idc if u like winter or autumn or whatever nothing tops summer evenings when the sun hasnt fully set and the air is still warm but theres a light breeze and everything is getting more quiet except for the birds and crickets and its a perfect time to go on a walk and just breathe
i just got sleep paralysis during a NAP how do i press charges on my own brain
Last night I had a bout of sleep paralysis and my brain thought something had possessed my body so I started screaming “be gone thot!” over and over internally to wake myself up 😂
apparently studies have shown that invoking the support of a deity or phrase that u believe has power (ie shouting “jesus!!! god protects me, you cant hurt me!” etc) is pretty much the most effective method for ending night terrors and sleep paralysis. so if u truly believe shouting “begone thot!” has the power to dispel dream possession then that is probably what a psychologist would suggest u do asdfghgfds
i really love our generation’s joke trend of like, very calm but incredibly inflated hyperbole. like nobody says “oh she’s pretty” anymore we say “i would willingly let her murder me” and everyone is just like “lol same”
i think “same” is also great and “me,” i love when somebody reblogs a picture of like, a lizard, and just says “me” and we all know exactly what they mean. the current online Humor Discourse is remarkable because we trade exclusively in metaphors and implications and nobody ever, ever says anything outright and yet EVERYBODY understands each other perfectly
This reminds me of the time when I was on vacation with my family and we were hiking, and after using a rest stop, the conversation turned to the grossness of outhouses and port-a-potties, and I said that if I ever got splashback from a port-a-potty, “my soul would depart my body.” My parents found that hilarious, and my dad commented that my generation can be so clever with words bc he would only think to say something like “It would be disgusting” which doesn’t convey the sentiment nearly as well as “my soul would depart my body.”
I find this so intriguing because it opens up so many possibilities for future writers to connect with their readers.
Does that mean we’re literally “Darmok and Jalad”-ing language? We speak in stories and references and memes, never saying what’s actually going on, just making reference to other things.
And you expressed that point by verbing the phrase “Darmok and Jalad,” which is itself a pop culture reference. Linguistic ouroboroses are my favorite thing, guys.
