#Which are Factually Correct

[rotzaprachim]

one of the biggest issues with the current misinformation and/or propaganda discourses is that a lot of people on some level hold the idea that there's a linear separation between "media that is Propaganda" and "True Media, which is Correct and Pure," and that is fundamentally not how the news works, or how history works, or how historiography works. Some news and history is certainly working to push particular points more than others, and not all aspects of the political equation bear equal validity, but a lot of people are refusing to engage with the fact that all news and all media needs to be engaged with critically, and that "read from a variety of sources" isn't a conservative psyop but an attempt to try to counter the fact that every journalist ever - every person every, and certainly every twenty something tiktoker ever - has certain biases. there is no linear, singular, pure "truth." in fact, the acceptance of the idea that there can be some media that is wholly pure versus others that is nothing but pure propaganda is exactly how people buy into propaganda to begin with - because it presents a clean, straightforward, and seemingly just explanation for the world

[everytimewetouch-dot-mp3]

trying to hold back my UM, ACTUALLY autistic desire for technical correctness in casual conversation even though the thought of abiding something factually incorrect makes my skin crawl because most of the time it doesn’t actually matter and also it ruins the vibe

[kitchensinksurrealism]

whenever people talk about what they were like 13 and i'm thinking like "wait that was me when i was 15" or someone's describing a stereotypical 18 year old and that was just me when i was 20. etc etc etc etc so like. although there's no way to be one particular age and everyone ages at different speeds. but idk it all adds up that i always seem to act 2 years younger at any age. soooooo tag ramble

[lloydfrontera]

i know canonically javier looks all elegant and beautiful even while sleeping but in my heart he's more like a cat. like. if he has lloyd's lullaby he can and will fall asleep in the weirdest positions possible no shits given. he'll be in the most uncomfortable and scrunched up pose imaginable and look like he's having the comfiest nap of his life

[emotsper]

hi um massive bat nerd here I just thought you might enjoy knowing vampire bat saliva does have a natural anticoagulant called draculin you were factually correct on that. i love vampire stuff thank you for listening

THIS IS INFACT INDEED AN AMAZING INFORMATION TO ME. THANK YOU

[marc--chilton]

i love you, fucked up queer people in my computer

[bitchywitchheart]

This is how every conversation with me goes

[camifornilla]

I love when other countries set their stories in Hollywood/California cuz then I get to sit there reading it like Wrong! Wrong, wrong, wrong! Unlikely. Inaccurate. Wrong.

Some fun facts about California:

We have no private beaches, people might put stuff on the beach to make it seem like a private beach, but beaches are not private here and the public is allowed to access the beach at all times.

If you’re in a Hollywood/Downtown Los Angeles setting, keep in mind we have a lot of traffic. If you want your character to be an LA native, they’ll call traffic traffic because that’s just what it is. If they’re from some other city/state/etc and they moved to LA later they’ll call it “LA Traffic” (but please don’t put that to paper cuz it’s fucking annoying and their opinions Do Not Count).

Weather wise: In Southern California/SoCal we get earthquakes, droughts, and not a lot of rain.

If we do get rain, we also get a lot of flash flooding. We don’t typically get snow unless you’re high up in the mountains and the mountains that get snow are Very far away from any other noteworthy location (like 1-3 hours).

If you’re gonna put an earthquake in for a native, you’ve gotta make it Big Big for it to be really plot worthy (like you’re in the epicenter for something 5.0 or greater) otherwise you’ll probably sleep through it, not notice it at all, or maybe feel a bit of vertigo. If they’re a transplant, make them react to anything 3.0+ because they’re not used to it.

If ya want animal related drama and they’re in a foresty/hilly setting drop in some coyotes and if it’s Really foresty and mountainous maybe add some mountain lions. I’ve never had an encounter with mountain lions beyond seeing them on the news but coyotes are very common. Folks don’t leave their small dogs out alone sometimes cuz Coyotes tend to attack/eat them.

Edit: the Pacific Ocean is really cold. It’s always very cold.

[elizabethrobertajones]

That YA post you reblogged is not really accurate. There are some good sources in the notes, you should check it out

I know, I'm a five times published YA author :D However, it is funny!

[rad-roche]

for dmt/dww i set myself a 'you get one cute new vegas reference' rule per story because the likelihood of the characters in it knowing anything about what's going on all the way on the other coast is pretty low. nick mentions the mojave one time in the first one, and in the sequel he says caesar the legion way and gloria says fucking who? that can't be how you say that

[devoti]

will never stop ugh-ing I was put in this world to ughughughhhh

[askshivanulegacy]

Nah, lol. "Chat" is ABSOLUTELY second person. "Chat" is the term for "you" (plural) or "you all." It is identical (as many comments have already pointed out) to addressing your readers, listeners, or audience.

The fourth wall has NOTHING to do with pronouns. You are counting different things. First-, second-, and third-person pronouns cover all pronoun use cases in English.

The "fourth wall" refers to the fourth "wall" of a stage set, with the first through third walls literally being the other three walls of the stage (sides and back). They are physical objects. The fourth "wall" is less physical, being the imaginary barrier between the performers and the audience.

"Chat" IS second person. When you address any person, anywhere, whether near you or in some metaphysical plane of reality, that is second person, because that is how second person is defined. It's the direct addressing of an audience. Near vs far, and defined vs undefined forms are irrelevant: it ALL falls under second person.

Also, "breaking the fourth wall" (speaking in second-person) really only has relevant meaning when you disrupt an otherwise self-contained story to do it. If you're constantly speaking to your audience via live stream, or if narrating at the audience is the literal premise of your production, you don't have a story with a "wall" to break. These types of productions have been around forever anyway, such as in stand-up comedy or documentaries or Q&As on any number of productions. Streaming makes it more accessible to access your audience in the moment of production, so that's neat, but I wouldn't say it's shockingly new. Theater has done it for ages.

Anyway, regardless of how you think of 4th-wall breaking and when it applies, it is second person. 4th person does not exist.

Also, "chat" isn't even a pronoun. It's a NOUN, just like reader, listener, or audience.

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

i'm trying to be objective about what he Has Done and Has Not Done. there are zero fucking blinders on me. i acknowledge, actively, that he is Enabling A Genocide. i've hated his guts for well over a decade now, and defending him makes me cough up blood.

now, before i run out of napkins to clean up with, pay attention and say it with me:

federally codifying roe v wade in the wake of the supreme court's supreme fuckery, and leaning on congress to fully restore it, is not Nothing

effectively killing the keystone xl pipeline, rejoining the paris climate accord and establishing a path to lower emissions which have, surprisingly, largely been followed through on is not Nothing

mandatory masking, fast-tracking vaccines, and stimulus checks that functionally created a demo for UBI during the early pandemic were not Nothing, and in fact saved potentially millions of lives

literally everything on here that amounted to Nothing or Close To Nothing was fought by republicans, because god forbid The Poors get relief or any guns get taken away from your average xtian ethnonationalist with an assault weapons fetish

outside the original list:

he revived the joy silk doctrine (and personally fired the NLRB's top counsel), resulting in a surge in union membership and power

his appointments include the FCC chair who restored the net neutrality we lost under trump, and a fuckton of judges and policymakers (more than 2/3 of which are women and poc, most of which lean progressive and will be shaping policy for decades to come).

he pushed for a universal insulin price cap of $35 per month and got it as part of the inflation reduction act (which also made green energy sources cheaper and more accessible and had a lot of other great shit bundled into it)

he pushed reforms on the way states handle welfare, preventing them from using TANF funds on projects like abstinence promotion and anti-abortion "clinics", or to fill budget holes in child protective services (that would be used to take the kids away from the parents who would have been better able to take care of said kids if given access to the fucking TANF funds)

he issued a federal pardon for marijuana-related convictions

he's introduced rules to combat disability discrimination

none of that is Nothing. we are actually seeing some of the absolute fucking best domestic policy we've had in my momma's entire lifetime (and, yes, it comes alongside disastrous foreign policy, which, i will note, has been par for the course since the iraq "war" started, if not earlier)

as for "slow progress propaganda"...

slow progression beats fast regression.

obviously most of us want more. we demand better via protest AND strategic voting AND community organizing AND getting personally involved in local, state, and global politics as much as possible

we're all mad and we're not letting his shit slide, but we're not letting misinfo slide either. maybe when you're over your baby tantrum bullshit, i'll hand you a brick and we can build something better together.

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[an-ruraiocht]

90% of the time when i see reviews and posts saying "this book needed editing" i don't think the reader have any idea what editing actually entails. usually this is actually code for one of several "problems" with the book:

it's too long, or it's slower paced than this reader's preference. they believe "editing" would mean making it shorter

it has a heavily descriptive style, which the reader doesn't like. they believe "editing" means paring every sentence down to hemingway-style prose with no adverbs

it doesn't follow the very rigid "save the cat" style 3-act story structure, disrupting the reader's sense of narrative tension. an editor, they believe, would've made sure it did

there were a few typos or formatting errors, and they believe it's the editor's job to catch these (it's not, it's typically the proofreader and the typesetter who have responsibility for that kind of thing)

and finally, most often:

the author had different narrative priorities than the reader, who thinks an editor would have made the author change their priorities.

the thing is, there are actually issues with editors in trad publishing being overworked to the point where things aren't getting the thorough, thoughtful editing that they need to be the best version of themselves. there are plenty of badly-structured, poorly-researched, and clumsily written books out there. moreover copyediting is typically freelance and perhaps because of that, this is the area where i see the largest number of issues: continuity issues, grammar issues, factual errors etc that someone should've spotted and didn't.

but this is not typically what people's "this needed an editor" reviews are focusing on. most often it just means they didn't like the book and they've decided editing is an all-powerful force that would have transformed it into a book they liked. but that's not how it works. and disproportionately what this comment means is that the book doesn't match what current fashions have decided is The Correct Style to write in

"this book needed an editor" if it's traditionally published, it had one. like. by definition. it was an editor who bought the book. that doesn't mean the editor did a great job but they definitely existed. there were probably at least two (acquiring editor who does the dev edits; copyeditor who does copyedits), and the proofreader, and a bunch of other people besides.

also i think people think editors are the ones who like. implement the changes. but they don't. they give comments and recommendations and ask questions and the author is the one to act on them. the editor will not rewrite the book. they will not fix the problems themselves, they will highlight the problem and the author will figure out a fix for it, or they will decide they don't agree that it's a problem and leave it as it. and a lot of the sentence-level style stuff is entirely on the author so if they don't have an ear for the rhythm then nobody's going to fix that for them. editors do a lot less than people seem to imagine they do, tbh

anyway

for reference—

structural/developmental edits: is this chapter in the right place and does the plot make sense and is the characterisation consistent and effective

line edits: is this sentence in the right place and is it as stylish as it could be

copy edits: is this sentence grammatically correct and consistent/factually correct within the story/its world and do the spellings follow the publisher's stylesheet

proofreading: are there any typos in this sentence and was the formatting preserved correctly when it was typeset

[ad-astra-per-aspera-1389]

Marco Polo did not lie out of his ass for three hundred pages to be disrespected like this

that dumb fuck didn't even PRETEND to know where he was. I do think he'd vibe with the yolo sentiment though