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saw a post about redemption arcs and i realized that a lot of our discussions would be improved if we discussed villains for what they are (pieces of a narrative whole) instead of what they definitely are not (real people on trial)

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To: [email protected] Subject: CLASS3290 Question

are you mad at me

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blood test came back i'm full of blood

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if you're cringing at the genre conventions of the genre you are writing in then why the hell are you writing in it. either have something substantial to say about those conventions or shut the hell up! i will not cringe alongside you at superhero powers and spaceship battles and big eldritch worms and bone magic. i came to this story to SEE that shit and I don't appreciate it when an author tries to pretend they're above the very things they're selling themselves on

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I love those attempts at positivity posts that are like I HATE conventionally attractive hot sexy people give me someone with fugly disgusting ugly ass features like a huge ugly nose any day of the week. 🤗

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game changer is like. the legal version of what the joker would do.

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Ideal work schedule:

I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks

I complete the list

I leave immedietly

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How do I tell people that sometimes if you turn your shipping brain off you can interact with media better

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we dont even get 9/11 off of work. like i guess you were never THAT sad about it

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how could i possibly fucking choose

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cd has a hole. record has a hole. casette has 2 holes. streaming? zero holes. i think i’ve made my point

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what a lot of people don't understand when they say "vibes" is that it's just a fancy way to say inherent biases and inherent biases are wrong sometimes

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I feel like people really underestimate the impact that your mode of transportation has on how you see and think about and interact with your city. Like, driving makes your city feel like a few islands, pockets of space where you regularly go and new ones you discover only when brought there for a purpose, but all amidst an ocean of just, filler. Taking public transit makes your city feel like a network of corridoors, a glowing grid along which you may discover new things, but whose alternate winding paths you only take when given to by circumstance. Cycling makes your city feel more human in its scale, and while you can only go so far, the spaces through which you travel are far more often built for people, not machines, and that difference is tangible, while your freedom of movement gives you more opportunities for exploration. Walking can only take you so far, but you see everything meant for you along those places, and every street feels like it carries potential, with no barriers to stopping and partaking of whatever piques your interest. I think, among these, driving is the one that by far most isolates you from the place you live, while the others are, in decreasing order, most utilitarian, and in increasing order, most personally connective to your shared space.