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Herzog was real for this

I think a lot of the time it's easier to have thoughts about shitty media than really deep and moving stuff, where you can feel that it has touched your soul, but you don't know how to put it into words, even to yourself.

conversely, I think it's easier to know nice things to say about the works in the literary canon (plot, pacing, etc) but you really have to think about why THIS low culture piece of media struck a cord wtih you (or almost did). Buffy had this problem where no one knew what to say about it in academic terms and now there's a lot of academics working to describe was it was so successful despite it being low culture. Academia will not serve you, the creator, because it's too slow. The knowledge you'd get from a professor who read the classics is all well and good but it takes 2 or more years to write some of these books, rendering them utterly useless. They won't help you read what you're reading right now.

So it's not enough as a creator to read and emulate the same reliable formulas that dominate the writing of people who are educated. If you don't know what more creative pieces unbound by convention are doing then you don't know the tastes and sensibilities of the average person. Including yourself. Do you know why romeo and juliet works, or do you think it works just because you're told it works? There's the intellectual answer you can google, and then there's the experiential answer by watching romcoms.

I think that by experiencing bad media, you better prepare yourself to articulate why other media is good.

And this goes beyond media.

I can tell you what a good burger is vs a bad one. I know good people and bad. I've had good supervisors and bad.

And all of these metrics can change based on how good and bad are defoned by the person experiencing them!

Being sensitive to changes in barometric pressure is crazy what do you mean my problem is that the wind changed direction. What do you mean it's the fuckin clouds

Eastern united states how are we feeling. With that fucking barometric pressure

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When the 'save' button doesn't take me directly to my files

Our blessed tumblr

A holy site

Nah nah nah, you ain’t hiding this in the tags

Not one of the 7 deadly sins, but a secret 8th sin

sorry what

perpetually torn between "competency is sexy" and "oh no this dumbass has endeared their fucking self towards me"

oh wow yall are struggling with this one How Shocking

If you're good at something, it's impressive.

If you're just learning something, but give it an honest good effort, it's still impressive, just in a different way.

I'm not seeing what's so hard about this.

i love when the gender options are "male" "female" and "prefer not to answer"

like it just reads as "boy" "girl" and "what are you, a cop? i don't owe you anything"

My gender is "come back with a warrant"

[ID: A screenshot from Fallen London showing a question and set of options reading:

May we ask whether you're a lady or a gentleman?

End ID]

If you all are going to jump every time that man says “We’re going to buy Greenland we’re going to call it the Gulf of America” this is going to be a long four years. Please figure out when to get worked up and when to roll your eyes.

Cheat sheet: when he says something bold and delusional, it's a distraction from a piece of news he'd rather you not see. If he says something bizarre and incoherent, it's a dog whistle about a policy decision he'd rather you not think about.

I would like for you to change this a bit. Rather than go, "This is a distraction," I want you to think, "Okay, he wants to do this because he thinks he can make money off of it for himself and his donors. How could he make money off of this and whom will it be for?"

Do this every time he makes an outlandish statement.

For example, he says he wants to own Greenland.

Okay.

Why Greenland? Do they have any natural resources he can exploit?

Oh, yes, looks like it potentially does. 31.4 billion barrels of oil, that is. Only they have stopped drilling and have banned the practice because the risk of damaging the environment was deemed too high.

And would you look at that, some of the highest donors to Trump's campaign during this past election were from the gas and oil industry.

And now you understand why he wants Greenland. He has no problem handing it over to the gas and oil industry to do what they want with it.

Trump is first and foremost a grifter. He'd sell his own mother if he thought he could make a nickel in the deal.

From now on, realize that every action he does, he does so with the goal of making money. Again, you just need to ask the questions, "How?" and "For whom?"

This is a great line of reasoning to remember. The screaming spray tan clot cannot be motivated to do anything that does not benefit him personally.

“Trump is first and foremost a grifter” exactly. I keep thinking about this line from AOC’s speech at the 2024 DNC:

“Donald Trump would sell this country for a dollar if it meant lining his own pockets and greasing the palms of his Wall Street friends.”

If it makes you feel any better, he hated it too.

This is the funniest and saddest sentence I've read all week

SUPERMAN Actors over the years (1948-2025)

Can we maybe stop making shows for people who don't watch shows and writing books for people who don't read books and making video games for people who don't play video games and making sports for people who don't like sports and making music for

a woman being feminine is right-wing coded which is masculine coded. a woman being masculine is left-wing coded which is feminine coded. this disproves the existence of women

If you all are going to jump every time that man says “We’re going to buy Greenland we’re going to call it the Gulf of America” this is going to be a long four years. Please figure out when to get worked up and when to roll your eyes.

Cheat sheet: when he says something bold and delusional, it's a distraction from a piece of news he'd rather you not see. If he says something bizarre and incoherent, it's a dog whistle about a policy decision he'd rather you not think about.

GO APOLLO GO

SIC 'EM

EVERYONE LEND HIM YOUR STRENGTH!

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tldr; not only is "Terrorism" a harder charge to "prove" in NY compared to "murder", this charge would make it easier to present the elements that made Luigi a folk hero to the jury.