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left-leaning fantasy: normal literature or the worst lesbian fiction imaginable no in between

apolitical fantasy: here is my take on what the ubermensch would be

right wing fantasy: pokemon trainer saves elf city

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are you free tonight

i woul do anything to be free

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the old music fan experience

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Irt printing presses being a very recent thing in the grand scale of the human world. If you could give one printing press (say a Golding Pearl No. 1) and the tech involved to cast type to one figure from your research. Who do you think would have the most impact, with communication of their findings now able to be mass produced?

(I work in letterpress and this is a hypothetical I like to play around with when I’m running prints.)

THE GREAT GOD-PHARAOH AKHENATEN

For these reasons:

Introduces the printing press as early as possible while still being funny

Akhenaten was a weirdo who had strange religious beliefs

Egypt had the economic capacity to mass produce printed text

Egypt had the naval capacity to spread the printing press to the rest of the Mediterranean

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Yeah so unfortunately, my friend was right. Muttering 'I'm gonna put on the greatest talent show this town has ever seen' darkly to myself is not only vastly funnier than saying I'm gonna kms, but is also somehow more concerning to anyone who might overhear it

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Teso Dos Bichos manages to be a both a phenomenally boring and stupid episode of television.

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the cultural object of the black hole is kind of remarkable. It's almost an anti-God in a sense, a negative infinity. Yeah there's this kind of dead sun that's collapsed into an infinitely dense point, and if you fall past its event horizon you're fucked. Every schoolchild knows this. A black hole can be introduced in a superhero blockbuster without any explanation except for its established look and the name "black hole", and this will be understood as the ultimate natural disaster, which even superman could not hope to defeat. truly S-tier cosmic object

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Americans will put rims and a subwoofer on literally any vehicle, it was only the moon’s lack of atmosphere that prevents the rover blasting trap beats across the craters

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the mayor, as a concept, has an aesthetic appeal unique among politicians. any member of a council, of a voting body, these people can't *do* anything on their own, theyre like a leg or an arm. theyre incomplete, conceptually. not an interesting figure, unless the point is the nitty gritty politicking. and an executive at a higher scale, this is too inhuman. this is necessarilly a manager of underlings, a guy who for the most part just appoints people. can't really be "from" his entire constituency. but a mayor...a mayor is very much like a village "big man", any other admirable, respected part of your community. the mayor is a primal figure. they mayor, in image, is very much like the kings of old, when they mostly just ruled little city states. their outsized role in fiction is appropriate

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ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

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It really is crazy how if you mention you write fanfiction with people outside fandom, they're always like "you should change the names and try to sell it." It misses the point (fun), but more importantly to me, I get slightly (and I know irrationally) insulted on a craft letter. Excuse me, my fanfic is entwined with the canon, thank you very much. I wish sometimes less entwined. You wouldn't believe the stupid bullshit some of my fics have to include because of canon.

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You will never be locked and loaded. You will never say "uhh in English please?!" to an egghead. You will never have a team. You will never knock out a guard with one punch. You will never rappel down anything

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The use of “sickening” as an adverb connected to the sound of a bodily injury is one of my most loathed examples of automatic prose. Not only is it a bland, overused description, but it’s consistently used in contexts where it’s supposed to be shocking, so the lack of depth and distinction is wildly counterintuitive.

“There was a sound, and it was bad, you shall receive no more detail on this matter.”

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one time my mom and i were talking about autism and she said if i got it from anyone i got it from my dad, a man who has been buying and sorting pokemon cards for several months straight and likes to memorize license plates and then quiz my mom on them. and then she remembered that my father is not actually biologically related to me (#childofdivorce) and lost her shit laughing. i got that proxy autism