Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family
sleepy af
User Icon is “man who wont get out of the futon” from irasutoya.com
also https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/
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Joined Sep 2021
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Loki~, Sheepie Drone Extraordinaire.
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"...In the 1950s.... the American Can Company, Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Coca-Cola, and the Dixie Cup company got together to design a solution to the growing pressure to regulate disposable packaging. They knew the issue of litter would not go away and was increasingly unpopular with the public, but disposable packaging was incredibly profitable. They needed a way to avoid regulation that might limit the use of disposables, and their solution was cunning.
They founded a nonprofit called Keep America Beautiful and poured significant amounts of money into environmental awareness campaigns. This helped them look good, but the real genius was in the message behind the campaigns - that litter on the streets had nothing to do with the producers, but was the fault of the person who dropped it - the litterbug. Keep America Beautiful managed to shift the entire debate around Americas garbage and litter problems away from the industry and on to consumers, and the strategy has been copied to time and time again since."
Sound familiar?
its snowing!! ❅❆❄︎
Christmas music, politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbxrUtLOIZ0
«Well we guard our world with locks and guns
And we guard our fine possessions
And once a year when Christmas comes
We give to our relations
And perhaps we give a little to the poor
If the generosity should seize us
But if any one of us should interfere
In the business of why there are poor
They get the same as the rebel Jesus»
We’re right at the northernmost edge of the maypops native range & our plants are still building up their rootstock which slows them down a bit
But since global warming saw fit to grace us with a sixty degree December, our plants hung on just long enough to actually get a crop!
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Over at Dreamwidth, I rounded up all the suggested themes for next year's #Fancake rounds and threw them into a giant poll.
Come vote if you're a member of the comm 🗳️: https://fancake.dreamwidth.org/1959749.html
If you're not a member, you're welcome to join us! Come talk to me if you have any questions.
#Ao3TagOfTheDay: Quinn runs from his feelings but his feelings have a moped
re: Long, scifi
I don’t think these two essays are intentionally responding to each-other, but I do think SuperDoomedPlanet’s critique of what they call the “novelization style” (transparent prose, consistently close 3rd person narrator, short time-frames & high stakes, narrative structures you’d expect from a tv show or a movie) reflects a lot of the reasons why I found Ex Urbe’s argument that specific worldbuilding is bad because someone might disagree with it so baffling
re: Long, scifi
«Every really good novel is a little bit imperfect. The most fun, engaging books aren’t perfectly engineered; they have ambiguities, multiple interpretations, detours, and odd protuberances. They often include passages that look like side trips and diversions, straying from the plot but developing themes, ideas, and characters….They’re eccentric and weirdly shaped and packed with stuff. Some of the stuff may or may not work. Readers may disagree about which stuff worked and which didn’t. When that happens, that’s a clue that the novel is interesting.»
From: http://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2016/04/15/conclusions-and-caveats/
christmas
I've bought everyone else a book but she prefers audiobooks to print/ebooks and I've got auditory processing issues so I have literally zero idea about who makes good ones etc
People who listen to audiobooks, have y'all listened to any good ones recently?
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Get Your Words Out is opening for membership next week: https://getyourwordsout.dreamwidth.org/571027.html #writing #amwriting
#Ao3TagOfTheDay: Oh No Oh Woe Canon Slipped In The Shower And I Am The Grieving Widow With An Inheritance
SWCW fandom is so fucking wild tho, this shit happens to me like once a week
Wait helix is an OC????????
Okay fixed that issue, going to go have a snack & take a bit of a break before I reread these for final edits
(and then it's spanish studying time 😔)
sleepy af
User Icon is “man who wont get out of the futon” from irasutoya.com
also https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/
this account posts in html! certain elements such as blockquote or embedded links may display oddly depending on your local instance and applications methods of html sanitization and display
Joined Sep 2021
