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Fyodor Dostoyevsky // Alanis Morissette
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As a former band nerd, I can tell you that this instrument is finally being used as it should be :D
Also here’s a link to the entire song if you want it - there’s more silliness!
The slapstick guy is named Grant and according to a YouTube comment:
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can’t believe Doctor Who is so woke and political now, they acknowledge that trans people exist, why can’t we go back to the good old days, with no politics, when we had such themes as:
space nazis are the villain
a metaphor for the Vietnam war is the villain
big corporations are the villain
colonialism is the villain
rich humans are the villain
big corporations are the villain
politicians are the villain
unfair taxation is the villain
big corporations are the villain
capitalism is the villain
a society parodying Thatcher is the villain
environmental destruction is the villain
big corporations are the villain
Future societies operate on levels of gender you can’t even comprehend
racism is the villain
big corporations are the villain
There was never anything political about any of that!
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Oddly Specific Tarot: The Moose
Meaning: Unconquerable wrath. Natural disaster. Rage that can be neither contained nor reasoned with, only escaped. Large hostile ungulates.
Reversed: Canada.
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“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma
and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND
I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody:
zeug·ma ˈzo͞oɡmə/
noun
- a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).
ISN’T THAT AWESOME??
She dropped her dress and inhibitions at the door.
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What’s this? My favorite rhetorical device showing up on my dashboard?
IT HAS A NAMEEEE!! OH MY GOD!!!
I LOVE THIIIIIS!!!
One I’ve loved was “on their weekend trip they caught three fish and a cold”
I love these they’re like a pun and a metaphor wrapped up into one neat phrase
Didn’t know the name for this, but definitely one of my favourite rhetorical devices.
The folk song “ Maderia, My Dear” has some of the cleverest zeugmas I’ve ever heard and I feel the need to bring it up any time they’re being discussed. Although, fair warning, it’s a song about an old man getting a teenage girl drunk so she will sleep with him.
“She lowered her standards by raising her glass, her courage, her eyes, and his hopes.”
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It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:
It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.
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Source: beautifulbizarremagazine
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yeah babe we will fuck eventually just let me complete this sudoku level first
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Hiring managers acknowledge as much. In a survey of more than 1,000 hiring managers last summer, 27% reported having job postings up for more than four months. Among those who said they advertised job postings that they weren’t actively trying to fill, close to half said they kept the ads up to give the impression the company was growing, according to Clarify Capital, a small-business-loan provider behind the study. One-third of the managers who said they advertised jobs they weren’t trying to fill said they kept the listings up to placate overworked employees.
You've probably been in the position of sending out your resume far and wide, filling out zillions of applications, and going weeks or even months before even getting an answer. Well, turns out a lot of it's because they're not actually hiring anyone. It's not just you.
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The fact that there was an international outcry over the burning of Notre Dame , but not a single word uttered for the desecration and destruction of worship places, archives and libraries of Gaza and rest of Palestine ,many of which are FAR older than Notre Dame and other buildings in Europe should tell you enough about which countries are deemed worthy of respect and preservation in the West .
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If your plot feels flat, STUDY it! Your story might be lacking...
Stakes - What would happen if the protagonist failed? Would it really be such a bad thing if it happened?
Thematic relevance - Do the events of the story speak to a greater emotional or moral message? Is the conflict resolved in a way that befits the theme?
Urgency - How much time does the protagonist have to complete their goal? Are there multiple factors complicating the situation?
Drive - What motivates the protagonist? Are they an active player in the story, or are they repeatedly getting pushed around by external forces? Could you swap them out for a different character with no impact on the plot? On the flip side, do the other characters have sensible motivations of their own?
Yield - Is there foreshadowing? Do the protagonist's choices have unforeseen consequences down the road? Do they use knowledge or clues from the beginning, to help them in the end? Do they learn things about the other characters that weren't immediately obvious?
Thank you so much for this!
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Get your very own Paté de Rolo at Chetneys Toy Emporium! (Possession and possible hauntings not included in warranty)———————————
From Twitter:
User - @/HarpyMin Artwork Link - https://twitter.com/HarpyMin/status/1735777961331302793
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"Self insert characters are cringe"
Bro I'm trying to survive capitalism with maladaptive daydreaming. Leave me alone.
Writing a self insert helped me unpack more trauma than twenty years of therapy. Do it.
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