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hey it's me The Thing

@mijlen / mijlen.tumblr.com

welcome to chili's | vee (they/them) | over 30 | an engineer irl | currently obsessing over the terror (and idols as per)

Told @shinraco that she should code her discord bot to respond to all mentions of Fullmetal Alchemist by repeating “Fullmetal Alchemist” like the commercial breaks and she ended up having to shoot the bot dead just to stop what we’d created

the full saga….

let her speak!!

DIRECTOR: Hey Tom Hardy here is some weird shit we're gonna put on your face to hide your beautiful little kissy lips pretty boy mouth

TOM HARDY, ENTIRELY NOT LISTENING BECAUSE HE'S BUSY FORMULATING AN ACCENT NO HUMAN BEING ON EARTH HAS EVER FUCKING HAD: Sure boss

People in Seattle will be like "breaking out my summer clothes 🥰" and it's like

T-shirt (gray), Lounge pants (different shade of gray), That one super lightweight hoodie Eddie Bauer sells around this time of year (third discrete shade of gray), White Allbirds.

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how to signal to goths in public that i am an ally friend and lover despite dressing like a camp counselor

I think bad writing is genuinely quite rare. The more you learn about writing, the easier it is to find something to love in even the most rough and amateurish work. New authors often have crackshot skill in at least one arena of their craft, and there is always something to learn from a text like that.

I've read a lot of clumsy writing. But when an author is passionate about their practice, it's hard to truly hate it. I think much of what we consider bad writing is only called "bad" out of convenience and context.

In my mind, Truly Bad Writing has a sort of naive malice to it. The best example in my mind is Ben Shapiro's work. It is cruel, arrogant, a bit pompous, and powerfully, embarrassingly, ineffective.

You don't read academic journals do you

Academic journal writing is the sulphur vent tubeworm of technical writing. It discards every possible shred of readability, all to communicate the necessary elements of a hyper-specialized idea. In this, there is beauty.