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wild that "you can't delete things from the internet; it's there forever" used to be just common wisdom and now we're at risk of losing extensive internet archives and tech companies are starting to wipe out huge swathes of inactive accounts and old data as well as delete and censor things they arbitrarily deem "inappropriate"
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imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.
for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.
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the mining dwarfer seems to pick his axe at night
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When you're listening to music and you find that one specific tune that hits the spot and listen to it on repeat for the rest of the day.
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this is so fucking funny i don't even care if it's real
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I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.
C.S. Lewis
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just had to reset my password on an account and you'll never guess what the first 3 letters of the temporary password they gave me were
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