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wow…ahead of its time (and ahead of its host)

Kermit knew you could pick your own gender, and is now finding out that there are more options in that category than previously suspected

threecirclingbuzzards

nice

liberalsarecool

Killing 68,000 people was United's choice.

Murder by algorithm is wrong.

radgepacket-deactivated20241030

parents got a new cat they named lord montague and this morning i heard my dad in the other room say "i would have to advise against that decision, my lord" followed by a crashing sound

izzylimon

wholeheartedsuggestions

it’s okay to cycle through and circle back to different stages of grief. sometimes you think you’ve reached acceptance and then you’re back to depression. it happens. it’s all part of the process.

wholeheartedsuggestions

on healing: “i’d like to but how?”

a few tips i have found helpful (feel free to add) —

keep in mind that healing isn’t linear

write down accomplishments every day even if they’re small such as “i ate dinner today”, “i washed my face”, etc.

seek out a good therapist/psychiatrist that you click with even if it takes a few tries

reach out to loved ones when you need help

practice forgiving yourself often

make a point of doing little acts kindness for both yourself and others

work on positive self talk

etc, etc, etc

wholeheartedsuggestions

sending extra love to the friend who always feels like they’re on the outside, who walks behind the group when there’s no room on the sidewalk, who is always the listener and the giver. you are an amazing person and friend. i hope people acknowledge that, because you deserve it.

daily-spooky

lady-averie

This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

author-a-holmes

I just had a debate with myself over using the word mezzanine, wondering if I should describe it instead. Ultimately I decided the character would call it a mezzanine, and therefore readers could look up a new word if they didn't know.

It's how I learned words like myriad as a seven year old reading Lord of the Rings for the first time, why would I steal that experiance from someone else by simplifying language?

headspace-hotel

I don't know about y'all, but books are how i know my vocabulary in the first place

heywriters

my favorite thing relevant to this is when a dumb character uses regional or obscure words completely casually, but i have to look them up. To me it's a big weird word, but to the silly town drunk in a story what else are you supposed to call that thing??

anyway, read outside your culture as well, even if it's just the state/city/country next door that you've never been to. you will expand your vocabulary substantially.

ziparumpazoo

bogleech

This is a trend?? Why aren't the same people annoyed by sci fi and fantasy dropping original terminology into casual dialog? Or do they hate that too?