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"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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people will read books they Do Not Like™ and then wonder why they hate reading

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GUYS I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I AM DYING

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You know, my family has a few copies of Atlas Shrugged laying around. From the back of the book, and what my family has described, it's about a man who is trying to create his perpetual motion machine, but big companies and greedy people try to keep it away to keep making money.

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I think one of the best things about reading people's stories, as a writer, is stitching together your own voice with what others do.

Imho, I write dialogue well. I love making characters interact. I love hearing their voices and their conversations.

However, my settings are completely non-functional. I gloss over them. I give no time to breathe in the conversation to describe the setting for worry of the flow.

When I'm not writing dialogue, I'm writing movement and still disliking writing for setting.

So reading other people's works where they can show that off and it's not a graphic novel is very fantastic for me, personally.

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I'm for "no kind of writing should be illegal" in 99% of cases, but if something is being paid for by the government, they should be legally required to disclose this fact upfront, in no uncertain terms.

That is my one hard line.

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It takes 102 pages, 4 chapters, to even get to the BEGINNING of the PROMISED PLOT, in "The Likeness"? 4 chapters to get to her making up the character she is going to play that we know she's going to play?

Listen, I'm a personal sucker for fanfiction fluff of sweetness. I am not one for a character who is hemming and hawing about things they are going to do especially when it is THEM hemming and hawing and not OTHER characters. Even still, the only character that Cassie Maddox mentions would know about this is her Aunt and her boyfriend. It should not take 4 chapters of conflict to deal with 2 characters that will fail to persuade the character. It shouldn't take. It shouldn't even take 3 if Chapter 1 sets up the mystery of the girl.

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"The Likeness" and "The Great Gatsby" have beautiful prose that is able to describe things going on inside the character's minds and the scenery really well.

However I feel like the stories only do this because they do not have enough substance to feel like they can maintain a reader's eye so they try to bloat themselves with flowery words to impress others with how long the book is.

I am a person with a short attention span. While stories like "Kokoro" and "The Convenience Store Woman" do not have as high praise, they are much more engaging stories about humanity and choices one human makes that affects others that I believe "The Likeness" and "The Great Gatsby" are.

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Honestly, I am in the middle of reading the book for a class and feeling more frustration with the class that may unfairly reflect on "Convenience Store Woman." As someone who is... "peer reviewed" autistic, my teacher has said things that are very negative, such as "I don't believe [someone] has a neurological disorder, but a personality disorder" as if it's not also neurodivergence that causes personality disorders.

I'm also constantly talked over by people who are neurotypical. An example being

Me: I don't feel bad for a character because they refuse to use the tools available to them to help them learn. A guy: I agree that I don't feel bad, because he refuses to change after getting thrown out of situations. A girl: I agree with the guy specifically using the word "change."

I say practically the same thing, but I'm talked over!

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Story ideas

"In a story similar to an Isekai, you have a child who is actually a changeling taken back by the Unseelie Fae court." Romance? Drama/Adventure? Y/A? Adult?

"A Demi-God family is torn apart by those who wish the status quo never changed." Drama. Young Adult

"A Detective assists a Fairy in figuring out why prostitutes are going missing." Drama. Adult.

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Sensei: You need to get some bitches. MC: Dude, you don't even like your own wife. Sensei: Sensei: My point still stands.

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yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame

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the ability to say "i dont have a tiktok" in social situations makes me feel so powerful. like the general reaction is "shock, confusion, then this weird 'thats probably a good thing' response" its so fun

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I finally found my queer toxic love story that I adore and it's Agatha X Sophie.

When I first discovered it, I was unaware of my own queerness. I was what... 11 in 2013 when I read it? With my sister who was freshly 18 and straight? We took the love of friendship at face value.

Now, rereading book 1 for my paper, I think that Sophie and Agatha are an amazing SOURCE for STORIES and analysis.

Particularly, what gets to me is the borderline obsession the two girls have for each other, or whatever their heart desires. And that's a big thing within the book. The obsession.

Sophie is obsessed with her desire to get into the Good school that she never sees her evilness within her. Agatha is obsessed with her desire to get back home with her friend that she never sees the possibility of having a better life.

When Agatha finally is outgrowing Sophie, Sophie CLINGS onto her friendship that is supposed to be her destroying Agatha but she can never bring herself to physically harm her. She is a toxic ex that is demanding her ex be just as clingy as she used to be so Sophie can feel good about herself. In the same vein, Agatha knows she never wants to let go of Sophie. She can't let this girl die even though it would lead to the typical "happily ever after" because Sophie was the first to ever show kindness to her. Agatha also ALWAYS sees the good in people and desires to go back to the good times she had with Sophie.

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In honor of hbomberguy's video...

I've found a youtube response to the hbomberguy video that isn't just content hunting/recuts! And doesn't seem to be a planned thing like Todd!

Mostly because this is an academic using the hbomberguy video as a jumping off point to talk to the camera, with few edits, about how to cite your sources.

Don't Be Like James Somerton: Advice on Citations and Plagiarism by Archaeology Tube

This is a very reasonable kind of thing to see a day or two after a big story hits. Not edited in a way that's super intensive, and clearly a lecture--too happy to be a rant, honestly--that the person has locked and loaded and has obviously thought about a lot... presumably because, as an academic, it's kind of super necessary.