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Nah I think they'd have a splendid time having a torrid romance and being dramatic as hell about it.

In a lot of vampire lore, being bitten by a vampire just once doesn't turn a human into a vampire, but some sort of a thrall, enchanted and seduced by the vampire's alluring ways, to make the victim more pliable and easy to feed from, and only a sufficiently prolonged and deliberate series of bites will turn the human victim into a vampire.

Which is compatible with the theory that italians are the opposite of vampires. While vampires cannot stand the sight of crosses, stepping into a church, or being exposed to garlic or sunlight, and cannot see themselves in a mirror, italians become miserable if they cannot have access to a church, crosses, direct sunlight, garlic, and getting to see themselves in a mirror.

Consequently, sensually biting the neck of an italian may enthrall one, but will not immediately turn you into an italian. But a sufficiently prolonged and deliberate series of bites may get one to marry you, therefore giving you an italian citizenship.

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In a lot of vampire lore, being bitten by a vampire just once doesn't turn a human into a vampire, but some sort of a thrall, enchanted and seduced by the vampire's alluring ways, to make the victim more pliable and easy to feed from, and only a sufficiently prolonged and deliberate series of bites will turn the human victim into a vampire.

Which is compatible with the theory that italians are the opposite of vampires. While vampires cannot stand the sight of crosses, stepping into a church, or being exposed to garlic or sunlight, and cannot see themselves in a mirror, italians become miserable if they cannot have access to a church, crosses, direct sunlight, garlic, and getting to see themselves in a mirror.

Consequently, sensually biting the neck of an italian may enthrall one, but will not immediately turn you into an italian. But a sufficiently prolonged and deliberate series of bites may get one to marry you, therefore giving you an italian citizenship.

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[perfectly focused, relaxed silence interrupted by nothing but the hum of computer fans, the sounds of a tablet pen scratching, and the occasional tapping of keyboard keys]

an unprompted thought, in a dramatic booming voice and echoing reverb:

PENAS TIRITH

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If written Finnish is so different from spoken Finnish, how does that work with dialogue in fiction? Do you have to translate it to How People Really Talk in your head, or does the author do that for you? What if a character speaks a specific dialect?

That's actually a distinct stylistic choice that every author needs to make. In older books, the dialogue is always in formal, written finnish, with a very rare exception of a character whose lines are written in a spoken dialect to highlight how uneducated or working class they are. In more modern works there's some teetering between trying to write the dialogue in a way that's neutrally somewhere between written and spoken finnish, or sometimes completely in written finnish save for the most distinctive spoken traits like pronouns (as in, different dialects of finnish have their own "me", "you", etc, no finnish dialect has gendered pronouns).

At least in the 90s and early 2000s there was a lot of YA that was written entirely in spoken finnish, in the 1st person narrator's dialect, which makes them very hard to get into at first, and hard to get out of once the narrator's dialect gets into your brain.

It's also worth specifically noting that there is no one single specific spoken finnish, but "spoken" is an umbrella term that covers all finnish dialects save for written finnish. Everyone speaks the dialect of where they're from (or live in, dialects are far more contageous than accents), and you can tell where someone who speaks finnish as a second language learned it, from what dialect of spoken finnish they have mixed in with the formal book finnish they've been taught. Picking up a dialect is not a flaw, I'm honestly impressed every time I hear someone speak finnish as a second language with a distinct spoken finnish dialect - that means they learned most of it by speaking it with natives in everyday life.

And as old books, old plays, and even very old movies have characters speaking written finnish, a native finn speaking formal book finnish comes off having an "uncanny valley" sort of a vibe - they're literally speaking like a book character. Imagine hearing someone casually speaking english in a 1950s movie trans-atlantic accent.

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Minä potkin kerran kengänkannan muotoisen lommon naapurin oveen kun se kuunteli musiikkia niin kovalla ettei kuullut ovikelloa. Kun se vihdoin jollain konstilla havaitsi että joku yrittää murtautua sen ovesta läpi ja tuli avaamaan, se vastasi suoraan huutoon vaan ynisemällä että kyllä hän saa musiikkia kuunnella asunnossaan, hiljaisuus alkaa vasta yhdeksältä. Kokonaisen vuoden se huudatti musiikkia vähintään neljä päivää viikossa 12 tuntia putkeen ja lopetti minuuttia ennen kello yhdeksää.

Toivottavasti se on tappanut itsensä.

Vois mennä naapurin ovelle koputtelee ja näyttää sille että miten volyyminappi stereoissa toimii.

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are you older or younger than weezer's first album

Older, that was apparently may 10, I was february 18th.

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Ooooh I thought it was like "the fuck you mean you're closer to 40, I thought you were like 12."

You are 30?

I'm 31. Born in 1994.

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@littlefeltfangs can you elaborate?

You are 30?

I'm 31. Born in 1994.

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Sure. I come from a country with mandatory military training for all able-bodied men. You can opt into going into non-combatant training instead, and even if you don't want to do absolutely anything at all, anyone smart enough to qualify as intellectually capable of service could figure out how to weasel out of it for "mental health reasons". If you'd have to be forced into it kicking and screaming, there's ways to get out of it.

I still know more men who are upset about not being allowed to go into service, and defend the country if needed, than those who went through with it while grumbling about it.

The thing about martyrdom is that it's supposed to be entirely voluntary, and nobody could have held it against you if you hadn't. Self-sacrifice for one's own morals and sense of justice is noble, but no-one can demand that from anyone else, or judge you for rather having your skin than your dignity. It's not moral or righteous of you to demand someone else to risk themselves for your morals, whether they share them with you or not.

"Why would you comply to a website's stupid and oppressive censorship rules, rather than risk getting banned from a platform that plays a significant role in how you make a living?" is not the noble and righteous take that you think it is.

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The thing about martyrdom is that it's supposed to be entirely voluntary, and nobody could have held it against you if you hadn't. Self-sacrifice for one's own morals and sense of justice is noble, but no-one can demand that from anyone else, or judge you for rather having your skin than your dignity. It's not moral or righteous of you to demand someone else to risk themselves for your morals, whether they share them with you or not.

"Why would you comply to a website's stupid and oppressive censorship rules, rather than risk getting banned from a platform that plays a significant role in how you make a living?" is not the noble and righteous take that you think it is.

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I showed the hand animation to a friend on discord and she said that it kind of looks like trying to pet a dog or a kitty, and it just occurred to me that it does, indeed. Also my boyfriend's family's dogs have a tendency to first ask for pets and then sit juuuust outside of reach. So this is now a self-portrait featuring their younger dog, titled Let Me Pet You, You Little Shit

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You are 30?

I'm 31. Born in 1994.

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How’s the haircut?

Literally just looked at it this morning and went "huh, looking good". I had originally worried that it looked too clean-cut and tidy, but now that it's been a few days, it's starting to get messy and shaggy in the right sort of way.

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He's not playing, he 100% wants to crawl back into the wilderness and away from people with as little ruckus as he possibly can.

If I was 0,3 points more unhinged I'd introduce my boyfriend to people the exact same way Steve Irwin showed off random animals. Unexpectedly pulling him out of a random bush, wrestling him down and wrangling him up to where people can see him like "look at this beauty! gorgeous creature, isn't he?" while people are like dude what the fuck, and he's just doing his best to quietly and discreetly wiggle out of my grip and get back to the hiding place I pulled him out of.

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If I was 0,3 points more unhinged I'd introduce my boyfriend to people the exact same way Steve Irwin showed off random animals. Unexpectedly pulling him out of a random bush, wrestling him down and wrangling him up to where people can see him like "look at this beauty! gorgeous creature, isn't he?" while people are like dude what the fuck, and he's just doing his best to quietly and discreetly wiggle out of my grip and get back to the hiding place I pulled him out of.

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Remembered the phrase "[someone] is turning in his grave", as a way of saying that someone who's now dead would so deeply disapprove of something that a living person is doing that their corpse would stir in unease.

Then I remembered an expression, "even a worm will turn", as a way of saying that no matter how downtrodden or lowly someone seems, they can nonetheless turn against their abusers and oppressors once they've had enough of it.

Then cross-contamination happened and the phrase "a worm is turning in his grave" emerged to me. I have no idea what that means.

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Next discovery: Adding more frames doesn't necessarily make it smoother. Colouring also won't help with it being jittery.

Awww yeah now that's better.

I had a clear plan and deadline for this week: Clear my work desk and then get started on re-drawing the comic page I froze up on. I should have lines on that comic page by next wednesday.

me, instead, at 2 pm on the same friday: How do I animate hand.