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Neon's Masterpost of Stories
Updated 8/29/2022: Added GT July 2022 Masterpost Link, Added Grey Islands section
Under the cut I have compiled a series of links to various writings of mine. It is not comprehensive by any means, but it highlights some of my favorites. I'll work on adding to this masterpost as needed, and may add more sections in the future as I get the energy.
Always nice when math helps make it all the more clear how ridiculously reasonable the worker demands are.
This is what the studios have brought everything to a grinding halt for.
there's such a weird subtly to choosing where to divide chapters up in a story. Like, sometimes it's relatively easily because the chapter follows like a mini arc within the greater story, sometimes there's just a really tasty cliffhanger to end on, sometimes there's a really good wrap-up to a scene that just fits... but how to choose which strategy to use is something I've never been confident about.
Like I try to use chapters (and chapter titles) in ways that I'd find helpful as a reader, ie good places to pause and put the book down (cliffhangers don't work for that) or good places to end an arc or scene (boring maybe? do I lose readers by doing that because there's no cliffhanger???) and I try not to make chapters too long, so if you're trying to find a scene you liked or are thinking about, it's relatively easy if you recognize the chapter title.
But I've read a lot of books over the years and there doesn't seem to be much consensus on which strategy is "best," I guess because there is no "best." Every time I think I know a rule for writing, I go read another book and find that rule broken somewhere.
And it's funny, because when I wrote book I, I didn't use chapter titles at all. Not that I didn't want to, I just couldn't think of any. But now thinking of chapter titles is the easiest damn thing ever, so easy I went back and titled all the chapters for book I when I released it for paperback.
Anyway I'm just rambling here. Vote, I guess:
text from my dad (2021) - my dad
“i’ll admit that my main problem with this is that i haven’t asked”
submitted by @cornandcoconutsoup
Original text for context
op this provides no context
No fuck off. Dale gribble is a loving kind man who openly accepts his father for being gay. Dale gribble is a good man who has some crazy ideas but very few are actively harmful to others and he would never vote for trump ever. He would absolutely believe (and be correct) that trumps Fandom is a cult. Fuck this post.
"The magic system isn't explained properly" bro as if anyone these days understands how a computer works
na bachlóga
the buds
i love how they look like hoofs and paws
[id: a poster showing the buds of 28 different deciduous trees commonly found in the UK. beneath the English name for each tree is its name in Gaeilge. /end id]
the gimmick blogs are like tumblr’s rogue gallery. yes we’ve got some heroes, yes we’ve got some villains, but more importantly if you look over here you will see some freak who devotes all their time to counting the number of “t’s” in a post
T Count: 15
Letter Count: 198
Your T Percentage: 7.58%
Average T Percentage: 6.95%
You used the letter T 1.09 times as much as average!
YOU EXIST???
Sometimes you create a guy and it turns out they already exist
Sometimes that guy has skills beyond your comprehension @identifying-cars-in-posts
1993-1997 Mazda 626
I love all the fun kinds of autism we get here
““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.
Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.
Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.
The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.
GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.
It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…
Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21
How much you wanna bet the State of California will “prohibit” use of this system, because “reasons.”
If it’s in international waters they can’t do anything about it. And I’m pretty sure the federal government decides what can and can’t go on off our coasts too, not local or state.
Slat has been working on this since he was literally a child. I remember the first posts, articles, and I think there was even a fundraising campaign at one point.
I am so, so proud of him holy shit.
^^^ me too!! I remember the first news yeaaars ago that some kid had thought up a brilliantly simple method of cleaning up the oceans, and even that first prototype was amazingly efficient in solving a problem that the grownup world seemed to have given up on. It was so simple I couldn’t believe no scientist or engineer had thought of it before.
And he’s just been refining it and making it better and better? Amazing news!
Well done, sir, well done and thank you <3
My big memory of this is that every time he sent out a prototype, people would overwhelmingly go “AH HA! See? It didn’t work as advertised because a storm broke it/it didn’t filter as much as he predicted/etc.”
And every time, Boyan would analyse what went wrong, tinker with it, and send a stronger version back out.
There are still issues with it, like, but this guy isn’t some shitty billionaire - he’s a normal man walking the walk to clean up an international problem that everyone else is just wringing their hands over. I have no clue why everyone is desperately waiting for him to fail. He’s picked his hill, and he plods along, and if the latest design hasn’t met expectations, he creates a new one.
Their website is here, btw, in case anyone wants to have a look; they still accept donations
Whoever was all “LOL Watch Cali Ban it”: besides the fact that isn’t how it works, LA county has actually deployed similar systems here to help clean up our beaches. They work, and of course we’re using them.
Some of y’all are way too cynical and way too confident about it, yikes.
@kilodelta Thanks for the addition, this is so true
LA isn’t just deploying similar systems, it has literally officially teamed up with the Ocean Cleanup, using one of their river cleanup systems! To absolutely massive success
That article actually appears to be non-paywalled right now, but here’s a guaranteed no-paywall Internet Archive copy just in case!
“After a historic winter hit California with dozens of atmospheric rivers, the last line of defense protecting the Pacific from much of L.A.’s trash held strong.
In the first storm season of a two-year pilot project, Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor 007 stopped nearly 155,000 pounds of garbage from flowing out to the ocean.
“Its performance has exceeded our wildest expectations,” said Boyan Slat, founder and chief executive of the Ocean Cleanup. The Dutch nonprofit partnered with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works to introduce the interceptor in October.
The system floats a few hundred yards from the outlet of Ballona Creek into the Pacific Ocean, its twin booms extended to the shoreline to funnel trash to a solar-powered system that lifts objects from the water with a conveyor belt and drops them into six dumpsters. The trash collects in the dumpsters and awaits manual removal…
In all, the first rainy season of the interceptor’s operation saw the collection of 77 tons of material, the vast majority of which went to landfill.
This first pilot year “had all the challenges we wanted it to have: heavy pollutants, lots of flow,” said Mark Pestrella, the Department of Public Works director. In January, storm-generated waves caused one boom to tear, and it had to be replaced.
According to Lee, L.A. County Department of Beaches and Harbors maintenance crews noted “a 75% reduction” in trash along local beaches adjacent to the interceptor.”
-via Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2023
These exist in Baltimore, too! Meet Mr. Trash Wheel and the Trash Wheel Family.
The idea of dragons in modern times is so fun because imagine a hot summer day on your vacay and go to use the hotel pool and staff is like “valued guests we regret to inform you that the pool area is out of service at the moment, we apologize for the inconvenience”
And people like “wtf why” looking out their hotel room window and there’s this. This dragon just curled up in the pool chilling, literally, cooling itself down
Some of the staff are trying to gently shoo him away and the dragon does a soft little “rrrrrr” like a grumpy cat and a warning puff of smoke and they’re like “fuck it i don’t get paid nearly enough for this” and no ones using the pool today sorry!
"Think of the two major possibilities here: Either the studios owe untold millions to their talents and paying it out will decimate their stock prices, or they owe so little because there really is no money in streaming and the bubble of their entire 21st century business model will burst in spectacular fashion. And make no mistake: this is a bubble. This is the inevitable climax of a stockholder-driven hunger for infinite growth, despite the fact that, by design, such a thing cannot and should not exist. The infection of Wall Street has overwhelmed the entertainment industry beyond repair, leading to cultural vandals like David Zaslav to be appointed with the callous duty of strip-mining decades’ of artistic beauty for pennies of tax write-offs. The past and future are frivolous in comparison to the short-term demands that the line keep going up."
Literally was just thinking about this on the way to work and realized just how cookie cutter popular media has become today and god i hope that the entire industry bubble pops and starts from scratch.
I hope that people start looking to indie artists and discover a whole new world of variety that was hidden to them under a sea of oppressive advertisements. I want to see small studios suddenly flourish and compete with each other instead of stumbling behind in the wake of massive companies. I hope we get more shit like Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnochio and audience backed shows like Critical Role’s animated series. I want shit to get weird again. I want new stories instead of five fucking sequels and an endless ongoing stream of marvel shoved in my face. I want cult classics like Tremors to start popping up again. I want physical media to come back like CDs
I want that goddamn bubble to pop, how did it get this bad
*places an orange just outside a fairy ring to see what comes out* science is more of an art than a science
*the orange grows legs and skitters away*
Fascinating results *places a banana in the same spot*
*clawed hand reaches out of the ether and drags it into the ring, leaving ragged claw marks in the soil as it disappears, back into the ether from whence it came*
“let’s go to the extreme.” *places a pineapple in the same spot*
trashmonkey-mcgee
Real scientists would keep putting an orange in the same spot to make sure the results are consistent before moving on to other fruits or different spots.
The only valid response to this post.
We’re working up the complexity levels of fruit until we feel there is enough evidence to support the judicious placement of a volunteer twink
You sit down, we haven’t seen what’s happened to the pineapple
This is Tumblr; we’ve ALL seen what happened to the pineapple. O_O
Every year since we started dating, I've gifted my husband an illustration of us and our dog. Here is this year's artwork!
And here's a few from past years;
I honestly think the original ah lads not again post is the funniest
About half an hour ago, I'd've been sworn that you once wrote something at least very close to the following:
"You can start a new tradition, if you do it with conviction, and remember to do it again."
But a half-hour of searching online has left me questioning my memory, if not my sanity.
Did you write this (or something close to it)? Or am I losing it?
And if you did write it, is it online?
Thank you!
Cheers, Mark
It reads like something I might have said and, if I did say it, it was probably here on Tumblr.
Well searched!