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Love Begins
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is
Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis
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Yeah rhat tracks.
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someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because itâs ârelatively rareâ for actual humans to use it. skill issue
I can admit this is a little out of hand, but I promise AI didn't write my 150k fic đ
Reblog if you're a human that uses em-dashes
I'm not sure how this argument works even internally, because AI-generated writing is patterned off of person-generated writing, which means those em-dashes won't appear in AI-generated writing unless they're also in the person-generated writing that makes up their training base. Yes?
All that person is saying is that they, personally, don't see a lot of person-generated writing that contains em-dashes. Which just tells me they don't read a lot of fanfiction.
I use em-dash GRATUITOUSLY. If you go through all my published fics (almost in the hundreds, guys!) and select one single page of text â at random â I promise you, you will find a few, perhaps even a handful. One page.
Canât reblog the post going round containing these two screenshots:
So Iâll put my addition here:
This also applies to women who complain about feminism requiring them to work, rather than being âladies of leisureâ. Women equivalent to them in the past always worked - who do they think were the maids, housekeepers, cooks, nannies, wet nurses, governesses, washerwomen, spinners, weavers, seamstresses, nurses, midwives, etc - and todayâs equivalent of the pastâs ladies of leisure can afford to be ladies of leisure now. Feminism fought for womenâs work to be acknowledged, valued, and fairly paid, and that fight is still ongoing.
@thethirdromana good point, but this was actually intentional! I wanted to point out that there are many past professions that are known and understood to be almost exclusively female (I canât imagine there has ever been a male wetnurse), and yet people still have the idea that âin the past, women didnât workâ. How this doesnât inspire catastrophic cognitive dissonance is beyond meâŠ
Ah, that makes sense - thanks for clarifying.
Feminism fought for womenâs work to be acknowledged, valued, and fairly paid, and that fight is still ongoing
I need you people to realize that you can be friends with people older than you. like, much older than you. like, decades older than you. you can be friends with these people. regular friends, just like anyone your age. it is possible.
Music shuffle game!
Rules: shuffle your âon repeatâ playlist and post the first 10 songs, then tag 10 friends to do the same. (Or shuffle one of your playlists if you use something else!)
I was tagged by @sweetmage <3
A good bit of variation here đ
Drowned - Emily Jane White
The Waiting Game - Kalandra
Broken - EivĂžr
Rule #9 Child of the Stars - Fish in a Birdcage
Don't Follow - Shelby Merry
Des Choses - Scratch Massive, Yelle
Ordinary Man - Globus, A.D.A.M.
Eternelle Nostalgie - Opale
PĂ„ Veg - GĂ„te
I Love You - Chris Harms
Finding enough people to tag is impossible soooo I will tag @thetruemommabear and whomever else would like to join in!
a little guy on a snowy night
a little guy sees the full winter moon
a little guy follows the smoke to the edge of the woods
a little guy enters the woods
a little guy finds a clearing
a little guy goes deeper into the woods
a little guy realizes he's not alone in these woods
a little guy finds the source of the smoke
a little guy finds a bigger guy
a little guy spends a moment alone
a little guy gets back to his walk
a little guy sees his goal
a little guy walks through the thinning woods
a little guy takes a break
a little guy finds an almost frozen river
a little guy nimbly jumps across the ice floes
a little guy falls in the river nonetheless
a little guy nears the base of the yawning mountain
a little guy is dwarfed by the first few feet of the mountain
a little guy begins his climb while the snow starts
a little guy is now taller than the trees
a little guy climbs higher and higher
a little guy passes history by
a little guy reaches the summit
a little guy spends another moment alone
a little guy pays his respects
a little guy falls asleep
a little guy wakes up untouched by the winter night's snow
a big guy kept an eye on his little guy
a little guy heads home once more
the end
Choose your fighter
Choose your fighter!
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sometimes writing smut is so easy, characters are naked, body fluids are exchanged, and theyâre collapsing onto each other all in the blink of an eye and then sometimes youâre squinting at âhe moanedâ for 30 minutes like âdid he really?â
my first reading in my African history class this year is about why using âtribeâ to refer to ethnic groups stems from a racist desire to make African conflicts sound primitive or stemming from a desire to pretend that these are just ancient conflicts that have always existed. great article and I also feel like Iâm vicariously experiencing the bullshittery that this author has been subjected to from people theyâve tried to talk to about this. like the article remains extremely professional but you can just hear in the tone that theyâre talking through gritted teeth, you can practically see the customer service smile
[ID: a screenshot from a section of the article titled âBut why not use âtribeâ? Answers to common arguments.â Under the bullet point for the argument âAfricans talk about themselves in terms of tribesâ is written, âCommonly when Africans learn English they are taught that tribe is the term that English-speakers will recognize. But what underlying meaning in their own languages are Africans translating when they say tribe? Take the word isizwe in Zulu. In English, writers often refer to the Zulu tribe, whereas in Zulu the word for the Zulu as a group would be isizwe. Often Zulu-speakers will use the English word tribe because thatâs what they think English speakers expect, or what they were taught in school. Yet Zulu linguists say that a better translation of isizwe is nation or people.â /end ID]Â
translation: â âOh ho ho but some Africans themselves say tribe!â You dipshit. You fucking donkey. When someone has a word that means ânationâ or âpeopleâ in their own language but then when they learn English YOU TELL THEM IT TRANSLATES TO âTRIBEâ then THAT WILL BE THE WORD THEY USE. Maybe if you LISTENED TO THE LINGUISTS OF THAT GROUP youâd have more accurate information. Asshole.â
each point is repeated over and over with like five different examples because you just know there are dipshits out there who will keep arguing.
to the anonymous author of this article for the Africa Policy Information Center I hope you have a good day every day and experience fewer people being assholes about this, your patience is actually legendary
sorry for romanticising the mundane. i have little else
One area where I feel like modern storytelling has let us down is this:
Sometimes you have to choose between evils.
I'm not talking about "situations in which it is unclear who is actually the villain" -- IMO there are too many of those stories recently -- but stories where it's clear that the good guys have no good options. Where the only choice you can make is the wrong one, because all of the choices are wrong, because not choosing is also a choice. Where the best you can do is to choose the lesser evil, or maybe, the greater good.
Because the preponderance of stories in which the hero, through virtue of his heroism, manages to make a good choice appear when the narrative has set him up to fail leads people to have little or no framework for making such a choice.
Because -- and let me be painfully clear about this -- in life there is often no good choice. The best you can hope for is the lesser evil.
But too many people have a moral framework wherein only bad people can choose a bad option, so when only bad options present themselves, people...... don't choose? Which is also a choice, and usually a worse one. Or they insist that if people only try hard enough, are "good" enough, then a good choice will present itself.
Most of the time, that doesn't happen. Most of the time, you have to choose harm reduction over harm abolition, and wishing the world were different, were better, means the world just gets worse while you sit around waiting.
Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling âYEARNINGâ and in trying to appease them I ask âFOR WHATâ but they are too small so all they can say is âYEARNINGâ which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively
I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.
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Reblog if you've made at least one friend because of a fandom.
Women with swords. You agree. Reblog.
