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me in planning stages of writing: this fucks. this is gonna be so fun.

me the minute i sit down to write: language is an unwieldy cudgel we use to beat the human experience to death in an attempt at ever communicating fully with another being. i wish intelligent life had never evolved. i want to go back to the cell stage like in spore

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I don't know how many times we have to say this before people start to listen

You do not get to kill someone just because you think their life isn't worth living

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talking to certain trans people is so sad sometimes, it's almost like talking to an addict. all they care about is the next hrt shot, or the next surgery, or how they look or how they present, and they don't care at all how they're affecting other people in their life, and how they're hurting them.

i've heard multiple trans-identified females say that their parents told them "you killed my daughter." and it's heart-wrenching, and I used to really feel for this woman. but now, I can't help but feel for the parents. Imagine having a daughter who's perfectly normal until her life is overtaken by heroin. Imagine having a daughter who was fine until she joined a new religious group that turned out to be a cult, and now she's not the same anymore and has been completely brainwashed and there's nothing you can do or say to snap her out of it. Imagine begging her to get help but she's so deep in the addiction that she can't.

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In 1929 the price of a troy ounce of gold was $20. There are 32.15 ozt per 1kg bar, so that equals $6,430 for 10kg of gold.

Today an ounce of gold is $2,344.90 per troy ounce. That equals $753,885.35 for 10kg of gold.

The average home price in the USA in 1929 was $4,902. So 10kg of gold would have gotten you nice size home.

The average home price in the USA today is $412,095. So 10kg of gold would get you a nice size home today as well.

Its not that gold has gone up in value, its that the dollar has lost 99.14% of its purchasing power since 1929 due to the printing and expansion of the currency supply.

Property values didn't go up by 840.67%, the dollar lost that much purchasing power 95 years.

~Citizens for Sound Money 💰

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People quit sexualizing catholicism please. Quit sexualizing nuns please. Quit sexualizing priests, please. Quit, and I can’t even believe I have to say this, sexualizing the mother of God, please.

It’s disgusting. You do not have to like this religion, but please, stop sexualizing it. ESPECIALLY our Sisters and Fathers, both of which practice and are a shining example of modesty and chastity.

I should not have to say this.

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“the problem is its never gonna be what all the fans want” imo the problem is the majority of fans have bad fucking taste like. if you write a story with the intent to keep editing it in line with what fans want you’re gonna end up with a shitty story. obviously you can take in criticism from early access but once you publish the thing you shouldn’t constantly be retconning characterization wtf. good god

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Pretending that the porn consumption epidemic only involves male consoomers is dumb

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some body once told me the rick was gonna roll me

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occasional posts from users

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i love wikipedia and i think it is good and right to give them money but all their funding drive messages are “well… we’ll be killing ourselves tonight. we asked so little of you and yet it seems that simply nobody cares about lil ol wikipedia anymore….sad…”

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Bruh I didn't have my own room until I was like 12. And it was half the size of the one pictured lol

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I mean do you really think. Do you really think a religion is going to survive two thousand years, multiple schisms, oppression, misuse, corruption, and still be followed by many, many people globally. Without being able to answer such basic questions as "why do bad things happen" and "what's the point of existence."

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I mean if we're really getting into it, most problems with people creating stories to critique Christianity boil down to either a. They do absolutely zero research and think "why do bad things happen" is unanswerable for anyone who believes in a fundamentally good deity, b. They assume that the religious beliefs of two churches in Missouri run by an abusive pastor are the religious beliefs of 3 billion people, or c. They're actually critiquing cultural systems which utilize Christianity to uphold oppression (good! Critique that!) but they conflate that with the religion itself which often leads back to the first two points, meaning they make factually incorrect statements about actual religious teachings and approach faith as inherently evil (wrong! Read the Book!)

I do believe you can write a story critiquing faith or religious systems or religion and do it well but unfortunately 90% of the time this is how people do it. Which is poorly done and useless.

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*through sweat, blood, and tears* YOU WILL NOT EDIT THE FIRST DRAFT AS YOU GO. YOU WILL NOT EDIT THE FIRST DRAFT AS YOU GO. YOU WILL NOT EDIT THE FIRST DRAFT. AS YOU GO.

YOU. WILL. NOT. EDIT. THAT. FIRST. DRAFT.