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the thing about this show is..... it's about grown men who have chosen the wrong task to focus on

watching task just screaming and screaming

i don't want the public to pitch in on how a relatively tiny population "hurts" business i want the central powers to improve everyone's living standards full stop

obviously H8 the move on law it's fked it's also a small add on to how the system works any way
i want long term sustained change not a back to basics turn around in one to four years
talking about the homeless is always the left being righteous and the right being argumentative

the FCKED move on law is providing a pretty great distraction from the biggest headline of the year: "the cost of living crisis"
the economy sucks & focusing on how it sucks could actually unite the country politically bc we're all feeling it but then some new divisive topic drops

ya I think about Natasha bedding fields unwritten all the time like they really let her sing "hyper-bowl" with no guidance

I used to think the lyric was "if I lie here, if I just lie here, would you lay with me..." to that chasing cars song and I was only corrected like a year ago so all I can say is idk maybe it was snow patrols fault for not enunciating

when the movie choice is so unpopular that people start pathologising u

put bugonia on for my mum and afterwards she turned to me and asked, "what's wrong with you"

3 stars are always "the writing was amazing but-" and then a weird idea of what u should have written as if ur at karaoke taking requests

love a corned beef ay who up corning their beef

seen a couple reviews now of Poorhara that are essentially "the story touches on the hard reality but the writer didn't provide any hope"
& i have to say that is such a braindead proposition
u want me to fix the world in the story so what? u can be like yay poverty is surmountable? get rekt

yes............... but who told u........

no social media partner found out about wolf erotica today and the way he decided to tell me was "did u know males wolves can get each other pregnant?"

i want to go to the local park and tell my secrets in to the covered slide but everyone else has a lukewarm preference for watching the 2024 hit conclave

I H8 when ur having a private existential breakdown during the holidays and then u just have to sit in the lounge for four hours finding a movie the whole blended family will enjoy or everyone will appear at ur bedroom door like the ghosts of Xmas past present future to ask questions three

the weirdest thing about being published in nz is that your biggest critics are estranged family friend s, deadbeat relations and old classmates
your biggest fans are fellow writers, lecherous older men and grandmothers

yes [advertisement] it would be glorious to be off my face on cherry danishes & cream prancing around a Christmas tree in frilly pjamas like a pervert but that's not the world i live in!! that's not where i reside!!

I'm a simple person I have coffee in the morning then eight hours of crippling hunger that I attribute to tiredness then a terrifying binge of scrambled eggs

i am constantly burned by the romance smut genre bc every single blurb says the characters have breathtaking chemistry and then the interactions are like, "hey girl u r my girl and no one elses girl"

👁️👄👁️ you may be on to something....

Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds is the winner of the Letteri Family Prize for Creative Nonfiction with her hybrid and poetic work Our Bark-Skinned Bodies, and Stephenjohn Holgate is the winner of this year's Modernletters Fiction Prize with his rich, poignant novel about three generations of Jamaican men

Yeesh we are a slow moving country

do u think people vote national / act / nz first bc they just see old cranky people and they are also old cranky people

I think what I actually miss is drugs

sometimes I miss Twitter but then I remember once a person saw one of my posts and then commented that they had gotten permission from their maaori friend to be offended by it on their behalf

best book lists of the year in nz should be renamed to "all the books published in nz this year except for one random omission"

The Galleries of Maoriland might be a cool start here particularly in the curio economy parts - talks a bit about ethnologists raiding abandoned paa in Waikato

the new boomer fb obsession is the "pakeha Maori" a recycled invention when some Pakeha were naturalized Maori by being Jake sully type saviours or pakeha 'slaves' taken by Maori
It seems we have gone from trying to understand history and supremacist legacy to writing new fictions with Ai
very cool!

Standarderised maaori is a hybrid of ngapuhi-waikato dialect bc of spread so you're never speaking without a dialect
if ur learning in a class it's going to be the dialect of ur place so north(ngapuhi-waikato)/west/east/south
for online learners it's going to be ngapuhi-waikato/standarderised