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plankhandles replied to your post “how the fuck do people who draw on tablets work at desks??" i could...”

Okay but how do you balance it on your legs or the bed without it wiggling?...

put tablet on large book

#plankhandles #i use the fucking warcraft visual guide lol

plankhandles replied to your post: im taking a gamble and emptying my small block...

Did they finally make it so you could unblock people? I remember when it first came out they warned everyone it couldn’t be undone

you can unblock people if you blocked them knowingly (like, saw them on your feed and hit “block”), but if they send you an anon and you block them then there’s no way to undo it unless you directly work with the user because it blocks IP and not a specific username

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plankhandles: Beating me off or... Beating me off?

perish

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You're a halfling rogue. I can't explain why, I only feel it in my heart.

Tbh...you’re right. Me and some irl lesbian friends might run the starter set d&d adventure soon, and though we’ve only picked out characters, the pre-rolled character I ended up with is a halfling rogue. 8) Your insight is too powerful.

Also, I’m short (as much as i hate to admit it!!), so...halfling works.

#ty for answering!!#plankhandles

plankhandles replied to your post: I am so tired of first person narration in...

Okay but which do you prefer: Past or present tense?

You know, I’ve never had a problem with this, so I can’t say I have a preference? I’ve rarely run into (published!!!) fiction using the present tense in the first place, and what little I have has produced a viable narrative reason for the style choice. Bacigalupe’s The Windup Girl and Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy come to mind. They’re both affecting a certain stylization with the active intention of it altering the way the reader interacts with the prose and making you think about the story from a different perspective. I’ve been bitching for years about first person, though. Shit, some of my favorite fiction is told in the first person. The original Sherlock Holmes canon, Robin Hobb’s RotE novels with Fitzchivalry as the narrator, the Dresden Files series- which is a great example of writing where first person works great POSSIBLY DESPITE(?) authorial intent? Getting into the head of the main character allows you to make your own decisions about what sort of person he is, which I honestly believe was a “feature not a bug” situation the author didn’t intend. To me Harry Dresden is an insufferable ass, but the way the books are written he’s presented to you as-is and you are not generally informed that you should like him by the writing itself. It’s not like I hate first person on principle? It’s just that it’s done thoughtlessly, and thus poorly, way too often. There’s been this weird glut of Young Adult stories over the last decade told in the first person where the choice of narration seems to serve absolutely no purpose but to keep important info away from the reader, because the main character didn’t see it. It’s lazy storytelling! I hate getting snookered into reading something because the setting or premise are interesting only to crack it open and find that poor storytelling choices ruin genuine potential! Upset noises!!!!

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