"There was some parable about an empty cup, wasn't there? But I still don't see how it fits . . . OH."

I misread Chris as Christ and spent way too long trying to decipher what I was sure was a religious pun.

objects*

My everyday object already predict what I need. I have no other explanation for why they always disappear just when I need them, because I could swear I just saw them here somewhere.

Well, people who I've seen repeat that advice definitely didn't mean grammar. Maybe they got it wrong, which seems to be common with writing advice.

"You have to know the rules in order to break them." It still talks about writing as having hard and fast rules and discourages experimentation. IMO its more useful to think of writing "rules" as guidelines or tools that tell us about the cause and effect.

I have to ask, what were the arguments for it?

I love how a single petal remains so much.

Reminds me of this quote from Tamsyn Muir

I remember a discussion in 2010 or so about whether it still counted as going stealth if one had any contact with their parents.

As if trans women didn't constantly have to worry about doctors being transmisogynistic. . .

That's what I want to happen everytime I try a new villainess anime, but alas.

This sounds like premise of a sitcom where the protagonist gets a new cursed statue every episode while trying to find the right curse.

Was. . . was being trapped in a mortal body a result of a bad decision by any chance?

And to the TBR pile it goes.

So regularly destroyed is trans stuff that it's an obscure fact that 2 words beginning with trans (transfeminate and transection) were in English dictionaries to describe someone who 'changed sex' from the mid 1600s until well into the 20th century.