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In a deal with a fae, you must give up something you hold dear. Whether it be your name, your first born, or something else, it must be held dear. You, gave up your addiction. It worked.

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unrestrained summer fun

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I JUST SCREAMED

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My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch

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Triple J's holding an Australian Music Hottest 100, lets gooooooo

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/countdown/hottest100

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The agony of thinking you’re finished doing the dishes only to turn around and to your horror: the pot.

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fanfic writing culture isn’t “oh dang! I wanted to write about this prompt with this character but someone else already wrote it, so now I can’t”.

fanfic writing culture is always “two cakes is better than one. the more the merrier. there can ever be enough fics of this character with this prompt!”

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Crazy thing about #healing #recovery Small Victories is when you'll have some shit going on that's like, saying this would involve admitting how you used to be doing. You know? Like hey guys good news I'm gonna change my bedsheets this year

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"Dragon!" the knight called, "I'm here to end your reign of terror!"

"I merely land by a town and ask if they will give me someone to eat."

"Yet when they offer a sacrifice you spurn it and instead eat the mayor."

"Yes. And if they refuse to sacrifice anyone, I leave."

"That's... Hm. Carry on."

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I know that some British people take umbridge 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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re: the daddyhole road sign post, what makes the image description so bad?

God, what an opening line

But yes! To answer your question:

I think enough has been written by now about how image descriptions are supposed to just be a quick summary of the relevant information - with heavy emphasis on the word relevant. And it definitely fell down there, because the relevant elements in that screenshot were:

1. The screenshotted headline

2. The screenshotted subtitle

3. The fact that the accompanying photo was of the Daddyhole Road sign that people kept wanting to steal.

What was not relevant was the additional road information that was part of the sign, or the type of wall surface the sign was fixed to, or the colours involved in and of these extraneous details, or the shape of the sign, or the font used on it. None of that matters. And it's relatively harmless, certainly, but unnecessary clutter in an image description is a bad thing for, ironically, accessibility reasons, so it's certainly not best practice.

But on top of THAT if you're going to decide to give extra information about the appearance and nature of the sign, it is maybe a solid plan to look up what the sign actually means lol. We were treated to a painful description of a "T-shape in X colours", or however it was phrased (EDIT: I just went back and checked and it was a 'hammer with a red end' lol. I am so charmed.) Like. Besties that's an actual road sign. It means the street is a dead end. If you're going to over-describe, describe accurately, you know? Apart from anything else, Daddyhole Road being a dead end is hilarious. A description of coloured blocks forming a T means nothing. It's like if you described this:

as "A solid red octagon with a red and white trim. In the middle are four white shapes. The first is two semicircles with no flat base line, curving away from each other; the left end of the top one is connected to the right end of the bottom one. The second is a horizontal line at the top, with a vertical line extending down from the middle. The third is a ring. The fourth is a vertical line, but there's a semicircle sticking out of the top part to the right."

ALL OF WHICH IS TO SAY I have actually seen much worse, and certainly definitely good on them for trying. I do not judge. There are the best of intentions at play here. And there's every chance other examples of their work are exceptional. But yeah this one amused me

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I think more academic programs should let you write a novel as your thesis project, particularly outside the fine arts. Just imagine the kind of bullshit that would result if they let you write a novel for your master's degree in computer science.

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