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languages that don't distinguish between formal and informal you are missing out on so much petty drama. my grandparents have two neighbours who once got into a huge fight over something honestly pretty trivial, so neighbour A said he was going to revoke neighbour B's du (informal you) privileges. neighbour B was like "okay but can i use du one last time?" and neighbour A was like "yeah go ahead", and neighbour B said "du arschloch" (you asshole). incredible.

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Otto Künzli: Ring für Zwei (1980)

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Count reprints, later editions of the same book, etc. If you have a copy that includes multiple books in one volume, you can count that, but do not count sequels/etc on their own. You can count ebooks and audiobooks if you possess the files in a permanent way (borrowed and streamed don't count).

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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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Fall in love and stay in love. Explode. Don't intellectualize. Get passionate about ideas. Cram your head full of images. Stay in the library. Stay off the internet and all that crap. Read all the great books. Read all the great poetry. See all the great films. Fill your life with metaphors. And then explode.

— Ray Bradbury, Conversations With Ray Bradbury. (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) (via @WriterACMcHugh)

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gonna be a hater for a minute, reblog and put in the tags the last movie that you HATED like viscerally hated like 1/2 star on letterboxd HATED

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no cheating by looking but who do you think your Spotify top artist is gonna be this year 👀

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call me zac because idk what the efron with me

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massively fucked up and wrong that on the house of leaves wikipedia page the word house is only hyperlinked the first time

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david bowie, 1975.

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David Bowie by Sukita | 1973

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'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by Francis Danby, 1832

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Aron Wiesenfeld (American, 1972) - Nightwatch (2024)

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Worker (1930s)

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Frederic Stanley - Costume Surprise, The Saturday Evening Post (1921)