4. Watch in frustration and embarrassment as dog either doesn’t know what’s being asked of them or doesn’t trust that it’s in their interest to obey
5. Increase volume and aggressive tone of dog name yelling
6. Repeat daily

“‘Who knows when love begins? Who knows what makes it start? One day it’s simply there, alive inside your heart.’ As you all know, these timeless words are from Andrew Lloyd Weber’s beloved musical Phantom of the Opera…’s 2010 sequel musical, Love Never Dies. I am not making this up”

“In 2015, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote” and then read a very dry admin law holding from some case other than Obergefell

How many of the 50 extra days y’all took to submit it would you estimate were dedicated to apostrophes? 😘

Yesss

There’s a nice trick toward the end where the piano takes up the sweeping melody that the character has previously used to declare her fondest hopes (“But I dreamed of…”)—while the character herself, heartbroken, quietly stalls out on a single pitch

major train-related twist!!

A bunch of elite galactic cops chasing a terrifying superpowered assassin just used the phrase “flatbed shunter”

Pandora’s Star + Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton. I just started the second volume. Highly recommend!

lol distinct but related phenomena: gays I’ve met socially and exchanged social media handles with but who don’t know my last name, and colleagues who’ve seen my last name in writing but understandably aren’t aware some ancestor of mine decided some radical vowel shifts would be fun