sinesalvatorem:

Is this true, Tumblrites?

…damn, I forgot to throw in some wiggle room about “generally” and “most” and “in my experience” and all that.

*watches as this inevitably finds the one fragment of Tumblr that doesn’t have a sufficiently clear idea of what to expect with Hannibal*

(Wiggle room/acknowledgement-that-other-people-are-not-like-me-and-may-have-different-experiences is the first thing to go when I’m having even the slightest bit of trouble with language. Usually I can manage it in writing, but in speech I frequently neglect it and it makes me look like I have less theory of mind than I do. I’ve lost count of how many times Mom has admonished me to bear in mind that not everyone is like me, usually during occasions when I had thought of that but the thought got lost on the way to my mouth.)

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