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When I first heard of "the fear of being perceived" and its variations, I thought it was some dumb bullshit tumblr pop psych neologism, but then I realized I'd been living with it my whole life. Nothing really is more cringe than the self

Me and my extended mom-side family had an overnight layover in Bangkok a few years ago, and when the hotel reception told us that no 10 people weren't allowed to stay in 2 rooms, we were all shocked as hell. In that moment that I still look back on I learnt what it meant to be a third world...

I was reading a book and one of the scenes was so eerily similar to something I had written. Down to the setting, the pacing kinda, the story beats, down to the tone of the narration. Freaked me out :blob_shock:

I believe that the setting only exists insofar as it's relevant to the story. If the setting matters (e.g. is where most of the story takes place, sets the tone, or is otherwise interesting), then I'd be interested to know more about it. If it doesn't matter, then I don't need to hear about it...

Sometimes when I'm hungry, I'd have a little voice pop up in my head saying precisely "I be hungry as shit ngl". It just pops up without my consent. Maybe I'm one of the last people still with a bicameral mind

A thousand lashes for people who enjoy citrus in their coffee

I understand this is performative non-fiction knowledge acquisition slop for people who dream about their LinkedIn karma or whatever, but the title's so funny to me "5 books that will teach you more than any degree" as if college degrees don't have you reading a bunch of shit anyway

If they come out with mass-produced humanoid robots I'm destroying every single one I come across with a sledgehammer

Anyone else had weird, one-sided beef with an older person when they were a kid? One of my friends had an older cousin who just hated me for some reason. A 20-something year old beefing with an 11 year old. I had no idea what their problem was They got in a motorcycle accident some time later...

I feel like at this point we should've figured out how to make books free. You're telling me that we've had books for how many thousands of years and yet we still gotta pay for them? Sounds like a scam to me.