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contemplating a future where i get into idle flirtations with the AI on my phone while i wait for the AI on my workstation. a dire vision indeed, i think. tho i assume this is a reality for many

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Punks in Japan, 1980s

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the irredeemable pervert is generally well regarded among their friends for their insightful thoughts and all around pleasant demeanour

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someday i shall tire of blogging and pivot to posting bizarre and offputting takes in the form of thirst traps. lewd anime wizard getup w some kind of lace cape dick fully out and i've taken fluorescent body paint and written DIVINE RIGHT MONARCHY IS THE ONLY VALID POLITICAL SYSTEM on it

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i've forged my manifesto into a silicone obelisk. subscribe to my OnlyCultists for more

someday i shall tire of blogging and pivot to posting bizarre and offputting takes in the form of thirst traps. lewd anime wizard getup w some kind of lace cape dick fully out and i've taken fluorescent body paint and written DIVINE RIGHT MONARCHY IS THE ONLY VALID POLITICAL SYSTEM on it

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.

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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.

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

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

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'Lost in a sea of misbegotten sophistry' well they're not wrong about that.

Wait, they weren't being self-referential there?

#alex kurtagic isn't in his 30s so i suppose there must be two of them

all that stuff is just the male condition. kurt cobain was normal. stop trying to forcefem a normal guy

#half bait half i've been in male spaces ever and cmon

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Georges Chakra Couture 2025

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Chess piece depicting a frenzied warrior biting into his shield

Found in Uig - Scotland

12th Century AD

what do you mean they have 996 schedules in america

#i thought the [redacted] hiring manager who was trying to get me to come in for an interview was kidding about that #good thing it still put me off enough that i declined!

there's a hierarchy here, and we're trying to abolish it, and bring about universal emancipation. and the way we abolish it is that we identify the category that produces the hierarchy and we cause it not to exist. this will surely be unobjectionable to all, including those who we're going to cause not to exist – but, of course, they will object, because they're the category that produces the hierarchy. it will be awfully self-centered, indeed oppressive, for the people we're going to cause not to exist to object to their being caused not to exist, but this is only proof that our diagnosis is correct: they object to universal emancipation because they benefit from its absence, which is precisely why they must be caused not to exist. they're not like us, the pure of heart, who recognize that all beings are equal, and advocate freedom even for those we must cause not to exist