MarieMarion

@MarieMarion@literature.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I never listen to music. When I’m running errands, I listen to the birds and the wind. I watch the leaves change colors. I chat with people I know by sight. I stop by stores I don’t need anything from just to chat with the owners. I meet friends doing their shopping and we decide to go to see a play next weekend. I sit down at a terrasse to have coffee with my kid’s former piano teacher. Think the movie Amelie, but in small-town France instead of Paris. I love my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with breakfast in bed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So :
  Yes, I wash up after breakfast anyway. No. I resent even having to go pee.
  I love not having to get up, saying toasty in bed (my house gets very cold 6 months a year–around 12C). Also, we tend to make better breakfasts in those cases. With a flower from the garden and everything.

  Additionally, in my 9 year old’s case: since she was born, she had at least 80% of her breakfasts in bed. She likes to wake up slow, she reads for a while after waking up, and since she started middle school her days are hectic, so we pamper her that way. It’s twenty minutes of comfort before she starts her 10-hour days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yuuuuuup. Still wondering, tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3135: Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was reading Circe, by Madeline Miller, and on several pages some ancient Greeks wait for the tide to sail away, or watch the sea rising while waiting for Odysseus, and so on. Like, woman, did nobody notice at your publishing house?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re kidding, right? Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a French speaker, I stg your genders for LE sun and LA moon don’t make a lick of sense, and sound really wrong.
  DER Sonne is obviously a guy. Goes to the gym every day, lifts weights, big muscles, maybe a bandana. Picture a ladies’ man from 1985 in a beach town, and that’s him. And DIE Mund is the protectress of women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we humans love music so?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the same. I don’t listen to music, ever. It does nothing for me (except hurting my ears if it’s medium or high volume, annoying me, stressing me out if it’s fast, and preventing me from understanding spoken words.). There’s something weird in my brain, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Social conditioning, once again. We’re French, and it’s totally possible for us.
  Yesterday, among strangers, at the local lake, my 42 year old friend was topless, playing with her 7 year old son and her 5 year old (naked) step-daughter. A 36 yo pregnant friend was wearing a string bikini around her husband, 6 yo daughter, and in-laws. It was a non-issue.
  Not saying all rules can always be broken, but they’re heavily context- and culture-dependant.