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my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

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I pray the book will be published. I pray the rock will be rolled away. I pray the book that hasn’t been written will be written in perpetual splendour. I pray it lives. I pray it’s good…I pray for the needs of tamysn and all those suffering from Alecto pause

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Did you know that you can waste your free time by not knowing which activity to do so you do none of them

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“two is for discipline heedless of trial” yeah motherfucker they were NOT heeding those trials. They couldn’t they didnt even know where the trials were. “heedless of trial” bitch they finally found the trials and were like uhmmm this violates OSHA.

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''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

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Everyone stop and read this thread about the most insane parts of Star Wars canon.

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getting big 45 minute vibes from this 15 minute recipe

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How come you're all about "feminism" until it's time to protest? We haven't seen you make a single fucking post about the LA riots and it's really disappointing.

Hi friends. This is your reminder not to reply to questions like this. You do not need to self-report your behavior. This is a guilt trip designed to make you violate your own Miranda rights.

Also, they are not riots (Freudian slip, fed?), they're peaceful protests and are a democratic right under the first amendment.

where to find your local protest donate to legal funds my local immigrant support network

be safe out there, i love you.

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every time someone says “look how they’re looking at each other! they’re in love!” about a non-canon ship i just think of the kuleshov effect for a second but then i come to my senses and decide to have fun

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"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

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Announcing Alectopause the Ninth: A Collaborative Fic Project

Still waiting for news about Alecto the Ninth? Stop waiting! We're writing our own!

In honor of Alectopause Day 999, @carys-the-ninth and I are announcing our plans for a collaborative, fan-created version of "Alecto the Ninth," inspired by the game "exquisite corpse." This event will be an AO3 collection in which creators work from chapter prompts, and the whole is revealed to everyone at once. We plan to release the collection on Sep 13th, 2025, the third anniversary of the Alectopause.

You can sign up to be a part of the event here! The best way to stay updated is through our discord, but we will be announcing everything on tumblr as well, tagged "alectopause the ninth 2025." You can also view the prompts, rules and deadlines, and AO3 collection. @carys-the-ninth, @wifegideonnav and I will be the main mods, but we would be remiss not to thank @theriverbeyond and @arithmonym for their help in putting together this event! We hope to eventually release this "book" in a limited-run, non-profit zine format as well.

Happy Alectopause Day 999, everybody! Let's keep making things weirder and more incomprehensible from here ❤️

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Sometimes reading people’s gripes with genshin’s storytelling on the internet kind of amuses me because while often I understand whatever ppl are getting at sometimes it gets to a point some of it just sounds like “why has the in-progress story not completely explained everything about this plot thread that’s clearly being saved for later yet. This is bad shallow writing that is definitely going nowhere” which is really really funny when it’s about the things Genshin’s writing is like super obviously invested in and interested in following through on

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I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.

J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.

You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.

You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.

On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.

Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.

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forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the make up industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. im doing none of that in fact

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it probably feels good as fuck to freak out and scream really loud and break shit

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crazy how every time a female character gets cliche misogynistic writing we have to explain to people again that fictional characters are not real and do not choose things for themselves.