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Rolan in suit, newet patreon reward

#bg3 #he's giving sinister rare books dealer....yum

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#the collective groan of disappointment in the notes is hysterical #i made one too for the record tho

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yes critical analysis of media is super valuable but I think suspension of disbelief isn't practiced enough

"the beginning relied so much on fate/chance meetings/a bizarre set of circumstances that could have solved the conflict if avoided" babe that's an inciting incident

#tbh to me suspension of disbelief is integral to critical analysis of media #bc like. okay. pointing out the “realism” and “realistic logic” of a piece will never be as important as the thematic cohesion of a piece #the cynical “rose and jack could have both fit on the door” comes after the emotional gut punch of the film has ebbed #for the vast majority of the people who watch it #and instead...being able to critique and measure (idk the titanic might not have been a good example i haven't seen it) - uh #the function of class in the movie - when it comes to who lives and dies and who gets remembered #replace “is it logical” with “does it effectively handle the core purpose and emotional drive” and you get a lot closer to good analysis im #....anyway i've been having Such A Good Time in my creative writing class this semester and you can tell

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you. american adult with a drivers license. can you tell me who has the right of way at a 4 way stop

#in my state it's whoever give in first in the battle of “no u” - this is so much of an issue that we are warned not to do it in driver's ed #bc it's dangerous

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Treats from the Dropout Discord (23/04/24)!

Sam popped up and answered a few questions about the newest Game Changer episode (Deja Vu)!

1.

Sam was the Wenis dance choreographer

2.

3.

There were contingencies in case the cast tried to prevent Sam from breaking the camera !

4.

Sam Says 4 might happen in S8 of Game Changer

5.

The VHS footage is real

6.

Zac was the one who wanted to "Play Grant"

7.

The "video game" the players played in the episode is accessible!

URL: colinw.itch.io/gcdjv

Password: GC123

8. And MOST EXCITING OF ALL:

THE FINALE IS A TWO PARTER!!! What tribulations does Mr. Reich have in store for his employees?? Only time will tell 🙈.

#game changer #i'm so glad to know the wenis dance was a sam reich original

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Everybody do the Wenis! (The Wenis is a dance)

#game changer

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i think it's important we understand the game changer spice rating. they get to choose what spice level they operate at. this was probably a high spice. as was escape the greenroom. siobhan thompson has twice chosen the most intense episodes to be on. I am terrified of her power.

#game changer

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the last episode of game changer is just gonna be “the most dangerous game”. bc they simply must all hunt sam reich for sport at this point

#game changer

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Today's episode was a masterpiece honestly

#game changer

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In another universe, Sam Reich is part of Batman's rogues' gallery.

#game changer

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the curse of adhd:

i will remember with absolute clarity, when the thought strikes me that i have a text to send someone, that this is the fourth time in three days i've attempted to send this specific text

i will forget, in the time it takes me to pick up my phone, that i picked it up intending to send a text

#this is honestly why i love writing/reading cosmic horror #the feeling of unknowability being exaggerated and made confrontable through media/literature

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we used to have normalized whump. remember what they took from you....

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nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well

enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.

It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar

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#my wife is on the SOR for being gay #no joke #she hit on a girl in a straight bar once #in 1997 #and while the girl was into it #the off duty cop sitting nearby was not #and so he arrested her for ‘soliciting homosexual activity’ #which in our state was still a felony #in 1997 (and would remain so until Lawrence v Texas in 2003) #and since ‘soliciting homosexual activity’ was a felony and a sex crime #she got put on The List #she is still on there to this day #because it costs MONEY to ask a judge to take you off #and she has tried four times#since 2003 #to get taken off the SOR #but every time the judge has said something like ‘no you pled guilty to the crime i can’t possibly take you off the sex offender registry’ #with no acknowledgement of what the actual crime was #(the crime of being a butch lesbian hitting on a cute girl who was into it) #(in 1997)

Reposting these tags with consent from the person that wrote them. The post about the Sex Offenders Registry is locked, but these tags are too important to go unnoticed.

Younger queer people need to realize that the SOR being used against queer people simply for being queer isn’t some ancient history thing. It still impacts queer people today. And it can quite easily be used that way again.

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

#fr

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#ah #so that's why