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moderncouchpotato

okay i’m migrating back to here, if anyone wants to follow that on the very teeny tiny slim af off-chance

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does anyone kinda hate the stupid box that pops up when you highlight something on MS word

#or are you all using google docs now lol#writing#google docs is laggy for me and i've accidentally lost writing with it ajkgnfkg so i use it sometimes but generally no#eeeyyyy i'm starting to miss oskar#i've been writing seb for the past 3 days#anyway i can rotate between these fics :3#text#fic talk#but like that BOX just GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY#i nearly accidentally click it sometimes
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fuck i just spent like 3-4 hours reading all these old simi fics on my hard drive that i saved years ago and FUCK i still have such feelings for seb fuvkfffgjkgjk

#guess i'll go try and work on simi superpowers fic now again#i'll be honest i'm a little nervous about reading recent/new fic on ao3 but we'll see if i work myself up to it haha#fic talk#.#..#...#....#i s2g tumblr takes more than the first 5 tags to show on the tracked tags these days#i think...#anyway#f1#simi#text
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mitochondriaandbunnies

Dan and I bought a thing called “long ziti” from the local Weird Bargain Store, largely as a joke, but…. I have never had a more unsettling pasta experience in my life. They wouldn’t bend enough to cook from top to bottom simultaneously, and while they were cooking boiling water kept spouting out from the tops of them out of the pot, like a boiling pipe organ. Then they were so long and floppy and hoselike that we couldn’t pick them up with anything other than tongs, and then they were so long and unwieldy that it was basically impossible to sauce them without them all slithering out of the bowl like wet snakes. They then proceeded to cool down almost completely within the the seconds it took to walk to the living room. Eating them was like eating a bowl full half melted drinking straws.

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elemeno-pee

Bringing back Long Ziti for another round because it’s just too funny

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cricketsqueak

real life creepypasta

#im fgkj laughing#pasta#random
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avelera

Pro-writing tip: if your story doesn't need a number, don't put a fucking number in it.

Nothing, I mean nothing, activates reader pedantry like a number.

I have seen it a thousand times in writing workshops. People just can't resist nitpicking a number. For example, "This scifi story takes place 200 years in the future and they have faster than light travel because it's plot convenient," will immediately drag every armchair scientist out of the woodwork to say why there's no way that technology would exist in only 200 years.

Dates, ages, math, spans of time, I don't know what it is but the second a specific number shows up, your reader is thinking, and they're thinking critically but it's about whether that information is correct. They are now doing the math and have gone off drawing conclusions and getting distracted from your story or worse, putting it down entirely because umm, that sword could not have existed in that Medieval year, or this character couldn't be this old because it means they were an infant when this other story event happened that they're supposed to know about, or these two events now overlap in the timeline, or... etc etc etc.

Unless you are 1000% certain that a specific number is adding to your narrative, and you know rock-solid, backwards and forwards that the information attached to that number is correct and consistent throughout the entire story, do yourself a favor, and don't bring that evil down upon your head.

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bookishdiplodocus

Editor here. Can confirm.

"Two centuries later" just triggers a mental note to check if timing is consistent throughout the book, because it may mean more time jumps are ahead. "200 years later", or heaven forbid, "201 years later" will have me draw up a time line. The more specific the number, the more critical people become.

Strange phenomenon. Well spotted, OP.

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blondejaneblonde

Things I wish I’d known.

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gallusrostromegalus

Not a counterpoint, because OP has ABSOLUTLE Y correctly identified a reader beahavior (Of which I am very guilty. If a year is mentioned I go to the Wikipedia page to see what else was happening that year), but a thing to consider:

Putting numbers in, then lampshading the hell out of the resulting urge to do math and check dates. Some of my favorite Examples:

  • "This Item can really cause a Thousand Years of Darkness?" "Well, it actually only causes 968 years of Darkness, but that didn't sound as good."
  • "Wait, you're from the year 1596? OMG DID YOU KNOW SHAKESPEARE??" "Who?" "The, the famous English playwright?" "What the fuck is 'English'?" "Like the country? In Europe?" "I'm from China, I don't know any european celebrities."
  • "And Thus, King Garbelpantz rode forth with his army of 10,000 soldiers." "What? I didn't realize Pantzlandia was so big?" "Huh? No it was a small kingdom, opressed by it larger neighbors-" "But it takes approximately 1,000 people worth of support staff like farmers, weavers, merchants, blacksmiths and the like to support just one full-time warrior in medieval times. So Pantzlandia would have had to have a population in the neighborhood of 10 million for King Garbelpantz to have an army that large-" "OH MY GOD, STOP INTERRUPTING THE EXPOSITION STEVE-" "IT'S NOT WORTH IT IF ALL THE EXPOSITION IS BULLSHIT, MILEY."
  • "Wait, this text says the Pharaoh reigned 5,000 years ago, but this one says it was 3,000 years ago-" "-THERE WAS A LOT OF MAGICAL BULLSHIT HAPPENING, SPACE AND TIME LOST ALL MEANING AND WHEN IT WAS OVER I HAD TWO DIFFERENT CALENDARS, OKAY?" "...You LOST 2,000 years?" "Or Added them, I'm genuinely not sure."
#writing talk#references#oops maybe i should take out that oskar was born in 2002... actually that's a GREAT IDEA#text
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moderncouchpotato

Tagged by @casualtornado thank you!

A - Age:  27 B - Birthplace: Sydney C - Current time: 12.46 D - Drink you last had: water, and now I’m about to have (earl grey) tea E - Easiest person to talk to: ..........tbh, Mark and the psych. (Also, Andy was great to talk to on Thursday! But that was an out of the office thing, and most of the time I’ll see him in the office, so I’m not sure if he’d count in the easiest list. (Jack is good too. I think I might just like interesting conversations...)) F - Favourite song: hmmmm Loistava tulevaisuus by Happoradio G - Grossest memory: probably something involving throwing up H - Horror yes or horror no: horror no I - In love?: no J - Jealous of people?: yeah K - Killed someone?: no L - Love at first sight or should I walk by again?: walk by again M - Middle name: don’t want to post it here XD N -  Number of siblings: 0 O - One wish: loooooooooooooooooooooool related to the first part of E P - Person you called last: errrrr idk, probably whoever was at home? Q - Question you’re always asked: “HI, HOW ARE YOU GOING” R - Reason to smile: 4 DAY WEEKEND AKA HOLIDAYSSSSSS S - Song you sang last: We Know the Way, from the Moana soundtrack (next door was playing it loudly, they have people over) T - Time you woke up: 10.44am U - Underwear colour: errrrrrrr very pale peach-ish colour? V - Vacation destination: how can I pick one.......... well (these are just the first ones that come to mind), Australia-wise, I would love to do a solo holiday down at Batemans Bay. And not-solo-wise: Melbourne, the Great Ocean Rd, Adelaide, Coober Pedy, Uluru, Alice Springs, Brisbane, yes this is a trip I’m planning loooool. And for not-Australia: Finland, Iceland, London, Russia, Switzerland, and the central Asia countries W - Worst habit: picking my nails to cut them rather than using a nailclipper lol X - X-rays: for teeth. ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh Y - Your favourite food: I love Turkish food! And others too, but I just had that yesterday so I remember it better loooool Z - Zodiac sign: Aquarius

Tagging: @normalplaces @theflirtmeister @mindthegraveltrap !

#meme#casualtornado
moderncouchpotato
So what is the problem with the overtaking? There was concern at the end of last season about the new regulations and the idea that the turbulent air from these higher downforce cars would make it hard for a car to follow another and pass. At the same time the extra downforce means braking distances are shorter. The idea with these rules was to make the cars much faster over a lap as the drivers complained that they were not a challenge to drive and 17 year old Max Verstappen was able to compete straight away, which older drivers found depressing. 

I LAUGHED

#txt#f1
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11 Questions Meme

Tagged by @mindthegraveltrap​ thank you!

RULES: Always post the rules. Answer the questions asked, then write 11 new ones. Tag 11 people to answer your questions, as well as the person who tagged you.

1. Worst habit?

Probably picking/peeling my nails

2. Watch the movie or read the book?

Watch the movie just cause it takes less effort

3. Have you ever made a prank call?

Yeah, when I was a kid, like, 10 or 11 probably

4. Any tattoos?

Nope

5. Prefer online shopping or in-store?

In-store cause I like trying things on, stuff I’d actually buy and weird stuff that I have to try because lol

6. What are you looking forward to in 2017?

Nothing, actually...

7. Name something you can’t live without

Air

8. What is your notp?

I don’t have a fandom right now

9. A song that makes you want to dance

Italy’s Eurovision entry for this year (but the original full-length version, not the butchered Eurovision version)

10. Last movie that made you cry?

I honestly don’t know

11. A quote you live by

If this means a famous one, I don’t have one

Questions:

1. A favourite thing that starts with M?

2. Do you like Australia?

3. Shiny or sparkly?

4. Favourite country you’ve visited and why?

5. Least favourite country you haven’t visited and why?

6. A man walks into a bar. Why?

7. Something that makes you happy?

8. Something that makes you sad?

9. Favourite colour to paint a wall?

10. Something or many things that piss you off about other people?

11. If penguins could fly where do you think they would go?

Tagging: @casualtornado​ @theflirtmeister​ @amitheonlyonezenaroundhere​ @crazybee​ @wedwobin​

#i don't have 11!!#mindthegraveltrap#meme#11 questions