I HAVE COME TO BLESS YALL WITH MORE VOX DOODLES BECAUSE HE HAS A MONOPOLY ON MY ATTENTION.
HE'S THE CEO OF MY BRAIN NOW, I DONT MAKE THE RULES
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I wanna post my rwrb book annotations so bad but idk how to do it in a way that won’t seem completely incomprehensible bc there is so much writing already like just today I’ve practically written an entire essay on the word “must” and we haven’t even reached page 20 so HOW am i supposed to do this bc there is SO MUCH i wanna share but idk HOW HELP ME
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"And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God, and I'd get him to swap our places" has the BIGGEST Marc Spector vibes
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Those whose job it is to run the state or corporation assume that what is illegible to the system must be insignificant, so they end up destroying much of what makes life rich and cherishable.
(26) Ten Useful Concepts - by Ian Leslie - The Ruffian
Nice idea about the need to make a state or comapny “legible” so that it can be managed. Relates to something I read earlier that “data” is not just numbers. Conversations can be data too. Legibility makes this data harder to share and less quick to understand, so it gets ignored or turned into numbers (NPS score, for example)
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the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.
capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.
now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.
and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.
and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.
and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".
it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"
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What do you like about the Diasomnia boys if I may ask?
I always love hearing about the different reasons people enjoy characters.
I mean, c'mon. he has split custody over Sebek okay
also, Lilia in particular has maybe the best timeskip character development of all time
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Apparently much-needed reminder that reposting artists' art (by saving the images or screenshotting them and reuploading them yourself) on other platforms without the artists' expressed permission and without credit is theft and an insult to their passion and craft. You are profiting (in views, in attention, in feedback) from someone else's work and ideas, who do not get that feedback for sharing their creation.
If you are an art reposter, you are a thief and I have no respect for you.
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I like the idea of better, more inclusive, sentence structuring. For example: something legible, designed for people with general reading comprehension issues… Just having options for legibility’s sake, and having them be readily available/accessible, could change the world (or at least some people's worlds). There are options for legibility, for those with dyslexia. But dyslexia is not the only reading-related disorder, that would/could benefit from a legibility aid.
I personally use extra commas, to help me understand where the sentence’s connecting clauses start and end. I also add in semi-colons; sometimes I add in dashes— and sometimes I just practice full restating of an independent clause, when I’m connecting another dependent clause, to help me (and others) eliminate the vagueness.
Yes, this method of altering sentences, to make them more inclusive, IS grammatically “incorrect”. And yes, this method of altering sentences, to make them more inclusive, can be wordier, too. But if this method helps someone read, then who cares? If this method doesn’t help you, then the method was not made for you, and that is okay.
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I’ve been drawin the narutos
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My Lawyer is going to Get Your Ass.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
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Red Alert
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Scar's win has me feeling all sorts of emotions. How he admitted his alliance could have gone either way. How he continued to embrace being the villain but flat out refusing to kill Pearl until it really came down to it and the fight was as fair as it could have been. How he had so, so many chances to betray people one on one, and didn't. How jumpy and paranoid he was, on such high alert to every threat that telling Bdubs about Etho's death had him scared of Bdubs coming after him on a horse. How he still kept burning bases and causing chaos despite the flat out warfare going on. How he wasn't able to trust Pearl enough to look behind him but at the same time was only fighting her at all because his loyalty got him there. How he didn't realise he'd killed Pearl and kept trying to pursue her, thinking it was some sort of trick. How Grian of all people had to tell him that she'd died, and Scar had won. How shocked he was to realise it. How he stood there for a moment, just taking hits from that zombie. How he didn't understand how the guy with no friends had made it this far. How the villain, all alone, survived. And how upon approaching the Secret Keeper to succeed, he didn't die, not like in every other series. No, his task was renewed. To win Secret Life. Scar might have been the last one living, but he never got out.
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