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while I'm mildly doxxing myself via tom waits facts, here's one that lives rent free in my head: someone I know said he really loved to come into whole foods and buy two (2) full plastic bags of ginger (nothing else), and leave

#what was it FOR??#now you can reflect on this too #op

nobrashfestivity

Via amandapourlesintimes

#I mean to be fair every time he came into a place I worked everyone would say #Hey it's tom waits quick pretend you don't know who he is! he doesn't like attention!!!#so perhaps he just doesn't realize he has the local reputation of a particularly rare and shy nocturnal animal?

pmamtraveller

"Break Free," created by artist Disha Dua.

#dream book #q

loveridden1999

if i was a soccer player i'd simply kick that ball in the goal instead of wasting everyone's time

#big catherine de bourgh energy here

asleepinawell

marquis yan said fuck your sign bixia's boy

#the best #nirvana in fire

nothingmancy

This is not an internet choice question that is super relevant to the way I engage with fiction personally but notably this poll presupposes that “going canon” cannot include What Happened to Queliot. There are ways in which the monkey paw can curl that many aren’t aware of unless they were in a specific place in 2019

the-semicolonoscopy

#lmao @ that graph always #the magicians

cbk1000

So, I lurk in some writer subreddits, and a frequent topic of discussion is prose: what constitutes good prose, how do you write it, how do you improve it, etc. And yesterday I stumbled across one topic about the difference between good descriptive prose, and purple prose. OP asks people to share some of their favourite authors who they think write beautiful prose without tipping into purple. No problem; people are happy to oblige.

One person says that Steinbeck is one of their favourite authors for prose, and then they share an example of what they would consider purple prose. It is so violetly awful that I think the poster must have written it themselves as a kind of parody of purple prose. Other people assumed the same.

But as it turns out, they are quoting from a book written by a YouTuber whose channel ia dedicated to talking about writing (namely, their own writing, which is genius, but often not comprehensible to the drooling plebs).

Naturally, I read the free sample of their book in awe and horror, and I'd like to share some screenshots with you. If you also have trouble defining or understanding what purple prose is, it's this.

Yes, every single fucking page is written like this.

cbk1000

Reading some more of the preview for this book, and I realise this is by far not the biggest problem, but I'm begging this guy to just use 'shadow' instead of 'umbra'. I promise I will not accuse you of being a philistine.

cbk1000

'Noctilucent orbs'. Even fanfic written by a 14-year-old wouldn't dare.

The author is a man in his 30s, btw.

the-pen-pot

*throws this in the face of everyone who has ever accused me of writing purple prose*

#wow...#you know. I'd love to see some of these words come into more common use but uh. not like that!!#writing

The camp I'm working at tends to attract a lot of neurodivergent kids (and employees lmao), so anyway, today I was talking to an 8yo in the aftermath of a meltdown, trying to figure out what had caused it, and he's like "PEOPLE– WERE BEING– TOO LOUD-wait. Look at that dog. One eye brown and the other one white that dog has heterochromia."

This kid was really like, hang on, meltdown paused, dogs are more important. And I gotta say. Relatable.

#I absolutely can't say what this kid's name was but I CAN say that the options for characters he might have been named after are.#Fascinating.#work tag #poor dude's having the classic problem of #I refused to engage in any group activities and now I'm sad that I'm not feeling included #also relatable tbh