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spite house

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i think the key difference between george lucas���s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

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Question for people who have played this discord has ghosts in it: any ideas on how to do a satisfying chase sequence?

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Why does mxtx keep writing omega coded men and then announcing that they’re the top?? Not that I mind them being top?? But?? Binghe and Hua Cheng are so obviously bottom enthusiast, and Lan Wangji carnally desires being railed by Yilling Laozu, but these poor men are cursed to lives of top-hood.

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"ne'er-do-well" is such a harsh criticism like bro ne'er? e'er? like youd think at least some'imes id do well but nope. ne'er

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"who radicalized you" ever since i was a child i wanted other people to be treated nicely and fairly because i didnt understand why theyd deserve otherwise and it fills me with disgust seeing how people treat their fellow human beings sometimes

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listen to me. listen to me. I am taking your hand. I am looking into your eyes. That's how serious I am about this:

Writing advice is not holy writ.

you do not have to do exegesis on "show don't tell". you don't have to justify yourself under its sacred law. you don't have to work yourself around thirteen different leaps of logic to make "show don't tell" mean "do exactly as much telling as you feel like". you can just say:

I am not following that advice today.

and you can tell and not show, and nobody can stop you, and you are not committing any sin.

You do not have to show-not-tell. You do not have to kill your darlings. You do not have to delete all your adjectives or avoid all adverbs or never say "said" or always say "said". You do not have to explain how killing your darlings really means this other thing.

Sometimes the advice you decide not to follow might have made your work stronger. That's fine. You can learn from that. But you don't have to justify yourself as if you were following that advice all along.

It's writing advice. You can disagree with it. You can ignore it. It is not your God.

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we say that it's so impressive how spiders can spin webs using different types of strings with different properties, but we never consider that we also produce a range of oozes and slimes with different properties, so we're not so different. be proud of your oozes and slimes today

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I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.

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god wants me to kill myself so i cant keep slaying

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His little pony...

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ferns

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*in a Situation* okay which blorbo can I use to get through this