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“renaissance man” or “profoundly ADHD” depending on who you ask in other words, too many hobbies, almost too many pets, one job I get paid for (genealogist). nyc based, never living west of the Appalachians again. here, queer, also queer when not here
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They’ve got Michelin stars on Avenue C wtf has happened to Manhattan

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

-being like “man if only I could have had a crack at editing this novel before it was published, we could have saved 40 pages of the reader’s time” -being completely unable to edit one’s own rambling mess of a novel

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

As an incorrigible contrarian, I have avoided Sally Rooney’s novels until this week, when I started Normal People. I pushed through a third of it and DNF’d. Bored & couldn’t make myself care about the characters. Do I try another book or am I going to feel the same about any of them?

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

Luigi Mangione’s got an interesting to read list! Lots of books about healing back pain, probably relevantly www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

submitted 161 days ago • 1 comment

As I open what feels like the 74th food recall email this season, I anxiously await the return of my urban soil sample test. Gods help those without safe food or garden access in the next 4 years.

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

As I’ve started bluntly saying to people, keep your eating disorder to yourself.

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

Something went wrong with evolution with how many apex predators look cute to human beings. Bears? Wolves?? Lions??? Are you kidding me? We’re not supposed to want to pet something so fluffy??

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

Assuming all fanfiction is written poorly really just shows you've never been caught in the chokehold of a 150k slowburn that changed the course of your life at 2:40am written by someone whose username has 4 Zs in it and they only wrote one fic and then vanished like an ethereal legend.

submitted 175 days ago • 265 comments

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

submitted 175 days ago • 2237 comments

If you’re enough of a mess your disorganized attachment style can make you avoid even the fictional people you created in your own head. Too many pages written recently; we’ve gotten too close, need some space for awhile bye maybe you can finish your story on your own idk

submitted 178 days ago • 0 comments

It really is wild that sometimes in the office I'll dissociate for a minute like the climate is changing in a scary way and we're being overtaken by a dangerous regime and we're on the brink of another pandemic then I just kind of have to shake myself out of it because I need to send this work email

submitted 179 days ago • 1 comment

Seriously, why has no one been talking about this?! These days it’s extremely rare for me to go out to eat and be like “wow, that was good!”. Ordering Grubhub feels like a particularly aggressive act of masochism. The overpriced food was mid even before it got cold and soggy on the way here.

submitted 179 days ago • 0 comments

The amount of AI fanworks/fanarts/fan videos I'm seeing on social media today is crazy People started saying "Okay but THIS use of AI is actually good, we should use AI to only make this fan content" I'M MORE THAN DISAPPOINTED

submitted 180 days ago • 6 comments

Quickly learning that I absolutely cannot tolerate listening to some genres on audiobook

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.

submitted 182 days ago • 1266 comments

4 novels, all same universe, each based on one of my real ancestors, each MC given one or more of my absolute worst character flaws and sent down 300 pgs to fix it. (Sorry to any ancestors I misidentified as the source of something wrong w/ me). I may suck at writing but at least I got that down.

submitted 181 days ago • 0 comments

“(City officials) urged residents to use less water by taking shorter showers, report leaky fire hydrants, flush the toilet only when necessary and sweep driveways rather than power-washing them.”

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

This is the first I’ve seen evacuations for wildfires in this region. There was also a brushfire in my neighborhood in Queens last night. We desperately need rain in the NYC area. I can’t believe that we’re going to have climate change deniers in charge of environmental policy and everything else.

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments