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at any given moment one of these is probably playing in my brain

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i always get one of two songs stuck in my head:

- the menu music for madden 2001 on the nintendo 64

- behind these hazel eyes

what we actually need in creative writing is mentorship, the same thing we need in the arts in general

not coursework

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like it was fine but i could take a hundred such upper level creative writing classes and still never be any closer to being a good writer

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i have taken exactly one creative writing class and honestly it justified me not taking any of the others

@noelle i mean it only stands out in this author's case because the rest of their writing is pretty alright so it's a bit of a veiled compliment

like they haven't quite figured out a style which actually suits their strengths yet and so are still just going with whatever their preconceived notion is of what a story should be

they'll get better in time

« he tended to want a bit too much eye contact for her nervous disposition »

i have already read significantly more pages of random scholars in the qing dynasty fucking ghosts than i have of any chinese classic

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it’s fine i have four and a half more volumes of chinese strange stories to get through

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hey tor ebooks do you have something for people who aren’t brandon sanderson fans as well

and some of them are still our friends, but dead

@dried i think the most common approach is a <link> element in the header to a google-hosted stylesheet

you can also include it in other ways, like an @import CSS rule, but <link> is the easiest and most popular (or was a year or two ago when i last looked into it)

and yeah, it's definitely possible to parse that query parameter for those fonts

probably brass actually now that i'm zooming in on the picture

originally i wanted to say iron but no iron knuckle is a kind of enemy

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it is not appreciated enough how zelda's gloves in botw have a bit of steel on the knuckles

« (If this were a good piece of hypertext, it would have well researched links to webs on science, society, politics, ethics and philosophy -- but isn't and it doesn't. Suggestions for related material welcome.) »

« Several months went by till one night by lamplight, Lian Suo smiled at Yang as though wanting to say something, then, blushing, stopped short, repeating the action several times. He hugged her and asked her what was on her mind. "For a long time," she replied, "you've treated me with love, bearing my ghostly presence and making me part of the human world, till now my dead bones suddenly have a little vitality. I only need some semen and blood from a living person and I can return to life."

Laughing, Yang said, "I wasn't the one who resisted sex—wasn't I keen on it?" »

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« Yang was so infuriated that he was ready to kill the ghost, but when he thought about the differences between mortals and ghosts, he wasn't sure he had the power to carry it off. »

there you go i just taught you about the differend

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