam went with him btw" and gandalf is like "oh fuck thank god"