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a shy bi // your resident meta analysis enthusiast // professional writer // feminist // cat person // hella ace // will science the shit out of your otp

[lpfromzero]

Start für den Dreh der zwei neuen Frankfurt Tatorte 🥰. Und wir erfahren endlich Maryams Geheimnis. "Vier Finger" soll noch dieses Jahr kommen und "Nebel" hört sich auch super an (und wahrscheinlich braucht man wieder Taschentücher 🥹)

[rialtostation]

pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with "the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right" and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes "now consider the vast power of grief in this setup" it never really stops considering

[emziess]

Holland March + 🍑🍑🍑 The Nice Guys dir. Shane Black

[thememedaddy]

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[papierchen]

Tatort Berlin: Tiere der Großstadt + "Kleines Solo" (Erich Kästner)

"vielleicht bin ich hier oben schon auf halbem wege in den himmel. im zwischenreich."

[theterroramc]

Jared Harris on the set of The Terror [Source]

[shubbabang]

[cuntylestat]

being obsessed with captain america: the winter soldier in 2014 is something that will always be inside of you

[cogentranting]

Mr. Collins would be such a fan of ai. He would love it. He would have it write scripts for him to use for complimenting people. He'd ask it what to do in social situations and then when someone would tell him "I think that's a bad idea" he'd be like "my dear madam it's so good of you to be concerned but I think the highly esteemed Grok knows a little more about this than a lady like yourself" and then he'd go humiliate himself publicly.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

the distinction between professional and amateur is pay btw. if you get paid for doing it you're doing it professionally. it says nothing about quality. some of the best craftspeople on earth are amateurs and some of the worst writers are professionals.

[snototter]

A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) feeding on a walrus carcass in Svalbard, Norway

by Tim Melling

[themoonandmyman]

what’s one thing you’re doing today that’s good for you mentally and/or physically :)

[emilwasalone]

Auf Grund von Budgetkürzungen entfällt das Licht am Ende des Tunnels.

[tedchaough]

Mad Men Challenge: [2/9 characters] Betty Draper Francis as portrayed by January Jones

[petoskeystones]

WAKE THE FUCK UP

Four sailors from doomed Franklin expedition identified through DNA

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have identified the remains of four more crew members of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition

[squarebracket-trickster]

"Readers have SHORT attention spans! The average reader takes just TWO sentences to decide whether to put a book down! You have to HOOK them in the FIRST sentence! GRAB them by throat and don't let them BREATHE—"

... have... have we considered that perhaps the average reader just, like, knows what they like in a book? I mean... first sentences are famous for establishing things like *checks notes*... genre, tone, POV, pacing, character, voice, uhhh... writing style...

The average reader is putting your book down because they discovered it's in first person (or not in first person). The average reader put your book down because they wanted a cozy read, or they're sick of cozy reads, or romance, or grimdark, or assassin princesses, or vampires, or or or. The average reader put your book down because they just didn't like your writing style—no, not because it was boring... they just, get this, didn't like it.

The average critical reader put your book down because it had six grammatical mistakes in the first two sentences.

The average reader will read quite a ways if the premise intrigues them, they like the genre, the writing style doesn't get on their nerves, and the characters pop off the page. In fact, they'll probably read the whole book, so long as it delivers on its plot promises and doesn't drag in the middle section.

The average reader will, however, stop reading after just two sentences if it's clear by the second sentence that the only thing they'll like about this book is the opening line.

[squarebracket-trickster]

Idk, I just think like, painting a demographic of people who, you know, pick up full length books to read for fun, as having short attention spans doesn't make too much sense. At least not as much sense as the alternative: words tell people things; namely, the contents of this book.

In general, though, I think we jump to blame short attention spans too often when there is a far more logical explanation. "It takes 0.06 seconds for viewers to scroll past a post." Yes, that is typically how long it takes me to discern whether this post is about something I'm interested in. There's a trillion posts out there, probably a billion books, of course we've gotten fast at sorting through content. That's not an attention span issue. That's just efficiency.