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Just had to come out as a mega lame nerd to my nerd bestie. He was very upset. Sorry Bestie-Dean.
Geez, I have to stop falling in love with every morally grey, broody dark haired man with a dark past I read about.
"My taste in fashion and my budget in fashion are not the same thing"
-Jack Edwards (source: Youtube " I tried dark academia aesthetic for a week")
I feel like my entire personality is based around the books I am reading, the movies I watch, the music I listen and youtube comment threads.
Aaaah I’m normally out of the tv loop but I had no idea so many people liked the grishaverse I loved it in middle school lol
Us: *starved from lack of representation in our favorite novels*
Rick Riordan: Heard y’all wanted some representation so here an African American girl raised in the 1940’s lol
Us: OH MY GOD YES THA-
Rick Riordan: Oh lets give her an awkward yet badass Chinese-Canadian boyfriend
Us: OH MY-
Rick Riordan: Oh, here’s a Native American girl daughter of Aphrodite with a movie star dad
Us: I-
RR: What about a smol sassy Latino boy that will soon become your favorite character?
Us: AWW-
RR: Oh wait, here an lil emo Italian sad boi and his sunny optimistic boyfriend
Us: WH-
RR: Here’s a badass native Latina who takes no shit (we all know she gay af for Thalia but we must wait)
Us: Oh-
RR: Y’all wanna hear about the queen of bisexuals Apollo?
Us: I’m-
RE: What about an old, non-sexualized lesbian couple with an incredibly romantic backstory??
Us: Wait-
RR: OH WAIT! Do you want a badass Muslim girl who follows tradition Muslim values but doesn’t let it stop her from living a normal life? Oh, and she’s also in a healthy arranged marriage don’t worry
Us: H-
RR: How about a gender-fluid and transgender child of Loki with a lovely taste in fashion?
Us: Wait hold o-
RR: What about a deaf elf who uses sign language to communicate but is still a valuable character?
Us: But-
RR: Oh, and here’s two biracial siblings that look nothing alike but they’re related, trust me
Us: *shocked*
RR: OH! I ALMOST FORGOT! Literally all theses characters are dyslexic, but it’s ok because it’s possible to live a full life even with disorders like dyslexia.
Us: *faints from the tidal wave of representation thrown at us*
RR: Anything else?
Us:
It was by sheer coincidence and pure awesomeness that the book I'm reading matched my backpack.
Reading Children of Blood and Bone like:
Tzain every other Chapter: Godsdamnit, Zelie. 🤦🏾♂️
....
Zelie: Go big or go home!
Tzain: I’m literally begging you to do anything but go big.
Zelie:*whispers* I’m going big.
Absent-Minded Man by Jerome K. Jerome
This is a humorous story about a man named McQuae who is inattentive to anything around him. He can’t remember invitation details, appointments and even the women he were engaged to. However, when he finally gets to marry a jolly woman named Leena, his friend, the writer thinks that it won’t last long as he will forget about her too. After a considerable time, the writer unexpectedly meets his old friend McQuae, drenched in water on a rainy day. McQuae as always informs that he has moved to the new place with Leena and has forgotten all about it. The writer very calmly takes his friend to a solicitor and finally restores him to his wife.
The story is hilarious. Some of the conversations made me laugh out loud. The first part of the story was narrated in second person, which is the rarest in English literature. This is the only story I’ve read which has this style of writing. So, I enjoyed learning something new.
I didn’t like the fact that the character of Leena was mostly in the shadow of her husband, McQuae, the protagonist of the story. Although she was explained as a cheerful woman, we don’t see her express any such action.
If I could change anything from the story I would have added more detailed information regarding Leena. So that the readers can have a clear idea of how she was able to live with a man like McQuae for so long.
Other than the aforementioned point, I found the story genuinely amusing. It shows that how absent mindedness can put someone in absurd situations. I, myself, often get distracted in many occasions. Now, I have started to focus more on my surroundings. This story has taught me a fine lesson.
I’ve actually wrote this for an assignment where I was supposed to write about a short story I liked. But unfortunately, the teacher is making us write a review on the story SHE tells us. I was so excited about this assignment in the beginning. Now, I’m devastated.
To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable- bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.
Jostein Gaarder- Sophie’s World.
Me: Man, Harry Potter is so dreamy.
Friend: Yeah, Daniel Radcliffe is pretty hot. He needs to ditch the beard though.
Me: No no. Not Daniel Radcliffe. Harry Potter.
Friend: But-
Me: Shhh... Harry Potter.
Future classmate: So what’d you do this summer?
Me: mostly just stayed in bed reading
Future classmate: oh, I’m sorry.
Me: no, no. It was wonderful.