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DNI if you:

-dislike peanut butter

-wake up before 7am regularly (your greater levels of productivity offend me.)

-think that water isn’t wet

-are cute (can’t handle that rn)

-haven’t read the wikipedia list of common misconceptions

-find this post unfunny (i’m hilarious)

#blog rules #DNI #pinned post #istg i’m gonna actually lose followers after posting this #meme #memes #funny #joke #hahahahahaha i’m so funny hahahahahahahahahahaha #so how are you guys today

dannnnnnnnnnnnex

cosmovain

how is it mario day and no one posted the essay

cosmovain

macleod

Happy MAR10 day, how is this paper only a year old?

did-i-mention-the-shirt

He wrote another

terracotta7

The Mammal and the Reptile is a literary masterpiece.

zestylemonsz

"yowza" and "perchance" in two different essays by the same person

im noticing a pattern

the-haiku-bot

“yowza” and “perchance”

in two different essays

by the same person

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

dannnnnnnnnnnnex

Unironically that's not an F-worthy essay. My high school teacher's would've given it a C at least.

also this guy has an IMDb page lmao https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10281885/

Almost a decade ago, someone asked me what I thought was the most "sci-fi" technology that already exists in society. For a long long time my answer to this question was contact lenses. Magic little gel hemispheres that are relatively cheap and manufactured with so much precision that they bend light in exactly the right way to allow someone to see clearly. That's insane. (The history of contact lenses is super interesting too, they're both insanely old and super new depending on how you look at it. The very first idea that resembled modern day contact lenses was proposed by mfing DA VINCI in 1508, but modern silicone hydrogel lenses were only invented in 1998.)

And that might still be my answer in some contexts. But from a more aesthetic/philosophical standpoint I think the answer has got to be street lights.

Now the technology of "large lightbulb on a stick" doesn't exactly scream sci-fi, but the purpose and infrastructure around them absolutely do. The single most constant ecological feature of this planet is the night-day cycle. Long before the first microorganisms, even before WATER was present on this planet, the earth rotated during its orbit around the sun. The cycle of day-night-day-night has never been broken in 4.5 BILLION years.

Until now.

Ours is the first society to say "yeah we'll pass" when confronted with the mandatory darkness of night. A society so constant and unyielding, so full of momentum, that we decided we don't need the sun to light our paths anymore. We'll do it ourselves. Our society must grow, must expand, and before we eventually expand upwards and outwards into the solar system, into "3D darkness", we had to expand into 4D darkness, expand not our usable physical area but our usable temporal area. We claim the night as OUR time, say that these are hours that we WILL use, and we will MAKE them usable, natural order be damned.

If that isn't sci-fi, I don't know what is.

#sci fi #street lights

transmechanicus

randomalienencounter

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everest81-deactivated20250126

Randomalienencounter you've shown me beautiful things

randomalienencounter

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everest81-deactivated20250126

I have no clue what you say and yet your words soothe me like no other

randomalienencounter

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the-haiku-bot

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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

alaeries

Chulls & their Handler --- turned a photo study into a piece of fanart, as a treat. have some crabs! 🦀

#always reblog cosmere art

runmienn

I never shared my Mistborn animatic here so I may as well post it now👍

reproduced/used under license from Dragonsteel, LLC.

dannnnnnnnnnnnex

wafflewarrior111

So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.

I'm going to try it.

missroserose

I love the lawyer metaphor, because whenever I see “John knew that...” in prose writing I immediately think “how? How does he know it?” Interrogate your witnesses. Cross-examine them. Make them explain their reasoning. It pays dividends.

heck-in-a-handbasket

All of this, but also feels/felt. My editor has forbidden me from using those and it’s forced me to stretch my skills.

ineedthesons

This is your "show not tell" advice explained!

tarysande

Editor here.

First, let me preface this with something very important: you can treat all of this advice as SECOND-DRAFT ADVICE. It is so much easier to rewrite this kind of stuff once you have words on the page. Telling yourself the first draft is totally appropriate and acceptable.

What we’re talking about here are FILTER WORDS (and to some degree verbs of being). Yes, “thought” words are included. But so are “heard, saw, looked, tasted, smelled” etc.—most words having to do with the senses.

This isn’t black and white advice; sometimes you’ll use these words and that’s okay. They’re not WRONG. They’re just weaker. And they’re weaker because they create distance between the reader and the experience of the character.*

If you want your reader to feel like they’re experiencing the story right alongside the character, you want to cut down on filter words.

*This is particularly important with first person and close third POVs. The reader always knows whose eyes they’re seeing through and thoughts they’re privy to. So you don’t need to tell them “I saw X.” Or “I heard X.” Or “I thought Y.” You can just jump into the action/observation as it’s happening.

This is also where you want to pay attention to verbs of being.

“It was rainy.” Versus: “The rain pounded against the roof.” Or “The rain howled like an injured animal.” Or “The rain tapped against the window like an anxious lover.” All of these are inviting the reader deeper into the experience of the story by using stronger verbs and similes. And, at the same time, they stir feelings (instead of TELLING feelings). And feelings keep your reader engaged. Engaged readers keep turning pages; engaged readers become FANS.

the-haiku-bot

This is also where

you want to pay attention

to verbs of being.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

dannnnnnnnnnnnex

man i hate it when i find quality advice on this site

#writing