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Seth Armstrong — Sundown on the 27th Floor (oil on wood, 2015)

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🥄a silent night at Thýlf Thalas

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unironic usage of “afab superiority complex”.... me when I'm not sexist

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guy whose voice sounds the same when hes begging to cum and begging to be killed

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Need a tshirt that says I ❤️ Hubris

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This has been a topic in one of my discord groups today and I’m so curious what everyone’s approach is as a writer.

Writing linearly means starting at the beginning of the story and writing each scene in chronological order from beginning to end.

Writing non-linearly means you might start midway through the story and write the beginning later, or you might write scenes at random and join them up later, or you add in placeholders as you write to go back to later (like “add action scene here”).

Outlining means coming up with a sequence of plot points to guide the story - i.e. planning/mapping out what the main story beats will be throughout it.

Personally I’m a linear writer, and I don’t outline. I have a loose idea of where the story is going to go, but that’s it. And I can’t skip scenes or use placeholder text — my brain starts shrieking at me lmao.

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The process of examining a person psychiatrically and then altering or reducing his status in consequence is known in hospital and prison parlance as bugging, the assumption being that once you come to the attention of the testers you will either automatically be labelled crazy or the process of testing itself will make you crazy. Thus psychiatric staff are sometimes seen not as discovering whether you are sick, but as making you sick; and ‘Don’t bug me, man’ can mean, ‘Don’t pester me to the point where I’ll get upset.’ Sheldon Messinger has suggested to me that this meaning of bugging is related to the other colloquial meaning, of wiring a room with a secret microphone to collect information usable for discrediting the speaker.

erving goffman, asylums: essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates, 1961, footnote

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HISSES this is bullying!!! bullying of carys who has never experienced memories and continuity before!!!!! REPENT or ELSE 🔪

i recently started experiencing Memory and it's AWFUL. 0/10

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you can turn a bad texter into a good texter thru the power of friendship but u can never turn a bad texter into a good friend thru the power of texting. or something idk this made more sense in my head

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Shout out to characters who want to be used. Shout out to characters who are so desperate to be worth something that they'll endure anything. Shout out to characters who build their entire self worth around being useful, being a tool. Shout out to characters who don't care how they are treated, as long as someone pays them any attention at all

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Bruce Pennington (born 1944, Somerset, UK) - A Sense of Wonder

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i’m just saying aragorn son of arathorn oh im sorry STRIDER (one of them rangers what his right name is i never heard etc etc) didn’t need to be that sexy at the prancing pony. like ostensibly he’s trying to lay low but even dipshit little [relatively] eighteen y/o frodo is like hey what’s the deal with that extremely ostentatiously sexy man in the corner