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Cornstach but flour is less likely to taint the fruit pie even with human error. You don't want cornstarchy pie.

Or maybe you do, IDK your taste profile.

what if we your tumblr followers would like to hear the flour vs cornstarch pie debate

It's really not that exciting, just whether adding flour or cornstarch to the filling of a fruit pie will better soak up the excess juices, lol. Some people (in my family...) have very strong opinions about this.

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...I don't know what it says about my life that I immediately thought it was true based on the fact you said that your parents were trying to talk their friend out of it.

Meaning they were currently failing. My brain was like "yep, they're failing to prevent the nightmare, it must be real".

in the notes of that post there are approximately an equal number of people being like “this must be fake” and “oh my mom does/did this kind of shit” lmao

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Thank you tumblr user MajesticTortise for vindicating 13 year old me who decided that her use of breaking the sound barrier for speed was a hill she decided to die on in her English class.

I almost failed because of that but my past self was right, Mrs Thomson*.

I apologise for telling you that the problem was/is within schools and not just a lack of inattention.

*Not actual name.

today in pedantry born of extreme annoyance and doesn't-anybody-go-to-school-anymore grumpiness:

the term "sound barrier" has absolutely nothing to do with how loud something is.

a powerful singer does not break the sound barrier. a loud crowd does not break the sound barrier. if you hear an opera soprano belt out an aria and you say she broke the sound barrier you sound like a fucking idiot. that is not what it means.

"but it's just a joke why should i car--"

no. sit down. THAT IS NOT WHAT IT MEANS.

"sound barrier" refers to the increase in aerodynamic drag that occurs as a moving object approaches the speed of sound.

it's called a "barrier" because when the first aircraft starting reaching high enough speeds, they would shake so much pilots were afraid they would get torn apart. it was perceived as a real physical limit, but that perception was false. there is no actual barrier. there is only engineering; it was the drag on the aircraft making them feel like they were shaking apart. turns out if planes are built well enough and go fast enough, they can break the sound barrier just fine without falling apart. the first time this happened was in 1947, in a plane flown by US Air Force pilot Chuck Yaeger.

this means that "breaking the sound barrier" applies to things that are moving very fast, not to things that are very loud.

please read that sentence again to make sure it sinks in. fast, not loud. read it again because tiktok has been lying to you and you need to unlearn what you have learned.

(that also means it applies only where there is a speed of sound, which is not everywhere in the universe. but let's not complicate things by thinking about a pure vacuums or the extreme low density of space.)

the speed of sound varies depending on the density of what it's moving through, but at sea level on Earth it's about 770 miles per hour. once an object is going faster than the speed of sound, it is supersonic--and, again, that refers to speed, not volume. bullets break the sound barrier even if they are muffled at firing. a bullwhip can be snapped fast enough that the very end breaks the sound barrier, even if the noise they make is a sharp crack and not unusually loud.

but people standing still and shouting or singing do not, because nothing that is standing still can break the sound barrier. so unless you are sharing a cool vid of a soprano getting yeeted out of an operatic cannon at >770 mph, she has not broken the sound barrier. and if that is what you are sharing, she breaks the sound barrier whether or not she's singing her aria.

there can be a very loud noise associated with objects moving so fast they have broken the sound barrier. that noise is called a sonic boom, and it happens because the object is generating shock waves as it travels. it's not a single boom; it only sounds like that because when you hear it you are listening at a single point. it is in fact a continuous, traveling shock wave that happens as long as the object is moving faster than the speed of sound. it's just that you only hear it when the shock wave passes directly over you, so it sounds like a finite noise. it's also not necessarily a boom. it can be a crack or a snap or a clap or whatever. it's just called a sonic boom because the ones generated by supersonic aircraft are big fucking booms.

in conclusion please stop saying loud noises break the sound barrier.

🚫 wrong kind of hyperbole: "wow that man shouted loud enough to break the sound barrier!"

✔ right kind of hyperbole: "wow that man ran fast enough to break the sound barrier!"

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Okay, I can understand how canon going a certain can screw things up if you're trying to stay canon-compliant.

But if you're writing AUs, how? It's an AU? You can ignore canon in that case? Like AU is pretty much teh shortened version of "fuck canon for this specific fic" so...whatever way canon goes, it shouldn't really matter in the AUs?

When you’ve got your rp and all your AUs planned out and set as you like them, and then canon drastically f***s everything all up.

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This is very much assuming they aren't reading it through a translator in the first place. It's quite possible they're not even reading it in English.

But let's say they are reading the fic in English. Someone can have an easier time reading than writing in non-native language. Writing and reading are different skills, closely related but still different enough that someone could read in one language but have to write in their native one.

Fandom Problem #9893:

If the fic is in English, and your English is good enough to be able to read it, then why leave a comment in French or Spanish? It just means I have to go and run it through Google translate.

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While I voted the "no firm limit", given the rules of the poll (everyone being an adult), there is actually no limit. Or at least I haven't found one yet in terms of age-gap so there is no limit for me makes more sense.

Having said that, if I'm writing/shipping an age-gap fic, I want a minimum of 20 year gap to the point I might increase/decrease (whichever way works) someone's age to get there.

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"Ruffled his eyes"

Okay, anaesthetic-Ramona, that is a very disturbing image. Thank you for that.

For a various of reasons that are not life-threatening but also necessary, I had to have something done that required me going under anaesthetic some months ago.

I wrote when I got home and now I'm going through what I wrote.

"Ruffle his eyes" is my most disturbing yet in terms of scenes that are not supposed to be. It's supposed to be "ruffled his hair". It was literally a domestic scene of a child and guardian with a trip form lol.

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Oooh fuck. Hmmm, would writing in public domain count as fanfic? I considered that legal fanfic. So does the magic $5, 000, 000 giver consider it legal fanfic?

I'm leaning towards "I'd hate it, but yeah" anyway since I do write original works and having a giant safety net is very appealing.

How much can I loophole? Would fanvids or other fan-stuff count or just fanfiction? Like what if I read fancomic? Would that count as fanfiction? Or are we counting words on a (web)page and other fanstuff is okay?

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2 & 3, no question. They will help me achieve my life goal of retiring with a herd of goats to keep me company. Teleporting seven inches will help me Not Be Trampled, either by herd or feed. And gravel is always useful.

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...IDK where "portable pooper scooper" belongs. It could be either great or sobs. Someone help me.

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Just thinking about the fact in a lot of "rags"-to-riches Eurocentric fairy tales end with a "Just kidding! They were royalty after all".

Except for Cinderella.

Who at most was noble but that's still too low for royal for the time.

So in that way, Ashlynn is following her fairy tale.

Just, as the prince(ss) instead of Cinderella.

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Well, one of my goals is to practice drawing and than posting it...Soo...

First off, my drawing skills lie solely in flat garment sketches so I apologise for the weird scaling and awkward stiffness. Believe it or not, I used a scene from Cerise's Picnic Panic as a reference plus the red gown as more of an inspiration.

I tried a background (which threw the scale off even more so that was a mistake but too late now). But I added stuff to the clothes like a further apology but also why not sprint with this idea? Just keep going and going and going.

Mainly, tassels, a nightcap (including a little pom-pom between the ears used from the leftovers of cutting out the earholes), a scarf and a flower brooch to pin the scarf because why not.

It's a deep v nightgown. The squiggly lines on the belt and the sleeve are supposed to be tassels. Technically it is a nightgown.

I really wanted to add a lit fireplace right behind Bad so he'd have like an aura of light but that was beyond my skill.

Lastly, thank you Class-of-Classic-blog, I have filled one of my sketchpads with nothing but nightgown designs and that was great. This is a genuine thank you, I had fun with it.

Hear me out, HEAR ME OUT-

What If ...

Wolf: Hey Reddie?

Red: Mm?

Wolf: Does your grandmother have one of these "Oh what a misfortune, my dear husband had just mysteriously died and left me with lots of money and a mansion" nightgown?

Red: ... what?

Wolf: You know, one of these lavish long nightgowns with fluffy sleeves that rich widows wear in murder mystery shows? What are the chances that you can get me one of those to wear when we do our story?

Red: Why do you need that?

Wolf: Well Huntsman has been annoying me with how his destiny is to be a hero and I'm the big bad villain and how he will kill me and blah blah blah. So I decided to mess with him a little bit during our story and I think it would be pretty funny to ruin his little heroic moment-

Red: what color?

Wolf: What?

Red: What color do you want your nightgown to be?

Wolf: :D

So then you have the huntsman just bargain in the grandmother's house prepared to save Red from the big bad wolf and find Wolf in this

Huntsman is confused as fuck

Wolf is giving it his best performance trying to flutter huntsman as much as possible

Red is trying really fucking hard not to burst out laughing

And grandma is in the closet not having a clue about what is going on

lol

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asdkasdjsf rewatching Thronecoming and Cedar's "urgh" at Milton during the Storybook of Legends reveal. Girl had no time for his bullshit and good for her.

I still love the fact that it very much looks like they were half way through their go-fish game before someone actually asked about Cedar's glasses.

But her "urgh". New favourite moment.

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Many reasons.

Some people consider it an extra kudos, I know some use it to bookmark (IDK how that works but I know some people do). Some mistakenly think it's subscribe to author. Some authors don't realise that AO3 automatically marks their work as complete so there are some who are writing multichaps with "Chapters: 1/1" on that story.

Some readers consider it a way to encourage the writer without being misinterpreted like they could in their comment.

Some people have read a variety of multichaps that start of one-shots so they subscribe in case this one-shot will become one of those. So, yes, you may make it clear Anon, but so did a lot of the people who originally wrote a one-shot and ended up turning it into multichaps.

Shout out to the authors who ended up writing a whole novel-length from their original one-shot.

None of these have any bearings on whether the writer will actually write more and, for most readers, there's really no expectation that the fic continues. For the latter, it's more "if it does become multichap, I want to be notified so I can read it"

For me, 9/10 times the multichap fics I've read start with some form of "just a one-shot I wanted to write" A/N in the first chapter.

There are more reasons than I listed here but these are the ones I've heard about the most.

https://olderthannetfic.tumblr.com/post/762093106687606784/question-for-the-community-ive-gotten-two#notes

this reminds me of a longtime mystery I've had: why are there people who hit "subscribe" on one-shots? like, I make it very clear there's no more coming... what are you doing?

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A variety of things. We've had this conversation often.

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Teeny Sneak Peek Two because tumblr has a one-vid per post rule and you can't self-reblog with a vid so they don't have a loophole :(

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Bringing this back because I just checked the word count on the WIP this meme is referencing.

And it's exactly 1500 words.

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Just a silly thing

And I oopsed.

TBF to myself, it does deal with heavy themes and subjects that I usually do not write so while I've consistently worked on it, I've just had to take a lot of breaks in-between.

I guess to my brain, even with the breaks, it all added up to where I would usually be around 1.5k at this point. Except I failed to take into account it's outside my norm.

So there's a MASSIVE difference between the expectation and reality. Which is both funny and interesting to me.

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I forgot about this. Considering the final result is "evidence inconclusive", that was probably a good thing.

The poll was a net-zero result.

I think my dog is a cat

Evidence that my dog is a cat:

Sits at the door, goes outside when I let him and then proceed to sit at the door outside until I let him back in. Repeat.

Always has his tail up and showing off his butt.

Brings dead birds to me.

Has sat on my laptop.

Tried to walk over my keyboard.

Pushes stuff off the bench if he's on it.

Stares at fish.

Hates bathes.

Hates cats.

Fits himself into an empty cardboard boxes.

If a litter-box is an option, he will use it as a toilet.

Will jump off any height if you let him.

Loves chasing those laser pointer thingies.

Evidence that my dog is a dog:

He barks, howls, yelps and growls. Mainly barks.

Will join a neighbourhood howl when in a neighbourhood.

Hates cats.

His paperwork says he's a dog.

His physiology appears to be a dog.

Cannot jump on top of things by himself.