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A huge thank you to everybody who participated. I never imagined so many would participate. I am glad you had fun. If the data proves useful, there will be an update sometime. If not, at least we all had fun and that's reseach. A hypothesis is proven or disproven.

Hi! My name is Lucia and I am a PhD student in ancient history. I am currently working on a small project about fanfiction and what it can teach us about the creation of mythology in the Graeco-Roman antiquity. For that, I need your help. Please answer the following questionaire about fanfiction - it should not take more than 5minutes. This questionaire deals with a specific fanfiction phenomenon and I did not include it in the title to not influence the data. Please finish answering it even if you say no to most questions - it will still help me out immensely. After finishing the questionaire, an abstract that explains what this questionaire is actually for will be provided.

Thank you!

P.S. If you reblog and/or share this with your friends who enjoy fanfiction you will have my eternal gratitude.

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things that made me stop wanting to die that require no effort whatsoever

change the color used to highlight text on your laptop

move the pictures on your wall

stack whatever clutter is in your room into piles even if you don’t have time to clean it all

slightly vary your commute, even just by one street

change where you sit and scroll aimlessly on your phone even if it’s only to the chair in your room instead of your bed

drink water or juice out of a wine glass in the morning because nothing is real

shower with the lights off, without music

buy $3 flowers at trader joe’s—they look bad next to the more expensive ones but they look so good in your room

start typing things you don’t post into your notes. your thoughts can be worth documenting even if you don’t deem them worth sharing

wake up super early just once. you don’t have to make it a habit it’s just extra satisfying to go to bed that night

listen to the entirety of your favorite album from 2015

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my biggest creative passion in life is ‘the project I’m not supposed to be working on right now’

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Hi! My name is Lucia and I am a PhD student in ancient history. I am currently working on a small project about fanfiction and what it can teach us about the creation of mythology in the Graeco-Roman antiquity. For that, I need your help. Please answer the following questionaire about fanfiction - it should not take more than 5minutes. This questionaire deals with a specific fanfiction phenomenon and I did not include it in the title to not influence the data. Please finish answering it even if you say no to most questions - it will still help me out immensely. After finishing the questionaire, an abstract that explains what this questionaire is actually for will be provided.

Thank you!

EDIT: Thank you for your help! This survey is closed for now. If a case can be made, there will be an update sometime later. If not, I am glad so many people had fun. Have a nice day. :)

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This seems to be what I've learned.

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Spectrum of overwhelm, now in triangle form due to popular demand

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i think villains in general provide better, more epic romances because they're allowed to go to extremes. they're allowed to put their love over the greater good. they're allowed to be selfish. the best a hero can offer you is number two, because their duty comes first. villains, though. villains will burn down the world for a last kiss goodbye.

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The Mummy Returns (2001) dir. Stephen Sommers

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This is frustrating.

I love the comparison, but I hate how they are comparing.

They are acting like she is using optics to give herself an advantage. But the device she is wearing is just for comfort and essentially does the same thing as closing one eye and squinting the other.

The little thing over the left eye is basically like an eye patch.

And the thing over her right eye is a mechanical iris, like in a camera lens, but it is NOT a lens.

Different lighting environments are going to be brighter or darker and you may have to squint more or less to let in the same amount of light into your eye. Squinting allows the shooter to get the sharpest possible vision in order to shoot a bullseye the size of a 12-point Times New Roman period.

But if you have to squint for hours for practice and in competition, this can strain your face muscles and become uncomfortable. So this iris basically squints for you.

It's more like wearing comfortable shoes so your feet do not hurt than a lens magnifying the target and giving an advantage.

Both athletes have access to these items. One felt more comfortable without them. The other didn't feel like getting a muscle cramp from squinting all day.

Either would have shot the same if they had or had not used these devices.

Just a funny difference in gear preference.

I should also add, the Turkish dad is the only one using lenses.

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There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

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PERSONALLY, if i was charles leclerc and i gave damiano david a helmet (and he posted himself wearing it shirtless) and went to his concerts and he came to my races and he wrote and released the driver and he got an ‘italian stallion’ ferrari tattoo on his hip…IN THAT CASE, PERSONALLY, i would be texting him ‘what are we?’ once a day BUT THAT’S JUST ME

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my favourite olympics subplot is this norwegian swimmer’s public love affair with chocolate muffins and his increasingly manic tiktoks about them... romance of the summer

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Hollywood archaeology: Secret treasure! Hidden maps! Ancient tombs!

Actual archaeology:

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If you ever are self-publishing or illustrating a paperback, an absolutely essential tool is this page, which gives you the exact pixel count of a book spine based on its page count, and/or a template you can use for the correct width/height ratio.

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Formal Outfit for Franky

Moschino Spring 2016