It's become a real screenwriting crutch, like a skull on a bookcase to indicate someone is "smart" in a particular "you're going to hate them" kind of way. It's lazy.
I know I had a good score because I got a full ride. And I couldn't tell you that score if you paid me.
In general, I do not get along well with adults who ever talk about high school. It's just a bad, bad sign. College is only okay if its a story about being a ho and/or your first edible experience.
The way I hedged this and still managed to bring out a hundred “but what about mes” is all on me.
The lesson is, don’t hedge. Just tell people that you hate them, personally. More efficient.
Locking this thread because a good share of people are ridiculous human beings.
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And god help me if you bring it up FREQUENTLY to explain who you are today, as an adult. It just means we have little in common. Great if it works for your peer group. It doesn’t work for mine
Because as you start going on about how Billy pushing you in the 10th grade made you skittish around water fountains, I have nothing to respond with. I have no idea what happened in the 10th grade. None. Those aren’t my formative years.
Between us I’m actually kind of proud of how hard ideologues & professional contrarians have to work to make me seem unreasonable. Every day I get some news hit or comment that amounts to, “OMG YOU SAID SOMETIMES A THING THAT HAPPENS, HAPPENS.” And you know, that’s a skill.
Sometimes you can almost see the smoke as they work furiously to twist my words but can’t. All they can usually do is screen-grab a whole paragraph. I don’t have the heart to tell them that’s called “marketing”.
"Beware the Hey Girl, it's always the preamble to an excuse or bad news. The images of the text conversations are little art pieces. Each vibrating with the anxiety that attending niceness deployed to protect from power."
that's good.
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Calling all letter writers. My niece’s class is tracking Gingy and could use some data collection help. It is very important that Aunt Tressie trick this assignment out for the kids.
If you live somewhere REALLY exotic like one of the Dakotas, that is great 😂
They need this lesson because I still cannot really tell you which one is New Hampshire and look at how horribly I turned out.
I spotted him at @epiloguebooksch with a book bag and a churro :)