look sometimes you've just said "goodbye forever" to someone you thought could be the love of your life and you've been sick and injured for weeks and you're stressed about the big project announcement and you realize nobody's gonna be good to you but you. so.

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I know no one actually reads any books anymore, but in Dune human beings are chained together to exploit their cognition for compute because there are no more thinking computers. You are meant to see that the Butlerian Jihad stripped away the technology, so humans enslaved and automated each other.

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I also am of the opinion that the whole "race to the bottom" thing is overblown. The GOP does all their shit assuming the Democrats will never respond. Letting them know that their shit has actual consequences is the only way to rein them in.

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A play of FRANKENSTEIN where they hired all short actors so your eye read everyone as average height, then a very tall man as Frankenstein’s monster, so the audience RECOILED in horror from the jarring sight! Later I chatted up a tall guy in the bar next door then went ‘WAIT! YOU ARE THE MONSTER!’

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she said "you can do anything in fiction as long as the situation afterwards is more interesting that the situation before." since then i have been keeping an eye on character death in fiction. many writers seem to think that character death "raises the stakes" but actually just makes things boring

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