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the kind of idle linkfollowing which people now see as relegated to sites like Wikipedia or TVTropes was once how the entire internet operated

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when i was in high school most of the art i was exposed to was from browsing e.g. Category:Romanticism on Wikimedia Commons, and maybe part of this is the blame of Wikimedia Foundation for not prioritizing that kind of discovery in their apps, but it just seems to me like that kind of web browsing has died a slow, gothic death over the past decade

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do kids these days even know what project gutenberg is??

oh wait, it’s a website not an app, so of course they don’t

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so i’m confused why anyone uses that word

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i don’t like OOP but i’m pretty sure the things i like are things that the people who don’t like OOP consider to be OOP and don’t like

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i don’t know what people mean when they say OOP

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i get unreasonably upset when characters in fic use bad strategy

everyone: third person limited is so useful!!

okay so write third person, and then limit yourself when it is useful,

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getting into internet arguments about the utility of third person limited

the purpose of National Coming Out Day was not soppy letters to your parents but making sure all your friends and coworkers know, with certainty, that they definitely know somebody who is gay

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interesting how National Coming Out Day was originally incredibly interlinked with gay and lesbian conceptions of the personal as political but now we mostly see it as an apolitical ceremony and personal choice :blobmeow_coolthinking:

« it’s fair game to say what you will about christianity and catholicism, 2 extremely powerful religions »

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