jenatwork

Lead characters never wear glasses. Unless they're an academic-type or a social outcast.

Katsuki Yuuri from 'Yuri On Ice!!!' Deals with some major anxiety and mental ill health but works through it to become one of the world's top figure skaters. Unafraid to push gender boundaries in his routine, sassy as heck, looks adorable in glasses and ends up dating his childhood… Read More

'Cursed', a Japanese film about a haunted convenience store. The premise sounds daft - if your total at the till comes to 666 Yen, you're cursed, and one of the spirits haunting the store follows you home. But the spirits themselves are so bizarre - a bandaged ghost drags a sledgehammer… Read More

This is actually bringing back a lot of bad birthday memories. The same grandmother has also gifted me a waistcoat that was far too small ("I thought you could slim into it"), a leather bag when I'd been vegetarian for about a year, and a workout video when I was 9 (it took me a few… Read More

My grandmother's never been especially good at presents and has been known to re-gift things to us we've given to her. When I was about 11, there was a special offer on a certain brand of crisp packets to save up tokens and send them in to get a badge. If you're thinking she gave… Read More

I also had a male customer at work spend a solid five minutes telling me (the shop manager) the best way to organise goods on the shop floor. After patiently nodding along to his explanation, I calmly pointed out that the system he'd described was exactly the system we were using.… Read More

Once my dad asked me to help him find his "tool for making holes in wood to put screws in". I asked, "do you mean a bradawl?" Now, whenever he over-simplifies explanations or descriptions of things, we always ask if it's "anything like a tool for making holes in wood".

Is one of the results "Because you spend all your time reading Buzzfeed instead of going out and meeting people"?