ValiantDust

Is that what you meant?

Imagine someone explaining a complex topic in single sentences with pauses in between.

I think this would make a meeting very tedious.

You mean like this?

Okay.

Unless they work for Microsoft. Teams has been showing � instead of ä for the caller’s name in the popup when someone calls for several weeks now. It didn’t use to do that before. I don’t think they care anymore.

Kommt immer auf den Feiertag an. Klar, in meinem Kalender stehen die und bei der Planung berücksichtige ich das schon. Aber wenn ich eben nicht freitags frei nehme und auch sonst nicht groß was geplant hab, hab ich jetzt nicht unbedingt auf dem Schirm, wann Fronleichnam ist oder ob Christus oder Maria diese Woche himmelfahren. Und welche davon jetzt bei mir tatsächlich Feiertage sind.

Stephenie Meyer.

Hear me out. Were the books well written? No. Did they describe very toxic and harmful relationship dynamics? Yes. Did they contain weird morals? Also yes.

These are all things that can be justly criticised. And there is probably a lot more to criticise. But did Stephanie Meyer, and to some extent her readers, really deserve the huge wave of hate they got? Were the books really objectively worse than other YA fiction? Or was it just because they were popular among young women?

I was a teenager when the books came out and loved them. (Though even then I did not understand why they needed to marry so young and she lost me with the whole Renesmee thing). Now I cringe hard about almost any aspect of them, but hate is going a bit overboard.

And at least Meyer (to my knowledge) didn’t try to push her weird worldviews onto us outside of her book, unlike JKR.