Trying to listen to this like a podcast at work sends me into a waking trance like state, where Tim's words and voice wash over me like a gentle calming wave and leaves my soul at ease and rejuvenated.

Let me guess, the controllers only work if I shove them up my ass?

She’s got a point.

When I slip, get upset, and do something less than perfect, I apologize afterwards.

From Dessen’s bio on her own website:

From sarahdessen.com/bio

I’m a YA author, and I’ve been hurt by reviews, too. But *they’re not for me*. They’re for readers who might be curious about my work. If I need to, I vent privately to friends and then move on. I would never publicly set my huge following on a stranger for having an opinion about my work. Does this person from the…

I was particularly disturbed by Dessen’s tweets about how this one young woman’s opinion was ‘mean and cruel’ and had ruined her day. It seems this 50 year old woman has less emotional maturity than the 15 year old kids she writes about.

The problem with this is the power difference. Bestselling, millionaire authors with large fan bases are attacking an unknown college student and pretending the criticism actually hurts them in any real way. It doesn’t.

asdkfjdk my GOD woman, get your head out of your ass. Sarah, you write shitty teen romance YA, you’re not out here writing the next Booker Prize novel. Of course a college junior, who is presumably in her twenties and you know, at university to challenge herself academically, wants to read something with more…

For the first time in my adult life, I was seriously thinking about strategy in a Pokémon game, and I had a blast doing it.

Press F to Deadspin Forever.

Others have already mentioned the absolutely fire line in this article, but let’s just go ahead and reinforce it: shit like this is why you’re one of the best, Schreier—and why Kotaku remains the force it is in a world of bland “stick to sprouts” coverage.

While Livanart is dressed as a black character with black skin, she hasn’t applied make-up or paint; her transformation into Pyke is achieved through the wearing of a prosthetic suit. Critics see this as a loophole, and that the same intent as blackface—to alter your skin colour to match that of a black person, a…

At least for me, it comes up a lot when people ask me what I do for work. I’ve definitely been in situations where I ask someone how they spend their time and they do something I know nothing about, and I want to know more! 

This. I generally avoid talking about things i’m passionate about, unless i know the other person is really into the subject as well.

the *only* fish that matters:

Don’t be racist, sexist, ableist, or trans/homophobic. That’s pretty much the list. If you can’t make people laugh without being any of those things, maybe the problem isn’t the culture that surrounds you?

It amazes me how I’m greyed, and an ignorant post like this isn’t.

Probably not the best time to be clueless... Imagine in a few years, those children are grown. Someone steals from them. They can call the police and be taken seriously or they probably could vote. Imagine if they were poor black children; when they were grown, the police are not their friend or their…