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Isn’t it disgusting tho? :) There is joy to be found in the mundanity — if there were no such highlights in our days: we humans must be miserable creatures indeed. I wonder: what epiphany is not worthy of sharing? The magic of taste, the wonder of sound, the beauty of touch… so much right...

Formatting is my personal circle of hell, and it would seem it has followed me to narrowly expand into your world. @ Teh Synopsis Hurry, you must hurry, and put a little space between the ‘future’ and ‘One day’ No! Nooooo! Demons escaping! Alert, alert! Be very careful to mind the...

There is an absurdity here. A hitherto mysterious force, now identified, only as I opened up a can of no-salt-added corn. With a mind full of joy, I grabbed out a can of similarly unsalted black beans, and a little can of salsa with 150% of my daily sodium intake (I’ll have to get a different...

I dunno. I like Rocky. Rocky Balboa. The Italian Stallion. A not very smart person in reality is a difficult thing to assess. There are many ways of being not very smart. I know a gold medalist swimmer in the special olympics. I have known of his existence for almost 4 years as a fellow who...

Technically: On the basis of the rules, if it has the potential to be seen as offensive by the moderation team: it could be removed for effectively any reason at all. But there is a difference between a person protecting themselves and their interests from the wider world’s legal...

Right?! Tell me what it means without telling me what it means why don’t ya! What kind of word is as useless as terrorism? XD There are some 600K words in common English usage (last I knew); it should not be a surprise that there are useless words that mean nothing among their mass… But I...

Seen main characters branded as terrorists, yes. District 9 (Wilkus van der Merwe), Elysium (Max de Costa), Code Geas (Le-Douche), and Death Note (Light Yagami) all contain characters branded as terrorists, criminals, and mass murderers (you can decide whether or not they apply)… who also...

ChatGPT can gas you right up to the stratosphere for sure. There is value in that — there is joy in seeing the good in what you write, no matter how farcical its basis may be. But even better is to read it to someone else aloud and to see them smiling, laughing, and wincing. If we all had such...

I will say: ChatGPT is predicated upon your engagement. If you tell it to be mean, and then to roast your work as if they are Gordon Ramsey being presented with raw chicken: Itll hurt. It will not pull punches. Demonstration of its perception of my best chapter (27 Favourites) so you do not...

Ooooooooooh that is drama and spice. That’s a developing thought and a half; it’s what they always say: nobody does it like a kinky couple. Stardust is one of my favourite movies. I have a harder time pulling a ‘death of the author’ with his work than I do with JKR: his best work is good on...

If the characters are interesting, have chemistry, or have a setting in the real world that is deeply impactful to the characters: go for it. If they don’t? You’re the author: you control the flow of time, the placement of plot devices, and who the characters are. If there is a choice in the...

1: Esports Godfather was really nice, been waiting on an update for a minute. I will have to play it again soon. I’ve spent hundreds of hours on 2: Slay the Spire (at least 200 disappeared in a fugue of excruciating pain that I don’t actually remember and which might not have brought me a...

There are allegations regarding his character by a number of women — these are allegations, mind; as-to-my-knowledge unproven in the court of law. It’s still on my YouTube feed, like the JKR being a thief of the story video I haven’t touched. But YouTube knows… it knows I’m interested...

You took the best solution right out of my mouth and said you didn’t want it. No, but really: there are no easy answers to the question of ‘how do I make money with art?’ No matter the form, no matter the method: there are no guarantees of success. I do not even see the point in offering an...

This argument has no bones. This argument has much fat. …. Well, I’m convinced!

Woman has never been to black church. So many pretty hats on prettier old ladies, so much passion up front and all around, and my God, the hymns? They’re straight up Gospel. Mmn. Love it. I been to a lot of churches. Methodists preaching hellfire to the gays, gay Methodists preaching gods...

I do like my magic mysterious and: magical. Whether magic be in silent reverence, or in the flashy and hyperrealised, or in matter itself: I like it. — Hack maybe, but he’s a nice guy though, Sanderson — from what I’ve seen of him. To some extent: it makes sense that the most popular authors...

Fair enough. But it does define whether a considerable portion of the population clicks on a story. Have a wonderful idea for a cover for one of my stories (character sews, is engineer: copper wire stitching out the name of a transhumanist machine god is go)… but I don’t have the requisite...

I am all for more variety in tags/genre that aid in writers finding their audience and readers finding the stories that appeal most to them. The problem comes in that the stories we tell are many, and the genres people keep in their head are few. I think you’d need a better name for such a...

They should have opened with the statue scene, not on jeju island. It was a bad call. The bones of a decent anime were there, because the original story is a decent powerleveling story… but the real draw to Solo Leveling has always been the art of its wonderful (sadly passed) artist: Dubu. The...