Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family
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"Jaywalking" as a crime was invented by car companies in the 20s, to shift blame to people on foot for being hit by cars. "Littering" was invented in the 50s by paper cup and tin can manufacturers to shift blame to people who drop trash. The phrase "personal carbon footprint" came from a BP marketing campaign intended to shift blame for climate change away from petrochemical companies to individuals.
When they call themselves "the party of personal responsibility"?
This is what that means.
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Some #CircusInPlace regulars have encouraged us to record a podcast.
I argued that we would have to lock ourselves in a closet in order to get a clean recording. It was quickly pointed out that locking two clowns in a closet and forcing them to answer questions would be a terrific premise for such a project.
And so, I need your help!
What questions would you like to hear answered by two classically-trained theater and circus clowns kept under lock and key until they provide a response?
this is my long writing meta quotes thread now
« You can’t really go wrong if you’re going feelings-first. That’s a very fic thing, and obviously coming from fanfic, I’m a very feelings-driven writer, so feelings and character are the things that are gonna get you through a story, and if you’ve got the feelings and the character right, nobody’s really going to mind that much if they’ve seen a plot similar to this before, there’s no original plots really under the sun…but if you get the feelings and the characters right, people are gonna come along for the ride.»
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What "long covid" is, and why you really don't want to find out for yourself:
https://nitter.42l.fr/IanRicksecker/status/1478611650760437765#m
(This is the New Orleans Times-Picayune’s Creole Cook Book btw)
My favorite kings cake has a vague ingredients list, three solid pages of musing about the carnival of yore and then a note recommending you buy a cake from your local bakery instead
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#Fancake's theme for January is Essential Starter Recs! What fanworks would you recommend to someone who just joined your fandom? And if you've just joined a fandom, swing by this post at #Dreamwidth and comment with your new fandom! #fandom #recs https://fancake.dreamwidth.org/1964947.html
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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
sleepy af
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