It fucking sucks out here
I'm in so many fandoms, but! to name a few!! the witcher, ofmd, nat zero, wwdits, dbh, sk8, and definitely others! enjoy!
[SolAche shippers DNI!!!]
“Recently, my son said to me after seeing a ballet on television: ‘It’s beautiful, but I don’t like it.’ And I thought, Are many grown-ups capable of such a distinction? It’s beautiful, but I don’t like it. Usually, our grown-up thinking is more along the lines of: I don’t like it, so it’s not beautiful. What would it mean to separate those two impressions for art making and for art criticism?”
— “59. it’s beautiful, but I don’t like it” from 100 essays I don’t have time to write: on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater, sarah ruhl
So I was writing a small paper in Microsoft Word and the program suddenly crashed (I saved a couple minutes before, thank god) and I get this message in the corner of my screen two seconds afterward
TIL that Gothic literature makes a distinction between “terror” and “horror.” Terror is the sense of dread and apprehension that precedes an experience, horror is the sense of revulsion after an experience.
My German history lecturer just told us that he went on national Irish TV on a prime time spot and claimed that German reunification was not going to happen for a very very long time. This was on November 6 1989 and he has lived with this embarrassment for four decades