Claire Light/Jadie Jang (she/her)

You ever not want to go to bed bc you’re having a really good hair day?

I moved 1.5 years ago, and had ten filing boxes full of paper doom piles, which I've been carting from place to place--and adding to--for DECADES. I also have a lot of organized files that are wildly out of date. I'm FINALLY going through them and shredding, and it is sooooooo satisfying!

Why are people talking about Op Ed? What did I miss?

I’m just gonna keep saying it hoping people hear it: “enormity“ =\= “enormousness“. “Enormity“ means “extreme wickedness.” it’s appropriate applied to Jeffrey Epstein, not the Grand Canyon.

Young writers: “town home” is a marketing term. The real word for that type of building is “town house.” A “home” is any place a person lives. A “house” is a building intended as a residence. This is why “homelessness” is giving way to “unhoused.” And it’s time the neologism “townhome” did likewise.

The only people who are out here trying to trivialize what Epstein survivors experienced are people who are personally invested in doing so. If that doesn’t describe you, STOP IT. Let things be what they are; and CALL things what they are.

Acknowledging that difference helps people understand what really happened, rather than whipping up a frenzy of rage through faulty rhetoric. Understanding matters. It’s time we stopped talking down—dumbing down—and started expecting nuance and critical understanding from people.

… & Co. were committing, but we’re only going to talk about “pedophilia.” Stop it. All rape and sexual abuse is bad. There’s no hierarchy, and no reason to get crazy about one type and not another. Words matter. Definitions matter. DISTINCTIONS matter. Ephebophilia and Pedophilia are different.

By angrily insisting on there being no difference between the 2, ironically YOU are the one creating, by implication, a hierarchy of sexual abuse, in which ephebophilia isn’t as bad as pedophilia, ergo, rape of a full adult must be even less bad than that, since adult rape is mostly what Epstein …

By insisting on calling Epstein’s ephebophilia “pedophilia,” you’re saying that pedophilia is WORSE than ephebophilia, and we can only get angry about Epstein’s depredations if we pretend he went after prepubescent children—or worse, it’s an attempt to whip people into an unthinking frenzy.

Opening my news app just now, I unconsciously muttered “Okay, what’s the bad news?” Sigh. There’s “interesting times” and then there’s THIS.

The past tense of “to grit” is “gritTED”! It is NOT irregular!!!!!

Except poor Scott Hunter, who has nobody.

Millennials and Z-ers: do you know who Betty Crocker is, and what she looks like?

After how many decades? of gay best friends in romantic comedies who make their girl best friends’ lives the center of their own concerns, Heated Rivalry giving each of the lovers a het girl best friend who is entirely focused on them is super refreshing.

What we can’t offload to a small fraction is anything that has to be done for each individual: education, healthcare, services, etc.; and creating consumable culture, bc, unlike food or medicine, each consumable unit has to be different from the previous.

After all, with all the specialization and mechanization, only a tiny fraction of us is needed for most essential functions, as well as for political representation and reform pressure.

I was just wondering if even WANTING to spend all my work time/energy telling stories was acceptable. And this consideration made me think maybe it was.

It’s weird to think that our society is so highly specialized and mechanized that we only need a tiny fraction of the population to produce food, when 300 years ago we needed most of us to do that.

Anyway, the question is: how many characters can a writer introduce at the beginning, and then subsequently refer to only by name, while still allowing you to remember and track them?

For me it’s about five. I think six is too many, not sure, but seven is DEFINITELY too many.

Another question for writers:

I’m reading a book that’s forcefully reminding me how easy it is for a writer to pile on characters without making sure their reader can distinguish between them. (I’ve even lost track of how MANY characters there are, much less who they are.) (No, I wont say who.)

I ask bc I’m one of those who doesn’t hear a voice speaking, and I also can’t have music when I’m writing, especially when I’m revising, bc I need the quiet to hear the music and rhythm of the language.

Question for writers: those of you who listen to music when you write, do you also hear a voice in your head, speaking your thoughts?

And, those of you who DON’T hear voices speaking your thoughts, can you listen to music when you write?

Today's quote: "If you don't wanna be smooch-attacked, don't be so cute."

I don’t get how Game Changer could’ve been adapted into a Stucky fic. It’s a completely different story …?

Had to reboot everything to get my TV to play Paramount+. But now I’m watching Starfleet Academy. They have a Klingon named Jayden? And what’s with the design of the bridge? It’s weird and ugly.

I’m DNFing the movie version of people we meet on vacation. It’s my least favorite Emily Henry anyway, and I’m hating the movie version.

I think I get it: Trump and his people are so corrupt, there’s a kind of purity in it. Where extremes meet.

*insanely frustrated sounds*

PEOPLE. "Moreso" is not a word. It's two words. And where you're using the non-word "moreso," you should simply be using the word "more." Try it. English speakers have been using "more" in this way for centuries. It's a thing.

This is regarding what?