EMERAST GREEN

🥲 scribe ✍ 🍷 i will curse god

[xalatath]

IMPORTANT

[depsidase]

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[moringmark]

[airplanned]

We all agree, right?

AI to write your novel is wrong

A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Only if you specify in the contract that the demon can't use chat-GPT

[athenadark]

I've been thinking about this - and why asking the demon is also a bad idea

Tartini was a composer and violin teacher and no one respected him, he was generally broke, and he started having weird dreams in which the devil asked him to teach him violin

despite being catholic tartini agreed - although everything told him this was a bad idea

so he taught the devil violin in his dreams and when he had taught him everything he knew the devil offered him payment, he played an original composition in his dream

Tartini woke up weeping and struggled to write it down

we have a historical version of "couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, this is just its tribute", and the song he wrote down made him "Sonata in G Minor, aka the devil's trill" it's usually played by 2 violinists because it's evil difficult,

now imagine you make a deal with the devil to write your novel, he writes it but only lets you read it in a dream and you have to transcribe it from memory the next day.... 150k of the best prose and plot you've ever seen in your life and you have to remember it

chatgpt is evil, but that's just mean

[themanedwolf]

This brings a whole new element to my understanding of Devil Went Down to Georgia

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[the-classics-club-anthology]

Watching episode 12 of Ganbare Nakamura Kun like: Hey. I thought this was a silly romcom about teenage crushes What happened to my silly romcom about teenage crushes. This is getting too real NO NOT THE HEARTRENDING TEARS NOOOO

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

dump his ass. move to a walkable city. start hormones. get into fiber crafts. dye your hair weird. grow an herb garden. foster a distrustful cat. take a welding class. invite your friends over for tea and cake. get way too into obscure media. explore a new cuisine. lie to the police. protest in the streets. life has so many possibilities don't it?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

make out with a frenemy. buy noise cancelling headphones. wear office inappropriate attire. quit a toxic workplace. improve your apartment. start a dog walking sidegig. get on first name basis with your local librarians. bully politicians at town hall meetings. get an unexpected piercing. cultivate farmer's market connections. trade recipes with a gossipy old neighbor. unionize your apartment complex. move to the countryside. let a friend take you larping. keep a sword on your mantleplace

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

get a tattoo on your 40th birthday. be tempted to buy a loom. do a charity drag show. sue your landlord. buy a really nice kitchen appliance. volunteer at an anarchist soup kitchen. rediscover a tv show you watched when you were 8. spam your state senators. shop at asian grocery stores. do cosplay. buy trans flags in bulk and mount them along the highway. go viral for unexpected reasons. move in with your best friend. make lemoncello with leftover lemon rinds. run for school board membership. explore pegging.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

update: i'm delighted to report this post has been responsible for at least one person dumping his ass

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

update: three four people

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Who cares about that, I wanna see the people who got looms!

[disgruntled-lifeform]

I gotta do everything my fucking self around here smh

[musicismagic-writes]

The tattoo I got on my 40th birthday

[the-classics-club-anthology]

The finale: Go for it! Nakamura-kun!!

A great ending to a very good series. The last two episodes were less lighthearted than I was expecting. Nakamura went back and forth a lot regarding how he felt about Hirose getting a girlfriend--seemingly accepting it immediately but then being unable to move on from his fantasy. Crying his heart out, but coming to the realisation that he's happy if Hirose is happy. Then, realising that he can't move on from Hirose even as he promises to support his relationship. By the time Hana breaks up with Hirose, Nakamura has accepted his feelings and isn't conflicted when he's happy about it. At the same time, he's able to push his own feelings aside and comfort Hirose--say exactly what Hirose needs to hear at that moment. That's character growth! And realistic too. Nakamura, after everything, is still a messy teenager.

The movie date is cute, of course. I was a little surprised that Hirose actually asked Nakamura what exactly he found charming about Hirose, but that just means that the comment really stuck with him. Very nice visual parallel to episode 6. And perhaps...more than just visual? I saw you rushing to hide your blush, Hirose-kun.

Twice now in this anime people have realised that their feelings for someone aren't going to be reciprocated, have accepted that, and decided to go on loving that person anyways. An interesting theme, considering most teenage coming-of-age romcoms are about moving on from you unrequited crush.

I don't know how to wrap up this post. I loved the show. I'll miss my son. Whatever life throws your way, good luck, Nakamura.

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[robertreich]

Abolish ICE.

[robertreich]

Check out this new album

[sodomit]

I was looking for photos of one physical condition that happens to penises and came across this photoset.

[karnalesbian]

level 271 penismancer demonstrating his arcane might

[homunculus-argument]

If Ratatouille mechanics were real, there would be a whole market of businesses offering the services of operating rats to people who want them, and it'd be like how bees produce honey. People in the rat business would be so exhausted of having to explain over and over again that no, the rats aren't being exploited. If the rats didn't like how they're being treated, they would simply not return. There's no goddamn way to force a rat to be so passionate about playing the saxophone that they'll figure out how to puppeteer a human to do it for them. All that the business does is finding a way to put that specific rat in the hair of someone who's about to go on stage.

[terrie01]

The rats 100% think the businesses are being run for their benefit and worry about the humans being exploited.

[homunculus-argument]

A rat manager who is a rat and deals on their end of the deal is exhausted of having to explain over and over again that look, an average fully grown adult human being is like 200 times your weight, their hands are very fast and they can throw things better than you want to imagine. If one of them things didn't want you in their hair, you're not going to stay there for long. You'd be yote out the window in two seconds flat.