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Nothing like getting into the flow of writing a scene of emotional confrontation, with years and years of resentment built behind it, hurt and the fear of vulnerability making them say things that shouldn’t be said, even as they know the weight of their own ill-considered words

and having to pause to go to a mEeTiNg. 🌥️ #amWriting #well #wasWriting

#triads

thinking about #familect again today and how in my trilingual household expressions shift and mutate; somehow, in translation, the expression “feeling some kind of way” became a thing of melancholy and dysthymia, and all this to say i’m feeling some kind of way today, friends.

@derwinmcgeary We have so many! My favorite #familect is our use of “be” as shorthand for “be [obstinate, grumpy, testy, inflexible, etc].” I have no idea where it comes from.

“I don’t want to!”
(exasperated) “Why are you being?”

“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing!”
“Don’t be.”