Iâm upset because I want to change the world but the world is too big and people are too mean
âDo not be daunted by the enormity of the worldâs grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.â – Rabbi Tarfon
I was in a mall with my friend and then suddenly his watch started beeping and I asked him why he had an alarm set for 3:00 and he told me that it was because it was Wendyâs time. Immediately after, we found a Wendyâs and when we walked in, all the employees were chanting âWendyâs timeâ and it sure was something.
sometimes i worry about the people on this website and their weird experiences and then i notice their username
sometimes i worry about my willingness to shrug off stories like that like âeh itâs wendyâs, weird shit happens thereâ
The Fair Folk: âI canât believe this. Twenty years Iâve cleaned your house and you DARE to try to REPAY me with GIFTS. This is such an insult. Fuck you, you insolent humans. Iâm leaving here and never returning because you have insulted me so deeply.â
Also the Fair Folk: âRemember that one time you pulled a thorn out of a catâs foot? That was me. To show my gratitude, here is a house made of solid gold, a life-debt, my daughterâs hand in marriage, and a promise that all your children will be gorgeous and successful at all that they do. I can also throw in a blow job if you want. I hope this is enough. I donât want to seem ungrateful.â
The year is 2042. Your daughter is awkwardly silent as she eats her dinner. âSomething wrong sweetie?â She sighs and puts down her fork. âI was digging really deep in AO3 last nightâŚWhy didnât you finish that coffee shop au?â It happened. Your past has come back to haunt you. Nay, it never truly left.
U CANNOT OUTRUN UR CRIME
OKAY BUT WAIT. This has happened to me. Recently. Because I am old and I have things out there from previous fandoms with previous pseuds and one day my teenager begins a rant at me about people never finishing any WIPs on the pit of voles (which he does not call the pit of voles because he has No Knowledge of such a thing but yet he still reads on which I didnât think anyone did any longer) and he points out an example to me of something I WROTE AND LEFT WIPing for ages and he has NO IDEA #1 that his mom wrote this and #2 How much it still haunts me to this day that it will. sit. there. for. eternity. because I am too lazy to pull it down.
Sometimes being an adult is basically like being both a very young child and that childâs parent simultaneously. Like âOkay, if you go buy toilet paper you can get ONE TREAT.â
Would you like to read a book in which this happens?
Itâs one of my all-time favorite books. Â Itâs called Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. Â He describes it as an âprogressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable.â
It is written in the form of letters between the citizens of the fictional island of Nollop, an independent nation off the coast of South Carolina and home of Nevin Nollop, who invented the phrase âthe quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.â Â That phrase is written in tiles over a statue of Nollop in their town square, and when one night a storm causes one of the tiles to fall, the council decides that itâs a sign from Nollop that they are no longer allowed to use that letter, in speech or writing, on pain of progressive punishments including public beating and up to banishment.
Then another tile falls. Â Then another.
The citizens, who are all very attached to their words and writing, mount a campaign to come up with a phrase that uses all 26 letters but is shorter than Nollopâs, thus proving that he was not divine and negating all the edicts.
Because the novel is told in the form of letters the citizens write, and this is the genius partâŚthe author must also stop using the letters as they fall.  So the book gradually stops using letters until at one point I think theyâre down to just five.
The resolution literally made me get up and dance around the room.
Itâs clever, creative, and a not-really-veiled-at-all parable about monotheistic oligarchy. Â Itâs not a long book, you can read it in an afternoon.
GO READ IT RIGHT NOW.
WOW I want to read that book
Very rarely is there a book that I must read at any cost This is now one of them
Note: locate book
I actually bought this book because of this post and let me tell you, it was a fucking great decision. Besides having a brilliant concept, itâs also so well written that in the beginning you donât even notice when another letter is removed. There was one part I had to re-read because I couldnât believe that there wasnât a single âdâ in the last five pages. Seriously, this book is fantastic
I had to read this for high school and I loved it. I have no idea where my copy went though đŚ
Iâve owned 5 copies of Ella Minnow Pea because the people Iâve loaned it out to have refused to part with it, ha. Ended up investing in a copy for the Kindle where itâll always be safe. But yes, it is a very cleverly written book!
just moving along like everyone else 