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Dickcissel (Spiza americana)

© Lee Funderburg

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it does still kinda piss me off that a book whose last sentence is, in its entirety: "The Lord is wonderful."

...brought me to fucking tears

that shit belongs in some cheesy devotional i'd find on my grandma's nightstand and roll my eyes at. and yet Robinson was like. yeah bitch i'll throw that curveball in at the end of this intensely realist intimate novel and it'll work in context and it will NOT derive its power from a cheap-shot-tearjerker trick; it'll do it in an i-told-a-damn-good-story way. Robinson what the fuck did you do to me. bitches out here doing illegal things with words

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good god i fucking love subjunctives <3

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"writing is not that serious," I say, "I am doing this for fun, it is my fun hobby, and Writers Online could really stand to be a lot less precious about it." then I turn around and say "for this fanfiction of a children's video game I am trying to do some Kazuo Ishiguro shit"

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it's funny how the closet i've ever come to writing reyson/tibarn in a healthy, functional relationship is "that time they were doing weird mindgames to dubcon-ily drag Sothe in as a third"

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divine instruments: solar flare 🔥, thunder edge ⚡, tundra beads ❄️

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utterly wiped from plane travel friday + plane travel today + attending-a-wedding-stuff in between but oh my gOD i've been wanting to write this scene ALL WEEKEND and NOW that i'm sitting DOWN the words are on strike??? those little bitches

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[ID: an illustration of a purple patterned heron with its mouth open toward falling water from the top, trying to catch two fish. end.]

(available here until claimed)

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it's probably the respectable and narratively correct choice, on the Andor writers' part, to leave this potential Perrin + Mon Mothma scene on the cutting room floor

but, until near the end, i thought for sure that was the direction they were taking with Perrin's character

and the fangirl in me is still pissed that they did exactly zero with him from ~s2e4 onward. like you don't have to give him a full Drama Reveal like that interview suggested (though again... yeah... fangirl-me wouldn't complain). but at least tip off that he knows Slightly More Than He's Letting On! the dude who is Not Asking Certain Questions On Purpose has more texture to him yaknow

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Keinen kachō gafu - Keinen Imao - 1891 - via Internet Archive

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fictionyoubelieve said: how was the food?

EXCELLENT QUESTION

so, honestly, the appetizers were the best part

b/c we're in the exact part of the midwest that is like: toasted ravioli is a delicacy, actually

(and they are CORRECT tbc. like, if america as a project means anything at all... it means a bunch of italian immigrants can show up in some culturally-desolate part of the midwest and be like, "what if traditional cuisine but we deep-fry it," and the result is DELICIOUS and it RULES and we will LOVE IT FOREVERMORE)

main course was standard pasta + red sauce + salad which was totally fine but unremarkable. tasted better with every additional drink tho. which were plentiful. because open bar babey

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drunk after a weddiiiiing what up gang

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lmafuckingo

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i sorta half-rewatched Rogue One with my newfound Andor knowledge and. that is just not a very good movie. Andor improves it somewhat but mostly it is bad

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NO KINGS! Be safe tomorrow 🇺🇸