Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

slice of life anime 🤝 the lord of the rings

food is important

body hair creates a spacer between body and fabric which creates wind, aids in sweat evaporation, and creates a cool pocket of air around your skin

my advice for staying cool in the summer is don't shave your legs

kind of girl who ends her several hour long call with her girlfriend so that she can chat with her girlfriend on discord

this is like 95% of my experiences asking questions of strangers on the internet

“what is your favourite type of pizza and why”

“oh, pizza? usually when i want pizza i open the map app on my phone and scroll through the nearest places until i find something with lots of stars”

you ever ask a question on the internet and have people give you answers which are kind of on the same topic but not really what you asked for at all

anyway final, reveal‐all or sudden‐change‐in‐perspective or even brilliant‐moment‐of‐persuasion conversations solve the wrong problem and attempt to resolve the narrative tensions of the story in place of the structural ones. they very rarely take place in structural time and closing out your story that way is footgun which spits in the face of all your hard work actually trying to architecture something pleasing or meaningful, effectively saying “none of that structure actually matters because in the end these words were the key”

at which point you might as well toss out the entire rest of the story and just print that, if that’s what you think

for example star wars converts the narrative tension of the impending threat of the death star, around which the story is structured, into the narrative tension of the rebels launching an all‐out war against the empire, about which the story structure has nothing meaningful to say

i think a lot of writers write themselves into impossible situations because they rely entirely on the narrative for tension, and narrative tension can never be completely resolved without it sounding like somebody is running a con

in fact, the only utility narrative tension has for the writer is in giving weight to the tension in the story’s structure; the goal of the writer is to convert narrative tension which is structurally entwined into narrative tension which is structurally free, at which point the story reaches its close

if you are going to have your protagonist have a life‐altering conversation, first of all you should stick it at the BEGINNING of the work

if you are a writer who is puzzling over how to end your story, and your great idea is to have your protagonist have a life‐altering conversation which changes their perspective and resolves all the tensions currently present in the narrative

stop, please, and don’t

it does not work

@bx i think the difficulty is largely conceptual with the large number of terms of art in programming… for example with arrays, you have “push”, “pop”, “map”, etc which are all specific algorithms which won’t necessarily have an obvious translation in most languages… you can translate the words but it's not clear you mean the same thing

to someone who is making a new programming language, who is probably already familiar with the english words for those concepts, it is a lower conceptual barrier to just reuse the english names than to come up with a whole nother language for those kinds of operations (and expect people to learn it…)

and once they have committed to using english for those terms, using english for the rest of the standard library feels like the path of least resistance… i think this isn't necessary though; i think a good starting point might be a bilingual programming language which uses english for established algorithms but a different language for everything else

« As an example, if you have 1,000 motivated fans who would pay you $1,000 a year to purchase your music or your digital art, you’ve just earned a million dollars. » thanks but i don’t need NFTs to do that, i can just sell bath water

think i need to do better at remembering to tell the stories i actually want to tell

instead of getting sucked into bogs of shit i couldn’t care less about

or that i had more time

i wish writing didn't take so long