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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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alright, I’m annoyed with the class that I’m taking. it’s about writing novels, and I thought it would have cool stuff about balancing your narrative and developing themes etc, but instead she spent the first class talking about how every book fits into the Hero’s Journey (the monomyth template). and I was somewhat of a contrarian, and said “can you give us examples of books that don’t fit into this template?” and she said “no. because all books fit.”

but I dunno man, I just finished reading this Korean book where the plot is just the character having a string of hookups and reflecting on them without changing in any way. I don’t know if it’s possible to contort that into the Hero’s Journey.

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Only day you can reblog this

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remember kids

Artist 🎨: @vhsdogs

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truly the most american thing is Big Drink. more than late stage capitalism, more than an unparalleled cultural focus on individualism, more than 9/11 jokes

what binds all americans together culturally is Big Drink

and you might be saying "is this fat shaming" or "but mayor bloomberg outlawed Big Drink in nyc" or "gays are so annoying about their iced coffee" or some other dumb comment but no open your minds, Big Drink isn't just sugary or caffeinated beverages

every day i see one of you hydration bitches (affectionate) on the train with a water bottle so big a toddler could drown in it. that too is Big Drink. we literally invented a bigger beer can (tall boy) in wisconsin in the 60s in the service of Big Drink

anyway i never feel more american then when i have Big Drink in my hands

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I think if I could burrow straight down into the earth like some sort of gopher or mole, it would fix me

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I wrote an episode about the history of Neon, especially of course neon signs, and one of the things I learned was that the glassblowing work in it is absolutely magnificent and very technical. In the heyday of neon there were people who said "every town will have to have a glassblower/neon sign maker". Now neon is almost totally gone - especially the more intricate pieces - and nearly everything you think is a neon sign is made with rubber tubing and LEDs. The whole art of neon signs just disappeared, and there's hardly anyone left who still does it.

the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

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Honestly, I think what Elon did was clearly a nazi salute. He used the "Throwing my heart" line, which is, by the way, stupid, to give him some plausible deniability. I think he probably thought he was being clever and that it was an easter egg/joke - and he thought that he had buried it and that people wouldn't get it. I think he thinks he is very smart and that he has 1. covered his bases, 2. made a good joke, and 3. that it was actually subtle. But it shows a lot that's wrong about him, Trump, and MAGA - a lot of them I think do think the "nazi" stuff is a joke, that they aren't nazis and that it's silly to call them that. But joking about it like this makes it clear that even the "innocent" ones have stopped taking the idea of naziism seriously. Whether Elon meant that as some kind of inside joke to own the libs who he thinks are stupid or is actually just dog whistling because he is a nazi or nazi sympathizer is almost beside the point. They find the idea of naziism trivial, and are blind to the very real nazis within their movement, party, and policy. They are aiding and abetting it.

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it bothers me that you often don't really hear about people having a "favorite album" the way they might have a favorite movie or favorite video game

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It occurs to me that I'd probably be a lot more personally upset about the present media IP situation if my skill and experience at academic research didn't also make me extremely good at piracy.

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Just tried to play an ancient flute and it started filling the room with this awful miasma that wont go away

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This website is so so so good