#I would like a word with the editor

[ratuszarsenal]

so there's this thing which I've dubbed academic fiction, where I write a long, precise academic paper, confirming to your citation model of choice and everything, except every single thing in there is made up. anyway if I made a zine that was a pretend-academic journal full of only that would anyone be interested in reading it

#sorry if this is insane I'll delete the post in the morning but I need to know if anyone has seen anything like this before #I also do fake wikipedia articles. in microsoft word don't worry #I take my responsibilities as a wikipedia editor extremely seriously I would never actually lie on there #echo

[radioactive-earthshine]

NGL I have STRONG opinions about digital releases omitting the letters to the editor section of older comics. I feel like the letters are a part of comic history and should be aggressively preserved.

#look i was a weirdo and loved the letters so much #so much #so fucking damn much #i still to this day mourn that we don't have them #sometimes the editors would publish blatant aggressive criticism and promise to do better on some things #it was rare but it did happen in a handful of things involving stereotypes #also there is queer history in them such as in superboy and the ravers where people wrote in about hero #asking WHY he was not interested in women and this editor had to so professionally explain that he was GAY and where they stood on it #you also got to read queer readers writing in about these queer characters and the JOY in their words is priceless #also sorry but geoff's letters are fun and stupid at the same time and are a huge insight to what his hcs were #he LOVED tiny krypto so much it likely inspired him making dex starr bc he loved the idea of a small overly powered animal #not saying that was the main reason why ofc but it is interesting that he created dex after praising that mean little mutt #i say with the most love #my venting #my rambles

[dallonwrites]

actually making my tags from my last post into their own post. writers who struggle with grammar, spelling, typos, errors etc i love you. writers who struggle with rereading their stuff thoroughly no matter how much they try, who don't always have access to other people to help them read i love you. whilst reading through and checking for these things is good practice i really believe that the weight of it should not be put wholly on the writer's shoulders. especially writers who are neurodivergent, disabled, have any condition that can impede their reading + comprehension, are overworked and overtired, are not writing in their native language, list goes on....because grammar mistakes/language mistakes/typos have nothing to do with your abilities as a creative. this is where editors should be uplifting writers, helping them, not scrutinising them for something they cannot always control

#and in case anyone is going to say it...like i said in my tags i get that it can be frustrating #if it feels like a piece has NOT been reread or checked for these things at all #but even then its like...do you know the writers context? their background? #does the story itself still hold up strong creatively? #im just saying some leniency and grace goes far and esp in the short story/litmag scene i think #an editor who is considerate and inclusive should not use those things against a piece's worth #for me its like....1) the word spelling and grammar check is really confusing to work with sometimes #and also just. straight up does not work sometimes #and 2) no matter how much i reread and check for spelling and grammar i will forget a word. i will misuse a word. i will forget things #a bitch is forgetful! a bitch struggles with rereading their pieces and i do what i can to help that #but i need help and grace from the editors who wish to work with me! #i remember one time i wrote vacancy as vanacy in an excerpt in a writing update #literally passed me by and i was so humiliated?? nobody even pointed it out #but i assumed people were going to think of me less that i would make a simple mistake #its just...v hard and daunting being open with your writing sometimes lol lets all be kind to each other

[sexynetra]

i hope it isn't rude to ask (i just really love your work) but would we be getting a rawnsyf chapter 8

Not rude at all!! I am slowly plugging away at chapter 8 it will absolutely be coming I refuse to abandon a work fully 😂

#we’re like 2.5k words in #but I refuse to send it to my editor until the first draft of the chapter is completed #but hopefully I will get some rawnsyf out to y’all soon <33333 #also thank you for supporting me 🥺 #I still kind of can’t believe that other people read my work #I never thought it would leave me and the 3 friends I begged to read it #and here we are!!! #ask #asks #anon #rawnsyf #running away will never set you free #also these little screenshots make me laugh #like see what info you can glean from the first word or two of each line #it’s like an I spy game

[dravidious]

Typing Tips That I Stumbled Upon Randomly:

The Ctrl key lets you jump between words really quickly. If you hold Ctrl and press the left or right arrow keys, instead of moving your cursor 1 character you'll move it a whole word; if you want to edit that word that's 3 words back, you can just hold Ctrl and left-left-left, and you're there.

Even more useful in my opinion, if you hold Ctrl and press Backspace you'll delete the entire word you're on. That's just really nifty because a lot of the time when you're deleting you want to delete the whole word, so this is much faster.

Also, idk how well-known this is but holding Shift and moving your cursor will make you highlight any characters you move over. That's useful on its own, but combining that with Ctrl lets you quickly highlight whole words or sentences, so you can easily copy+paste them. You can also hold Shift to edit any selections you made with your mouse or something.

Also it took me too long to realize that the Home and End keys are actually really nice sometimes. Home takes you to the start of the line you're on, and End takes you to the end. Hold Shift while doing that and you can highlight the whole line. Very nice for programming. Also holding Ctrl and pressing Home or End takes you to the top or bottom of the page, but I barely use that.

A similarly useful key that I also overlooked is the Delete key. It's like the Backspace key, but it deletes the character in front of your cursor instead of behind it. Just like with Backspace Ctrl+Delete lets you delete a whole word in front of your cursor.

Also Ctrl+A lets you highlight the whole page.

Also even when you're not typing and instead just browsing a web page or something, you still technically have a cursor; if you click a piece of text, then hold Shift and press the arrow keys, you'll start highlighting text.

Practice Exercise: Click on the t in this word, then hold Shift and press left and right on the arrow keys! Now try holding Ctrl+Shift while you press the arrow keys! Hold Shift and press Home or End! Hold Shift and use your mouse to left-click on different spots in the paragraph and see how your selection changes!

#original #i had to use microsoft excel for the first time today and it SUCKED i had NO IDEA how to do ANYTHING #and i though “this is probably so much easier if you know the keyboard shortcuts” #and then i realized how much Secret Knowledge i have that make typing and stuff way easier #so i figured it would be nice to make sure my followers can also make typing faster and easier #also i wrote the practice exercise before realizing that most people use tumblr mobile lol #also there's some weird details that i didn't include #ctrl+backspace only deletes the part of the word that's behind the cursor #so if you're in the middle of a word it will only delete part of it #also ctrl+arrow keys sometimes doesn't skip a whole word #like with apostrophes like in “you're” sometimes it will stop at the apostrophe #depends on the text editor you're using #like on my favorite text app Notepad ctrl+arrows will always move past the whole word without stopping #except it DOES stop at hyphens like “ha-ha” but idk whether hyphenated words are technically separate words #oh FUCK yeah i spelled separate correctly without even slowing down or thinking about it! i'm learning! #it'd be really funny if all this stuff is just common knowledge and i posted the equivalent of “dark souls tip: attacks deal damage”

[brutal-nemesis]

YWDaC: Maybe It’s Not So Fun After All

Hiii here is part 2 of pirate shenanigans I’ll probably do one more to finish this out but it probably won’t be for a while cuz I have some other stuff I wanna work on so enjoy for now ✨

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Ingredients: pirate battle, wood splinters in a guy, stitches

The next few weeks were truly a learning experience, and also just an experience. Castys learned far more than he ever thought there was to know about ropes and knots and wind and how to clean things, all while his back slowly hurt less and less. He hadn’t even been whipped that much, but it was still super unfun as an experience, enough to motivate him to be a good little pirate. Well, more like a sailor, they hadn’t done any pirate activities since he was so kindly given a spot on the crew.

And of course when battle did come, he wished he could go right back to the peaceful days of hard labor and yelling.

Kamon had been teaching him to use a sword during their free time, since Castys’s spear wasn’t well suited for combat aboard a crowded ship, but before he even got a chance to use it, the ships had to fire their cannons at each other a bunch. It was loud, somehow way louder than he’d been expecting, and his arms burned from carrying ammunition up from the hold. By the time the fun part started, he was already gonna be exhausted, just great.

His new orders were to take supplies up to the main deck, and he was somehow surprised that there was even more chaos and yelling up here than down below. They were getting pretty close to the other ship now, and it was probably almost time to board them and steal all their shit, which he was actually excited for. Mainly the stealing part.

Just as he set the crate down, there was a loud crack next to him, and his body lit up with all these sharp little pains, like…he looked down, and he was indeed covered in splinters. They were a wonderful variety of sizes, from tiny little ones that weren’t even making him bleed to ones that were as long as his hand, but the worst one had poked completely through his fucking cheek, filling his mouth with the taste of wood and blood, which was a weird combination. Ears ringing, he stumbled away from the destroyed railing, and was just about to start pulling the splinters out before he remembered the medic’s stern warning to not pull splinters out yourself. So he had a cheek piercing for now, hooray.

Before he’d made it back belowdecks, Captain Izogie called for everyone to get ready to board, so nevermind to hauling stuff. Castys pulled out the sword he’d been given, the weight still feeling a little unnatural, but it was all he was gonna get. He saw some dudes climbing up the rigging and swinging over on ropes, but he’d rather just wait and walk over on the plank like a normal person. Was boarding another ship a normal person thing? Okay, really, swinging looked fun, but he didn’t feel like climbing when he was full of holes that were full of wood. Also he didn’t trust himself to land without breaking something.

And then it was his turn to cross the plank, running so he didn’t have time to look down and think about falling into the cold ocean, jumping down into the chaos of the fight, trying his best to weave through the clashing metal and warm spurts of blood, and suddenly he was face-to-face with someone, someone he didn’t recognize, and he raised his sword, but just as he was about to swing he remembered that he’d never fought another human, not for real, and he couldn’t help but hesitate, and they didn’t, they swung, he only jumped back at the last second, it was them or him, he had to fight, remember what he’d learned, remember what it felt like to slice through flesh and hear screams, and it was more familiar once he did it, coming back to him now, his grip steady as he jumped over the body and moved on, belowdecks, rummaging around for valuables, helping his crewmates pry crates open and carry them back to the ship, the wood almost slipping out of his hands, when did they get slick with blood, he wasn’t sure, it was all a haze of back and forth, up and down, fight and slash and stab and dodge and search and carry and he almost walked back across the plank onto the now-sinking ship, all of its contents plundered, all of its crew dead. 

The fight was over, and everything hurt. 

With shaky hands, he tried to put his sword back in its scabbard, but someone stopped him. “Clean your blade, newbie. And then go see the doc. You look like shit.” Castys nodded, wiping the blood from his sword with his shirt before sheathing it and stumbling belowdecks. Maybe he’d get less of a share of the treasure this way, but at the moment he didn’t care. He just wanted the damn splinters out. And the gash in his arm probably needed stitches, which were always his favorite. 

He found Alfyn’s quarters without much trouble, having been there before after he’d been flogged on his first day. The healer was busy tending to people with more pressing wounds, so Castys just sat on the floor and watched. Alfyn’s healing magic was so strange to watch, the way he could just hold his hands out and make flesh rejoin the other flesh super unfamiliar to Castys. Neither of them could use magic back on the islands, so the whole concept was sorta new to him, especially this weird healing stuff. His fingers teased with the splinter through his cheek, wiggling it against his tongue. It would be kinda funny to pull it out and then try to squirt water out of the hole in his cheek, but that would require pulling it out and then finding water and also someone who would think he was funny, which sounded like a lot, so he settled for fucking with it and waiting for Alfyn.

By the time he got to him, Alfyn’s nose was plugged with a rag that was either completely soaked in blood or just red, but maybe it was red because it had been soaked in blood before. He looked Castys up and down, and Castys showed off his arm gash since it was very painful. Alfyn nodded, beckoning Castys to stand. “Nothing you’ve got’s pressing enough to use my magic on, but I’ll still get you fixed up. You’re…Castys, right?”

“That’s my name.” Castys sat on the little table, the spots of blood on it soaking into his pants, which kind of sucked, but what wasn’t dirty on this ship, anyway? “So why can’t I take out the splinters myself?”

Alfyn laughed a little, coming back over with tweezers and a metal bucket that had a bunch of other splinters in it. “I don’t trust you lot to get them out completely. If you do it wrong, little bits can get left behind.” He then started pulling out Castys’s splinters the right way, which seemed to be to do it slow and to use tweezers, but Castys could be wrong since he was a little distracted by all of his little wounds hurting all over again. Alfyn did the one in his cheek last, and once it was out Castys poked at the hole left behind with his tongue despite the pain, which got a sigh out of Alfyn instead of a laugh.

“Please don’t make the wound worse, Castys.”

“Sorry.” He was then a very still and patient and well-behaved boy while Alfyn cleaned all of his wounds, arm gash included. Whatever liquid Alfyn was pouring on everything stung a lot, but he sat still so he didn’t make things more difficult for Alfyn, who looked really damn tired now that Castys was paying attention.

“Alright, your arm and cheek are going to need stitches, so please keep holding still like you’ve been doing.”

“They used to call me statue boy.” Kind of funny considering the time he almost did get turned into a statue, but that was a joke for just him. He clenched his fists and Alfyn approached with the needle and thread. He’d been through this more than once, he’d be fine, it was all things he’d felt before. The sensation of the needle poking into his skin, the tug of thread following behind, the hand on his chin…

“Hold still.”

“I’m trying, but it’s hard not to laugh at the faces you’re making.”

“I’m trying to focus here, Castys, come on. You don’t want this to be a super nasty scar, do you?”

“Uh…I don’t really care. As long as I can still eat food and stuff what does it matter? I don’t see anyone else besides you, and I don’t think you care either.”

“I-I don’t, but…maybe there will be other people, someday?”

“Even then, whatever. If they’re scared off by a scar on my face they’re probably losers, anyway.”

“So you’ll fit right in, then!”

“And yet you still hang out with me all of the time.”

“Yeah, ‘cause there’s literally no one else, dumbass. It’s not like I have options.”

“Sucks to suck. I’m…I’m okay with just you, though.”

“...Me too, Castys. But that might change if you don’t sit still.”

His scars hurting more than his actual wounds was stupid, but it was certainly happening. He left Alfyn’s quarters in sort of a daze, trying to bury everything the stitches had brought to the surface. Focus on anything and everything else, on the awful food, on talking with Kamon, on getting more respect from the other crewmates, on drinking stolen ale, on the share of the treasure he was promised once they reached land.

But that night, lying awake in his hammock as the crew snored around him, his scars still hurting, the pain cutting through the warm haze of the alcohol, he didn’t feel any less alone.

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#i wrote something #castys #pirate whump #stitches #splinters #HAHAHA USING LEGACY EDITOR SINCE I SAVED A FEW BLANK POSTS TO MY DRAFTS #i wish i saved more but oh well #bit shorter of a thing it's less than 2k words wow #i just didnt have anything else i wanted to do with this one idk once again i feel like there's not much but also i know all the lore #i dont think ill be able to keelhaul him tho 😔 he's being a very well-behaved boy since he's so young so he doesnt have any reason to be #he's not used to pain like normal so he's scared of getting whipped again and that's enough to keep him in like #most people make random ocs and get attached to them #i make random ocs and end up using less than i planned on #but it is what it is (￣_￣;) #now im gonna work on goretober bits and maybe the next E&T chapter cuz it would be cool if i could finish that by halloween #i can write i just have to force myself to do it really i just want to game and watch anime in my free time #but i dont want that to be the case i would like to Make Something #oh and sorry the fight was like a paragraph/sentence it just wasnt working any other way so sorry if it's underwhelming or something idk

[benisasoftboi]

Genuinely how DARE YouTube recommend this to me. Yes, this is surely a true statement of many viewers, no disrespect at all to the video's creator, but FULL disrespect to the algorithm for suggesting that I lack knowledge of semi-obscure Rainbow Magic trivia. Who do you think I am? Some common nostalgic twenty-something? False! Falsehood and slander! Genuinely concerning levels of Rainbow Magic knowledge that I have to hide when I speak to actual children about it for fear of freaking out their parents is all I have! Please don't take this from me

#rainbow magic #look i am admittedly a bit rusty on some of my fun facts it's been a while #but i would NEVER forget the masterpiece that is Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island (2010) #yummy yummy yum crunch yum yum yum #i did not write 167k words and also develop beef with a rainbow magic wiki editor to be disrespected like this smh

[unproduciblesmackdown]

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2 Trans 2 Furious is edited by Tuck Woodstock & Niko Stratis, with cover art by Mattie Lubchansky and zine design by Shay Mirk.

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#and i don't even hardly know about it or like it. proof positive #cam stone #i even looked up typical pixel to dpi ratios so my art would be high res enough for printing. Canvas Big & my laptop hated it lol.... #but indeed there's three cam pics including an effort at a kind of pinup adjacent Ooh Cam Stone one lol. carefully placed torque wrenches #anyone look up f&f posting on this site....there's gotta be; right. this whole zine is an ode to that. well here goes a few tags: #fast & furious #f&f #2 fast 2 furious #gets a special shoutout. inspiring us all well beyond [even seeing any f&f related stuff. tfatf.... #also would be one less contributer if not scholar nothingunrealistic.tumblr.com; also the source of my knowing abt cam stone in general; #being the one to know of this project & go ''perfect cam stone opportunity'' like it Really is isn't it #and thus; against all odds but also appropriately; Racing to actually create a page abt them to spread the good news #in that there was like a month & a half's heads up but i still exponentially did most of the actual execution days before the deadline #ran into some technical difficulties in the final hours lol but then seized a Post Submission Editing Opportunity to amend that w/more time #and to go ''i wrote it as fast & furious: crossroads which is what many sources format it as But official materials write it like #fast & furious crossroads without the colon & it's nbd but i would prefer to change it =('' getting a yeah no prob lol.... #fixed up some very minor visual errors & changed one instance of word ordering so that it had some more Prosody imo. didn't mention that lo #plus going ''yeah there can/should be an editor's note to emphasize This Is Really Real Not An OC b/c that's clearer And funnier'' #fast & furious extended universe really has a nonbinary character & if they're for real abt this finale Trilogy call akd up please.... #let's get that cam & vienna cameo it's fast(tm) easy & free (it's not free....might not even be easy but it's more than worth it) #fast & furious crossroads #anyone looking That up has gotta get in on this #pdf / virtual option tba as mentioned....but physical copy rules too. i forget if i sent them my mailing address but i think i did lol #the ideal of being Gifted one like yeah i Will take this around with me then thank you #truly the most formal publishing my Work has ever seen. besides ''online'' or ''once i did a painting that i think was on the wapo site'' #and a very appropriate way to achieve that....but fr what's great is So Many More Ppl Can Now Learn Cam Stone Exists #we've got The Scoop as attested babey!!! 🍨 #and in turn we owe it all to akd everyone say thank you akd for acting that pwns & a je ne sais quoi to boot #which; in turn; thank you kompenso; thank you will roland's pwning acting/je ne sais quoi; thank you michael greif What Works understander. #i have remembered that pixels are implicit in the term ''dpi''....but it's a wash on clarity yet funnier to leave it as i wrote it

[revasserium]

It's been ages since I wrote a chaptered fic. The last time, I think I was around 17-18. My word count was much lower though. My dilemma now is that my word count is significantly higher and right now I'm covering like, a "back story"? Like covering what happens before the main plot takes place. I wanted to keep it to three chapters, covering each year for school. But it's looking like I have a lot of stuff in the last chapter.

My question is, how do you break sections apart in a chapter without it looking too messy and all over the place? I considered breaking it up into smaller chapters but figured it might mess up the flow somehow.

Hm... so, this is going to be a longer answer so I'll put it under a read more :)

I think the "skill" of writing well comes not from being able to format a story so it doesn't look messy, but rather to write it well enough that it doesn't read as messy. i'm really lazy with this so when i don't wanna put in the work of like... making good transitions, i'll do the thing where i number parts of a fic and then just write like... vignettes basically LOL

for me, MOST of the time, it's me being lazy, and i'm alright with that. if this is just for funsies and you just wanna get from point a to point c without having to worry too hard about continuity or point b, then just do that, have a physical line-break!

if you wanna do the HARD thing, then you gotta like. reevaluate the chapter and ask urself, are these physical visual breaks needed because you were too lazy with your writing to lay down the foundations in text? because any good editor will probably tell you that you should lean on visual/physical things last in the medium of text/storytelling. not that you shouldn't or that there aren't fantastic instances of the layout of the text being just as important as the actual text itself (read: house of leaves) BUT, the text itself should do most of the heavy lifting, right.

so yeah! that's how i'd look at it. if you wanna do the Good Writing for urself, then you're gonna have to edit your story to make the writing better. if you wanna do the Fun Writing (which can also be the Good Writing; they're not mutually exclusive LOL) and it's literally just for u to like enjoy the content and not the form, then do whatever you want! leave it messy if u don't wanna do physical layout things!!! it's literally up to you :D

#and pls take this with a grain of salt lmfao i am literally a rando on the internet who happens to like writing silly lil fics #what i think is Good Writing is purely based on the things that ive been taught and have consumed so it might totally be off base #for some and very aligned with others -- moral of the story is -- do what you want! :D it's all for fun and hopefully a relaxing thing! #now if you're like writing a thing that you're pitching to editors and publishing houses that's a totally different thing LOL #and i would be very ill-equipt to give you advice there bc i have never pitched anything to a traditional publishing house ever HAHAHAH #all ive ever done is writing vaguely worded smut for phone games #🌧 raindrops

[livesincerely]

I think the secondary pairing in the cheerleading fic is going to be Ralbert, featuring Cheerleader/Track Star Racetrack (hence the nickname) and Offensive Lineman Albert.

I’m very much imagining their dynamic as Racetrack being a massive flirt that does absolutely everything in his power to get a smile or laugh out of the more stoic Albert, but when Albert finally turns the tables on him and flirts back, Race turns so red so fast that he can’t even get a response out.

#I also need you to understand that Albert is built like a brick shit house in this au #like could and would lift Race up off his feet with ease #it’s very important to me #I just think a fast talking wise cracking flirtatious Racetrack and a man of few words but makes each one count Albert would be fun #a lil treat to myself #I also love the idea of Davey trying to help Race with his crush on Albert #while being completely oblivious to Jack’s crush on him #anyways #*editor's note #the cheerleading fic

[righteousruin]

Dad!Bane counts to three, but the threat is Real

#Bane gets so angry when women are mistreated by men no one can tell me it's not guilt #Especially because it doesn't seem to be *as* true the other way around asdjkl #Worth a Thousand Words || Comic Spams #Bane just has a generally awful experience of adult men and trusts them less as a demographic -- understandable considering his upbringing #I feel like there's a reason he didn't go back for his colleagues from Knightfall like. He didn't commit a crime to be at Peña Duro but #he knows the three of them were sentenced there for things they did #Editor's Note || Analysis #I'm 99.9999% Batman is the only man Bane has any significant amount of trust in outside of professionalism #If he would acknowledge his trauma for 1 minute it would help him be better about this akjlasd

[iwantyoursexmp3]

autistic boys when they realise the egg theyre eating feels like Egg

#what is it about eggs that taste so good but sometimes you remember its an egg and they get SO GROSSSS #like it starts tasting Too Much like egg #its the whites for me...... #which is wild bc first year uni me would just eat a fried egg on its own (NOT A NUTRITIOUS BREAKFAST) #but one of my flatmates had a tiny pan that a fried egg would fit perfectly in and it was so nice eating it that way #i cannot elaborate on why that made it tolerable #anyway #also im the worst bc my favourite type of egg is poached but poaching eggs without one of those special pans is like trying to play god #they should invent an egg that is just yolk #wait yolk throwback to the og how does an orca pray opening that was like #the moonlight yolked through the curtains #like Runny Yolk imagery #LOVED THATTTTT but had to cut it out bc the editors thought i meant yoked #and was like Girl thats not what the word means #and i didnt want to cut it out but also i was like i have enough on my plate (lol) im not going to try and explain #the yolk imagery #(i asked friends if it made sense and most of them didnt like it BUT THEY WERENT WRITERS SO????) #anyway tangent. justice for my yolk imagery. i need to put it back in somewhere

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#for anyone confused: 'effect' is USUALLY the noun (meaning: 'consequence') #and affect the verb (meaning: 'to influence') #BUT effect is ALSO a (less common) VERB (meaning: 'to bring about') #so Word is hypercorrecting me because it only knows the more common meanings of 'effect' and 'affect' #I recommend the Wikipedia page on hypercorrection btw it's quite an interesting phenomenon! #I think there might be a noun meaning of 'affect' as well. because things WEREN'T confusing enough already #I've only seen it in older books but from context (and a quick dictionary search) I'm guessing the meaning is basically 'vibes' #'she had a studied affect' = she was very deliberate in the way she presented herself as far as I can tell #dictionaries give it as 'disposition' or 'tendency' but i think there's a little more nuance to the meaning than that #if anyone knows more about the usage of affect as a noun please let me know I'm very much guessing here #anyway. needless to say I have every sympathy with anyone who's ever got this sort of thing confused #it's an absolute minefield. And I Love It. but like. it is a pesky little trap and if it were an irl person and not MS word mixing this up #obvs I would just move on with my day becuase it Genuinely Does Not Matter how people use words as long as their meaning's comprehensible #(unless you are being paid. if you are an editor who is paid for this then knowing this stuff is Literally Your Job (well. one of them.)) #but Word is a (not free) writing tool that is very widely used and its spellcheckers are very widely relied upon #so I think it's fair to say They Have A Responsibility To Their Users Dammit and I'm allowed to be a smug little nitpicker about it

[capinejghafa]

i guess i will have to make my own kanej set since we aren’t getting a kanej scene until the premiere it seems. but at least i have my wesper <3

#we even got a semi-helnik scene #we got nothing #random #i would like several words with the editor and the person releasing these clips

[makerscockandballs]

hate hate it when archaeologists describe parts of buildings with words that a) do not have an official definition b) the meaning can also not be deduced and c) aren't used anywhere else in their text or anyone elses. just going off vibes i see. inventing words that make sense to you and to you only. i hate you

#how does this wall have a tongue. what do you mean by this. youre weird #the other guy just randomly switches out what he calls two adjacent rooms. i only realized this because i got confused and had to analyse i #together with which cardinal points he used when they are significantly different parts. this is very relevant in the analysis. #does he just not give a fuck. does his editor just not give a fuck. colleagues not give a fuck. #and!!!!!! the interpretations are off the fucking charts with this one. they just say shit! like its the truth! with no reasoning! #more so than usual! #other than ''well this guy in the 1880s had this opinion too'' SO????? it wasnt based on fact back then and it is not based on fact today! #you lazy bastard how can you spend ages on a book and put your name on it only to pull facts out of your ass! #i am desperate. this would all be funny if it wasnt so confusing and time consuming #to look up all these words that dont make sense instead of just getting to read a proper text. #basil yells at cloud

[galacticdrift]

man, I like Malevolent a lot (enough that I'm still sitting here blorbo-rotating it in my brain 3 days after listening to the whole thing thus far) but there's no question in my mind that the "patrons vote on plot path forks" system is fun and creative in theory but does the show SUCH a disservice in practice.

without it you could have fewer shoehorned "let's sit down and Take Stock" recaps (though I'll grant this has improved over time), fewer incidents of someone saying "I think we [should/shouldn't] do X" then contradicting themselves 5 minutes later, and the characterization overall could be so much stronger and more consistent.

#also someone should explain to harlan the word he's looking for is (most likely) 'relish' not 'lavish' lol #(I know it's a one-man show but I'm just saying his scripts would benefit from having an editor) #the jokes about how many times john and arthur get married and divorced are funny but like #also to a certain extent an example of the inconsistencies in characterization! #you could cut down on the divorce-remarriage cycle by at least about 15-20% and still retain more than enough to meme and cry about #malevolent podcast