Starting some kind of collection
Someone built this.. sketched it up, milled some wood and pieced it together. Everything that’s taken time and unimaginable effort becomes so timelessly beautiful.
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I need to find out why hotels smelled the way they did until the mid 90s so I can smell "hotel smell" again I'm convinced it will fix me
Hotels smell like literally nothing now, it's upsetting
people saying "I asked chatgpt a question and I assumed its response was correct" is to me a thousand times more scarier application of AI than whatever the effective altruist weirdos are scared of
simulation theory guys are so funny because like who cares. if im in a simulation then everything around me is still just as real as i am so who cares im going to go eat some simulated ice cream and then have a simulated nap who give a shit
Counterpoint: if simulation theory is true we could, hypothetically, find a way to kill God
Motel Swimmer, Beaver, Utah, 1992. Jeff Brouws. Pigment print.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked himself in to the hospital for clinical depression in February, he walked the halls of the Senate stone-faced and dressed in formal suits. These days, he’s back to wearing the hoodies and gym shorts he was known for before he became a senator.
Male senators are expected to wear a jacket and tie on the Senate floor, but Fetterman has a workaround. He votes from the doorway of the Democratic cloakroom or the side entrance, making sure his “yay” or “nay” is recorded before ducking back out. In between votes this past week, Fetterman’s hoodie stayed on for a news conference with four Democratic colleagues in suits, the 6-foot-8 Fetterman towering over his colleagues.
Being forced to wear a suit did Fetterman so much psychic damage he now shouts his votes out from the Senate cloakroom without exposing his visage like the Phantom of the Opera.
I don't really enjoy fanfiction. It's not something I read in my spare time, but I believe in the value of a varied media diet, and I enjoy seeing what my internet acquaintances are reading.
As someone with a more traditional literary education fanfiction is bizarre to read. It's like an entire mode of writing that completely missed the boat on narrative multivalence and complex figurative language, but has an absolutely scalpel-fucking-sharp hand at pacing.
I find that fascinating! Maybe it's just the things I've been exposed to, but I feel like theres a pattern. I've found that even lackluster fanfiction prose tends to be delivered with a fairly advanced understanding of narrative pacing.
I don't know much about the broader culture of fan authors, but if I had to hazard a guess, it probably comes from a culture of discussions around what could make an existing story better. That would be an excellent trial-by-fire for getting a sense of when the important beats should happen.
You can tell that a lot of FF authors have never really studied poetry, or done close readings of other literature. Authors often seem entirely unaware of or uninterested in cultivating a symbolic language. Which isn't necessarily bad, but it's leaving a lot on the table.
Set dressing, objects, even actions, are given comparatively little attention. They're almost suggestions, with the vast majority of the narrative legwork placed on dialogue and blocking. The effect is that fanfiction in my mind reads less like literature, or short stories, and more like a film or stage script. It's strikingly theatrical.
Dodgers uninvited drag queens to their pride night, so the mayor of Anaheim invited them to the Angels pride night lmfaoooo
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