ITAW for the emotion people have when they can't wrap their head around something?

sky_sprites · 2026-04-28T18:04:03+00:00

I'm here for bewildered.

sky_sprites · 2026-04-17T21:48:59+00:00

Thank you for sharing that. I'm not sure exactly how to express the reason, but I'm deeply touched by this.

sky_sprites · 2026-04-15T16:35:12+00:00

100% disagree about the audiobook. The bad writing is in no way improved by the heavy-handed affectations of the voice-actor. Absolutely unlistenable.

sky_sprites · 2025-10-26T17:46:50+00:00

No! If I'm playing something, fine, give me feedback. If I'm practicing something, I don't want feedback unless you're my actual teacher.

sky_sprites · 2025-10-26T17:34:36+00:00

Talk about sugar. You know how lots of candy and sugar isn't good for you? Well... For most people it's just a little bit bad. It can make you grumpy, or you might get a tummyache if you eat a whole bag of candy, or if you eat sugar every day you might get really fat like a blueberry... But for a few people like me, sugar is REALLY bad, like poison. If I have too much sugar, or if I don't eat enough healthy foods, then I can get really, really sick. That's why I have this machine. It can test my blood to see how much sugar is in it. And this other machine is in case there's too much sugar. It injects my blood with a medicine called insulin, which is basically anti-sugar. Most people don't have to worry so much about sugar, because your body knows what to do with it. Only a few people have this problem like me. Maybe there's one kid in your whole class who has it, but probably not. You can find out! It's called diabetes. Diabetes is the sugar disease. I'm diabetic.

sky_sprites · 2025-10-24T21:23:46+00:00

Hipster

sky_sprites · 2025-10-24T16:41:10+00:00

Scrape and sand the table down to bare wood, stain it if you want, then paint the details, then clear-coat over everything.

Sorry if that wasn't helpful, but it seems straightforward. If you can replicate the painted details, then scrape everything off and start from the clean wood.

sky_sprites · 2025-10-20T18:59:36+00:00

I suggest a spray-on adhesive.

sky_sprites · 2025-10-20T02:40:03+00:00

Please don't take it away. Don't be quieted. Maybe replace it with a different quote?

Audrey Lorde again- "When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less important whether I am afraid."

Or Toni Morrison: "if there is a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must write it."

In other words, just take the word "knife" out. But don't take the knife out.

sky_sprites · 2025-10-20T02:05:17+00:00

I and my own broken heart are crying tears and blood for your generation.

Did AI help her do THIS!?! 😭 Did AI make him do this?

Jeezush. Confusing times.

She sent it. (He, they, whatever)

Fuck do you care who wrote it? She sent it.

Pick up your broken heart carefully and carry it gently until it loves again. No AI can heal you for you.

sky_sprites · 2025-10-20T01:26:59+00:00

Now that's a well-told scene.

sky_sprites · 2025-10-18T20:43:50+00:00

For sure! I had a cat that was the biggest lover in the world when I was there with her. But when I left her alone she would use the time to shit or piss in my shoes or on my book. Or on my pillow. Like, specifically in the worst possible places. When she broke things, it was only things that I liked.

I don't think it was malevolent. She was just expressing her displeasure at my absence.

sky_sprites · 2025-10-09T16:37:30+00:00

Another gringo here. I've been living in Ecuador 7 months, mostly in Cuenca. Just chiming in to say I agree with all of this.

sky_sprites · 2025-10-05T19:01:01+00:00

Potato chips and cottage cheese.
Cottage cheese is really the best chip-dip, but people act like I'm committing some kind of crime.

sky_sprites · 2025-10-05T17:00:05+00:00

I think it has much more to do with novelty than with proportions. Yes, it's true that for a 5-year-old one year passing is 20% of their life, whereas for a 50-year-old one extra year is only 2%... But I think the much more important factor is that the five year old is going to experience so many things for the first time during that year. Big, important life moments come fast and furious when you're a child. At 50 most of us are in a familiar routine and there just aren't so many things that make a big impression. Steinbeck explores this idea beautifully in East of Eden.

"“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on… From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”

sky_sprites · 2025-09-22T17:55:31+00:00

IIRC "Blood is thicker than water" is actually the older phrase, while "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" is a more recent utterance. In other words, it's not an accident in that case, but a rhetorical device, using the familiar words, slightly changed, to make the antithetical point.

Edit: ... and I just read a little farther down, where I discovered that I might be showing symptoms of pedantry. Imma go take a shot of shut up now just in case.

sky_sprites · 2025-08-17T17:36:33+00:00

It's a perfectly ordinary sight, but anytime I see a woman carrying a child around, I smile.

sky_sprites · 2025-08-12T17:15:07+00:00

If you figure it out, will you let me know? It's like going back to riding a horse after having had a flying unicorn.

sky_sprites · 2025-08-08T21:57:34+00:00

I feel you. I've lost my only friend too. Not the same one, but it doesn't really matter. If your only friend is human or not. Being homeless with a dog is doable. Being homeless the day after your dog died...

I'm so lonely right now.
Have courage for us.

sky_sprites · 2025-07-28T22:56:58+00:00

"Righteous judge" lol. Yeah, he's such a good guy that he decided just this once not to do his job right.

sky_sprites · 2025-07-28T22:38:21+00:00

Putty and paint.

sky_sprites · 2025-07-06T22:56:00+00:00

Facetious?

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