IndigloMouth

[penny-anna]

over and over again it comes down to the fact that fanfiction is most people's only exposure to amateur writing

[penny-anna]

'so there's this website where literally anyone can post fiction they've written whenever they want and - get this! - a lot of it is bad' yeah no shit. what would you expect?

[indiglomouth]

I actually love this about sites - or maybe more accurately communities - like AO3. People post their writing regardless of how technically good it is. It's a lot of people just making stuff and putting it out there and yeah, a lot of the writing isn't great, but it doesn't matter because they just want to get the stories out there. They're passionate about something and it shows and it's genuine and perfect.

[penny-anna]

over and over again it comes down to the fact that fanfiction is most people's only exposure to amateur writing

[penny-anna]

'so there's this website where literally anyone can post fiction they've written whenever they want and - get this! - a lot of it is bad' yeah no shit. what would you expect?

[indiglomouth]

I actually love this about sites - or maybe more accurately communities - like AO3. People post their writing regardless of how technically good it is. It's a lot of people just making stuff and putting it out there and yeah, a lot of the writing isn't great, but it doesn't matter because they just want to get the stories out there. They're passionate about something and it shows and it's genuine and perfect.

[indigosfindings]

the order of the stick is a really good comic that is. extremely difficult to recommend to people

[indigosfindings]

hey i think you would really enjoy this series it's. a text-heavy stick figure comic about dungeons & dragons. i swear it's super compelling & has really strong character writing, you just have to get through 100+ pages of pretty dry gag-a-day observational humour about d&d 3.5e before the plot takes off. just be warned, there's a lot of off-colour humour early on, including one particularly tasteless joke that happens in the first like 20 pages. but the author apologized for it ten years later & he's better about that stuff now i promise. also there's prequel books that have important plot stuff, and you just sorta have to know when to read them. also it's been going for over 20 years

[sicknastyjr]

Your 20s are not about getting your life together they're about learning to escape the self imposed torture labyrinth you've built inside your own head

[indiglomouth]

Oh, that was supposed to be my 20's? I think I missed that deadline. By a couple decades.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Holy shit. "The demese ef the Ne'enderthels: Wes lengege a fecter?" published in the Science magazine

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

short but sweet

[gigglepuffpixie]

[mistress-saerlaith]

Tales From Earthsea (2006) dir. Gorō Miyazaki

[vithcy]

Currently here

[wordfather]

something strange going on with my wip where nothing is happening because im not writing. does anyone know how to fix this

[one-time-i-dreamt]

once i had a dream that i killed every person who had ever lived and who ever would live. then i got transported to a flat plain made entirely of water that i could walk on. i met god, and they said ‘you killed everyone. now what?’ and then i woke up and had to stare at the wall for a while

[achingmarshking]

[indiglomouth]

This is the intro to a city/world builder where you start from scratch. Literally nothing. Terraform your first patch of land and attract a single citizen of some sort. Try to make them happy. Make more room. Get more people. Make them happy.

There will certainly be no complications.

[succubusboyfriend]

you have permission to pick that 2 year old "abandoned" project back up. it's not mad at you for setting it aside. and maybe time and distance have helped ease or erase the things that made you put it down in the first place.

[prokopetz]

"But I have to play gacha games, I'm easily bored and need a constant stream of new and updated content or I lose interest" just get into open source roguelikes like a normal person.

[prokopetz]

Like, either way the game hates you on an intrinsic structural level, but at least the second one is honest about it.

[prokopetz]

Develop weirdly vehement opinions about raw ASCII versus tilemaps. You know you want to.

[indiglomouth]

I'm not sure if getting my nephew into roguelikes would fix him or destroy him.

I guess there's one way to find out.

[rbtfics]

'time travel is great because it means u can fix all ur mistakes and make sure things go better' sure yeah okay. anyway stirs in a pinch of 'THE most triggering events happen one after the other and you can't even say anything because none of the things they remind you of even happened this time around and it would make no sense to anyone else' now THAT'S what i'm talking about!

[indiglomouth]

Primer? Yeah, that's Primer. Sounds a lot like Primer. You should watch Primer. I should watch Primer again.

[wheelie-sick]

link

[ayronaught]

Transcript

Everyone's talking about Artemis II, the first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years

Historic, right? BUT nobody's talking about the Deaf people who made it possible.

In the late 1950's, NASA had a problem.

They needed to understand what weightlessness did to the human body but every test subject kept getting violently motion sick

NASA needed to figure out FAST during the space race!

So, they went to Gallaudet University. They recruited 11 Deaf people.

Because a number of Deaf people had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children which also damaged their vestibular system.

Their inner ears couldn't be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Put them on zero gravity flights. A room for 12 straight days.

(All caps) It rotated the entire time.

One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters, the researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data and research it needed to send humans into space.

No Gallaudet Eleven? No Mercury. No Apollo. No Artemis II.

They stood on the shoulders of 11 Deaf people most people have never heard of.

Now you know!

[headpainmigraine]

@ayronaught is a gem in the wasteland, thank you providing transcript! 💐

[indiglomouth]

Does work get overwhelming for therapists? I can't imagine it's easy hearing about trauma and difficulty all the time, but on the other hand, it's probably rewarding to help people through it.

[tonyalmeida]

[porterdavis]

[myrandomstuffpage]

Support your local library 📚

[maelwife]

Maybe one reason time seems to speed up in adult life is because when your full time job leaves you roughly 5 hours of free time a day plus two days off a week your life turns into a sort of monotony that makes the days blend together and creative pursuits move in slow motion as you can only get to them when other your commitments are done.

[maelwife]

When you look back and think damn 2019 wasn’t that long ago where did the time go? Job. Your Job took it.