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on this website I frequently find myself feeling like ron swanson at home depot

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https://twitter.com/mohammadhussain/status/1340439172687998981?s=21

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I find the fact that the closest mountain point on earth to the moon, the highest mountain and the tallest mountain are 3 different mountains to be a tiny bit disturbing

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Omg this diva

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there is a judge in Seattle who does the weekly name change hearings, and who says it's her favorite part of the week. she says she doesn't read out previous names, or ask about the reasons why people want to change them. she says it's a beautiful moment, and a celebration; a claiming of a new identity, or a reclamation of an old identity. she encourages the room to clap for folks. then she welcomes everyone up, one by one, by last name and with warmth; she shows them the court order where nobody else can see, asks them to double check the spelling, and then they're done! do they want a picture? do they want their friends and loved ones who came with them to be in it too? do they want the court order in the photo? she helps everyone pose, shakes hands and stands with them for as long as they need to take it, recruits the clerk for help taking photos of the folks who came alone. then she tells them where to go next, congratulates them, and claps along with the rest of the room.

probably three quarters of the people there were trans, and she centered their experience quietly, with love and joy.

I think I'll be thinking about her a lot this January, and for a long time after. it's good to know she's there.

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bass makes a dollar. i make a dime. that's why i think about lesbian sex on company time

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I've always loved titles and what they add to the overall work. Do you have a process for titling your episodes?

Not really. A few shows I've worked on have naming patterns though. For example, Star-Crossed titles were always quotes from Romeo and Juliet. So for those, it's a lot simpler. Just look for the quote or song title or whatever that fits. Andromeda tended to use book titles ("The Prince"), poetry quotes ("Under the Night"), or riffs on same ("Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way"), so that process was similar. Check out a good quote book (before the internet) or site. But not always ("Dance of the Mayflies").

For shows without a strong naming pattern, I usually just throw a working title on whatever document I'm working on as they occur to me, and eventually I choose the best one. That's how "The Good, the Bad, and the Klingon" became "A Fistful of Datas," for example. That's also how my book Goblins Rule! became The Goblin Crown. I was actually really torn on that one, but in the end I decided to go with something a bit less jokey. This also established a naming pattern, so each book in the trilogy is named after its MacGuffin (the magical object that drives the respective novel's plot).

Which is a long-winded way of saying it's really just waiting for inspiration to strike.

Oh, also, for some shows, the title is brainstormed in the writers room. That tends to be the case on The Irrational. Or the head writer comes up with it. Rob would do that once in a while on Elementary, for example, he titled "One Watson, One Holmes." Though usually the writer came up with the title, like I did for "The Latest Model" or "Hounded."

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Just encountered the idiom "小巫见大巫". Figuratively, it means "to pale in comparison". But literally it just means "small wizard sees big wizard".

And like... No. You cannot just use the words small and big when you're coming up with a metaphor about one thing outshining another in some respect.

Oh, you think the Empire State Building is tall? Well, comparing it to the Burj Khalifah, it's a real case of a... small guy see big guy.

No, absolutely not. Straight to jail. No idea how this one made the cut.

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yoda

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