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Imagine

Playing two truths and a lie with SG-1 as a normal fucking person and trying to figure out which of the following is a lie:

1. Daniel has died 5 times

2. An alien race has a ship named after Jack

3. Sam blew up an entire galaxy

And the answer, you find out, is number one because Daniel, the man sitting right in front of you, drunk off of two Miller Lites, hasn’t died 5 times but in fact has died 9 times

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I remember reading a choose your own adventure book once where if you picked choice A for a fairly inconsequential bit of the story you got the next bit of the story, but if you picked choice B you got half a page of narrative explaining why they choice B didn't work, then it directed me to the same page as if I'd picked choice A. I think it was something like "should we travel there by car or by train" and if you picked train then they got to the station to find all the trains were cancelled, so they had to go by car anyway.

You could do a choose your own adventure style thing but have, it be "Should we do A or B?" If A go to page X, and if B go to page Y. If you pick A, you get the next bit of the narrative, but if you pick B, you get a bit where the character says A, and then thinks, "Wait, I'm sure I was going to say something else here. What was it? Oh I'm sure it's nothing," and then the book directs you to the same place as if you'd picked A.

Thought I had something there for a minute

Me: I thought of a way to write a story about mind control that makes the reader feel like the mind control is happening to them! It's a Choose Your Own Adventure book, but all the decisions are made for you!

Everyone else in my writing group: Um, I think that's just… a regular book.

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that one exchange in fugitive telemetry

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magic item with the command phrase “please work please work please work”, as the enchanter who created it didn't realise his muttered pleas were loud enough to be captured by the enchantment

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reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them

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Eventually You Gotta Inhale

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There was a lot of things I could have done with my day, but this is what I did.

Oh no, not again.

Fans of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will enjoy this new design and you can find it on Redbubble and Teepublic.

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Why has @dropoutdottv started muting all my videos? If I click on a video to watch it, it's now starting on mute. Is this a setting I can change somewhere because if I start watching a video, I want to hear it as well?

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I made a bad comic and now you have to look at it

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the worst thing that will happen to you on a bus is that people will leave their empties rolling around on the upper deck. but whoever finished a litre of Smirnoff Ice on the bus before 5pm is having a rockbottomer time of it than I am.

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someone: whats your favorite [insert literally anything here]

me: *forgets everything i’ve ever enjoyed* uhhhh

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the elevator scene with Londo and G'kar is so iconic because at first the viewer is like "oh, classic, the two enemies are now trapped in an elevator together. they're going to talk and work through their problems and then have to work together to escape. of course" and Londo thinks that too! but then G'Kar is like "No :) " and Londo is like "what do you mean 'no'??" and G'kar is like "I would actually rather for both of us to die :) " like no actually there will not be any reconciliation just because they are stuck together for hours. they hate each other enough to defy the trope. and that's so beautiful

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In the modern idiom:

“So Bob said […]” indicates that I am directly quoting Bob.

“Then Bob was like […]” indicates that I am paraphrasing Bob.

“And Bob was all […]” indicates that I am paraphrasing Bob, and additionally I am being a dick about it.

I don’t know about you, but I think it’s fantastic that we have a specific grammatical convention for that.

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Tech Writing Warnings VS Fiction Warnings

At my tech writing job, I have to begin all my user manuals with a warning: read this before using the machinery or you could be seriously injured.

But if I tell people to read my sci-fi novel or they'll get crushed in a hydraulic press, apparently that’s “inappropriate book club behavior.”

“We don’t threaten to squish other readers. That’s a Book Nook No-No.”

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I do the opposite of gatekeeping, I’m not going to shut up until you like this thing as much as I do