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me doing normal human activities: is this allowed? is this allowed? am i allowed to do this? is this allowed? i donāt want to get in trouble can i do this is this allowed?
house plants
someone who is good at rolling please help me budget this my primogems are dying
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[ID: Two screencaps from Taskmaster. Mel Giedroyc, confronted with a pile of hundreds of peas on a table, says, āIām gonna funnel them.ā She starts swiping handfuls of peas off the edge of the table, directly into her mouth. End ID.]
*calls myself āsheā but in an unmistakably unfemale way*
i am a āsheā in the same way a boat belonging to an honest old fisherman is a āsheā
*places a hand on my waterlogged boards and tangled nets* she may be falling apart but she gets the job done :)
90% of writing advice can be thrown out the window for your first draft.
Show donāt tell? Ignore.
Basic grammar and punctuation? Unnecessary.Ā
Physical descriptions of characters? Donāt need to bother.Ā
Solid plot? Thatās for later.Ā
The words donāt come as fast when youāre thinking of the best way to put them together. It doesnāt have to be pretty, or much more than inconsistent nonsense.Ā The point is to have it exist.
Effective storytelling is for subsequent drafts! Go write some nonsense!Ā
As a hyper-perfectionist human, THIS is a piece of advice I wish Iād internalized a hell of a lot sooner. If I hadnāt overwhelmed myself by considering every little thing, starting over when it gets ātoo messyā⦠thereās no doubt in my mind Iād have a first draft by now.
Now, passion is the only thing I care about in my first draft.
when iām writing fiction, the main rule i try to stick to is that: the first draft is where i write whatās important to me.
this usually means character arcs and deep ethical and political debates for me, but for some people itās gonna be physical description or in-depth plotting or Whatever
your subsequent drafts are where you fill in the gaps and make things make sense, but that first draft should be everything you personally care about, and donāt worry much about the rest
You ALL be regretting writing, or attempting to write, that book or script about the serial killer.
Prosecutor:Ā āThe defendant googledĀ āHow does a murderer clean up the scene?ā is that not highly suspicious?!ā
Sobbing writer:Ā āBut it was for my pulp crime novel! And I still canāt get a publishing deal!ā
My worst fear has been realised.
Iām not saying this to be a mean stick in the mud, but this isnāt going to affect fiction writers lol. Researching your crime noire novel (or, letās be honest, fan fiction) isnāt going to get you arrested. The case reported on had this used to create a profile of narrowed down suspects related to a vandalism, without needing a specific warrant. When this gets used further, it will be primarily to profile activists (especially black activists) based on who searched for organizing efforts related to certain protests, or some similar measure against dissent. Itās not going to be used directly against you in court unless a warrant is issued, which has been a factor for years now.
As with most privacy concerns these days, the issue isnāt so much what it will do to any one specific person, but how it empowers law enforcement to enact wider authoritarian controls on populations using such enformation. More invasive methods of monitoring become more widespread and ubiquitous reprisals.
Regardless, you should already be moving away from using google as your primary search engine.
Stop using Google and instead use alternative search engines:
DuckDuckGo
Searx
Quant
Startpage.com
Also
install the TrackMeNot extension, which provides a constant stream of fake input to pollute data to the point of making it unusable.
be extra extra careful when youāre looking for directions. Cops are all over travel planning apps and map apps, looking for people who drove to or looked for a bus to a protest sight. Itās a treasure trove of data and almost every site that provides travel planning shares their data with cops.
openstreetmap.org for a substitute to google maps
Shamanic Princess by Atsuko Ishida / Flowery Orange Pekoe artbook, 1998
idk what it is about sitting in chairs and having both feet on the floor but itās so uncomfortable and awful and iāll never willingly do it if thereās literally any other option
Sailor Moon by Kazuko Tadano / Animage magazine (09/1993)