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step 2: (utopian) needing it to be explained as just (morally)

idk fellas i dont think we should have pathologized this one!. might need to go back to the freacking drawing board and create a cool witch fughting/kissing a dragon instead of this one. mhmmmm

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"I guess Mr Hale is rocklike enough for this" (what's steven universe?)

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they're in the acronym

interact with this post if you believe aspec identities are queer

trying to prove a point (not forced!!)

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get hyped about the new category of verb. the PROVERB!

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tumblr successfully give me random repost page of fellow gay individual in "you may also like" of own blog

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I refuse to reblog callout posts because I'm a prison abolitionist

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Everytime I make a post like “don’t spend money on gacha” I get a bunch of angry replies to tell me “actually it’s POSSIBLE to gamble responsibly” and “mh how AM i a bad person for deciding to spend MY own money that I earned MYSELF?”

and man… I really wish that people understood that when I say “Don’t spend money on gacha, it might kickstart a gambling addiction” or “if you regularly spend money on gacha you might already have one” I don’t mean it as a moral judgement. Addiction isn’t something that solely affects “bad” or “stupid” people. Addiction isn’t some punishment that is deserved. If you suffer from any kind of addiction, you deserve help. But the first step of getting that help is acknowledging there is a problem in the first place.

also: while this applies to all addictions, gacha addictions especially suck because people keep trivializing it. There are so many memes and so much enabling like “lol just spent all my savings on gacha :p” “3000$ for my waifu, a pretty cheap price!” “lol it’s too late for me I already spend so much on it but you guys stay safe!” “Don’t spend on gacha? No, spend MORE on gacha!” which I believe only adds fuel to the virulent hostility against any post that goes “hey, this isn’t normal, please be careful.”

So yeah all this talk to say: the best way to not get a gambling addiction is to not start gambling at all, so don’t spend money on gacha. If you do spend money on gacha, be careful and watch out that “I’m just spending ten bucks and nothing else” doesn’t morph into “I just spent 140 bucks and got nothing out of it, might as well add ten more at this point.” If you have a gacha addiction and are aware of it, I wish you safety and recovery.

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sex in advertizing can literally go fuck itself

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pickup artist : pickup line :: artist : line

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

the thing that gave you anxiety attacks for 2 years straight will be resolved on a random Wednesday morning btw

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I think a lot of people (at least in English-speaking areas) tend to conflate "Japanese game studio that publishes exclusively on Nintendo consoles" and "Nintendo studio"

I think it's broader than this. like I've definitely seen people say donkey kong 64 was made by nintendo

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rule

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And as the clock strikes midnight (23) I undergo a HIDEOUS TRANSFORMATION

I am no longer gender neutral.

... I AM

GENDER EVIL!! >:3

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this is going to make tag inspections slightly more colorful, not sure if gut reaction to corporation does thing is right here

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Cliffhangers (stupid)

A cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode or a film of serialized fiction (or even a chapter of a book, where this is not even, as stated later, economical). A cliffhanger is hoped to incentivize the audience to return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma. (wikipedia)

I do not like cliffhangers because of the way they alter the writing style of writers apparently addicted to them for no clear reason, and also because if the reason is clear, it is to give the audience a reason to return beyond the continuous quality of your series (assumed: for money), though this only slightly explains why this is done in book chapters.

The apparent need for them

On the one hand, ending especially a chapter at all if your story is multi-threaded is probably hard, but then there's chapter 16 in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" where Doughlas Adams rather obviously makes fun of this device, stating that "Stress and nervous tension are now serious Social problems in major parts of the galaxy" and going on to 'spoil' events and facts which would have slowly unfolded in the next chapter, including that they are of course not in mortal peril.

This shows the approximate (u|dys)topia I would apparently want instead, where no suspense is created across chapter boundaries, especially if the next chapter switches to a completely different perspective and thread of the story (though this is not actually on display in chapter 16). Imagining the cliffhanger would not exist in a more serious novel I'm rereading does not appear to have any downsides, except that it might get down the readers engagement with the novel if they have less points at which they have to continue reading, and so their sessions reading the novel are shorter overall, and so they think they like it less, because surely the way I binged through this book indicates it was well written all the way.(?)

Stress and nervous tension are actually at least mildly annoying in at least one part of the Galaxy

I would subjectively state that the feeling a cliffhanger induces just does not feel good. This does however call into question what I want to feel reading, and alternatively how bored I must be to consider feeling nothing an acceptable free time experience. Sample feelings include:

Romantic giddiness (e.g. in twilight by Stephenie Meyer) (not actually much more relaxed than suspense)

Considering the Implications of the presented Setup or Universe

Considering the authors intent behind some pun, character trait, or cliffhanger (oops)

Indignant awe at the absolute planning they must have to write 300 pages at all, which are also on average nonboring, especially considering the shortness of my school essays (of course not in comparison to a novel but to other essays of my friends or whatever)

The maybe-Contradiction in this with what I otherwise want from a book

I also do not like cover texts because they apparently ruin some of the suspense by just telling you the weird people in the book are vampires or even what the name of the most important one is. Considering there are different types of suspenses, this one kind of makes sense: it means that apparently I like slow revelations of the plot only if they do not seem delayed on purpose.

The strange fixation artists of a medium where they do not obviously boost sales have with Cliffhangers

It may just be some social self-expectation from hearing the phrase "to be continued" too many times, it might be the reader engagement, but I couldn't imagine a novelist who thinks to themselves: "my readers are sure going to consciously like how I am withholding information from them, and also wouldn't they like it so much if I did that at a chapter boundary". Firstly, chapter boundaries don't really mean that much, and conventional suspense feels less forced to me, as I would apparently want a novel to sound like it's not plying psychological tricks on me. Secondly, thinking a cliffhanger is good like a consistently constructed fantasy world that isn't confusing, or a joke, or a sudden reveal i didn't expect, I still don't get what I'm supposed to like about a cliffhanger.

Do tell. I have 0 novel writing experience

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i misread this as if Section D § 8.2.2(a) of JRK 20800 Standard Specifications for Building Works of the Federation of Malaysia Public Works Department, was about slippery slopes, as they are non-metaphorically hazardous as well, but that's not it

people who valorise some inherent value to the US constitution and legal system are wild to me. why the fuck should I care what your laws are, even if I did fall within their jurisdiction - it's as if these people believe laws exist pre-emptive of reality, and reality should be shaped to fit them; rather than shaping laws to fit reality.

like… when people invoke the second amendment to me, it has the same feeling as saying 'we as a free society cannot allow any exceptions to Section D § 8.2.2(a) of JRK 20800 Standard Specifications for Building Works of the Federation of Malaysia Public Works Department, or we are accepting a slippery slope to ensuring it will be completely disregarded in the future…' - except, really, I would consider the PWD's regulation on concrete grades more important than a 200 year old colonial state's policy on armament