I Have A Friend Who's Always Telling Me Their Stories Like That. It's Awesome.

I have a friend who's always telling me their stories like that. It's awesome.

I don't know if someone needs to bear this, but sometimes it's alright to not write everything down, to just enjoy the dream worlds and epic storylines even if they won't last forever. Paper won't either, might still be forgotten. But the story will have lived either way <3

New idea: instead of writing the fic, you come over to my house and I tell you the entire plot while I pace my tiny kitchen. There’s a cup of tea, warm in your hands. The words don’t stop and the affection never leaves your expression.

Being a writer is saying you're going to write and then doing literally anything else

In a year we’re going to look back and realize we were too hard on ourselves just like we do every year and curse ourselves for not learning the gentle hand of our grandmother and how her view of us never changed even when she saw the worst of us she still remembers we are still that sweet child she met so many years ago

Bill Nye the Science Guy was my science teacher. When he came into class we'd all chant, "Bill Bill Bill" but also, "Science Science Science". Then one day I went to class and Bill wasn't there and it turned out he was fired. I found his apartment in a massive monolithic block and we had a heart to heart chat. He broke down into tears saying, "I really liked being your science guy".

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.