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there's a stage in sandwich consumption where it's falling to pieces & you're desperately cupping it in your hands & it's like this poor wounded animal that is covered in mustard & wants to die

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Like genuinely I think people need to take their complaints, literally any of them (preferably all of them. Not necessarily because they’re all wrong but because this is good practice regardless) and just…. Think them through

Instead of just gut reacting to it and deciding it’s bad or a mistake think about it as a decision and think about WHY it might have been made.

Assume it’s deliberate. Assume the writers knew what they were doing. Assume the writers understand the relevant topics. That may not be all true, but for the moment assume it is anyway.

Why would they choose to do this?

What could it imply about the character who is doing this?

What could it imply about the thing being done?

If it contradicts something previously mentioned, think about why that could be. Which source is more trustworthy? Why would one of them be wrong? Is one wrong, or could something have changed?

If it doesn’t seem to match that persons characterisation, think about why it might be different. Has something happened to them? Would that have changed them this way? Or are they acting like this for another reason? Is that even them?

Sometimes you go through all this and the answer is still that it’s bad writing. Sometimes you come out with new complaints. The point is not to defend every writing choice being made, the point is that you have considered it, and properly thought about what reasons there might have been behind that decision.

I have seen so many deliberate writing decisions made to convey something to the audience being written off as bad writing because people don’t stop to think about the reasons why something was done a certain way. You’ll have a much better experience with media if you go into it with an open mind, willing to consider what the writer is trying to convey, instead of going into it looking for bad writing to complain about and never thinking about something beyond the surface level.

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People don’t understand the concept of liking two characters’ relationship in multiple contexts. They can be lovers in one setting and just friends in another, their dynamic doesn’t have to be consistent in every piece of art I make.

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vulnerability is so important but I will not be partaking in it

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people who make coffee a pillar of their personality > people who make tea a pillar of their personality >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> people who make complaining about how the normalization of caffeine consumption is Capitalist And Evil even the slightest shred of their personality

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when will we talk about the willful helplessness epidemic on here. So many people on this god forsaken website demand to have any and all things that exist outside their personal experiences directly, personally pre-chewed and spoonfed to them. And when you do, they'll then ask for you to swallow for them, too, because, you see, in THEIR experience..,

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You strike Green Knight? You cut off his head like the football?! Oh! Oh! Beheading for Gawain! Beheading for Gawain One Year Hence!!

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i never feel more like a steeple-fingered villain than when i see someone making reductive statements about a genre i like and i think tch. pathetic. not only can i tell that you are only acquainted with three utterly mainstream works of this genre, but i can tell exactly which three they are

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“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

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"he's inscrutable!" to you. I can scrute him

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REMEMBER you can still be KIND to those you DO NOT UNDERSTAND!

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One of the more frustrating things about the particular kind of anti-intellectualism directed at the humanities here and on places like tiktok is that pointing it out makes you seem like a killjoy.

No, I actually didn't find your "historians will say they were just friends" joke funny. No I don't think speculating that old photos are in black and white to make them seem older is harmless. But I seem uptight and "not fun" when I say these things.

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northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me

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This site is great for people who have opinions so esoteric as to be functionally useless

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"Would you look at that, mercury's in Gatorade."

"I don't believe in astrology."

"No, I mean there is a recall."

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today’s the day