so, i only went in to get the shiny silvally code. should’ve taken like a minute or two at most but i was in there for upwards of ten. it was deeply unsettling right off the bat when i walked in because it was quiet. like really quiet. the tv that plays the gaming news and the speaker that plays the ads weren’t running. the cashier says hello and i get in line to wait. it is dead silent. nobody in the store is making any noise except for the cashier, who is typing. she’s helping a little boy sell 12 PS4 games. the boys mom is walking back and forth behind him sipping her gas station brand cup of coffee. literally just walking back and forth from one end of the store to the other. all the while the entire store is silent, the kid is silent, the mom is silent… all 5 of the other full grown adults in this store are silent. and i’m the only one in line behind this kid, these other adults throughout the store are like standing in one space just staring and being quiet. they weren’t browsing, they weren’t talking. nobody was making any noise. i wasn’t making any noise. i was standing there thinking about how eerily silent it was in this gamestop and wondering what the hell was going on – hyper aware of every move i made because i didn’t want to make a noise and break the silence. this carried on for literally 10 minutes before another cashier came in through the front door and loudly exclaimed “i can’t leave you alone for five minutes.” he called me to the counter and asked me what i needed help with. it was like immediately the ambient noises of gamestop all returned at once and i stepped forward to get my code.
my favorite part of this is the implication that not only was the first cashier somehow responsible for the eerie silence to begin with but also that this has certainly happened before
I grew out of “I never text first” phase, since I realized nothing was wrong with showing someone, you care about them more than your pride
Everyone needs to grow out of the “I never text first phase” sooner rather than later.
In friend groups there is always someone who is always initiating the conversation with everyone they know. It is utterly exhausting, and it leaves them feeling like the friendship would not continue if they weren’t putting in the effort. Do them a favor and start the conversation first for once. It means something.
im honestly gonna get it. you had me at “made a homophobe so angry”
This actually happened! I’ve always felt that if you buy a book where the stated summary is “two princesses attempt to fight dragons and get married” you don’t really have a right to be mad when the book turns out to be about two princesses attempting to fight dragons and get married but what the hell do I know.
To be fair, maybe the reader expected the princesses to marry the dragons?
Please tell me there’s a sequel where that happens.
BUT ONLY IF THE DRAGONS ARE ALSO LADIES.
Actually, the main complaint was that it was “historically inaccurate” for two princesses to be allowed to get married. Which was weird to me, since this story is not set on earth and I’m pretty sure it is historically accurate for gay couples to be allowed to get married on this super convenient wish-fulfillment fantasy world that I concocted after logging 300 hours in Skyrim.
Curiously enough, she didn’t complain about the dragons being inaccurate.
I am so mad right now omg! I saw this book a while back…on a blog? In a tweet? I can’t remember. But they didn’t really describe the plot! At all!
They made it sound very stereotypical, hetero prince/princess relationship, with a bit of female friendship as maybe a side plot. There wasn’t even a mention of dragons! Ugh.
Anyway. I need this book six months ago, and I’m getting it ASAP.
WHAT.
WHAT.
ARE YOU FUCKING WITH ME.
THIS BOOK IS GAY. IT’S AGGRESSIVELY GAY. THE PRINCE IS DEAD BEFORE THE STORY EVEN STARTS. I CALL HIM PRINCE NOT-APPEARING-IN-THIS-BOOK.
WHO WROTE THIS HETERONORMATIVE SLANDER ABOUT MY CHILD I WILL DRIVE TO THEIR HOUSE AND CUT UP THEIR SHRUBBERY.
STEAL THEIR GARDEN GNOMES AND THREATEN NOT TO RETURN THEM UNTIL THEY RETRACT THEIR GROSS HETERO SLANDER
Noah fence but the story of a low/no empathy person trying to do the right thing and make the right choices is way more interesting and realistic than a low/no empathy person as a camp villain.
Low/no empathy hero vs. High empathy villain
“How can you choose to be good when you can’t feel it?”
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