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[somethingtocallmine]

[911-incorrect-quotes-dispatch]

Eddie: I think I’m coming down with something.

Hen: Any nausea, headaches or fever?

Eddie: No, it's more like insane food cravings.

Buck, excited: Maybe you’re pregnant!

Ravi: Oh my god, am I gonna be an uncle?

Chim: I can't believe you two were having unprotected sex.

Buck: We're adults, with clean bills of health, Chim.

Hen: I'm gonna throw you the best baby shower ever, Eddie, I have so many ideas.

*They all sit in silence for a whole minute*

Eddie: I don’t know who’s the bigger idiot here. My dumbass of a boyfriend for suggesting it, you three for going along with it, or me because I got excited for a second.

[writers-potion]

how do you write a liar?

How to Write Liars Believably

Language

The motive of every goal is the make the lie seem plausible while taking blame off the speaker, so liars will often project what they say to a third party: "Katie said that..."

Referring to third parties as "they" rather than he or she

In the case of a deliberate lie prepped beforehand, there will be an overuse of specific names (rather than pronouns) as the speaker tries to get the details right.

Overuse of non-committal words like "something may have happened"

Masking or obscuring facts like "to the best of my knowledge" and “it is extremely unlikely," etc.

Avoiding answers to specific, pressing questions

Voice

There's isn't a set tone/speed/style of speaking, but your character's speech patten will differ from his normal one.

People tend to speak faster when they're nervous and are not used to lying.

Body Language

Covering their mouth

Constantly touching their nose

fidgeting, squirming or breaking eye contact

turning away, blinking faster, or clutching a comfort object like a cushion as they speak

nostril flaring, rapid shallow breathing or slow deep breaths, lip biting, contracting, sitting on your hands, or drumming your fingers. 

Highly-trained liars have mastered the art of compensation by freezing their bodies and looking at you straight in the eye.

Trained liars can also be experts in the art of looking relaxed. They sit back, put their feet up on the table and hands behind their head.

For deliberate lies, the character may even carefully control his body language, as though his is actually putting on a show

The Four Types of Liars

Deceitful: those who lie to others about facts

2. Delusional: those who lie to themselves about facts

3. Duplicitious: those who lie to others about their values

Lying about values can be even more corrosive to relationships than lying about facts. 

4. Demoralized: those who lie to themselves about their values

Additional Notes

Genuine smiles or laughs are hard to fake

Exaggerations of words (that would normally not be emphasized) or exaggerated body language

Many savvy detectives ask suspects to tell the story in reverse or non-linear fashion to expose a lie. They often ask unexpected, or seemingly irrelevant questions to throw suspects off track. 

[ph-cutie]

pretending im studying poses by drawing hdb on top of stock photos of men getting dressed

[lilislegacy]

percy, holding out his fist in his palm: ok wise girl. rock paper scissors time. if i win, i get to pick the movie for date night

annabeth, doing the same: fine, but if i win, we move back across the country to that house in westchester that i love

grover, looking over in alarm: what?! how is that even—

percy, nodding firmly: deal. rock pap—

[rima-88]

urgent / 🆘

"I need your hearts above all else..."

You may not know me, and perhaps we will never meet, but today I am writing to you because I need your support, your humanity,my story is not easy for me to tell, but it is true, and it is filled with hope that has not yet been extinguished,i ask that you just give my story a minute of your time.

"In a single moment, everything collapsed..."This is not a fairy tale, but the painful reality of a displaced woman.

Rima lost everything she owned. She lost her home, which housed her dreams; her father, brother, and son, who were snatched away by death in a cruel moment; and her husband, who struggles with pain after a serious injury. All that remains for her is her patience. Her livelihood has been cut off and she has lost her source of income, yet she continues to resist with silence and dignity.

Help us make her voice heard, perhaps a compassionate hand will reach her, ease her pain and restore some hope.

1. Every time we try to get back on our feet, the war befalls us with another tragedy. My husband, for whose treatment I was collecting donations outside Gaza, was seriously injured for the second time. My eldest son is a prisoner, my youngest is a martyr, and my little girl passed away before she saw the light of day... All I have left is God, and perhaps your hearts.

2. My tent burned down, just as my heart burned for those I lost. My children and I are now homeless, without medicine, and without hope... Help me protect what's left of my family.

3. All our wounds bleed; we have no home or homeland, but we hope for a compassionate heart to reach out to us. My family needs you today... Don't leave us alone.

4. In one moment, I lost two girls: one was martyred in my womb, and the other's dreams were burned under the rubble of the tent... Please, life is too harsh for us.

5. We only dream of medicine, a blanket, a loaf of bread, and the shade of a tent that doesn't burn. Whoever has a living heart... let him remember us.

6. I am a mother who has lost everything, and I am still waiting for relief from God and from your merciful hearts. Your donation could revive a family that dies silently every day.

If you can't donate even a small amount, reposting could make a difference in my life.

Help me make my voice heard.

You are the light on a path that darkness has tried to obscure.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who feels, shares, and helps.

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[screambirdscreaming]

Perhaps the most peeving thing here is the way people keep jumping up to say, "you dont understand! I just want comforting narratives where people like me are embraced by society, as a break from reading stuff where I have to think about implications - you just don't understand the appeal of reading cozy mindless things to relax!"

And I'm like. Actually I really do! I often enjoy stories that are comforting and not emotionally challenging! I just dont find narratives of assimilation comforting. I don't find it reassuring or mindless to be shown a world where certain people have been moved from the "marginalized" box to the "normalized" box, and proceed to have a totally standard normal-guy low-stakes narrative from the lap of societal acceptance! I dont find it at all a balm or comfort to the struggles of marginalization. I find it grating and exhausting, and it makes me feel *more* aware of the forces of oppression and how they exist as the necessary inverse process of the forces of normalization.

There's a lot of political baggage here, obviously. Without digging too deep into that: if the type of story that gives you the least cognitive dissonance is one where you are - without changing in any way - allowed back into realms of "socially normal", what that means is basically that you consider your expulsion from normalcy an aberration, rather than a sign of deep flaws in the concept of social acceptance. You have not integrated your own experience of marginalization into a perspective on what marginalization says about society. You have not sought solidarity with other perspectives on marginalization, or if you have, it's still with the back-pocket loophole that you think you might, personally, be allowed back in. And that you're not sure you wouldn't take it, if you were.

And I get that for queer people right now, a lot of this is hazy. Maybe you would be allowed back in! Maybe you are! There's been a big swing in social acceptance, even if it's really unstable. Maybe the idea of a world where you, personally, can go back to being unmarginalized is a possibility that feels genuinely comforting.

But if you, or your friends, are a little farther out of reach of that edge. If the nature of society is so fundamentally hostile to you that simply being "accepted back in" would not meaningfully alleviate what hurts you about society - if the bare minimum for a world that isn't hostile to you requires deeper than a surface-level change - than playing pretend with that surface level change provides no comfort. If anything, it makes the cognitive dissonance worse - and makes you feel like your supposed allies are fairweather friends who would ditch you in the struggle if they were offered a bargain of acceptance. Which is very lonely and upsetting.

Or, regardless of how personal it is to you, if you've read and thought deeply enough into history or social theory to see how arbitrarily constructed the whole concept of social acceptance is - if you're a bit aware of the implications and underpinnings of things like family structures and divisions of labor and the like - the kinds of slight-of-hand shortcuts that are used to put those problems out of sight become very frustrating. Again it's a matter of cognitive dissonance: whether the typical fiction/fantasy "stock answers" to various concerns reassure your sense of how things normally work, or whether they raise red flags of horrors shoved out of sight.

Some people will act like you're "overthinking everything" and "actively looking for problems" if you talk about your emotional reaction to those red flags. But no: it's as direct and thoughtless as the reaction of finding them a comforting reassurance of business going on as usual. (You could say, the curtains are red at home. Comfort is a matter of perspective!)

Anyway, it comes back to a baseline of: what ways of conceptualizing the world feel easy, comfortable, and thoughtless to you? They may not be the same as the concepts you would consciously acknowledge, or agree with on a cognitive level! There are a lot of layers to integrating ideas into your worldview. It can take a lot of time and reflection for things to reach deeply, to the level of your intuitive reactions.

When people say, "I know it doesn't really hold up to scrutiny, but it's just really mindless and relaxing" - what that indicates, I think, is a certain particular position on that curve of conceptual integration. Where your deep emotional relationship to the idea of normalcy and assimilation is in a different place than the concept you consciously hold. And I can see where people get really upset when you push on this, because it feels like you're invalidating the things they truly and actively believe, by pointing out that the things they emotionally resonate with are in fundamental contradiction to those beliefs.

But it's also really annoying when people insist that you "just don't understand the appeal of mindless comfort fiction", when what you are actually trying to say is that you think it would be nice if people wrote more fiction that was comforting to people who find the idea of assimilation uncomfortable.

[phleb0tomist]

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[eiraeths]

gaz: is tav okay?

ghost: he’s calmed down

gaz: really? usually takes longer

ghost: put on his favorite youtube series

soap: [watching metal mailboxes being stripped and cleaned with muriatic acid]

[feralchaton]

...both&...

[vonecent]

System Collapse chapters 7-8

[somethingtocallmine]

[911-incorrect-quotes-dispatch]

Eddie: You got me so stuffed, I don't think I'll be able to move for a while.

Buck: Happy to fill you up any time you want, babe.

Hen: Seriously, in front of my pasta?

Chim: Can you two not be gross for one shift?

Eddie: Why is being pregnant with Buck's pasta gross again?

Ravi: Please stop with the euphemisms, we get it, you're trying for a baby, and are raw dogging it daily, we don't need to hear about it.

[self-made-purgatories]

[harmoonix]

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