#written by committee

[liesmyth]

one of my new year resolutions was to use my local library more so I randomly picked up a sports-themed Italian detective thriller and ???? it's GAY??? the ex-boxing-champion-tough-detective mc makes love to BOYS?? delighted. It's like I sensed it. my gaydar is huge

#for context this is a novel written a DECADE ago by a journalist for a mainstram italian newspaper for a contest organised by CONI #the italian olympic committee #I was NOT expecting the yaoi. I'm so proud of my country rn #I HOPE i'll be half as lucky with my new random selections #book talk

[comite-de-salut-public]

does the gay marriage legalization include lesbians or are me and my girlfriend cooked 🧍‍♀️

I think Citizen Saint-Just kept swapping the terms out, so sometimes the notes say "men" and sometimes they say "people". I'll mention it to him. I for one support you and your girlfriend (as long as you don't commit any treason or the like).

#committee inquiries #french revolution #frev #frevblr #unreality #gimmick blog #ooc: this is actually based off smth from the actual fragments compilation #sj had at one point written “people who love each other should marry” and then seemed to later have thrown in “men and women” but who know

[mafuteru]

started writing a fanfic(?) about post beyond shion except its just him working as a restructural committee member and losing it

#in my heart i am shion who is 34 years old #not gonna show it to anyone.. but might make a comic based on it and show that instead #i feel like its boring to everyone except me w.. just work stress and no6 politics. toori is also there #toori is a fellow committee member and shions assistant / underling who appears in beyond for a split second #i think there are only two people in the world who are interested in the dynamic of toori / shion and one of them is me #ive seen some call him torey but its written トーリ #could be torri torey toori anything honestly.. #shion.txt

[spookbot]

once upon a time is NOT a good show and I like it very much

#this is the most written by committee show i've ever seen and it's so fun #we've been watching it gradually since i was visiting june and jules in september and it's been a great time

[le-fils-de-lhomme]

Romance authors didn't have a bunch of teens and twenty somethings who aren't even your demographic screeching at them about how bad and harmful their work was pre-internet.

#Women of a certain age know what they're reading let 'em live. #I'd rather kill your books written by a committee of people who can't write but whatever.

[satari-raine]

My graduate thesis - after (somehow) successfully defending it last week to my committee team - just got officially accepted by my school. Time to become a blanket burrito and (try to) sleep forever out of relief that it's finally finished.

#Satari rambles #Hi there and howdy #I have occasionally poked in on here to talk about the whole graduate school thing #I'm just so glad it's done now #One of my committee members had to observe my teacher last night for class and he announced I had successfully defended it last week #And I don't know #Just seeing him and the other members and then my classmates proud #Got a little emotional #Even if it still feels surreal to have written as much as I did and even if I have some conflicting feelings about the end result #Since I did a creative fictional thesis #But I really am happy it's done and I'm almost done with school #(Granted I'm scared for what comes after especially with finding work right now among other things but that's for later) #But yeah #This has been the usual Satari is a dork who rambles in the tag night (even though it's only the afternoon right now) #Please tip your service staff #Have a wonderful timezone everyone #Also my committee head bought me some books to celebrate and oh my gosh I love that woman #She's so dang kind and it was really touching #People are so wonderful sometimes #I hope I can give some of that wonder back even if as a fraction

[mathematical-blasphemy]

passed my comprehensive oral PhD exam 🥲

#now i just have the written next thursday-saturday #excited to never have to do that again lol #being cross-examined for 3.5 hrs about 120 books is a form of s&m #ran into my outside-department committee member in the bathroom during the break and she just said ''i don't envy you'' #lmao

[mybrainproblems]

i refused to watch 15x20 until dec 2022... i was not prepared.

#i'm too familiar with dabb's ouevre at this point. the only part that feels like unfiltered dabb is the pie fest and some of the opening. #the rest of it feels written by committee and yes! this is a bit tinhatty! however i cannot reconcile 11x23 and 15x10 with 15x20 #to be clear: it's not that i think dabb didn't write the finale or that he wrote it at literal gun point or some nonsense. #i just think he wrote it under network supervision and with heavy revisions in some places. then throw in the added swerve of covid. #i know it was changed bc jensen wanted dean to die on his feet but sam cradling dean in full pieta pose would have elevated 15x20 #to something well beyond the sublime of transcendental insanity #spn

[reactor-tech-ermine]

I'm glad there's someone else in this company who plays Little Wars: 0U, Marten was this close to forcing me to print my own army and spending our next date night learning how to play.

#ooc in my last session we came up with the idea of a Warhammer 40k clone and decided to call it Little Wars 0U #except it's open source and on like its 13th edition and there are a bunch of obscure factions written by people who obviously don't care #about things like balance while the 'rules committee' desperately tries to balance them

[leonardcohenofficial]

having a brief emotional breakdown over phil ochs and antonin artaud and the ways the pathologization of what we call madness and the failures of capitalism doomed these men yeah the writing process is clearly going well 

#most of this emotionality can be blamed on being on my period but van gogh the man suicided by society is a text that continues to haunt #me and like. as much as i am very proud of my research and am compelled to dedicate hundreds of hours of labor to exploring these #topics i just. sometimes the heaviness of my work really gets to me. which is hard to explain to my committee and hard to actually #acknowledge in my chapters themselves #thinking a lot about desiring production (in the D&G way) and foucault's madness and civilization and brecht and artaud being two sides of #the same coin and the fact that phil and artaud were both extremely haunted individuals but their attempts to explode their way out of what #haunted them failed and the fact that during his final performance of all time phil wore the hat that bob dylan wears on the cover of #desire and the artaud quote from van gogh that states 'no one has ever written or painted sculpted modeled built invented except to get out #of hell' #anyways! #*~more to talk about in therapy~*

[bielobog-kun]

i dont understand what happened with hermes. like they always give other antagonists these crazy arcs and we actually had so much time with fun daniel? but they dropped that ball so hard and almost from start to finish i did not give a shit. the worst anyone's ever done it. a richly made sandwich tumbling from your hands into a puddle swirling with pollen and gasoline

#development cycles meaning things get written by committee is why videogames are almost never as good as even a mediocre novel #shb/edw still being so good despite that is like. the biggest fluke

[maggot-monger]

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#heughhghg best written prelims paper my committee has ever read hehghgh <3

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I kind of resent the January 6 hearings because I know with 100% certainty in my heart of hearts that NOTHING is going to come of them. There isn't going to be some dramatic third act climax where all the bad guys get their comeuppance and democracy is saved, roll credits! That's not going to happen. What IS going to happen is some small fish will get thrown under the bus and then turn against the big fish (too little, too late), and some medium fish will throw themselves under the bus to take one for the team and protect the big fish (never rat on your friends, the pay's too good), but none of the big fish will see a single fucking consequence for anything. There will be no arrests, no trials, no jail time, no slinking away into shame and obscurity. They will get off scot free and continue doing what they've done, but now with a tacit seal of approval, and things will continue to go downhill as the worst human beings take back the reins of government and punish everyone who tried to stand in their way. When Republicans want someone taken out, they just fucking take them out.

I think we all know this to be true. The hearings are largely for show because no amount of damning evidence hurts anyone anymore. Well, at least not in the long term; Democrats are quick to pop champagne because Madison Cawthorne lost his re-election bid, but they must know he's not really gone for good. He'll be back in 2024, either taking back his house seat, or gunning for senate or governor, and he's likely to win because he's more popular outside his district than in it. There's no infrastructure in place to punish all the bad guys and keep them out of politics forever, so the worst "fringe" nutjobs of today will be the mainstream leaders of tomorrow (the Republican party is all fringe at this point; it's survival of the craziest, a race to the bottom, they want to see who can act the most cruel and depraved of them all).

The January 6 conspirators are gonna get away with it, and they gonna retaliate tenfold. The hearings are important, but they feel meaningless because we KNOW the system is broken. Even if the DOJ came down hard on any of them, prosecution could be derailed by a transition of power in 2025, or a single juror sympathetic to their plot could decide to ignore all evidence and hang the trial on purpose to get them off. It's so easy for right-wingers to pack juries and courts in their favor, but left-wingers just never do that. It's only ever a kangaroo court when the conservatives are in charge, "you're guilty because we say so, and no amount of evidence to the contrary can change that."

#rant #january 6 committee #january 6 #jan 6 #january 6 hearings #hearings #jan 6 hearings #politics #nihilsm #pessimism #hopelessness #the bad guys always win #history is written by the winners

[pleckthaniel]

sunbeam ALWAYS saying ‘thank you starclan for this prey’ OUT LOUD after a catch is such a good subtle piece of characterization... like we’re TOLD in her first chapter that she’s a stickler for the rules but then in a lot of the conflict situations she’s put in over the course of the book, the ‘common sense’ solution is the one that aligns with the rules so it feels like she’s always justified - but this little detail really makes it clear that she actually is very strict about rule-following, she just doesn’t constantly obsess over it like, say, hollyleaf did

#scout talks #good writing? in MY warriors?? #i don't know what direction they're going in with this arc but #suffice it to say that i think other than the continuing timeline issues the writing on this series is actually continuing to improve #you get the sense that it's written by committee but it always kinda has been and i think this is a case where having more cooks is better #the series needed fresh ideas yknow #wc

[thanatoseyes]

Don't mind me just sitting here angrily staring at Taylor Swift's new album that's being shoved through my throat like a hot knife.

#ugh i dont want to talk about her #if you like her thats fine whatever #i just dont and this new album feels like a cash grab so hard #and this one particular song just hit me the wrong way #i dont know her i dont know her life i dont know what shes thinking #the 1830s song was bad enough #it tastes like those poorly written college students fiction where theyve done no research and think what theyve written can change the genr #and yet its completely tone def and needs to be gone through a goddamn ethics committee #makes you want to punch a wall gos #im mentally ill bro so mentally ill and it feels like a pit in my chest #and shes writing things like youre afraid of little old me haha you put me in an asylum aha im crazy #i can feel my teeth breaking #head in my hands i am trying not to be absolutely phased by this #because its kind of been a shit day and i keep fucking up and this one thing kind of hit me out of nowhere so im trying #because my fiance is coming home and were going out and i want to have a good time #and not be consumed by a depression fueled rage #ugh why why does she have a platform???

[grittyghoul]

Love grad school and my research and all that, don’t love that thinking about my proposal defense has caused nausea and a migraine

#my written proposal is fine and that’s going well #it’s not even my actual proposal defense it’s a practice run #and no one on my committee is even gonna be there #if it were the real thing I’d be shitting my pants