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you have two classmates at your table who can help you write your exam. one of them has studied a lot for the specific exam you're about to take, and they've already passed a number of stringent exams in the same subject, but they've never taken your specific exam before.

the other one has seen every single exam a student has written in every single class on campus and has become famous for making amazing collages of those exam answers. however, this student not only has not studied for the exam you are about to take, they have never studied any subject other than making collages of exam answers, and they have never taken a single exam or had any of their collages fact-checked for accuracy.

if you choose the second student rather than the first, it's pretty obvious that you'll fail your exam in that class. you probably also wouldn't hire that student to teach that class, or to make the course schedule, or to handle the university payroll, or design its buildings, because all that student knows how to do is make exam collages, and that means they have no factual knowledge, no field-specific skills, no ability to evaluate logistical priorities, no understanding of legal and financial constraints, and no experience with civil engineering.

stop outsourcing accuracy-dependent tasks to ChatGPT.

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I just hate that they suggest that the Pevensies went back to being kids when the reality is that since the end of lww, they are ADULTS. And they are still adults even when they return to their child bodies. Let's face it, reality is the end of it.

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Download this easy DIY clothing repair guide (only 10 pages) from Uni of Kentucky

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Khaled Marwan | The Muse

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Albany Ledger, Missouri, June 17, 1898

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Just make it exist first, you can make it good later

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All exclusive short stories: The Folk of the Air

I decided to collect all exclusive stories I know of. I have done something similar for SJM books .  If you know of any other exclusive story, please let me know! THE CRUEL PRINCE A visit to the Impossible Lands Barnes and Noble edition Deleted Scenes From The Cruel Prince (Some of these are alternate storylines) THE WICKED KING deleted scene from The Wicked King, Barnes and Noble edition THE QUEEN OF NOTHING Cardan’s letters from the Queen of Nothing Barnes and Noble edition, should be read after the book deleted scene from The Queen of Nothing , sent via Holly’s official newsletter THE STOLEN HEIR The Walmart Exclusive Stolen Heir content The Stolen Heir Barnes & Noble Bonus Content, author’s personal journal pages and notes on the manuscript, Some posts I found useful: post about True Names A Guide to Holly Black’s Extended Faerie Universe

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this is not a drag on fanfiction but if you find yourself consistently saying “wow fic is better than most published stuff!! and it’s free!!” it might be a sign that your brain is ready for and craving more complicated literature than the books you are used to gravitating towards

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This is probably a criminally unpopular opinion, but people whose walls are covered in brand new booktok books are just as complicit in trend-driven overconsumption as the Stanley girlies or the showertok creators with 80 treehut scrubs. I don't necessarily mean the romance girls either, so don't think the 'my year of rest and relaxation' crowd gets a pass here.

Literally the amount of people I talk to who say reading is their favorite hobby and they read like 3 books a week then will tell me that they don't have a library card is insane. How much money do you guys spend on books without any guarantee that you'll even like it? Why not just read a library copy then buy the book if you really liked it?

"But why would I buy a book that I've already read?"

Why did you buy it without knowing you were going to want to read it more than once??? If you didn't like the book then you've just got a $25 piece of wall decor lmao.

I think that this also opens up a broader conversation about the commodification of hobbies on social media. Reading used to be a means to an end to consume a story you enjoyed, and now it's an aesthetic to be performed on Instagram, just like any other trend but with an added air of superiority.

I'm just ranting but if someone can explain to me how buying endless books that'll be read once and then left to collect dust on your shelf is different than buying an eyeshadow palette that'll be used once then shoved to the back of a drawer for years, I'm all ears.

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Took a risk and it paid off

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at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

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KPop Demon Hunters is a pretty good movie with a pretty bad title lol. it's like naming your romance novel "Enemies To Lovers" or- (assistant runs onstage) what? (assistant starts whispering frantically in my ear) oh... oh.......

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characters apologizing for things they have no control over. mumbling sorry while losing consciousness. feeling ashamed of a bleeding wound. embarrassed when an infection sets in. deep seated feverish guilt when they need to be carried, when their legs won't keep them upright anymore and they lean heavy on a friend, slurring apologies..........

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Do y'all ever read a fic so good that it makes you want to elevate your own craft and also befriend the writer? It's almost like, "Hi! You write so well that you've inspired me to embark on a creative training arc. Also, can I yell about the character in your dms because you get it?"

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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god

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Les Mis quotes for Protest Signs

Not being heard is no reason for silence

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

The brutalities of progress are called revolution

There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity

No army can stop an idea whose time has come