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being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

tiffinposts

Um 4 years ago was 2004. It's 2008. The economy is tanking, there's an endless war in the Middle East, and we can't decide what social media we're using.

thegentlemanstar

this site gets accused of being way too usamerican a lot but i wonder what the actual proportion is

are you usamerican

yes

some other nuanced answer (pls elaborate in the tags i’m nosy)

Remaining time: 11 hours 29 minutes

#us passport but I have not lived there in a Very Long Time

finnishlongdrinks

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tiffinposts

Can someone give the alcohol free pink raspberry my number? thx

starpains

on “the blond,” “the older man,” and other crimes against third-person limited

You know that thing where a story is written in tight third person limited — we’re meant to be inside someone’s head, seeing the world through their thoughts — and then suddenly the narration says “the blond frowned” or “the shorter woman sighed” about a person the POV character knows really well?

That’s called antonomasia — using a descriptive label instead of a name. And it’s fine when we’re talking about strangers: “the cashier handed her the receipt,” “the tall guy blocked the door.” The POV character doesn’t know their names, and we just need a quick way to tell people apart.

But the moment it’s used for someone the POV character already knows, it breaks immersion. Because that’s not how our minds work. We don’t think “the older man smiled at me.” We think “Mark smiled.” Or maybe “my boss” if that relationship matters in the moment.

Third person limited means the narration sits inside someone’s perception. Their inner monologue is the story’s voice. So when you switch from “Mark smiled” to “the blond smiled,” you’ve pulled the camera away from their mind and turned it into an outside shot.

If you want to create distance or irritation, you can do it on purpose —

“The idiot from accounting emailed again.”

That’s character voice. That’s judgment. That works.

But otherwise?

As soon as your POV character knows someone’s name, use it. While we do tend to worry about repetitions, names rarely register as such to the readers.

If you need variety for rhythm, use relational or emotional identifiers that make sense in their head: her friend, his partner, their teacher, the person they loved.

Because inside someone’s thoughts, there are no “blonds” or “brunettes.”

There are only people they know.

wisteria-lodge

Really good explanation of the fundamental problem with this type of writing.

(and why it's one of my huge pet peeves)

preserving-tiktok

augustdementhe

I bet her duel deck is fucking insane.

machinedoll22

tiffinposts

Replace literally any Final Fantasy character with her and rejoice

charl0ttan

#i read this as erectile dysfunction and was like #man I don't know but maybe

girlsjustwannahaveadegree

Me at least twice a week

#hey so I'm back from my brain setting itself on fire what did I miss #don't get postpartum depression folks #my grippy sock vacation sucked

rainintheevening

Okay, we got a new one, boys.

mysharona1987

#sentient ship of Theseus will rattle in my brain for the rest of my life #there's a book in there somewhere

asthedeathoflight

The best way to become immune to freebirthing anti-medical intervention in childbirth propaganda is to follow a sheep farmer on instagram. I mean this. People will try and tell pregnant women not to go to the hospital because their bodies were built for childbirth and it is difficult to know they are lying. Unless. You have witnessed the epic highs and lows of being a shepherd during lambing season. Ewes are undeniably more built for childbirth than we are. Their hips are less weird and their babies less bulbous. They are living the ideal freebirth scenario. And yet the humans watching over them during lambing season exist in a constant state of anticipating needing to give medical intervention because even a sheep is not designed to give birth so well that human interference is not often necessary. And EVEN WITH humans watching and helping ewes and lambs STILL die. Like, pretty frequently. Sheep have spent a million years giving birth just out in a field completely on their own and they still die constantly under near-perfect conditions.

Humans have spent the past 500,000 years frantically trying to make up for having extremely fragile infants and bodies that make childbirth extremely difficult by leveraging the whole of our intelligence and technology and collaboration towards trying to make pregnancy survivable for both parties. You are not honoring your ancestors by giving birth at home with no medical intervention. The midwife you are idolizing would have wept tears of joy hearing about the vitamin K shot and tears of rage to know women and babies are still dying of the things she spent her life fighting even after we invented the cure.

#pregnancy #as someone who has worked lambing season and is about to give birth this is SO REAL

liputuspaiva

Tänään suositellaan liputtamaan koska öö

"Alvar ja Aino Aallon sekä suomalaisen arkkitehtuurin ja muotoilun päivä"

Eli ei oo virallinen liputuspäivä mutta joku voi liputtaa

Päivän kunniaksi kuvassa vitun ruma talo tosta muutaman kilometrin päästä

#the only good thing I can say about Tikkurila station is that there's a Taco Bell #that's how bad it is #we should have an architecture day though

redstonedust

reformed villain who hasnt quite figured out how to make completely ethical inventions so they keep coming to the good guys like "good news everyone! i've figured out how to solve climate change. all i need is a few blood sacrifices and the tears of 2-300 children." and everyones like okay man we're glad that youre trying but maybe back to the drawing board on that one