teach romance authors how to fucking pace a story and establish a mood
TWISTS AND SUSPENSE DO NOT PAIR WELL WITH SEXY SCENES
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?????
this profic just pulled the absolutely fucking weirdest lead-in to its spicy bits i'm so confused
browsing this website <https://www.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)
“yeah i went and got contacts so i wouldn't have to wear glasses; anyway, now i can start wearing these 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
@djsundog well, billions of devices run java
@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
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