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So apparently I’m autistic, and neurotypical people don’t feel the need to wait for a special occasion to hang out with their friends.

You really don’t have to wait for people’s birthdays to come around? Or for a new movie you think they’ll like to release? You can just plan a day for the sake of planning a day? How do you figure out what to do with them on that day? How do you determine which friends to invite if there’s no specific thing to do? I imagine you can’t invite everyone spontaneously, or else some will get left out.

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Schrodinger’s Date: The inviter “forgot” to specify whether this one-on-one outing was meant to be a date, mentions that fact during the outing, and then monitors the invitee’s response to determine whether or not the outing was meant to be a date.

0/10 - Don’t do that.

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My writing-heavy world literature class is requiring us to have genAI write our final project.

They even brought in people to teach a lesson in how to prompt AI to give the results you’re looking for.

Please tell me this isn’t the future of writing-heavy classes.

We shouldn’t be teaching people to outsource their creativity to a bot.

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Maybe it’s because my background is in stage shows, but screen acting feels so much harder than stage acting. It’s unnatural! You’re in a very specific spot, your movement is limited, and you don’t get to run the full scene all at once. You’re basically saying a line in a vacuum, and you have to convince people that you’re within the actual context of the movie.

It just feels like there’s more working against you in a film than there is in a play.

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Has anyone made a little “What does your princess’s form in ‘Slay the Princess’ say about you” thing? I feel like that’s the sort of thing people would hyper-analyze like a zodiac sign.

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Random thing that irks me:

The Midwest is on the Eastern half of the United States.

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The Princess Bride novel isn’t actually an abridgment, but I’d like to suggest using its format for future abridged novels. Add in little translator/editor’s notes that explain what’s getting skipped.

For example: [At this point, Victor Hugo goes on the first of several ten-to-twenty page tangents in this book. This one was about the history of the clergy. Even he admits it has nothing to do with the story, so we’re skipping those pages.]

Or [This piece of dialogue was a lot longer, but we shortened it to get the point across more quickly.]

That way, people know what the lost information is while still enjoying the story.

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Seeing the Wicked movie alongside someone who doesn’t know the full plot of the musical means you get to hear some fun questions and commentary, such as…

“How can Elphaba cry without her face melting off?” (Tears are water)

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Third-person omniscient narrator, but omniscient in the way a Dungeon Master is omniscient.

They can’t force the characters’ actions, but they can influence their environment like a god. They spend a lot of time sighing deeply when their heroes of legend get into horribly complex shenanigans.

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Penelope sings “Waiting” 9 times for each of the 9 sagas in “Would You Fall in Love With Me Again.”

Does that mean we can guess which saga Odysseus’s mother died in based on the average amount of times she sings “Waiting” in between her other phrases in “The Underworld?”

’Cause I think that means she died in the Ocean Saga, or the beginning of the Circe saga.

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Probably late to this but…

In “Thunder Bringer” when Odysseus is given the ultimatum, he sings “Please, don’t make me do this” in the exact same way he did in “The Horse and the Infant.” He is officially back in that same sort of scenario, with his crew taking the place of the infant.

In the previous saga, he said that if he had to drop another infant to get back home, he would.

So of course Ody was going to sacrifice the crew. He already said he would.

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It occurs to me that I should clarify that being late by accident to a party is okay with me. “Fashionably late” indicates you’re being late on purpose because it’s “in fashion.” Being purposefully late is what doesn’t make sense to me. If that’s not what “Fashionably Late” means, then I would like the true definition explained.

I’ve never understood being “fashionably late” to a party or other social gathering with your friends. Under any other circumstances, being late is considered a bad thing. If you’re late to school, you miss out on the first bit of learning going on. If you’re late to work, your boss gets mad at you. But somehow missing out on talking to your friends is fashionable? Being late to see my friends makes me feel bad. Having everyone show up twenty minutes late to something I’m hosting saddens me. What’s fashionable about making your friends feel sad?

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I’ve never understood being “fashionably late” to a party or other social gathering with your friends. Under any other circumstances, being late is considered a bad thing. If you’re late to school, you miss out on the first bit of learning going on. If you’re late to work, your boss gets mad at you. But somehow missing out on talking to your friends is fashionable? Being late to see my friends makes me feel bad. Having everyone show up twenty minutes late to something I’m hosting saddens me. What’s fashionable about making your friends feel sad?

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I accidentally mixed three different idioms and the result was…

Not “All that and a bag of chips.”

Not “Best thing since sliced bread.”

Not “The big cheese.”

It was “All that and a slice of cheese.”

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I know this probably isn’t going to be a thing, but for some reason Bill Cipher singing some sort of parody of “Bill” from Show Boat sounds on-brand.

This is the song, if you haven’t heard it:

I think it’s just the golden age musical jazz-type stuff.

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Polites’s name means “Citizen.”

I don’t know if that’s his original name in the book, or if he was an unnamed “citizen” and Jorge gave him the greek name for musical purposes. In either case, that’s like naming your child Guy.

No offense, Guy.

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Back when I was little, whenever I saw the advertisements on a DVD that said “Piracy is not a victimless crime,” I always thought they were referring to the pirates on the high seas.

When someone told me it was movie-related, I got the idea that there was a group of pirates on the high seas stealing treasure chests full of DVDs.

Actual movie piracy is so boring by comparison.