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Do you guys also love when you are reading something and the author just comes up with a math equation to calculate some fun bullshit. I do

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Pile o’ Jellicles

Bonus:

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this may or may not be a fantasy writing exercise for me. please reblog

#Have a vial of glowing liquid #I'll also throw in a wire so you can turn it into a pendant as a extra treat.

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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

#Books #Non-functional alarm clock #Non-functional Headphones #Random Tarot Card Deck #Necklace #Mask #A small wooden box that contains nothing inside it #And a bunch of random papers.

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#Okay I checked #Apparently the last character in my gallery is Tecklenburg Macavity #Honestly going to say not in jail #Mostly because one of the things Macavity is well known for is evading the cops/the justice system #So less of a legally gets me out of it #And more of a does a crime to get me out of it and then is never caught

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#Wait those exist?

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Honestly a more honest critique would be that it's not Plot-driven. Cats has a plot, but it's not the reason you stick around till the end for most people, it's the characters, the music, the dancing, and just the overall vibes.

But even then I wouldn't call it a critique because Cats wasn't trying to be Plot-driven, and found an appeal outside of the pure "What will happen next?" Curiosity to keep people engaged. It's just a personal preference, Cats not being focused on a plot is something some people can get behind, and others can't.

How do people watch Cats (the musical not the movie) and go "there's no plot!!!!"

???

Did you fucking close your eyes whenever she was on stage?

#cats the musical

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I also love how sometimes you listen to a Tugger sing his own song and you're like 'hm sounds kind of like he's saving his voice' and then later on he just goes completely apeshit for Misto's song. just absolutely showing the fuck off

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#I put "weird problem with push-ups specifically #Even though that's not quite it #It's somewhere in between weird problem with push-ups and just haven't been working out #Because I have been exercising but just not anything related to helping me do pushups it's all cardio

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I'm laughing a bit because I'm going through the mental disorders chapter, and I reached the section on Autism and there's this one sentence which is essentially: We don't quite yet know what causes Autism, but it's certainly not Vaccines.

Okay the actual quote is "Although the causes of ASD are not yet fully understood, a great deal io research has provided no evidence that ASD is caused by vaccinations." and I kinda find it funny, though depressing, that had to specify that it's not vaccines.

How is everyone doing. I'm just doing some studying and note-taking for my Psychology Text this coming Tuesday, luckily it's open-note, however my notes need to be quite extensive as I realized on our first exam when the teacher decided to have one of the questions should be "Which of these 4 drugs would Animals Not Self-Administer," and I'm not going to be caught up by another one of those bullshit questions.

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How is everyone doing. I'm just doing some studying and note-taking for my Psychology Text this coming Tuesday, luckily it's open-note, however my notes need to be quite extensive as I realized on our first exam when the teacher decided to have one of the questions should be "Which of these 4 drugs would Animals Not Self-Administer," and I'm not going to be caught up by another one of those bullshit questions.

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I'm just going to go on a rant right now for no clear reason.

I really hate it when people look down on stories for having Villains of the Non-morally complex type. Because Hot Take, some stories are best when the Villain has a simple moral structure, or is just an unapologetic evil bastard.

For one not all stories need to be in-depth discussions of the meaning of the human condition, some stories can just be mindless fun, and a simple Villain/Antagonist can absolutely work for that.

But also morally complex villains necessarily make your story more complicated and demand a lot more attention in the narrative, as in order to pull off a morally complex villain you need to ensure the reader understands their motivations and morality, and not all stories have the space for that. It's possible for a story to be too complex, and by making your villain simple that frees up space to dedicate to other things.

Take Lord of The Rings, Sauron in many ways is a simple Pure-Evil Villain, at least during the main story, he does horrible shit and causes immense suffering because that's just what he does. Now imagine LOTR if Sauron was a more complex villain and Tolkien spent a bunch of time diving in-depth as to why he does what he does and how he morally justifies his actions, it'd quickly gum up the narrative, so the story is served better rendering him as a more simple villain so Tolkien could focus the narrative on other themes.

Additionally sometimes simpler Villains/Antagonists serve the purpose of communicating themes better.

I'll use Les Mis as an example of this. One of the main things Victor Hugo tackles in Les Mis is the relationship between the Law and Justice/Morality. In order to make this easier to understand, he writes the Antagonist Javert as a strict legalist Police Inspector whose moral code can be simply described as "The Law is always right, no matter the circumstance" and who never strays in his behavior from what the Law expects of him (at least until the end), this means that in the narrative Javert is depersonalized and instead of being a character in his own right, serves as the personification of the Legal System, his actions are not his own, they are the actions of the Legal System. This means that when Javert does something Unjust, Immoral, or generally harmful the negative consequences of his actions cannot just be assigned to him, but to the system as a whole.

Victor Hugo critiques the Legal System by literally just having a character with power and authority who does precisely what the Legal System expects of him at every turn cause a bunch of harm through his actions. And it works.

If Javert was more individualized and had a more complex moral system that sometimes caused him to stray from the Legalist Route then the consequences of his actions could be attributed to the results of letting a Rogue Cop stray from what he was supposed to do, instead of the system as a whole; making the critiques Victor Hugo has of the system less obvious.

#random ass thoughts #les mis #les miserablés #lord of the rings #lotr

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Listen I still occasionally hear the line as "The Rum Tum Tugger, he's often a Bully," so I don't know what's up with my ears.

I originally thought the lyric "The Rum Tum Tugger is artful and knowing" was "The Rum Tum Tugger is awful annoying" I thought everyone took a brief moment to roast him and I didn't even question it

#cats the musical #rum tum tugger

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Don't you love it when you're doing a test and you're pretty confident so you turn in your work early and then immediately realize you made a really stupid and easily avoidable mistake right after you turn it in.

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Have you ever fainted?

Yes, triggered by seeing something (e.g. blood)*

Yes, triggered by something else

Yes, triggered by nothing

No, never

*dunno if I'm explaining this one right? like my mum faints when she sees blood. stuff like that.*

*dunno if I'm explaining this one right? like my mum faints when she sees blood. stuff like that.*

I understand Anon. I'm not the biggest fan of needles though I don't faint when I see them I do get very uncomfortable and weak - H :)

#Does a momentary blackout due to soccer ball to the face syndrome count? If so that.

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You know what would be hilarious if javert was mackavty owner and everytime mackavty commits a crime javert Gist blames valjean.

#Op did you read my mind? #cats the musical #les miserablés #macavity #javert