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#listen my fitbit gives me the time in rainbow #old school watches don't do that

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Ohhhhhhh my fucking god everyone look at this frog (Hyalinobatrachium aureoguttatum)

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Marriage law fics that gloss over Hermione being pissed to all hell make me sad. Ones that have her just quietly accept that Ron's moved on with his surprise match (usually Lavender) a week after asking her to marry him make me want to reach through the screen and throttle the writer

#in fairness the rage may be partially due to my enormous headache #but still #that's just bad writing

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For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

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obsessed with john waters parents, they were funnier than him!

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Ordered postcards of just some random travel shots I had saved on my computer to test what paper Moo is using these days. Sometimes I honestly do forget that I am a decent photographer until prints are in my hands

#it's the weirdest thing to try explaining #because like i'll look at something and go 'oh that'll make a great shot' #but i'm also deep in my head and feeling like nothing is as good as i want it to be #and i'm still not used to digital editing so i tend to assume anything i like will only look decent on a screen #because shooting for print and shooting for web are two totally different things #so until i've got actual physical copies in my hands it feels like 'oh that's good...for a tourist' #rather than just being good full stop

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Why is it 80F/27C at ten o'clock at night. Why. I am coastal for a reason!

#i have decamped downstairs where the AC works better #my recliner is surrounded by mess but i have just let it get shoved out of the way #because i need to not be overheated

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LINDA HAMILTON as Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (dir. James Cameron)

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#i honestly can't say i'd necessarily be willing to sleep with *anyone* for under a million #the risks of in person sex work are pretty high #lower for trans guys than trans women but still not great stats #so without other information i'd need quite a high payout to consider it #also like #an hour? #how much pussy do you expect me to eat? #my tongue's gonna cramp #i don't have that kind of stamina

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#listen writing emails sucks but at least i can think through what i'm sending #phone calls i have to sound like an idiot on the fly

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“'We’re gonna be down there alone?’ Marco yelped. ‘Underground? Dirt pressing in all around us? No air?’

Cassie shrugged. ‘Well, you’ll be a mole.’

'Well, then it’s all right,’ Marco said with shrill sarcasm. 'We’ll be moles, so it’s okay to be under twenty feet of dirt with no air.’

'Oh, you big baby,'I said. 'No problem.’

I say these things. I don’t know why. They just pop out of my stupid mouth.

'Ladies and gentlemen,’ Marco said, placing his hand on my shoulder, 'we have a volunteer.’

What could I say? I had to tough it through. 'Okay. Fine, Weenie-boy. I’ll go first.'”

- Book #17: The Underground (Rachel), pg. 83 (by K.A. Applegate)

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#the very first time i moved properly #like with a moving van and boxes instead of hopping on a plane with two checked bags #i spent basically the entire time fighting tears of frustration because it was just so damned tiring and stressful #like #the packing never seems to end and it never feels like you'll get it all done in time #that's not getting into loading the van and unloading it and unpacking and everything else #i still have a box or two that never got unpacked from that first move 15 some years ago #if i had the money i'd buy houses all over the world just to never have to move again

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Thoughts upon finishing my PJatO re-read:

Massive Annabeth character whiplash between first and second books. Some with Percy too, but not quite as noticeable. Mostly he gets a bit intellectually nerfed from the second book onwards, I'm guessing to make up for the fact that his demigod powers are significantly cooler than anyone else's, usually including Thalia's even after she becomes immortal. He can't be superpowered and as quick to pick things up as Annabeth; it'd ruin the plot tension

This is actually a bit annoying because you spend a lot of time going "Percy why you being stupid", but not quite as annoying as Annabeth going from 'reasonable, if a bit emotionally confused, kid' to 'kind of a bitch actually' seemingly out of nowhere. She gets better, but then Rachel comes in and the teenage drama starts

My god does Rick yadda yadda yadda his way through some stuff. Rising war tensions? Percy and Annabeth being awkward about Luke? Percy half kinda maybe sorta thinking about dating Rachel? An entire year of battles and deaths? Eh. Throw in a sentence, it'll be fine.

Do not understand the people who make out like Percy had no idea he was into Annabeth. He pretty obviously does, he just also doesn't know what to do about it given that (a) the girl runs hot and cold on him constantly, (b) he knows she's had a crush on Luke forever, and (c) he very well may not live to see 16.

You can tell that Rick got to books four and five, realised he'd written himself into a corner with the single first person perspective, and scrambled to try creating enough characters with enough backstory to make the coming war have any emotional impact at all

He didn't really succeed

Reading as an adult—like, a full grown one, not a college aged kid—is really a fundamentally different experience when it comes to the gods, especially Poseidon and Hermes. The ways in which they're doing the best they can given the constraints they're held to just aren't as clear when you're still closer to Percy's age than his mom's

Percy should've been ready to throttle everyone at the start of the fourth book, tbh. From a writing perspective, he doesn't know anything because it's more useful to the story. But from in world? No one told him his best friend was on trial, his other best friend never told him about the multiple times she was in town, there have been moves toward the war he and everyone else knows he may well die in but no one thought to keep him up to date, and yet somehow Annabeth's cranky he didn't mention a girl he spoke to once while running for his life six months ago? Fuck that. And fuck him feeling guilty about spending time with Rachel the next summer when Annabeth and Chiron, again, keep information from him. I like Percy/Annabeth, but Rick fucked that one up

I had forgotten how tedious it was to read Percy and Annabeth avoiding simple conversations. The Percy/Annabeth that lives in my head is from HoO so all the early teen awkwardness is mostly gone

Rick really does perfectly capture the middle school experience. In terms of overall vaguely Greco-Roman inspired fantasy I still prefer The Arkadians, but I've yet to read any author who can write about all the awkwardness and confusion the way Rick can. The monster health video about killed me

#now onto hoo and poor‚ confused jason

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people say folks with adhd struggle with "delayed rewards" aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don't talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don't actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.

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Happy Pride!

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First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this