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Okay, you need to make sure you play this game at some point. Maybe not today or anything, because you’ll need about thirty minutes and a serious willingness to understand how it works, but - it’s so worth it. It’s basically an answer to our occasional frustration - why do assholes always come out on top? - and the beautiful thing about it is that not only does it explain how that happens, but also how we can change it.

“In the short run, the game defines the players. But in the long run, it’s us players who define the game.”

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Hello everyone! I have begun writing a new story! I'm hoping if I have readers, I will be more motivated to finish!

Isabelle Burns is 21 years old, studying education in college. She's a gigantic nerd. Isabelle loves tv shows, movies, books, and anime! Her favorite thing in the world to do in her free time, however, are otome games. She'd always imagined herself as the heroine of one. Unfortunately for her, that wish came true after she gets hit by a bus on her college campus!

Read I Get Isekai'd Into an Otome Game on Wattpad now!

#otome #otome game #otome game story #writing #fantasy #ya #new adult #this story is so comedic guys #i have funny chapter titles and everything #please read #and add comments

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Watching Demon Slayer season three, the swordsmith village arc. Muichiro with his memories back is a SARCASTIC LITTLE SHIT AND I LOVE HIM

#demon slayer #demon slayer spoilers #demon slayer anime #muichiro tokito #muichiro is baby #he's only 14 #he's a CHILD #he's so young he makes me want to wrap him up in a blanket and put him in a corner #why are you fighting you baby #go sit in a corner #seriously tho #he's such a tiny sarcastic little shit #fighting Upper Five like: uh huh okay you dung beetle

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Me: *chooses Kuroyuki's route in Nightshade cause he seems sweet and fun and dorky*

Kuroyuki's route: *proceeds to get more and more fucked up*

Me: . . .dude you need therapy.

#otome game #nightshade #nightshade otome #nintendo switch #nintendo switch otome games #like honestly #wtf #kuroyuki WHAT THE FUCK #his route shook me #i was like ooh he's so sweet and dorky! #he was NOT #favorite route is hattori hanzo tho #my kuudere ninja is darling

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Okay so I'm going through a rewatch of Fairy Tail and all these dark guilds and cults trying to "revive" Zeref. . .like don't you know my boi Zeref is out there alive and well, just chilling on Tenrou Island

#fairy tail #anime #fairy tail spoilers #zeref dragneel #fairy tail zeref #dark wizard zeref #the title dark wizard #is such a lie #dude is a sympathetic lil boi #he's a baby #zeref would walk away from those cults

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So I got a cat. Her name is Chai. When she is hungry, she is the most affectionate cat in the entire world, in order to tell me she's starving.

#black kitty #black cat #darling kitty #mother i hunger #why do you starve me mother #please feed me #she gets two meals a day i do not starve this cat #she's being dramatic #i love this cat #but she won't let me poop in peace in the morning

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"Push" by Matchbox Twenty plays

GodDAMNIT BARBIE

#barbie #barbie movie #barbie soundtrack #i love this song #but barbie ruined it #that movie was fantastic #but push now makes me die laughing every time I hear it

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After watching episode 5 of PJO, I have one big question: WHY WAS PERCY WET?

#pjo tv spoilers #pjo #pjo tv adaptation #pjo tv show #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo spoilers #okay so I have many thoughts on episode 105 #my first major question is really why is Percy wet he should be dry #did anyone else love watching Annabeth be the one to watch the Fates cut the string #especially cause she's closer to luke than anyone else #where were the spiders #justice for the metal spiders #honestly it would've been pretty fun to watch Percy have to be level-headed while Annabeth was catatonic with fear over Hephaestus' spiders #did anyone else love watching Grover flatter Ares into giving stuff up #also #why is Grover 24 #he's 28

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New PJO Watchers: Awe yay, Luke won't be the traitor!

PJO Readers: *taking a long drag from cigarette* Oh, honey.

#percy jackson and the olympians #pjo spoilers #pjo text post #pjo series #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv spoilers #pjo tv adaptation #honestly #luke will hurt you in ways you never expected #i saw someone said annabeth will be the traitor #i got news for you #in five books they will kiss #annabeth and percy will do anything for each other #poor luke #will lin manuel miranda know about his son

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making a character in thirty questions but it becomes increasingly more personal

what is their name?

do they have a nickname?

do they have other names?

what is their age?

what is their eye colour?

hair colour?

what languages can they speak?

what is their favourite food?

least favourite?

who is someone they would die for?

who is someone they would kill?

do they have any family members?

did they go to school?

what was /would be their favourite class?

who was their childhood friend?

what is their clothing size?

shoe size?

height?

gender orientation?

sexual orientation?

do they have a sworn enemy?

do they have any tattoos?

have they ever smoked?

what is their mental state?

what is their darkest secret?

who is their sacred confidant?

what is a lie they tell everyone?

what is one lie they know is not true but continue to believe?

if they were under different circumstances would they stray from their storyline?

what makes them hurt?

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Did anyone else notice that Marc and Steven are in the afterlife? Like, they're pretty obviously in the House of Rest. Tawaret showing up at the end of the episode just confirmed it.

I figured it out almost the MOMENT Marc woke up, "What, are they in some kind of Egyptian afterlife care home-OH WAIT THEY ARE"-literally me watching episode 4.

#moon knight #marvel cinematic universe #marvel #house of rest #egyptian mythology #egyptian afterlife #the duat #like seriously #i thank kane chronicles for my obscure knowledge in Egyptian mythology

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Harry Potter Survey

Hi everyone! I’ve created a survey that covers opinions on Harry Potter before and after J.K. Rowling revealed her true colors as a tremendous transphobe. I would love it if people could fill it out. It’s completely anonymous and the results will be used to examine how feelings on gender, stereotypes, and Harry Potter have advanced in recent years.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VpqUumfp_ly4xA8JgcTD_TjBLXnFofqW2NO6SGkzIPI/edit

#Harry Potter #survey #sociology #harry potter survey #sociological survey #sociological study

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I'm running a program where if you are an LGBTQ+ person in need of gender-affirming items (binders, breast forms, etc.) or pride flags but cannot afford or safely purchase it on your own, I will purchase it for you completely free! I will be able to start fulfilling requests immediately due to a grant I received from another organization. Check out my insta @euphoriafund for more info and a link to the website!

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So apparently, over the summer, Quibi (the shortest-lasting streaming service ever lmao) did a quarantine project called “Home Movie: The Princess Bride” where a bunch of celebrities recreated The Princess Bride in tiny chunks at home.

And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.

So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:

Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:

And it’s all just delightful.

But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.

As Prince Fucking Humperdink.

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“Why do people like a character who’s committed war crimes but hate this other character just because they’re annoying” because it’s fiction Susan, and being annoying in fiction is a greater sin than being a supervillain, because it won’t make me want to read about them. It isn’t difficult to understand

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THE MISCONCEPTION ABOUT COMMENTING ON FIC

I’ve read all kinds of posts both from writers and readers lamenting about comments on fic. Authors are upset when they don’t get any, readers don’t know what kinds of comments to leave, etc. And it finally clicked in my brain why I think a lot of people don’t bother writing comments. 

And this is what it boils down to:

Writers do not want praise.  We just want to talk about our story. 

I can’t speak for everyone obviously - but I think the majority of writers don’t care so much for the “omg you’re a brilliant writer!!” comments as much as we just want to hear your thoughts on the story. Even if it’s just your thoughts as you’re reading of “oooh x happened! I can’t believe y said this! What’s going to happen now that z has happened?!” We literally just want to talk about what we’ve written like you would with a friend about a tv show. We’re not out here demanding praise like some entitled narcissist. 

While praising our writing skills or writing style is appreciated, it doesn’t need to be said on every fic and every chapter that you read. If you regularly comment on someone’s work that’s telling enough that you like our technique. Readers shouldn’t feel pressured to have to praise a writer’s abilities every time they want to comment. 

In the grand scheme of things, talking about the fic/chapter is actually more helpful to us writers instead of spewing praise. It’s the same with artwork. As nice as it is that people tell me “wow your art is so pretty!” it’s a LOT more useful to me to get comments like “I love their expressions!” or “the lighting on this is gorgeous!” because then I know WHAT people are liking about it. If no one ever comments on my backgrounds, I now know what to improve. If most people comment on liking the expressions, I now know the strong points of my art and can use it to my advantage to make even better art in the future. 

The same goes for fic. If multiple people tell me they liked a certain part of the story I now know that things similar to that are a hit. It’s feedback I can use to improve the story and give my readers more of what they want. Without that I have no idea what they like about the fic.

Talking with a writer about their story also gives them inspiration!! Nothing gets us more in the mood to work on a fic than to have people wanting to talk about it. A lot of times just talking about one of my fics with someone will give me that push to continue working on it. Getting a comment that just says “great chapter” or “you’re a great writer” doesn’t do much to motivate us to continue that particular fic. But if you talk about the story and the characters it gives us motivation to continue working on it, may even give us ideas for future chapters. I would hope that those of you with “comment anxiety” find this approach so much easier than trying to praise the writer every time you read.

So that fic the author hasn’t updated in forever that you’re dying to read? Talk to them about the fic and the elements of the story! It will make the writer want to talk to you about it and will get their mind thinking about it, hopefully inspiring them to continue where they left off. Fics that are left in silence are more likely to be abandoned or even deleted because nothing feels worse than putting your heart into a story to have no one say anything about it. 

TLDR; Writers do not want praise, we just want to talk with our readers about the story itself, and these are the kinds of comments that inspire us to keep writing more. 

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No author is entitled to comments, to interaction, to reblogs or likes or reviews or anything, but in a community where you’re essentially a bunch of indie writers, that’s the lifeblood that keeps people *posting*. Writing doesn’t necessarily stop, but when someone feels like no one gives a shit whether you’re sharing or not, you quit sharing.