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hi, you've reached the marriam Webster hotline. marriam Webster is not in right now.

if you'd like the definition of aardvark press 1

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You strike Green Knight? You cut off his head like the football?! Oh! Oh! Beheading for Gawain! Beheading for Gawain One Year Hence!!

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at our weekly allstaff meeting at work we always do an icebreaker question. today it was just tell us your hobby. that was the question. and i watched my coworker next to me go into chatgpt and ask it "hobbies." am i working with fake people am i being truman showed what the fuck is going on in here

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“Be curious about what you’re writing about” is not stock Common Writing Advice but it really, really should be. There are a lot of written works that fail due to the authors just being obviously incurious about what they are writing about.

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This is a MUSTANG

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That is not what i googled

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im honestly surprised (not really surprised considering what website this is) that i haven't seen anyone on here talk about Lil Nas X getting violently arrested after suffering some kind of mental health episode. I wish he was getting more attention and support.

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Remember when callout posts were like "this person is race race faking and lying about being HIV+ and steals bones from graveyards and their family has child slaves and worst of all they ship these two stephens galaxy characters "? Now they're all just "this trans woman has consensual sex with unrelated adults".

We used to be a proper webbed site.

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making friends is like. does this person consider me a friend or am i being weird? am i being annoying right now? is this funny or am i weird? do you like to play like me or am i weird? i really like writing with you and i want to know you better but i don't want to make you uncomfortable. i'm still testing the waters, is this raunchy joke funny or am i being weird? i want to know what you think is funny. i want to know what you like. i want to know the sorts of things you like to read and write so i can do it better for you. i'm still figuring you out and i can't tell if you're like me or if i'm just weird.

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impromptu collab with @sidneysussex!! i got to put art to his text and vision: tarquin and a letter he will never send Ashur, I don’t I can’t I should tell you There’s things about you I shouldn’t know. Your name. Your face. Who you are when you aren’t the Viper. Suppose it’s only fair you know Look, Ashur, it’s just Don’t know how to say this, really, but I know it doesn’t mean anything, not with you being who you are and all, but Ashur, I love f uck

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Presenting to you my writing cycle

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what? oh sweetheart no, you're not weirding me out at all. you're weirding me in. keep talking, freak

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Terry Pratchett started his career as a crypto-monarchist and ended up the most consistently humane writer of his generation.  He never entirely lost his affection for benevolent dictatorship, and made a few classic colonial missteps along the way, but in the end you’d be hard pressed to find a more staunchly feminist, anti-racist, anti-classist, unsentimental and clear-sighted writer of Old White British Fantasy.  

The thing I love about Terry’s writing is that he loved - loved - civil society.  He loved the correct functioning of the social contract.  He loved technology, loved innovation, but also loved nature and the ways of living that work with and through it.   He loved Britain, but hated empire (see “Jingo”) - he was a ruralist who hated provincialism, a capitalist who hated wealth, an urbanist who reveled in stories of pollution, crime and decay.  He was above all a man who loved systems, of nature, of thought, of tradition and of culture.  He believed in the best of humanity and knew that we could be even better if we just thought a little more.

As a writer: how skillful, how prolific, how consistent.  The yearly event of a new Discworld book has been a part of my life for more than two decades, and in that barrage of material there have been so few disappointments, so many surprises… to come out with a book as fresh and inspired as “Monstrous Regiment” as the 31st novel in your big fantasy series?  Ludicrous.  He was just full of treasure.  What a thing to have had, what a thing to have lost.

In the end, he set a higher standard, as a writer and as a person.  He got better as he learned, and he kept learning, and there was no “too late” or “too hard” or “I can’t be bothered to do the research.”  He just did the work.  I think in his memory the best thing we can do is to roll up our sleeves and do the same.