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Revenue Per Employee.

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"Who would want to kill the thing that makes maps like this?"

Baru would. Because she would never share this world with Tain Hu. She would never point from a ship's mast and say, See that mountain? I've named it for you.

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i started reading book 3 of masquerade very recently but i'm still devastated about the monster baru cormorant. some notes about this piece under the cut!

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I'm starting to think that a lot of fantasy writers who are writing Heroes and Wars and Quests would be a lot happier writing the magic equivalent of a sports anime.

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Baru would not pull the lever, not because she thinks it's better to let five die by inaction than one by action, but because she has convinced herself that she needs to prove she can tolerate mass death in order to be given enough power to end all trolleys. It's a necessary sacrifice.

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CITATION STYLES THUNDERDOME

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“Employees LOVE working with Shovel!!!” executive manager of the Dig Your Own Grave Division at Big Company reports. “Shovel is such a huge productivity booster.”

In unrelated news, Big Company laid off 9,000 employees today. “It’s an important strategic market shift,” that same executive says. “We just have to, now that we have all these freshly dug graves we can put them in.”

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i don’t notice it that often but a little thing i loooooove is when the Highs And Lows of the narrative are illustrated w literal ascents and descents / particularly falls. thinking about the king must die and how the high of theseus ascending from the labyrinth etc turns into a low of despair exactly as aegeus throws himself off the acropolis. like ok katabasis narratives do this a lot but they can and frequently do also do it weirdly. like often successfully Getting to the underworld is a narrative high point despite being directionally Low or e.g. hadestown where the ascent from the underworld ends up being the lowest point for the characters. but anyway. i love it when characters fall off things and die

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we have always lived in the castle illustrated by thomas ehretsmann for centipede press

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mary oliver already said everything

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"Four social media influencers live stream their trip to Devil's Manor, former home to a satanic cult."

Welcome to Shudder Buddies, the show where horror enthusiasts Cyrus and Katie watch and review every single movie on Shudder*! In our opening episode, we review #ChadGetsTheAxe (2022), a found footage-style horror comedy. We also introduce our dear listeners to the BASH scale, the plan for the future, and how much we hate YouTube prank bros.

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when you want to play your video games but dont have the energy for it its like who wants to be my proxy that does the gameplay while i watch and make every decision in the game from the comfort of my bed

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Tills Books, Edinburgh

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'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter' rebrands to 'They Don't Want You to Know it's Not Butter', to better reflect the 21st-century consumer mindset.

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can I be so real with you. can I be honest. totally aside from the moral panic about women on booktok being """porn addicts""" because they're reading erotica, I think it's so fucking goofy when people act as if there needs to be some kind of societal reckoning with how tiktok books "aren't very good." like, okay? they're commercial products mass produced for entertainment. tiktok didn't invent that; you're going to have to take it up with pulp magazines and dime novels and comic books. you guys would throw up if you found out about Fanny Hill.

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the look on the face of the former weird bug in charge of the night time is probably a visage of anguish right about now