"The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define." - C.S. Lewis
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Trying "We Are Bob" on my brother's recommendation, after reading "Dungeon Crawler Carl" also on his recommendation.
And the thing about Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett was that they wrote smooth, polished prose including jokes that relied on using language in a precise way.
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Supposedly P.G. Wodehouse would pin manuscript pages to his wall and move each page up the wall depending on how satisfied he was with. He'd walk around editing and moving pages up the wall.
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I general, it's good to remember that asking someone to perform an emotion--and to perform it in a specific way you want--*is an ask.*
And sometimes it's a reasonable ask and they *should* do it, and other times not.
I dunno man, it depends.
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Well, actually what he said was that men's fantasy is to be *begged* for sex. That's not a fantasy of "being wanted: it's a fantasy of being wanted *more* than you want the other person, in a way that puts them in a submissive position.
Had to look up my transcripts in the process of getting my full teacher's license. Discovered that while for ten years I've remembered getting a C in my graduate quantum physics class, it was actually a B.
Just thought I should announce that.
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The bad thing about getting no sleep is that after a day of feeling like body and mind are falling apart, I start to feel good again at about 8 pm.
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It's me, I can't handle it.
The reason I dislike anti-anti Mrs. Bennett-ism is that it seems part of a wider feeling that emotional disregulation and stupidity can be actually harmful and bad.
I agree that Hollywood actresses are in a nasty bind re plastic surgery vs showing any signs of aging, but I would prefer if society solved this bind by chilling out about aging.
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The problem is that there seems to be a needle it is possible to thread where, for some people, the surgery just keeps them looking like their young attractive selves for decades. I can see why it would be almost impossible not to *try* to thread that needle.
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One thing I miss about my old job is that I could say something a tiny bit cynical about whatever we were doing and be fairly confident that my coworkers would appreciate it and think it was funny.
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It's a good thing that I don't believe in creative works being tainted by their authorship because the book Coraline is much better than the movie.
man i love Laika's work but i just really, really don't think Coraline can actually be separated from Gaiman or his legacy
it's a story fundamentally *about* the mechanics of predation and i don't really see a way to rehabilitate it without rehabilitating him
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