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almost was like “i thought it was pretty widely acknowledged that while it is decent for profic, it’s pretty mediocre compared to most fanfiction” before i remembered i was in a room full of published authors

teach romance authors how to fucking pace a story and establish a mood

TWISTS AND SUSPENSE DO NOT PAIR WELL WITH SEXY SCENES

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i can't even explain it without a lot of words and some heavy content warnings but SUFFICE TO SAY it had the mood set perfectly and then for some reason decided to drag it through the mud and THEN, for SOME REASON, the protagonist is just emotionally IGNORING that which what even was the point then???? you already HAD a perfectly good setup?????

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this profic just pulled the absolutely fucking weirdest lead-in to its spicy bits i'm so confused

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browsing this website <ourdialects.uk/> all of the interesting english shit is in the north lmao

of course this is a University of Manchester product so there may be some bias there

(i’ve no problem with that)

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how dare “neverminding” be US regional

“yeah i went and got contacts so i wouldn't have to wear glasses; anyway, now i can start wearing these glasses”

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i think it's funny that they keep trying to make smart glasses happen because the people who wear glasses ALREADY WEAR GLASSES and the people who don't wear glasses DON’T WANT TO WEAR GLASSES

@aescling “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need”: truly the slogan of a movement concerned with equality over equity

@aescling i feel like the ideology notorious for treating people as interchangeable cogs in a larger profit machine isn't communism

@aescling so no, it isn’t advancing, but it isn’t abandoned

@aescling Stage 1; last presented June 2020; seems like there was general support for it but some spec work to be done before it could advance to Stage 2; looks like they’re still hashing some things out, in particular in relation to break/return

@aescling const has block scope and can’t be reassigned, so you have to use an IIFE plus a return if you want the value of a const to be determined within a block but available outside of it. this is in fact one of the the only reasonable applications of IIFEs in modern javascript code, but it’s very useful.

// Doesn’t work:—
{
const foo = "🎱"
const bar = `${ foo }ball`
}
console.log(bar)

// Works:—
const bar = (() => {
const foo = "🎱"
return `${ foo }ball`
})()
console.log(bar)

@Satsuma i feel like the more common form of this trope is where the speech happens after the ship has already sailed regarding B’s plot and they wish they could take it back or try to

list of delicious foods (incomplete) 

• tamales

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