Something tells me you might be interested in this.
Ooo indeed! I’ll be putting more research into this, thank you!
We have done this successfully also. It tastes more like a bland storebought egg than the special extra goodness of a truly fresh egg, but it’s a great way to save up your surplus for the winter.
U can watch Star Wars so many times and it doesn’t prepare u for how dumb Star Wars is. For one thing I think we gloss over how kenobi (who has definitely been at the club. Please.) describes the mos eisley cantina as the worst most villainous place ever and then u get inside and it’s a pack of muppets vaping
what you fail to take into account is he’s been stuck on tatooine for 19 years and so he has specific and very personal beef with each and every creature in that cantina
saw a post about uncommon special interests and someone brought up a kid they work with who is into arguing. he likes to watch dance moms fight clips and likes to play pretend arguments. thats so awesome. real drama king
Shout-out to the bumper sticker I saw the other day that made me feel one second of pure, incandescent rage, which I have replicated in complete accuracy below:
I loved when “Drift Compatible” entered pop lexicon cause we were in DESPERATE need for a way to platonically express “one of us to the other is as a limb to a body; we are a left and right feet of a dancer; we do not need to speak because any one word inspires an exchange of unspoken words that conveys a full conversation in which a mutual conclusion is determined in an instant”. Huge win for the QPRs out here
it’s so filling that i am like 2/3rds through a bowl and it is making me drowsy and full as fuck. incredible
When I worked at Panera I had to be really careful about what I ate on my break because if I ordered broccoli cheddar soup I would immediately need to go and take a nap in the walk-in for like half an hour.
this has been discussed before but reducing female characters to the girlboss braincell holder in the name of combating misogyny in fandom is ironically also a form of misogyny
people love love loooove to go on and on and on about whiteguy #135336843’s internal torment and the nuances of his writing and then when it comes time to talk about women it’s all um actually she can do no wrong and holds the braincell and babysits the boys like a mother hashtag feminism. i hope you fucking blow up
File this under “super obvious yet I always seem to forget it.”
I don’t write romance (I totally respect people who do, though!) but this is also great writing advice in general! What is preventing the protagonist from achieving their goal?
Why can’t these two people be together now?
Why can’t the mystery be solved now?
Why can’t they overthrow the evil overlord now?
If you don’t have a solid answer for these questions, that’s a good indicator that the plot could use some more work.
Also test your answer a little bit. If it’s as thin as they’re just refusing to sit down and have a simple conversation, you might want to re-think how things are going.
As a beta reader/editor, I tend to ask this question a lot: “Why are they doing it this way when there’s a much easier path available?” That’s not to say that they should take the easier path, because that would usually be boring. Instead, the point is that the question needs an answer–either eliminate the easier path or give them a very clear reason for not taking it. (And if I’m asking the question, that reason isn’t as clear as you think it might be.)
I find it very difficult to root for characters who have a sensible option available and just don’t take it. If the only reason is “Because there wouldn’t be a story otherwise,” you haven’t actually found the story yet.
And this is why the Big Misunderstanding as a primary plot device is almost universally disliked.
atp the only way we’re going to get out of this ai shit while people’s brains are still semi intact is to start bribing influencers and tiktokers into saying chatgpt is cringe and it emits a frequency that blocks your divine energy which can only be channeled back by reading a book and talking to your friends
mama bears listen up: human traffickers are using chatgpt to pick out their next victims!!! Every time you use it they create a profile of you and bubs and the more you use it the easier they can track you. If you’ve ever found a brightly colored wrapper just under your car at target or walmart it means they are signaling accomplices in the area to get ready to ambush you!!!!! Mamas help me spread the word!!!!!!!!!
different audience no problem: what kind of beta shit are you talking about brother your ancestors were in the trenches fighting wolves barehanded and shit and you need a fucking computer to tell you what to do? You’re so fucking cucked dude you gotta do shit the PRIMAL way, you let a computer think for you you might as well let it chew your food get your gains and fuck your wife get this sissy shit out of my face bro it literally lowers your sperm count
is that person actually “demanding emotional labour” from you or did you follow one shitty therapist on twitter
while we’re at it did that person actually “violate a boundary” or have you been reading /r/relationships again
I’m not just speaking as someone who was abused by a partner who loved doing their emotional manipulation through therapy-speak. I genuinely think this is a huge societal problem and it’s how we’ve ended up with, eg, terfs inventing the clearly batshit idea that you can apply a “consent” framework to who gets to exist around you in public spaces and making it a cornerstone of their fascist bullshit
1) I’m neither white nor an atheist. But sure, me calling atheists a religious minority is me pretending I’m white and oppressed.
2) I didn’t use the word “oppressed”, I just said “religious minority”, but since you want to go there, sure let’s go there.
There is no single religious affiliation that is as widely regarded as “political suicide” in the U.S. as openly identifying as an atheist, they’re one of the most underrepresented groups in the U.S. government and most of the few atheist politicians that have held any political office in the U.S. have only openly come out as such either after the fact or late into their term, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to be elected in the first place.
A 2014 study by the university of Minnesota on social prejudice against atheists found that 42% of respondents characterized atheists a group of people who “didn’t agree with [their] vision of american society” and that 44% of respondents wouldn’t agree with their child marrying an atheists.
And also, despite the fact that these have been later ruled to be unenforceable, it’s still incredibly telling that there are currently seven U.S States whose constitutions try to explicitly ban atheists from holding public office.
Notice how most of these are worded specifically so that you’re not banned as long as you believe in ANY God or “supreme being”, so it’s not even an attempt at discrimination against non-christians in general, but specifically against atheists and other nonbelievers.
This is an uncharacteristically US-centric post of me but let’s be real this ask is written in such an aggressively american way (e.g. immediately conflating “atheist” with “white” and implicitly treating U.S. racial dynamics as universal) so I know your yankee ass isn’t gonna give a shit if I talk about how e.g. a 2009 survey found atheists to be one of the most openly hated demographic groups in Brazil, or how in several countries being openly atheist is straight-up punishable by the death penalty.
People who don’t believe atheists are an oppressed minority in literally most of the countries on earth are wild. Like. Have you not looked at Society At Large??
1) I’m neither white nor an atheist. But sure, me calling atheists a religious minority is me pretending I’m white and oppressed.
2) I didn’t use the word “oppressed”, I just said “religious minority”, but since you want to go there, sure let’s go there.
There is no single religious affiliation that is as widely regarded as “political suicide” in the U.S. as openly identifying as an atheist, they’re one of the most underrepresented groups in the U.S. government and most of the few atheist politicians that have held any political office in the U.S. have only openly come out as such either after the fact or late into their term, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to be elected in the first place.
A 2014 study by the university of Minnesota on social prejudice against atheists found that 42% of respondents characterized atheists a group of people who “didn’t agree with [their] vision of american society” and that 44% of respondents wouldn’t agree with their child marrying an atheists.
And also, despite the fact that these have been later ruled to be unenforceable, it’s still incredibly telling that there are currently seven U.S States whose constitutions try to explicitly ban atheists from holding public office.
Notice how most of these are worded specifically so that you’re not banned as long as you believe in ANY God or “supreme being”, so it’s not even an attempt at discrimination against non-christians in general, but specifically against atheists and other nonbelievers.
This is an uncharacteristically US-centric post of me but let’s be real this ask is written in such an aggressively american way (e.g. immediately conflating “atheist” with “white” and implicitly treating U.S. racial dynamics as universal) so I know your yankee ass isn’t gonna give a shit if I talk about how e.g. a 2009 survey found atheists to be one of the most openly hated demographic groups in Brazil, or how in several countries being openly atheist is straight-up punishable by the death penalty.
People who don’t believe atheists are an oppressed minority in literally most of the countries on earth are wild. Like. Have you not looked at Society At Large??
1) I’m neither white nor an atheist. But sure, me calling atheists a religious minority is me pretending I’m white and oppressed.
2) I didn’t use the word “oppressed”, I just said “religious minority”, but since you want to go there, sure let’s go there.
There is no single religious affiliation that is as widely regarded as “political suicide” in the U.S. as openly identifying as an atheist, they’re one of the most underrepresented groups in the U.S. government and most of the few atheist politicians that have held any political office in the U.S. have only openly come out as such either after the fact or late into their term, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to be elected in the first place.
A 2014 study by the university of Minnesota on social prejudice against atheists found that 42% of respondents characterized atheists a group of people who “didn’t agree with [their] vision of american society” and that 44% of respondents wouldn’t agree with their child marrying an atheists.
And also, despite the fact that these have been later ruled to be unenforceable, it’s still incredibly telling that there are currently seven U.S States whose constitutions try to explicitly ban atheists from holding public office.
Notice how most of these are worded specifically so that you’re not banned as long as you believe in ANY God or “supreme being”, so it’s not even an attempt at discrimination against non-christians in general, but specifically against atheists and other nonbelievers.
This is an uncharacteristically US-centric post of me but let’s be real this ask is written in such an aggressively american way (e.g. immediately conflating “atheist” with “white” and implicitly treating U.S. racial dynamics as universal) so I know your yankee ass isn’t gonna give a shit if I talk about how e.g. a 2009 survey found atheists to be one of the most openly hated demographic groups in Brazil, or how in several countries being openly atheist is straight-up punishable by the death penalty.
People who don’t believe atheists are an oppressed minority in literally most of the countries on earth are wild. Like. Have you not looked at Society At Large??
1) I’m neither white nor an atheist. But sure, me calling atheists a religious minority is me pretending I’m white and oppressed.
2) I didn’t use the word “oppressed”, I just said “religious minority”, but since you want to go there, sure let’s go there.
There is no single religious affiliation that is as widely regarded as “political suicide” in the U.S. as openly identifying as an atheist, they’re one of the most underrepresented groups in the U.S. government and most of the few atheist politicians that have held any political office in the U.S. have only openly come out as such either after the fact or late into their term, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to be elected in the first place.
A 2014 study by the university of Minnesota on social prejudice against atheists found that 42% of respondents characterized atheists a group of people who “didn’t agree with [their] vision of american society” and that 44% of respondents wouldn’t agree with their child marrying an atheists.
And also, despite the fact that these have been later ruled to be unenforceable, it’s still incredibly telling that there are currently seven U.S States whose constitutions try to explicitly ban atheists from holding public office.
Notice how most of these are worded specifically so that you’re not banned as long as you believe in ANY God or “supreme being”, so it’s not even an attempt at discrimination against non-christians in general, but specifically against atheists and other nonbelievers.
This is an uncharacteristically US-centric post of me but let’s be real this ask is written in such an aggressively american way (e.g. immediately conflating “atheist” with “white” and implicitly treating U.S. racial dynamics as universal) so I know your yankee ass isn’t gonna give a shit if I talk about how e.g. a 2009 survey found atheists to be one of the most openly hated demographic groups in Brazil, or how in several countries being openly atheist is straight-up punishable by the death penalty.
People who don’t believe atheists are an oppressed minority in literally most of the countries on earth are wild. Like. Have you not looked at Society At Large??
Video of a kitten at a vet’s office protesting loudly as it’s scooped from the floor. Another kitten turns around the corner and walks up to the camera, also protesting loudly for its friend. From here.
atp the only way we’re going to get out of this ai shit while people’s brains are still semi intact is to start bribing influencers and tiktokers into saying chatgpt is cringe and it emits a frequency that blocks your divine energy which can only be channeled back by reading a book and talking to your friends
mama bears listen up: human traffickers are using chatgpt to pick out their next victims!!! Every time you use it they create a profile of you and bubs and the more you use it the easier they can track you. If you’ve ever found a brightly colored wrapper just under your car at target or walmart it means they are signaling accomplices in the area to get ready to ambush you!!!!! Mamas help me spread the word!!!!!!!!!
different audience no problem: what kind of beta shit are you talking about brother your ancestors were in the trenches fighting wolves barehanded and shit and you need a fucking computer to tell you what to do? You’re so fucking cucked dude you gotta do shit the PRIMAL way, you let a computer think for you you might as well let it chew your food get your gains and fuck your wife get this sissy shit out of my face bro it literally lowers your sperm count
a harrowed and haggard looking soldier stumbled into camp raving about “the last true sword saint” who’s going around doing bullshit like deflecting howitzer shells with her blade and vacuum slicing to clear mustard gas. ive got to put a stop to this
Hey I’ve been cursed to wander this hollow land until I meet my equal in the blade arts but the trench generation has NO sword literacy. they just sit behind their sandbags getting 9 hours of scope time a day. put yourself in my shoes for one second before you post.
NEVER GIVE UP even though most people see their ships on this piece because the characters faces arent visible, this artwork sent SO MANY people looking for who the characters were, reading my comics, sending me asks, and falling in love with Sully and Caro just like me. It’s been an amazing ride. DO IT! Post your ocs!
redditors will be like “i have le cursed internet knowledge” and that knowledge is like. being vaguely aware of what furries are and making a big production out of gawking and going “errm wgat the heck is this weird crap”
Apparently my stepdad and I are fucking psychically linked because ?? every single time he makes chili for dinner I get a migraine. Without fail. And it became like a ha ha running joke because it happened so many times but now I’m living 3 hours away from my parents and I just texted my mom and
i do love that you can name pets pretty much anything. with children you have to be reasonable but with pets you can just do anything. you can name your tortoise panopticon
“corporations don’t have a soul” “machines don’t have a soul” neither do humans. I won’t convert to your religion. Think up a new argument.
Unrelated to the op but the backlash to this post has gotten me thinking about how there’s such an anti-atheism slant in society. Mention you don’t think “souls” should be used when discussing actual policy affecting people across the nation/world and people want to regulate you to being gross fat slob from reddit and itching to misgender you or steal a man’s personal selfie that’s been used time and time again to ridicule him and others for the crime of being fat and existing. Say that you don’t want people’s politics to solely be religious concepts and you get compared to the “Amazing Atheist” (is he even still around?) and harassed and mocked endlessly like. How does this not prove that you’re all uber religious? You make jokes about how cringe Catholics are and how funny it is the pope’s form chicago but yall are just protestants ready to snap on a tranny the moment she says she doesn’t believe in souls.
come on
humans want to believe in souls so bad it makes them stupid
Ok, sorry, so what’s the word then?
The entire concept of soul/spirit/etc is to explain why the heck some living beings have a personality/morality but also why we’re alive not just to go around to survive so we can procreate before dying, but also to experience things, discover them etc etc.
Like what is the word then, to explain why we’re not mindlessly alive???
I’m at a complete lost here, and with your logic spirit isn’t the answer since it’s also religious (if not way more).
Because our brains are complex organs that developed through millions of years of evolution. Other animals have personalities, we are not alone in that. We are animals that developed our traits through continued evolution, “we’re not alive to just procreate” we are alive because our ancestors didprocreate. Everything we are now is because of passing on certain genes that survive in the environment best, and having brains that operate like this is part of that.
“Why we’re alive” there isn’t a why. It just happened. That is how the world works. If you want to be religious and believe in something putting us here, that’s a-ok, but there is science behind why we are the way we are. Not everything has clean cut perfect answers, but that is the way of the world.
The soul is a religious concept that has no basis in reality. There is no way to physically measure it, there is no evidence it exists. If you choose to believe in souls then that’s cool for you, but “souls” is not an adequate way to base your politics around - especially when “souls” is a huge thing for right wing bigots.
embarrassing: this girl thought that glory and honor were real things and has only now realized that her death will be nothing but feeding a meaningless meatgrinder
Ah, yes, I see you’ve taken notice of the fine knight I keep dangling in a big gilded cage above my evil throne. Quite the pretty little ornament the would be savior makes, wouldn’t you agree~?
What? No, it IS a big cage. That’s- it’s the standard size for a knight’s cage I’m pretty sure. NO I’m not going to invest in 500 square feet of dungeon, it’s ONE knight! I’m pretty sure knights live in hovels in the wild anyways which is basically the same- Look, the cage is quite literally gilded. He loves the cage! He loves obediently preening in the cage! Yeah well, when you capture your own knight you can keep it in whatever size castle you want to, but this one’s mine. Especially since you’re so obviously jealous of me and my cute and awesome knight anyway.
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