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yo... my mom put a 2-lb steak out on the counter to thaw and went to take a nap. .......... ....... woke up and it was gone. dog ate it
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part deux: finally moving the midpoint of the story to the 1/3 point, as it has been nagging you to do for years
writer milestone: finally letting go of a subplot that hasn't been working for years
#the Irish half of me: the poetic structure!#the German half of me: ...is going to be a pacing nightmare.#writing#x
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obviously kids shouldn't work at the expense of their education. but. on the other hand. if i could play devil's advocate. in another ditch. the other side of the coin.
preventing kids from holding jobs at all is also damaging to their education.
#this is one reason my ideal fairytale life would be running a family business out of the home#one of the only legal ways you can put kids on the payroll#WHILE ALSO ensuring they don't experience employer abuse#and yeah you can pay kids to mow your lawn or give them an allowance for chores but lbr. it's not the same. it's not the same.#x
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writer milestone: finally letting go of a subplot that hasn't been working for years
#I didn't even like it by the end so it's not like I'm killing a darling#but it was a filler for an onerous expanse of plot#I'll have to rework the whole thing and figure out a new way to introduce that running gag#but it's for the best (and it's all Nancy Pearcey's fault)#the good news is that I hadn't written much at all for it#I guess my gut just knew it was redundant and undermined my themes#writing#x#Hollowick
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'In the 1850s and 1860s, the psychological aspect of the child’s developmental narrative became more pronounced, in a series of disputes between parents and third parties of different religions.
Most of these cases involved a dispute between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant. Whereas eighteenth-century courts explicitly favored parents who would rear their children in the Church of England (in fact it was illegal until the early 1800s to educate children as Catholics), nineteenth-century courts rejected attempts by litigating parents to appeal to anti-Catholic prejudice. Thus, for example, in Talbot v. The Earl of Shrewsbury, 41 Eng. Rep. 259, 265 (1840), the court, in awarding custody to a Catholic rather than to a Protestant, noted that “the law is now changed,” and declared that the choice between the two religions mattered less than that the child believe firmly in one or the other:
“Everyone must admit that it would be the most fatal thing in the world for a child not to have a religious education."'
- Sarah Abramowicz, Adoption and the Limits of Contract In Victorian Adoption Case Law and George Eliot's 'Silas Marner'
#we are so dumb and stupid these days#in the same case one of the lawyers petitioned that the child be reared in BOTH faiths and then choose one at 18#and the judge was like 'no that's the most destructive and unfeasible idea I ever heard'#and I was like YEAH. IT IS#this was a FASCINATING essay tho#I was reading it for specific research purposes so I skimmed mostly but I found myself getting sidetracked constantly#i won't be able to read Silas Marner the same way again#(it was the only source that gave me an explanation for why England had no legal adoption until the 1920s besides#'child abuse/labor was very popular and disrupting inheritances was not')#history#literature#George Eliot#Christianity#parenting#education
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”Don’t get married under 30! You’re still a baby uwu” “She’s having kids at 25? Lowkey a teen pregnancy??? I bet your husband forced her to do that.” Girl maybe the reason why you feel like that’s young is because you’re stuck in high school and think the goal of your youth is to run from responsibility until you suddenly, through no personal effort of your own, wake up a Wise and Enlightened Adult at age 38. You aren’t 17 anymore. Live like it.
#I was subjected to a comment section full of people shouting 'you can't REALLY know someone unless you've dated them for 5 years'#I pray that kind of love never finds me
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looking for opinions both from americans and non-americans: what would you consider to be the big 4 american cities in terms of like, vibes-based cultural impact?
#NYC obviously#L.A. obviously#Miami probably#and Dallas#I never really thought of Dallas this way but now that I'm a TX resident I start to recognize how often it appears in media going way back#with a set of very specific stereotypes attached#some might say Houston because of outer space but Houston didn't have its own TV show in the 70s
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drawing people i see in the city (5/?)
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Is it okay to not like eating bread or grains and be a Christian?
I don't even like "good bread" and I am basically harassed about it on the daily.
And grains mess with my blood sugar and make me insatiable, no matter how much fats or proteins I eat with them. I drink enough water that people call me " little water girl!" So me not feeling good on grains is not dehydration either. I drink a gallon of water a day. I drink other things like juice or energy drinks, but I do not count them in my fluid intake as they are not water.
I have seen and asked several doctors, and they say, "Then don't eat grains or bread"
It's gotten to the point I don't leave the house except for work, and I don't want to go to church anymore.
Yes, it's okay. If people at church are harassing you about grains, find a better church.
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cannot recommend highly enough having one big document you can access on both your laptop and your phone dedicated to typing up any little scene that pops into your head regardless of when it happens in the story
because when you go in to rearrange it all according to chronology, you'll realize "......what if I put this conversation at the END instead of the BEGINNING?"
and voila
you've got the start-to-finish character arc that's been plaguing you for the past 6 months
#if I can sit down and pump out some word for once I might actually have a complete rough draft of Hollowick 1 before October#that should say 'words' but it's funnier this way#x#writing
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Readers and writers alike: What’s your take on the “Character was secretly a ghost/hallucination/not real the entire time!” trope? Do you hate or love it no matter where it shows up, or does it depend on how it’s executed? Along that line, how should this trope be executed to avoid being confusing or cliché?
#well I've only encountered it twice and both times were pretty thrilling#so I can't say I've ever disliked it but I can see how it could easily be abused#obvs it should be at the crux of the theme and feel more like a supreme answer to questions than a loose end contrived to shock readers
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Reading Diarmaid MacCulloch's THE REFORMATION and he says in the 16th century "the princes of Transylvania emerged as the champions of a militant Reformed Protestantism" chaps we could have had Calvinist Dracula
#Calvinist Dracula doesn't need you to invite him in before he enters your home#Christianity#Calvinism
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ohh you think dante's inferno is "basically fanfic"? should we tell everybody? should we throw a party? should we call cassandra clare
#this is a fun observation when you're ~15#but after that you gotta be like yeah the whole western canon is one big conversation across time so#literature
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The BEST name for an Amillenial eschatology book would be "I Left the Rapture Behind"
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you listen to epic the musical for the memes and to insert reaction video jokes into it; I listen to it to master every vocal performance and experience emotional damage. we are not the same
#litchrally#Broadway#since the new parts came out I've been waiting to listen to it in full until after I reread the Odyssey the Aeneid and the Iliad#and last year Young Heretics did series on all three so that's gonna be a whole thing for me
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That fuckin smile at the end
#Pardon the French#my mom's friend has a hummingbird tattoo because she saw one sit like this once and thought 'if a hummingbird can rest then so can I'#animals
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#wow did not expect to be in the minority here#5 times is a lot#I think I'm on my 3rd Parks & Rec rewatch (not including the first watch)#and the next time I rewatch SNK will prolly be my 4th#I've watched certain episodes of each show more than 5 times but the whole thing??#and even my P&R rewatches I usually skip seasons 1 and 2#Sherlock is up there because it's so short but even so I definitely haven't watched it 6 times
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