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Here’s something I’m curious about.

Picture this. You’re reading a book, a standard book divided into chapters. Let’s say it’s fiction (don’t know if nonfiction would get different results). You’ve been reading for a while and you want to stop for now. Assume you are not literally falling asleep, you’re still awake and lucid.

You are in the middle of a paragraph, in the middle of a page, somewhere in the middle of a chapter in the middle of the book.

“Power through and finish the book” is not an option, but if you really do that you have my sympathies.

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1. as a writer, this is a hilarious big mood.

2. despite it not actually looking very much like the AO3 icon, that red void dragon symbol keeps looking like the AO3 icon out of the corner of my eye. this also amuses me.

new AU just dropped

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I'm noticing some interesting choices with regards to pronouns in Laura Pohl's translation of All Systems Red. See, in Portuguese we don't have object pronouns like "it/its" and neutral neopronouns like "elu/delu" are considered more analogous to the English "they/them", so gendering Murderbot the way that it is gendered in the original was always going to be tricky. There's also the other difficulty that adjectives are gendered in Portuguese, so whenever Murderbot describes itself or it's emotional state or anything, necessarily it was going to gender itself grammatically in some way. What this translation does at first is that the Murderbot's internal dialogue it genders itself in the masculine which I assumed to be just sort of defaulting Murderbot to be a masculine character, but in reflection of a different detail, I think it's just defaulting to this formal almost archaic notion of the masculine as neutral. Now, the detail that made me rethink this is this line that I just came upon of Dr Mensah's:

"UniSeg, preciso que você fique parada aí até eu chegar."

[SecUnit, I need you to stay still (female form) until I arrive]

The reason that Mensah is referring to Murderbot in the feminine in this case is that it's referring to it as a security unit, right, and the word Unidade, Unit, in Portuguese, is a feminine word. So I just went back now and I found one other previous instance in which characters refer to Murderbot in the third person and, Ratthi, he calls Murderbot by masculine pronouns but that's when it's being referred to as a robô, robot, which in Portuguese is a masculine word. So I guess the way that Pohl found to express Murderbot's object pronouns is by just using whatever pronouns are in agreement with the word being used to describe it. Which to be fair makes a lot of sense for treating objects in Portuguese. If you call something a cadeira, chair, you're going to refer to it with feminine pronouns, but if you call the exact same object a sofá, sofa, you will be using the masculine pronouns.

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kissin kate barlow has the best villain origin story ever put to paper. if i fell in love with a sweet man who just wanted to sell onions and show of his sick carpentry skills and they killed him for being black i think i would also snap and kill everyone involved in the most ironic way possible.

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Do we think it's anywhere near approaching a coincidence that the trailer for the homestuck cartoon came out the same day as a one-hour-long-long-read calling out the homestuck company

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You think Zidane taught self-defense more seriously after what happened in Dali?

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how it feels to drive a prius on the interstate surrounded on all sides by huge trucks

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shoutouts to the human spinal column for ingeniously crushing itself under its own weight

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gamers who spam through tutorial instructions or skip cutscenes and then complain that the gameplay is frustratingly unintuitive or that the story sucks are equivalent to those online cooking weirdos where they substitute carrots for chocolate and then complain to the author of the article that the recipe is a failure. bestie perhaps look inwards

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now THIS is jewish culture

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Harem drama series but the main character is completely oblivious to the drama because she has autism

Jealous wife #7: you must be sooo happy to have husband's attention... it would be unfortunate if... you had an accident. Imagine if you were bed bound, unable to even pleasure him? Then you'd just become a burden, something he wants to be rid of as soon as possible

Female lead: I mean yeah that would suck but do you just sit around worrying about me?

Jealous wife: girl. I'm telling you to stay away from him

Female lead: wait what why

Jealous wife: BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, I'LL HURT YOU

Female lead: but you're the one that's always worrying about me getting hurt???

Jealous wife: oh my god I cannot deal with this anymore. Just forget it.

*this is the 196589th harem drama plot she's resolved by doing nothing*

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Sometimes Bg3 will do this thing where it acts like Baulders Gate is the most evil city ever. However. I've been to Kirkwall. So.

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it is important, now more than ever, to make friends you can roleplay extremely specific blorbo scenarios with. you have to be crying at 3am over angst scenarios generated by your elaborate among us based au. its good for the economy.

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The secunit

It destroyed it's governor module

Yes

YES

The secunit is out

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