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my favorite activities are wandering and wondering

so cool how advanced the algorithm has become, it literally only takes like a decade or more of spying on all my internet activity and then it can expertly curate a selection of 15-20 youtube videos that i don't really want to watch, and then keep showing me those videos over and over again for a week so i can scroll past them again. the future is now

trench-knife

one of my worst writing sins is abusing my power to create compound words. i cannot write the sentence "The sun shone as bright as honey that afternoon." no. that's boring. "The sun was honey-bright that afternoon" however? yes. that sentence is dope as fuck. i do not care if "honey-bright" is a word in the english dictionary. i do not care if the sentence is grammatically correct. i will not change. i will not correct my erred ways. the laws of the english language are mine.

portland-sunshine

Not a sin at all!

This is what's called a poetic epithet, and it happens all the time in writing. Consider, for example, Homer and his wine-dark sea, or Shakespeare and his death-mark'd love.

If you were then to start using them instead of the word they're describing, you'd be making a kenning. For example, if instead of describing the sun as honey-bright, you said "the honey-drop in the sky". Kennings are best known from Norse writings, like "the path of serpents" for gold, or "Grímnir's lip-streams" for poetry itself.

So you're not sinning, you're participating in an ancient literary tradition!

i-scan-your-poems

Scansion:

◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – The sun / was ho/ney-bright / that af/ternoon

Metrical form: iambic pentameter

aquinohotelcentral

2colde

how it genuinely feels

tomb-mold

have you noticed that everything depends on various factors

nymphaea-cerulea

honestly it’s kind of upsetting how much of the autism experience is just being shamed out expressing yourself in any way that’s normal for you and learning to keep everything to yourself so you’re not shamed for being weird and then being shamed for being so quiet because it’s also weird to be quiet but if you tell this to anyone else they’ll say “why do you care so much what people think” and that’s when the ancient ape part of your brain gets ready to beat them to death

stealpeanutbutter

i feel like i do 25% of what an average person does in a day and still it's too much

mistandshcdow

the bad kids x text posts

depsidase

semtitulo

who else has fantasized about the Nutrient Brick

demento-mori

eating would be fine if it was only a recreational activity. instead, its a horrible sisiphean nightmare and you need to do it every day without fail on threat of pain and death

prowl-autism-extraordinaire

hotvampireadjacent

Um

styxnleaves

PP flat

#pp flat

corrya

Riz having a whole arc in fhsy being about how terrified he is of being abandoned or forgotten by his friends because they're all falling in love just to be constantly shipped anyway is actually my roman empire. "Oh but they don't explicitly state it" nothing will ever be enough for you because you are an aphobe!!