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Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:

catastrophe -> contraverse cephalopod -> capitoped chlorophyll -> viridofolia democracy -> populimpery homicide -> anthropoctony homosexual -> equigamic kilometer -> millimensure interregnum -> mesarchy magnanimous -> megapsychic manuscript -> chirography motorcycle -> ergatorote microscope -> parvovisor oxygen -> acidofex polyamory -> multierasty television -> remotoscope universe -> monostrophe

bruzum

im always saying this

greater-than-the-sword

Our glorious democracy, their wretched populimpery

the-valiant-valkyrie

everyone's always talking about 'ohh hornet will take two masks of damage to Anything' and 'ohh the knight is so much tankier than their sister' but i don't hear anyone mentioning how- if hollow in their prime was strong enough to consistently deal two damage to the knight- they were an absolute guillotine of a bug. they should have literally been at the fucking club. pk what are we doing.

theprofessional-amateur

link to bluesky post

theprofessional-amateur

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page

dearorpheus

“But there are dark, untouched corners within all of us. Sex can be very exciting in one moment and barely tepid the next. It can feel like love but not be love. It can feel like possession and then the person walks away. You can’t possess another person. You can’t make another person not die. If nothing else, at least my vomit fetish is mine. It’s mine and it’s real.”

— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

cumdumpstiel

so cool how advanced the algorithm has become, it literally only takes like a decade or more of spying on all my internet activity and then it can expertly curate a selection of 15-20 youtube videos that i don't really want to watch, and then keep showing me those videos over and over again for a week so i can scroll past them again. the future is now

loveridden1999

crossfaded somewhere between "there has to be more to life than this" and "every mundane thing is beautiful when you're with people you love"

loveridden1999

crossfaded somewhere between "there has to be more to life than this" and "every mundane thing is beautiful when you're with people you love"

izbnart

Disco Elysium animation 🕺

enukt

reblog so i can watch it over and over

depsidase

chucklefuck69

I wanna be terrified of you by the time the session is done btw

psych-is-the-name

thasmin-vibes

I fucking can't breathe

bloodstainedgauntlet

captain of the guard fucking a knight for the first time and murmuring biiiig stretch under his breath as he enters him for the first time. in exactly the same tone as when he whispers that’s it when the knight disarms him on the training ground. do you see the vision

tlbodine

For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

prof-grace-aspen

Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.

earhartsease

yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth

eldritchsandwich

compost your darlings

recycle your darlings

Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder

breelandwalker

If you are unsatisfied with the fruits of your writing, put them aside and let them ferment. When you come back to them later, you'll either find gigglejuice or good compost. Both are helpful for future projects.