" ... a key tool in [xxx]'s quiver is ...'"

I don't think tools are in quivers

#mixedmetaphor

Night before last I wrote a little one-page piece on problem chaining (one of my long-standing hobby horses/dead horses/dead-hobby horses) and now my head is all #AdventureDesign all the time tonight 😅

#TTRPG #MixedMetaphor

2/2 But I'm actually even more inconsiderate than that.

I want to take all the boxes away! Those boxes mean that cis people don't have to do the work and can go on pretending that they live in a world they understand.

I want cis people to take on the discomfort of being uncertain of another person's gender identity and just LIVE with that uncertainty Permanently. There's no reason you need to know my gender identity in most meetings and social events.

(OK, don your eye protection because I'm about to take off my normal-person mask. The harsh light of autistic lack-of-theory-of-mind blasts out whenever I do that, and it makes people uncomfortable.)

We're none of us cis. When it comes to gender, we're all floating in a confusing sea of what-the-fuck, and our gender identities are just flotsam we're holding on to to keep us afloat.

That's OK. It's better to float than to drown. Or you can surf! Or scuba dive...

#MixedMetaphor #ActuallyAutistic #Nonbinary #trans

OH: We're not out of the woodwork yet.
#MixedMetaphor

"The ship is leaving the station."

#QuoteOutOfContext #MixedMetaphor

"That train has sailed."

#QuoteOutOfContext #MixedMetaphor

Stubborn rock, bound to
Sisyphus in immortal
Struggle, love's labor's lost.

@dailyhaikuprompt

#DailyHaikuPrompt #rock #haiku #micropoetry #literary #allusion #mixedmetaphor #shakespeare #greekmythology #greek #mythology #575prompt #poetry #poem #writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity
#writing #community #writinglife #writerslife #writersofmastodon #writer #poetsofmastodon #poet #authorsofmastodon #author

You can bring a dead gift horse of a different color to water under a burned bridge, but you can't look him in the mouth while he drinks.

#MixedMetaphor

Vulcan in the streets, Illithid in the sheets.

#MixedMetaphor

Example I read of a writer (and their editor) being clueless about using language:

> The chemistry between the two actors is seismic.

😆

Mentioned to a friend who replied "The geology between the two actors is acidic."

#mixedmetaphor

(If it were a FLO context, I'd submit a fix; real paradigm-shift to see problems and *fix* them rather than being limited to laughing, complaining, or ignoring)