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oh i never know how to explain this properly but i looooooooooooooooove when a story just absolutely TELLS you something and it’s so obvious it goes right by you. like the equivalent of hiding in plain sight. i’m thinking in the original cut(?) of alien where they showed the full xenomorph, crouched and ready to pounce, but because we’ve never seen it before, we can’t tell what it is and interpret it as part of the spaceship. or it’s a detail that seems so out of place or wildly insane that you automatically ignore it and assume you misinterpreted until that exact detail comes back in a big way? (like when noah the raven boy flat out tells everyone he’s a ghost and they take it as a joke, so the reader does too) is there a tvtropes name for this i’m obsessed with it

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Hey, I'm having a bad head day/week/month/several years. I feel like when I talk about my programmes/books/games/hyperfixations I am only endlessly annoying and people just want me to shut up.

Reblog this if you like when I go unhinged/meta on my programmes/books/games/hyperfixations?

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I have finished this little story. It's about 3800 words long and about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the skull in its messaging. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I'll read it out at tomorrow's writing group and see what other people think of it.

I have managed to write today. Hurrah!

Have I managed to write any of the several on-going projects that I ought to be working on completing. Pfft. Of course not.

I have instead written the first thousand words of a new short story that has nothing to do with anything else in my to-write pile.

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Ingredients:

My biggest food box full of nettles, squashed in to really fill it up

Handful of frozen pre-chopped onions (maybe half an onion's worth)

Handful of frozen pre-chopped leaks (less than the onion)

Bit of frozen pre-chopped garlic (maybe a teaspoon)

Medium sized potato

Stock cube

Method: Boil everything together. Mush.

Result: Pretty good. Not going to compete with spicy butternut squash as my favourite soup, but decent. Has a peppery flavour despite me not adding any pepper (part of me wonders if this is residual stingingness stinging my mouth as I eat it).

There's a little patch of nettles growing at the edge of my allotment. I'm planning on cutting them all down, but I'm tempted to bring them home and make nettle soup out of them, so I will have made a soup out of my allotment's yields.

But all the recipes I'm finding online include a bunch of other ingredients, including things like butter and cream, which would be a terrible plan for me right now. I could ignore the recipes and just make nettle soup with an onion and maybe a potato and skip the high-fat ingredients that would make my body decide to torture me.

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There's a little patch of nettles growing at the edge of my allotment. I'm planning on cutting them all down, but I'm tempted to bring them home and make nettle soup out of them, so I will have made a soup out of my allotment's yields.

But all the recipes I'm finding online include a bunch of other ingredients, including things like butter and cream, which would be a terrible plan for me right now. I could ignore the recipes and just make nettle soup with an onion and maybe a potato and skip the high-fat ingredients that would make my body decide to torture me.

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vic michaelis, the madlad that you are

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I have managed to write today. Hurrah!

Have I managed to write any of the several on-going projects that I ought to be working on completing. Pfft. Of course not.

I have instead written the first thousand words of a new short story that has nothing to do with anything else in my to-write pile.

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Hate when someone posts a cool art but doesn't say who did it, what it's called, or where it's from.

Did you do this? Awesome! Tell us so we can shower you with praise!

Did you gank this from some artist and are not even giving credit? Not awesome! Bad poster! Now I cannot enjoy the cool art! At least add the name, title, and a link to the artist's work!

Did you ask an 'AI' to make this for you? That sucks. You suck. You're just the worst. Don't do that.

I CANNOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THESE TYPES OF POSTS IF YOU Don't IDENTIFY THE ARTIST, TITLE, AND SOURCE.

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The world sucks a lot but not everyone in it does - Lauren Beukes (writer of Bridge and The Shining Girls) and Jeannette Ng (writer of Under the Pendulum Sun and from the iconic Hugo acceptance speech in 2019) have a silent auction going to raise money for Trans rights in the UK and South Aftrica

There's loads of very cool stuff - special editions of books, limited edition dice, custom made crafts, jewellery and poems, and meetings with authors

And if you want to support their fundraising but don't have the money they are also accepting donations - some have donated drafts they've made, spun their own yarn, are offering to write custom poems and stories

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A dating service where matching is based on people’s search history exists. You’re a serial killer. You go on a date with a writer.

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the new game changer absolutely slaps but i will say as someone who saw the voicemail: the musical live, i'm so sad they cut the part where you find out that the reason daddy is elsewhere is because he's a werewolf

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I do feel that people who work at Dropout could get away with doing any weird and unhinged thing they have an impulse to do just by saying, "It's a Game Changer thing." All their friends and family would just nod in perfect acceptance.

Who's going to check? Even if the weirdness never turns out to be part of an episode, maybe it was just cut for time.

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You can make Sam do the wenis dance, and there's a little Henry that comes wandering across the shot. I love this so much!

think you can top brennan's score of zero? SNOWBOARD THE BEST is now available to play in your desktop browser! show me your high score!

https://minigames.dropout.tv

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mark, my words. *mark brings me my dictionary* thank you mark

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What the hell have I ordered?

I got a notification that Royal Mail had received a parcel for me from a company name I'd never heard of and I couldn't think of anything I've ordered that I haven't received.

I googled the name of the company to see if it would give me clues and it turns out that it's actually the name of a Canadian delivery company. Even more confusing. What the hell have I ordered from Canada?

Go to look at the tracking info in more detail and it shows the source location as in the Netherlands. What the hell have I ordered from the Netherlands that would be sent via a Canadian parcel company?

I'm very confused, but I guess I'll be getting a surprise in a few days' time.

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important to state for the record that the British Supreme Court are idiots

they sound very scary when you describe them as The Supreme Court but remember, these are five dusty old cishets, one of whom is a weirdo who used to write homophobic documents for the Church of Scotland. I've seen so much commentary, even from pro-trans british journalists, about how the ruling is "forensic" and "balanced" and "rational" - no it isn't, it's clearly the work of people who don't know what they're talking about. You know how I know? They accidentally defined all bi women as lesbians. They said that the legal test for a lesbian is being an AFAB person attracted to another AFAB person, and at no point did anyone go, "Hang on a second, what about bi people?" Congratulations to terfs I guess, you were so excited to get rid of the T you got rid of the B!

This ruling is exactly what you'd expect from locking five old straight people in a room and asking them to set rules for queer life without speaking to any queer people. Their judgement is silly legal word games and it has no relation to real people's actual lives - if you wanna use lawyerspeak they've "undermined public confidence in the legal system." It's not even "the emperor has no clothes," it's "the emperor is naked and covered in shit."

i can kinda understand that politicians need to make a show of respect in their tone, like okay, probably a good thing that politicians don't get into the habit of publicly undermining judges. But any journalist who treats this ruling as remotely sensible is daft - only a straight person could make that kind of mistake

These judges are idiots - I use the word in the classical greek sense of someone who is not connected to and does not understand the life of the public, of the people. Their judgement is laughable and we don't have to respect them