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not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…

‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.

‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.

even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.

I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.

fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.

idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.

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They have the necessary tools to catch him, though several of them would need to be persuaded that it's their problem.

And I think they'd eventually get out with everyone alive. It might take a few goes, though.

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Have fallen down a rabbit hole thinking about Pelndoru and lembas.

They don't have queens! Or kings. They have noble/great houses, they have Archons who can be female, in the past cities had lords or some kind, but no queens.

Possibilities:

They don't have lembas as it's known to the Eldar — it's just never something they learned.

No lembas because no queens.

Some position not called queen counts as queen.

Someone is designated queen for ritual purposes, including lembas.

You just get it from a bakery? Like any other kind of specialty bread?

The "have lembas" options also raise the question of when and how they learned about it if it was a Valar-taught thing. (The Valar taught it back before the First Sundering? Someone brought some back and they reverse-engineered it? They sent someone to learn its secrets?)

I thiiiiink… probably I'm going to go with the Valar teaching it before the First Sundering — it'd be a useful thing to have traveling.

I'm really torn between "queen for ritual purposes" and "there are bakeries???" for production, though.

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I voted "could catch would survive" but on reflection I'm not sure, actually. If I recall correctly Amelia Bedelia comically misunderstands things leading to zaniness, but the zaniness isn't completely implausible? It's usually things someone could do, it's just people generally would not.

And a maid who comically misunderstands things but is just so endearing no one can bear to fire her could fit into the Death Note universe, while I don't think a serious antagonist would fit into Amelia Bedelia's universe — unless I'm remembering wrong. It's been a while.

So, actually — couldn't catch, because if assigned the task would start looking for people named Kira or something. But, would survive, because she clearly has some kind of uncanny charisma/endearingness that makes people unwilling to get rid of her. Light finds her maddening but just can't bring himself to kill her.

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Given the sheer quantity of dynamite that the not-Fellowship have, is them blowing open the Crucible going to look like that time the Mythbusters blew up a cement truck?

I'm still thinking over what exactly it's going to look like… and I don't think I've seen that one, so I can't say for sure.

My major question at the moment is if they're going to be able to get all the way through the, uh, roof? top crust? with one round of dynamite. I'm not actually sure how thick the crust should be? Or how deep the Crucible goes down, though that's not relevant to blowing it open. Also not sure how big a hole they want to blow in it.

The problem with this whole scenario is that I should really be doing a more than cursory amount of dynamite research and I don't waaaaaant to.

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…That's because "The Lady or the Tiger" is a character study/psychology scenario, not a puzzle? There is no solution, the point is to consider the question. You arrive at an answer — or don't — based on your subjective evaluation of what a character's thoughts imply about what they've done.

I get being frustrated by open-ended stories, but they are not equivalent to a puzzle you can only solve by luck.

(And I doubt "Lady or the Tiger" is the first literary appearance of "binary choice where one part leads to doom".)

The fun thing about the knights and knaves puzzle is that no matter what goofy variant you come up with, not only has it already been considered, some maniac has worked out the optimal solution. What if there's a third guard who lies or tells the truth at random? It's been done. What if the guards will only answer yes/no questions, and also for some reason they understand your language but refuse to speak it, and you don't know which of the two words they may respond with means "yes" and which means "no"? Literal thesis papers have been written on that one. Logicians are absolute freaks for these guys.

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Hmm. I believe we can be confident that there were horses in the general vicinity of the overthrow of the Russian government in 1917, and it is not out of the question that one or more people involved used horses for transportation during the events. So, I'm not sure I'd give a definite no there.

(I can't actually rule out there being crocodiles in the general vicinity, too, but I don't believe they could have fulfilled any logistical function.)

an important fyi

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…Actually reading back I did kind of imply they don't really know what orcs are. Oh dear.

Trying to come up with questions Eluréd and Elurín want to ask the orcs-who-know about Nimloth.

What I have so far—

Were you friends?

Did she ever talk about us?

What happened to her?

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Me, Sunday: Okay, I'll just stop by the store tomorrow after work and grab some.

Me, Monday afternoon: Must… collapse…

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an important principle of fandom (and life, actually) is that if you want more of Less Popular Thing, it is good to create positive spaces and events for it. however, if you use those spaces to take cracks at the More Popular Thing which you perceive as stealing oxygen from your Less Popular Thing, you do not increase the audience for Less Popular Thing. you decrease it, because you irk people who like both Things. and depending on the relative popularity, there are quite possibly more people who like both Things than people who only like Less Popular Thing. (not to mention - you kill your chances of recruiting people who like More Popular Thing but are neutral on or haven’t considered Less Popular Thing.) 

you’re not campaigning for votes (where There Can Be Only One), you’re marketing for a share of people’s attention. don’t be petty. be effective. 

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Trying to come up with questions Eluréd and Elurín want to ask the orcs-who-know about Nimloth.

What I have so far—

Were you friends?

Did she ever talk about us?

What happened to her?

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Tragedy! You set out to read a negative review of a piece of media you dislike, only to find that the critic is being completely unfair to it and making a bunch of bad, unsupportable arguments.

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"Voting doesnt work because not enough people in my country will vote for MY version of communism. We need a violent overthrow of the government to MAKE this happen"

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enjoy!

just checking

You guys all know about the "Butterbug Blues" song, right?

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