Oh My God I've Been So Stupid

How come the media could have endless coverage about every time Biden made a gaffe or slurred his speech but there's not the same furor and energy around covering the fact that Donald Trump literally openly admitted that he wants to abolish voting?! (X) (X)

Vote Blue all the way down the ballot to save democracy. This is so much bigger than any type of partisanship or party alignment or petty politics. Dictatorships hurt EVERYONE. Everyone's future and freedom and safety is at stake. Vote to save your freedoms. Vote to save your life.

Vote now because if the GOP gets their way you won't get another chance. Abstaining or voting for a third party makes you complicit.

The choice is simple: Freedom or Fascism.

How to Make Interesting Worldbuilding Choices

We can’t assume that everyone knows the world we’re talking about, right? Luckily, author and previous Camp NaNoWriMo counselor Cass Morris has a few suggestions to help us more deeply explore our worldbuilding:

One of the most powerful things we can do as writers is create a world. What we write holds a mirror up to reality, where we can examine and criticize our own world or try to build a better one. We get to play god with our characters, and in doing so, we exercise a great deal of power in what we choose to reflect, to magnify, to laud, and to condemn.

So how can we make interesting choices, rather than relying on stale tropes, biased perspectives, or common assumptions about “the way things are” or “the way things were”?

Here are five basic concepts I suggest you explore to develop a richly detailed and unique world:

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moon knight ep6 spoilers!

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me watching the post credits:

JAKE LOCKLEY?????

every friend group needs:

the bi/pan

the aro/ace

the “straight” cis

i don’t think anyone has realized how bad of an experience this would be sonically so i put this together for y'all

bo burnham’s Inside absolutely broke me.

Barbie is actually aroace. I don’t make the rules.

Mindhunter, ep 10

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