The Fathomless Void

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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Heard a poetry reading once with some beautiful second person POV poems, and I spoke to the poet afterwards. She said that all the poems were really about herself, but it felt far far too revealing to use the first person pronoun for such personal matters. This is a fun interpretation to apply to all universal sounding things. In general, if when you encounter any statement written in the second person that's making a confident proclamation about how the world is and how people work (ex. "You've gotta appreciate the little things", "You shouldn't take things at face value", "We've all got a cousin who had a mental breakdown in a Target in West Virginia because the wedding planner called at the wrong time"), you'll often read the post more correctly if you assume that when the author says "you" they are talking exclusively to themselves and you happen to be allowed to listen in, and maybe what they're saying applies to you and maybe it doesn't at all, and maybe it's not even a little true to anyone except the speaker, but it was still an interesting perspective to consider. Anyway of course all this also applies to this post. Everything anyone ever writes is really just a reminder to themselves, which is also just another universal sounding statement that might not actually be true but is fun to think about.

andhumanslovedstories

Using “one” as a second person pronoun solves so much (“one must remember one’s twenties are a trial by fire”) unfortunately it sounds insaneALT

when the tf we bringing back Austen style for writing our blog posts

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Stop tagging this “Homestuck” I don’t understand and it scares me