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cherry valley forever
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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it’s not funny that charlie kirk stepped on a rake and then fell backwards into a pit of hot tar before stumbling out and getting stuck to a comically large firework that shot through a chicken coop covering him in feathers before the firework finally exploded and a big image of his face appeared in the sky. Stop laughing
Charlie Kirk ain't special my bitch get shot in the throat every night
You didn’t mention he was scrumdiddlyumptious
yo hit me up i got deals on bulk cuz idk how long im gonna be around - the suicidal plug
one of the biggest american copes to me is that our right wing essentially runs on the idea that it's gay and cucked to want a better life for anyone including yourself. this is the biggest cope in the entire world. other countries are worse because they're gay and cucked. higher life expectancies are gay and cucked. higher literacy rates are gay and cucked. public transportation is gay and cucked. education is gay and cucked and so on and so forth
Porn bugs are attacking your dog because you are ubsessed with candy crunch and farm merge valley. Fuck!
are we too far gone
I'm always Pregnant with a better version of myself but I keep giving him fetal alcohol syndrome 💀
the light begin to bleed begin to breathe begin to speak
So one thing about writing about societies that are really different from your own is that you're constantly having to reset your mind and filter natural ways of thinking and framing things for you, that would not be natural for your narrator. Most fantasy or scifi writers are familiar with The Cursing Problem ("how do I get across the simple energy of a good 'fuck this' or 'to hell with this' without jarring your audience, in a society that doesn't have a concept of an afterlife or heavy sexual taboos?") but it crops up everywhere.
I've got my narrator who lives in a colony ship with a heavily planned economy and little to no use of personal currency. She's explaining the differences between two types of elevators on the ship, one that just goes up a few (populated and pressurised) floors and one that has to travel to the middle of the big spinning ring they're all on, so it's a lot longer, much more difficult to maintain and upgrade, and things are much, much more dangerous if it breaks down. My automatic way to summarise the differences in difficulty between these was to call one "very expensive to maintain" and the other "much cheaper to maintain". I'm just so used to abstracting materials, labour and maintenance frequency into terms of currency.
She Would Not Say That.
Writing scifi is a fucking landmine of this stuff. Every two paragraphs I'm ambushed by some completely innocuous-seeming sentence asking me "would I, this sentence, exist in this culture? If someone here said this, what would they actually be implying? Is it the same as what someone in the real world would be implying?"
i get this so hard. different but related issue, but i had to make up ONE WORD for a fantasy language, but it turns out, words come from Places, which provide Context. so now im thinking about the timeline metallurgy vs linguistic development and if this particular drift would change how a compound word is pronounced before vs after the vowels got funky and also why tf am i using such an unusual root word for sword? (hint: its because of that roman letter with the guy moaning abt how Youth These Days are making even perfectly innocent words like "penis" obscene so i wanted it to be Slang That Became An Everyday Use Word)
Turns out language, in all its parts, is really fucking layered!
If you want to save time, you only have to think one (1) layer deeper than the average reader will. You don't need to gild the scaffolding.
Of course, if you enjoy gilding scaffolding, it's a great way to practice your painting and perhaps find some fun new aspects of the world to display. But you don't have to. One layer deeper than the average reader is sufficient.
"Oh but what about the more thorough reader who's gonna bust out their linguistics degree?" They knew what they were getting into, and can take it to fanfiction if they care that much.
when you jack off to the thought of me I experience an extreme psychic pain luckily its only ever happened once when I jacked off to myself
I wish I had a citation for this, but there is a sense that being "too private" about your religion in ancient Greece was weird. Religion was generally a state sponsored and public affair, and while private ritual did happen, it was within sanctioned bounds like using your houses domestic shrine. If you and six guys got together to do rituals in someones basement, that was regarded as strange and untrustworthy.
What about the mysteries?
The mysteries were also largely state sanctioned, and happened at state funded temples. The difference between them and ordinary religious festivals was that (according to iamblichus) they offered *direct* contact with the gods, and thus their specifics were kept secret.
take a minute to stop. focus. breathe. how many damn daniel eggs did you lay today? count them. that’s good.
But you can do more.
My new idea. It is called fake green baby and every mamas on the earth allowed to have one. Please dont steal
