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i made this like 2 years ago and just found it lmao

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me and stevo talk about the commodification of alternative crowds

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i am so SICK!!!!!!!!!!! of books overexplaining themselves to me. when booktok girlies talk about how they skip long paragraphs...i get it. i empathize. because every fucking time it's like:

She held the basketball in her hands; her palms were slick with sweat, her stomach sour with misery. The idea of running drills filled her with a dread so thick she thought she would drown in it. "I hate basketball," she said. Yes, that was it...she hated basketball. Ever since she picked up the basketball two seconds ago, and it had made her palms sweat and her stomach hurt, she'd realized that she hated basketball. She shouldn't have been on the team. She should quit the team. And move brightly towards her incredible future of not playing basketball. Why? Because she hated playing basketball. She hated it! She didn't want to run drills anymore; in fact, the thought of dribbling the basketball made her feel sick. Yes, that's right, she hated basketball. She was starting to realize now that she might actually hate basketball, for real.

just. the lack of confidence in your narrator's words and deeds. the inherent assumption that i am going to read a paragraph and then put the book down and i guess watch tiktoks. or go on a year-long vacation away from the book, and when i return i will have retained nothing. it makes me feel crazy. i don't like skimming over books but when i feel like you are spending thousands upon thousands of words reiterating the one (1) point that you made fifty pages ago, when your character said the point out loud, i am simply not reading all that. congratulations i guess. or sorry that happened

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I'm going to say it. The (word in parentheses) meme is way better for tone indication than tone indicators

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“All right, so the vampire’s gravestone is–”

“Cenotaph.”

“What?”

“It’s only a gravestone if it marks the location of a body. A monument honouring someone whose body isn’t present is a cenotaph.”

“I’m… not sure that’s how it works if the body gets up and walks away on its own.“

“There’s precedent for gravestones being reclassified as cenotaphs if the body is later removed and reinterred elsewhere. There’s no rule that says the body itself can’t do the removing.“

“Okay, but the body very much is coming back. That’s kind of what we’re here to accomplish.”

“So it’s a temporary cenotaph.”

“And naturally our greatest concern here is avoiding semantic ambiguity.“

“Semantic ambiguity is how vampires get you.”

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[Muffled Screaming from Muppet Superhell]

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girls night girls night

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Best pit photo of the whole con

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if you just register for a dysautonomia international medical conference. and you just let the videos play. and you even just half pay attention. you will gain the ability to change and save other people's lives.

so many chronically ill people only get diagnosed when someone other than their doctors say, "hey, have you heard of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome? it is really common, treatable, but it only shows up on specific tests."

or "hey, I know you have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, have you had autonomic testing or testing for non length dependent small fiber neuropathy? 30-40% of people with fibromyalgia have small fiber neuropathy, and a lot of that is the non length dependent pattern, which not a lot of doctors know about."

or "hey, you know how you have weird allergy issues? have you ever heard of mast cell activation syndrome? around 17% of people have mast cell issues, and they can cause debilitating symptoms all over the body until treated."

there are so many debilitating chronic illnesses that are EXTREMELY treatable, but only show up on specific tests. a lot of people with these conditions test as 'healthy' otherwise. and so fucking many of these kinds of conditions are presented at dysautonomia international in presentations that are easy to understand.

these medical conditions are everywhere, and have been around forever. and covid-19 has multiplied how many people have these, around the world.

everyone has an autonomic nervous system, and it breaks very easily. dysautonomia can happen alongside countless other medical conditions. every chronically ill person needs to be asking themselves if they might have some form of autonomic dysfunction. because chances are pretty good that they do.

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at the end of the day, for me, the most disappointing thing about C3 isn't the poor narrative structure, the bad pacing where everything feels dragged out and rushed at the same time, or never giving the characters the space and focus to breathe and develop their own centric subplots

it is ultimately that Marquet started off very strong as a setting and did feel like it was making strides to properly draw from its Asian and SWANA inspirations, including with good use of work by other authors and consultants, only for that to rapidly fall off as the Ruidus plot became central and for there to be just as little space for Marquet as there was for Bells Hells as characters beyond carriers of The Moon Plot, with no space to develop and explore either to potential and richness. It's disappointing for Marquet especially, given the continued dearth of Asian and SWANA inspirations in Western AP, and I felt C3 started off promising with Marquet as a grounded and rich location in those inspirations.

I think a lot about Ela Lumas, whose sons' murders is the inciting incident, and how her title Ginang is a Filipino word and how exciting that was for me personally. The fact that we lost this even as smaller notes, and that ultimately Marquet was supplanted in favor of Vasselheim (not even Issylra as a whole) and Ruidus without any real grounding of why Marquet was the setting in the first place or what Marquet's importance was specifically to the narrative other than "it has to be set somewhere", is just so intensely disappointing to me. The biggest disappointment I have with C3.

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do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be

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you dont have to be a parent to understand the horror of walking into a room to discover that the baby crawled out of his crib and onto that pottery wheel you forgot to turn off, and while the baby is spinning around and around, the dog is sitting there all calm, like a person, gently using his paws to fashion the babys soft cartilage head into something a little more modern.  it might be the classic tale of bad parenting, but lets see where the dog is going with this

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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New fear unlocked:

I go to dashcon 2 to meet the muppet joker and he's actually british

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One must imagine Syphilis happy.