Person on the phone: Hello, am I speaking to the head of the household?
Me, handing the phone to my cat: It’s for you
shall i compare thee to a summer’s day? too hot, hot damn
It’s occurred to me that “bingo night” or “bridge night” at the senior center will probably be “D&D night” when we get there, and now I’m ready to retire.
Me at 80, doing a wheelie and waving a butter knife: TO THE DRAGON’S LAIR! I THIRST FOR BLOOD! WORLDS WILL FALL BEFORE ME!
An exhausted nurse: Please stop.

GRYFFINDOR: “She bent most of the rules, she broke the rest.” –V.E. Schwab (A Gathering of Shadows)
author: so in this world there are immortal fire-breathing dragons
everybody: cool!
author: also half the army is female
everybody: um, isn’t that a bit unrealistic? :/
author: there are a dozen+ sentient species including orcs, elves, and entities that should be dead but somehow aren’t
everybody: cool!
author: and a lot of them are poc
everybody: how does that? make sense?
author: alright, so people can pretty much rewrite the laws of reality by thinking about it hard enough, so anything is possible
everybody: makes sense
author: also several of the characters are not straight
everybody: what else even is there?
It’s 2007. You’re working on a PowerPoint for school. It’s about ancient Egypt. You select the Papyrus font.
“Yes, Perfect”