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the information economy is slowly swallowing the value of stories and entertainment and wonder and all the things that have connected us and made us human through all the time we’ve been here

#the moss by cosmo sheldrake #original post

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Some of your books make it seems like you believe in actual literal magic, do you? ()

I can write down a few words and make people thousands of miles away, whom I have never met and will never meet, laugh tears of joy and cry tears of true sorrow for people who do not exist and have never existed and never will exist. If that isn't actual literal magic I don't know what is.

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i want a shirt that has a QR code on it for some kind of horrible malware so that if anyone ever tries to film me in public their phone will automatically scan the code and be reduced to a functionless brick

#such a good idea

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This is really good news! I look forward to seeing the details and voting on it soon.

(And to the SAG-AFTRA strike being similarly and rapidly resolved.)

Edited to make it a gift link, so it should now open for everyone.

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sick of this anti-aging obsession. let's go in the opposite direction. i want more characters who are hardened & grizzled & have a face lined with the harrowing tribulations of time--and then halfway through the narrative u find out they're 27

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"cis is a slur" i'm completely fine using it that way

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everything has been done before and it was done by Megamind

#incorrect quotes #original post

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"oh but your favorite shows are going to be delayed by the strikes" my favorite shows consistently get cancelled after 2 excellent seasons bc of the exploitive corporate greed that these strikes are fighting against

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Day 49

#original post #100 days of poetry #apparently i didn't post this

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Day 50

#100 days of poetry #original post #halfway through already

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• An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

• A question mark walks into a bar?

• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."

• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

• A synonym strolls into a tavern.

• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

• A dyslexic walks into a bra.

• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony

- Jill Thomas Doyle

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Day 48

Describe the most beautiful piece of art you’ve ever seen.

My tastes are so wildly varied, I wanted to say: It’s another thing that’s impossible to decide. But then I had an idea, and I remembered.

The most beautiful art I’ve ever seen Is when I laid on a picnic blanket next to a book And looked up at the trees waving to the sky.

The most beautiful art I’ve ever seen Is when I put on tea and Chopin And rain started tapping on the windows.

The most beautiful art I’ve ever seen Is when I saw two girls holding hands in California And I smiled because they were alive.

The most beautiful art I’ve ever seen Is when my friend felt safe next to me And we cried together.

The most beautiful art I’ve ever seen Is when it was three in the morning And the only sound was the flow of my story.

The most beautiful art I’ve ever seen Is when I watched the sunset with my mom And turned Queen louder on the car radio.

The most beautiful art I’ve ever seen Is when I told my brother a bedtime story And my sisters listened in.

I’ve seen a lot of art in my short little time, But the most beautiful is when I breathe in And remember that I’m here and I’m alive.

#100 days of poetry #original post #textpost #not as long as it seems

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Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

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look we wanted vulnerable crowley and we got vulnerable crowley and we wanted hardened aziraphale and we got hardened aziraphale but not in the same effing scene

#original post #good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers

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Day 47

#100 days of poetry #original post #i'm baaaaaaack

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Hi Neil, I just finished watch season two, and apart from emotional devestation of the plot (thank you I hate you I love you), I wanted to say how emotional the sheer Pratchett-esqueness of it all made me. Obviously the easter eggs were a pleasure (CMOT Dibbler, six-inch tall angry scottish men, seamstress humour and the countless more I'm sure I'll pick up on on repeat viewing.) But the street traders meeting felt like something straight from the Discworld. Terry had such a keen eye for the beautiful humour in mundane, silly, regular people. Of course the apocalypse might happen. But people have things to say about the Christmas lights. Of course they do. I started reading the discworld books when I was 8, and the supply was so great (our library would order books in if you asked nicely and had it no limit on how many books you could borrow), I quickly became addicted. I read them all, too quickly, looking back. And then one day there weren't any more new books to read. And today, watching Good Omens s2, it was almost as though I got to revisit a new chapter. And I wanted to thank you. Because Terry's spirit is so present in season two its hard to imagine you didn't come up with it together while eating sushi.

Thank you! That put a huge smile on my face.

#good omens 2 spoilers