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finding an error in someone else's fic: awe. we are all human - this is totally understandable and doesn't bother me whatsoever. it is almost endearing to know that others are not perfect, and in their excitement to share, they made a small mistake.

finding an error in your own fic: a merciful death is too kind for me. i deserve to be burnt on a pyre or publicly executed at dawn

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If brains are biological computers, why don’t we lag?

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im not even the type of guy to go "actually it's frankenstein's MONSTER" because a painting by rembrandt or picasso or any other artist is often called "a rembrandt" or "a picasso" as shorthand. so in this respect frankenstein's monster can be considered "a frankenstein"

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That meme from twitter except it doesnt need a second pic because that's literally how Jim looks at Spock all the time

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one of the best tips for Real Life that I’ve ever picked up is to always highball your estimate whenever someone asks you “when can you get this done by” by about 25% (if you can get away with it). that way, if it ends up being harder than you thought, you’ve got extra time to figure things out and if you were right about how much time it takes then you get to look like an absolute genius instead of just a simply competent person.

what you may not have realized is that I learned this crucial piece of life advice from an episode of Star Trek where Scotty is telling Geordi that whenever he told Kirk something on the Enterprise was at full capacity, it was always only ever a notch or so below full capacity so that Scotty looked like the god of all engineers when he was able to magically hack the warp drive to run a little beyond what he’d told everyone else was “full capacity” and honestly that one throwaway gag from Star Trek has changed my life.

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One of my favorite tropes is character with a nasty toxic personality who tries very hard to do the right thing anyway

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Everyone is talking about John Fetterman wearing a formal suit for Netanyahu’s genocide apologia but Rashida Tlaib is actually the only one wearing an acceptable outfit to the speech.

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It’s weird how everyone hating you when you’re nine years old still affects your self esteem when you’re 26 like yeah nobody came to my birthday party but that was like 17 years ago why is it stopping me from going to a gay bar

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Representative Rashida Tlaib (the only Palestinian member of the US Congress) holds up a sign saying "WAR CRIMINAL" and "GUILTY OF GENOCIDE" as Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress.

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2 be clear i want trump to lose and i want kamala to be better than she seems but i also don't think all of the issues regarding the US's genocide under biden's administration have vanished by subbing kamala in, and the way people have acted like it has is both short-sighted and ultimately incongruous with achieving any goals. biden could not be persuaded on palestine and kamala was subbed in because he was senile, not because the democratic party listened to their voter base or cared about their protests.

in order for kamala to achieve anything, and in order for her to make correct choices on the admin she's about to hire, she must be placed under the same pressure because the genocide has not stopped and netanyahu is currently in washington dc while the US blocks his ICC warrants. children have not stopped dying nor has the US shown any sign of budging despite israel growing more and more emboldened. remember the last time you heard about how bad things were in gaza? they're actually worse now. famine has spread throughout the entire gaza strip, polio has been found in the sewage water, the rafah crossing has been closed and destroyed, aid has been reduced drastically since february, and more and more people are dying of disease and starvation, and you hear about it less because communications are down and journalists have been killed. this is not by accident. this is by design: the design of the united states government.

i know its inconvenient that this is happening still, right when you want to just campaign for kamala passionately and painlessly, but it is even more inconvenient for the people dying because of US policies under US bombs. move kamala left (or hell, move kamala to acknowledge the existence of international law) or accept that you can't stop genocide no matter who the nominee is and that there is a moral, political and social price to be paid for that—not to mention the billions of your tax money going to bombing people across the world.

and above all, don't be fucking callous about genocide.

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Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.

The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.

There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.

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Was wishing there was a positivity post for original fiction writers since I see so many about how fanfic writers are doing so much for their communities even when they're not actively writing, and then I thought:

Be the change you want to see in the world.

So this is a positivity post for the writers out here who are working very hard on stories with no established community. Who can't talk about their blorbos and plot lines and brainstorming to anyone and expect them to know what any of it means. Who don't have much to share publicly, but are hoping they will one day.

You're doing a lot of hard work, and I recognize and appreciate what you're putting into the world, even when you're resting.

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If reincarnation is real I wonder how many people stare at their own art in museums, listen to their own music they made in a different life and read books they don't remember writing

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submissive in the way a livestock guardian dog is submissive to the sheep it kills wolves for

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