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This makes me so sad and also I'm trying to remember if any of the Discworld books dealt with late stage capitalism
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Gonna step outside and see if the 31C is too hot to mow the lawn or to any tiling outside today
#I love that it's 30 degrees where you are and it's hot#and it's 30 degrees (F) where I am and it's cold#hemispheres are great#the unnecessarily different temperature scales less so but#hey it makes fun things like this happen :)#though personally I'd say 30C is hotter than 30F is cold#...if that makes sense#maybe “30C is more uncomfortably hot than 30F is uncomfortably cold” makes more sense#I'm sure people from hotter climates than me would disagree
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I wish there were medieval fantasy written by people who actually found the medieval period interesting
#literally none of those authors write anything close to what you were describing?#all of their characters (well I don't know GRRM's but the others)#absolutely have modern mindsets placed into a land with magic rather than tech#agreed that people mentioning them have missed your point
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how is tin's melting point only 230°C / 450°F. that's the temperature I roast brussels sprouts.
#I suppose it makes sense that tin has a lower melting point than#say#copper#because tin is a component of solder#and solder has to melt before the metal in the the things you're soldering does (one of those metals is often copper)#but yeah#that seems low#every day I put soil samples in porcelain crucibles on iron racks in an oven and turn the oven up to 360 C for two hours#aside from the crucibles sometimes getting stuck in the iron racks (they're sitting in holes in the racks) due to temp expansion/contractio#the only things affected by the heat is the soil sample
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dash is dead im teleporting to the past
https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard?max_post_id=606474489540042752
#this is actually really cool#and since I'm basically following a whole different set of people now than I was then#it's very different than it _actually_ would've been then
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*love to put in situations
the author's barely disguised hobbies and interests
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never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It
#I am more likely to search for a sign or other written thing answering my question#than I am to ask the people whose job it is to help me if I'm confused#but for me this _is_ the path of least resistance#because talking to people is a last resort for me#understandably this would be different for other people#for whom talking/asking questions is not so much of a chore
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Im rewatching drawtectives again and you know what that means:
MORE SAM UG DOODLES!!!
I love her
Also, here's her doing thief/spy stuff
My wife
Commissions - Kofi - Drawtectives Keychains
Reblogs appreciated 💜
#sam ug#drawtectives#her name is forever Samantha Dragonfang to me#because that's just such a cool moniker
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Im rewatching drawtectives again and you know what that means:
MORE SAM UG DOODLES!!!
I love her
Also, here's her doing thief/spy stuff
My wife
Commissions - Kofi - Drawtectives Keychains
Reblogs appreciated 💜
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derin i think the reason ppl don't think your sun story is fucked up is that they don't know it's about the sun
Surely that would make it more pointless and therefore even more fucked up
#yeah “torturing a random being that's _not_ the sun for 10 billion years”#is not really more or less fucked up than when it _is_ the sun#though knowing it's the sun makes it...more sweet?
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Rage. In my heart. All-consuming. FUCK AI.
#I'm imagining every tweet in a series starting with a disclaimer#(this is part of a series of tweets that are a joke/parody in case it's screenshotted out of context)#except oh no#if you put that at the top or bottom it's just as easily cropped out#better put it in the middle of your text#?????
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Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.
#someone claiming to not “identify” as a gender because they *are* that gender#sounds very similar to saying you don't have “pronouns” because your pronouns match up with you agab#but I think the identity thing is probably more widespread among cis people who are fine with trans people#but just don't really get it#the mindset of cis being default and therefore not needing to “identify” as a gender#well that's a very very widespread mindset
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Writing scifi is fun because actually I don't have to make my characters fight evil alien threats, instead I can drive them crazy making them think their spaceship is haunted when it's actually a carbon monoxide leak that's making them hallucinate space ghosts n shit
#if I rmember correctly#the question wasn't necessarily “why do we have CO on board”#who knows perhaps there is a perfectly legit future scifi reason to need CO for terraforming#it was “why are the CO tanks connected to the atmosphere supply and why can the AI choose to flood parts of the ship with it?”#no matter how evil your AI is#that's something that had to be built into the design of the ship
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The ocean molded this clump of bricks into a rock shape
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wait a minute
In Back to the Future: Part II, the newspaper article about George McFly was called "Local Author Murdered"
but in the first movie, it was specifically stated that they'd received "your first novel" at the end, as a way of showing his increased self-confidence after the time travel. That was in the present day, whereas the newspaper article was like 12 years old.
I suppose, Watsonianly, it's possible he was known as a local author for short stories for a long time and had only just published his first full-length novel
But I think Doyalistically, it was probably a mistake
#but then I got mad at the imdb list of goofs for saying that Clara claiming the Jules Verne book came out 10 years ago was “character error”#first of all I don't think characters being wrong about something necessarily a goof#but secondly she was _clearly_ estimating with her tone#could _you_ hear a reference to a book - even one you loved- and necessarily pull out exactly how long ago it was published#off the top of your head#I think it's perfectly reasonable to not know exactly#she made her point of “it's not old enough for you to have read it as a child”
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The Princess Bride is such a funny book to read after ONLY seeing the movie. Like Goldman made up a fake author from a fake country and proceeded to write the book as an abridged version of what the fake author wrote... and then he proceeds to add in notes to the "abridged version" mentioning all the boring world building stuff he skipped because it was boring.
Like shout out to William Goldman, man really did make an entire book that is just "the cool scenes you thought of in your head" and then made up a fake author to abridge so he doesn't have to connect them.
And it slaps
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