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explaining things nobody gaf about

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go on more walks. walk for no reason. walk to solve a problem. walk to blow off steam. walk to get outside. walk to listen, read, and learn. walk to escape distractions. walk to improve your health. walk to think. a simple walking habit can change absolutely everything.

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absolutely amazing things happening right now. I had to triple check that these were real

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There are some characters where giving them therapy and cleaning them up is the fanfiction equivalent of buying antique furniture and painting it white

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One of the worst consequences of drilling "show, don’t tell" into every writer —without making sure they understand what that actually means— has been the slow death of inner monologue. There are many writers nowadays who believe that if they write what the main character is thinking (whether in long meandering paragraphs or small snippets woven into the action), they’re telling, not showing. And in the writing advice world, that kinda means you should kill yourself. So we end up with books that read like movie screenplays, with little introspection, and main characters that feel flat

I mean, there are as many writing styles as there are writers. No one should feel pressured to write in one rigid way. Some authors have styles that work beautifully with a certain level of detachment from the character’s inner world. The problem comes when writers are made to believe that narrating an inner voice is a flaw that needs to be fixed, because it's not fucking true !

Telling is sometimes necessary and good. But the thing is, inner monologue can be show-y or tell-y, depending on how you write it. You could write a paragraph of a character thinking about how to arrange a vase of flowers that shows me a lot about them. And that's the magic, the true meaning of "showing" — letting the reader draw their own conclusions. Let them observe actions and dialogues, yes, but let them observe thoughts too

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Sometimes I feel old and out of touch because I don't know anything about the hot new music but then I remember even when I was a teenager I did not know the hot new music because I was an uncool little nerd and my family didn't listen to the radio. So my out of touchness is consistent and not age related.

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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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i would like things to stop happening to me unless they are really good. like winning that 20k a month for the rest of your life lottery. or getting headhunted to do concept art for the b5 reboot. otherwise no thank you. no more happenings or events

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think I'm a bit hungry today

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i still think about this twitter exchange every time i hear this song btw

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anyway for the love of god people i enjoy meeting your cats out and about but all the same please stop shutting them out when you go to work or letting them run loose unsupervised im sick and tired of trying and failing to rescue fledglings

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rescued a baby sparrow from the neighbours cat, who was throwing it around the front garden next door. we were going to the vet to get my boy's stitches checked so we took it along and sadly it had to be put down because it had puncture wounds and wasn't going to survive :/

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University really is about looking at the worst pdf known to man huh

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rewatching bits of s3 for timeline reasons and I forgot how funny it is that Franklin knows literally nothing about the shadow stuff by s3. they put him on the war council. he didn't even know there was a war

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“You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.”

— Iyanla Vanzant