The Black Forest

A *bit* of a mess. Catholic. Bienvenido. اهلا وسهلا بك. الليل طويل والرب كريم.

[agardenandlibrary]

I should be able to both read for 8hrs a night and sleep for 8hrs a night. That I cannot is very rude and, frankly, poor design.

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Something to ponder

[stopstalkingmechallenge]

To whom it may concern.

[unheardoracle]

If Your Scene Feels Lifeless, Someone Is Being Too Polite

Stories stall when everyone behaves. Real tension appears when someone:

• asks the wrong question • says something they shouldn’t • notices something uncomfortable • refuses to drop the topic • misunderstands something important • interrupts at the worst moment

Conflict doesn’t always look like shouting.

[ariaste]

Couple more options for tension:

They want something REALLY REALLY REALLY bad, but for some reason they can't ask for it -- or can't have it even if they did ask.

They don't notice something that the audience HAS noticed (like in a horror movie when the monster is sneaking up behind the protagonist, or if someone drinks a glass of unboiled water during a cholera outbreak because they don't know about germ theory)

Takes a risk (or otherwise does something they "shouldn't" do) which the audience has to sit through for a prolongued period of time (e.g. slips away from the party to go into the host's private office and rifle through their papers before the guards catch them)

Loses when they thought they were going to win

[supreme-leader-stoat]

TIL about the time that eBay engaged in a psychological warfare campaign because a couple of e-commerce reporters didn't lick their boots hard enough.

[brosef-von-dudehomie]

Can you elaborate?

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[nature-travel-photography]

Quill Lake-Milford Sound (New Zeland)[OC] - Author: Gold-Lengthiness-760

[pol-ski]

Józef Rapacki (Polish; 1871-1929) - Dusk on the Heath, 1912. Oil on canvas.

[beardedmrbean]

[beardedmrbean]

[wheatfish-in-a-basket]

Me to God when I pray because he likes talking to us

[beardedmrbean]

Clever

[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian red squirrel/Sciurus vulgaris/ekorre. Värmland, Sweden (17 July 2022).

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[dittography-direwolf]

Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.

[traditional-latin-math]

The whole "mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" level of obsession with "correlation does not imply causation" has done incalculable harm to our collective ability to evaluate evidence.

We kinda went from "hey guys make sure you think more than surface deep when presented with numerical evidence" to "no two numbers ever have anything to do with each other ever"

[pharmaciacatholica-deactivated2]

[macabrevampire]

waiting for something that's not coming

[nature-travel-photography]

Dreamlike Kuang Si Falls from Laos - Author: risque_shine

[asneakyfox]

in any given fictional situation, there is exactly one character who is At Fault and every other character involved is a passive victim. media literacy is when you correctly identify and condemn this character