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advertisement should be illegal. this is based in the 3rd pillar of my belief system: leave me the fuck alone

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I think one obvious way to immediately deepen your worldbuilding is to just not portray groups as being solidly united in their goals or values.

That new civilization you're inventing? Don't make them all completely agree with their government. Don't make them all believe the same things. Don't build a singular culture that is shared by 100% of the population.

This is obvious but a lot of professionally-made fiction does not do it. They have entire species that exist as unitary entities with no internal divisions or factions.

Depressingly, a lot of people think about actual international politics in this way as well.

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Less magic schools. More magic universities. Unlearn the simplified models of your secondary education. Discover how to reference scrolls written by a wizard possessed by a different wizard. Identify bias in the voices that whisper from beyond the veil. Have your institution be accused of promoting a Merlinist agenda. Become addicted to energy potions.

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Hell is when book covers get redesigned with the actors of the show/movie that was made based on it.

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newbie asked if we're supposed to look out for 'red flags' in interlibrary loan requests in reference to a request a patron had made for a book about cannibalism. she was looking expectantly at me like she was expecting me to be equally aghast at this........girl why would you work at a library if you want to play book police

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guys, in regards to reading comprehension, if it's something you struggle with — read the whole thing. If it's something you don't struggle with, yes you do — read the whole thing.

don't respond or comment or whatever before you have read the whole thing.

The number of times I've gotten responses from people who clearly didn't read beyond the first few sentences of what I wrote is genuinely staggering. Think about it: if you don't have time to read someone else's thoughts, why should anyone take time to read yours? Communication is a two-way street.

Take your time reading. It's okay if you have to take time. You don't need to be 100% ready with a response right away, ever, in real life convos or online. You are allowed to take the time you need to absorb information and develop a response. Anyone who says otherwise is an asshole.

If you have a physical copy of something, highlighting or underlining is extremely helpful. There's even studies that show that you take in more information if you're holding a pen in your hand, as if to take notes. Also, TAKE NOTES! It's fun and extremely helpful.

If you don't have a physical copy, try highlighting with your mouse or your keyboard as you read. It makes you slow down and absorb what you're reading. Highlight a sentence at a time, and move forward sentence to sentence. There are even programs that allow you to do this with any running text. It's usually called focus mode.

TL;DR read the whole text before you respond to something, for the love of spiders georg

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can i come over and implant false memories of us being childhood friends?

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seeing someone with proshippers in their DNI trying to explain why fandoms aren't fun anymore is kinda funny ngl

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filed under: things people forget

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You're not immune to being the bully btw. You're not immune to being in the wrong

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"you should be at the club" I should be working on my fanfic

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how it feels to be online these days

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I feel like people don't understand what fetishization really means & it has a lot of well intentioned lefty types like afraid of being attracted to people

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Happy Halloween 🎃 FINAL FANTASY VII: EVER CRISIS

Trick or treat?

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