• academic book/journal sites/providers/publishers that require a million logins and treat you like a criminal for the heinous crime of trying to download one (1) chapter or whatever
  • asmr
  • baby powder
  • being around like 99% of dogs
  • being forced to provide a phone number to sign up for something
  • bullet journals
  • calibri
  • call of duty
  • car culture
    • and for that matter, just. cars
  • cinnamon
  • clinginess
  • cold-toned christmas lights
  • copyright
  • coyote/wolf bounties
  • crypto
  • dirtbikes
  • drake
  • earthsea cover illustrations where ged is whitewashed
  • england
    • esp. london
  • fax machines
  • fortunes in fortune cookies that give me advice or tell me facts/jokes instead of giving me a fortune
  • funko pops
  • jokes based on extroversion/introversion
  • katy perry
  • "love languages" being talked about sincerely
  • minimalism
  • miracle whip
  • mornings
  • mosquitoes
  • mountain climbing (i would never do it but just, like, that it's an activity that exists)
  • neil patrick harris
  • new york city
  • non-violence as a worldview
  • old book smell
  • papier mache
  • podcasts
  • pranks
  • self-care advice from workplaces/schools that cause the distress that makes you seek self-care in the first place
    • see also: time management tips. i manage my time just fine, you just give too much work
  • stoicism
  • the bass line for blondie's 'one way or another'
  • the face rivers cuomo pulls at the start of the say it ain't so video, if someone made that face at me in real life i would fight them
  • the smell of crayons
  • the smell of gasoline
  • the smell of whole wheat bread
  • the word "vis-a-vis"
  • true crime
    • enjoyed it a lot as a genre until a relative of a high school friend of mine disappeared and i got to read random internet strangers accusing said friend of murder because "you have to start somewhere and she's the only relative we know about"
    • seriously if you are into true crime, i am begging you, just don't be a ghoul about victim's families
  • two or more songs by the same artist placed consecutively on a mix
  • utilitarianism
  • weak handshakes
    • but also insisting on handshakes at all now that we are in perma-pandemic mode
  • wearing jewelry
  • when bullet journals are fancy
  • when cleaning/organization articles are like "your house shouldn't be a museum" and show they fully misunderstand the point of a museum (care, cleaning, curation, and being very selective with what stays in the collection)
  • when kids glom onto me and their parents just let them because they are grateful to have a moment to breathe
    • no shade on the kids here, but on their parents who 100% know i am Not Able To Do This
  • when online shops show a different color option and you click and it's a totally different color
  • when people do something they know you don't like and then go overboard explaining why it is Good And Fine that they are doing the thing
    • like honestly good job i like you less for doing the thing and i think you're way less cool because you care so much about my slightly lowered opinion
  • when people get overly precious about books. your mass market paperback of a nyt bestseller is not a rare medieval manuscript, go ahead and dog-ear those pages
    • also when people act like i killed someone because i wrote in the margins, but those same people have plants on their bookshelves?? like ok enjoy your water damage and mold??
  • when stores market fleecy clothes as "sherpa-lined," implying that they skinned a human being
  • when you go to open something in a new tab and it opens in both the new tab and the old one
  • wuthering heights
  • youtube thumbnails where the youtuber is making a shocked face
jan 23 2023 ∞
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