Collage of eight images. Top left a raven in the snow, middle a forest in mist, right a close up of a black feather. Middle left a girl in a forest in front of a fire, middle a flock of dark birds in flight, right a cabin in the woods. Bottom left an eerie copse of trees, right orange flames close up.
I'm rewriting an old project and don't have a good pitch yet but here's a moodboad that just about still fits. #CampRevPit #CRPDryads
Yes I'm going for that in my WIP too. Make them so loveable and then...bam. Sorry. They gonna die.
Already forgot my tags... #CRPDryads #CampRevPit
Late to the party as I've been away, but I am a...plantser? Reformed pantser maybe. Mostly a HEA but I do love a good gut punch. I can't choose! I don't need romance but don't mind it. Cozy (though I do dabble in horror). Retriever. Introvert.
🧵 The idea that AI will never “ask for a raise” is some seriously outside the bounds of reality nonsense. Yeah, I’m positive the AI service providers won’t jack your rates the second you’ve gotten rid of your workers and been locked into their complete control over your workflow. (Sure, Jan. meme)
To add to this excellent thread: AI detectors DO NOT WORK. At all. They are wildly unreliable, offering false positives and false negatives so much that if you are paying for one you are being grifted.
I wonder what the shortest amount of time is between someone being baptized Catholic and excommunicated because we may be looking at a new record here shortly
I feel insane.
I've had years like this, it's really hard. But not being on 10queries doesn't mean your work isn't any good, just that they maybe didn't have anything to say that could be helpful to others too. And they do get a lot of entries. Still, it can feel bad, I know.
So #RevPit is over, and I wasn't a winner, but I was on two editor top ten/shortlists, so that helps. And I am going to take up a critique this time, level up my writing if I can. Congrats to the winners! And maybe see some of you around #CampRevPit
If any more awful men wish to file their resignation from Congress, for heaven’s sake, send them in. I’m quite at my leisure.
someone mentioned that there was a dance remix of The Hanging Tree from The Hunger Games playing in Hungary last night and I was not prepared for the full audio/visual
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Here's preview of the end of the current US administration
Absolutely correct. The other side has vast resources & can do lots of things, some legal, some shady, some gross. What a journalist has to do has to be note-perfect & stand up in court. And every time I went down this road, I knew I could lose not just my career but my house, savings. Everything.
This thread. I have been doing this kind of work for a very long time and I know a lot about exactly this. If you want to do misconduct reporting with scared sources going up against very powerful people, and also keep your soul, it takes time. So much time. It’s very difficult. Brain meltingly so.
A fake image of Artemis II astronauts in a small front porch raft waving to the camera outside the capsule with a Navy recovery boat in the background and orange buoyancy balloons in the water.
This image circulating is fake. The front porch was much larger than that and held several Navy recovery personnel as well. Real images can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/nasah...
Also more great casting, for me, as I had warm feelings for her from somewhere (A Little Princess?) which were later undone...
A crudely made sign stand of bundled bamboo held together with wire, upon which is mounted a roughly made sign of a single piece of wood, painted black, on which someone has crudely written BOOKS with an arrow pointing to the right, in a street somewhere.
When I know it's definitely a trap, but I'm going anyway.
Noah Wyle as Dr. Robby, peaking his head into an examination room, on "The Pitt."
"The Pitt" vs. its fandom: Why is the show's vocal fandom putting "The Pitt's" characters on trial to be deemed “good” or “bad"?
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Consider a scene from last night’s episode, wherein Dr. Langdon (Patrick Ball) and Dr. Whitaker (Gerran Howell) are in the break room. Langdon is vaguely mocking Whitaker’s farm boy origins by referencing the movie “Babe.” “Can you cut the shit?” Whitaker says. “The sarcasm thing? The little buddy routine, like you’re what, you’re the Skipper and I’m Gilligan?” Langdon is taken aback. “Ok so who am I?” “Play whatever part you want,” comes the response, “just don’t pick mine for me.” Someone posted a clip of the scene and said: “What is this argument?” Someone else chimed in: “Literally came out of nowhere and I had no idea what they were talking about. There’s barely even subtext here, like wtf was this?” OK, this is telling me a lot about these viewers. First, you need to understand the pop cultural references, both to “Babe” and “Gilligan’s Island.”
You also need to pick up on the fact that Langdon is being mildly patronizing by bringing up Whitaker’s farming background, as if that makes him less sophisticated. A hick. It’s a subtle dig that Whitaker maybe doesn’t quite belong there. That’s an importance class nuance that some viewers are clearly missing. You also need to understand the character dynamics on “Gilligan’s Island,” and that the title character was specifically portrayed as a hapless goof. I get it if this went over the head of younger viewers. But that doesn’t mean it’s a poorly written scene; it means you need a deeper pop cultural literacy to appreciate it. This isn’t unusual. I watch things all the time where I don’t immediately know what’s being referenced; the amazing thing about the internet is you can look it up and learn something. So, to the question: What is this argument? Well, let’s think about it. Langdon has been gone from the ER for a year. This is his first day back. His memory of Whitaker — his mental picture of Whitaker — is of the overwhelmed guy he met struggling through his first day in the job. He hasn’t seen Whitaker grow and gain confidence, so that “old” picture is shaping some of the casually patronizing energy Langdon is giving off.
And Whitaker, who has become more self-assured, tells him to knock it off. Langdon was the cocky swaggering big dog of Season 1 before Robby confronted him and kicked him out of the emergency room. Post-rehab, Langdon has returned with a certain amount of humility. But other old habits die hard; though he’s spent his workday apologizing to people he’s wronged, he hasn’t stopped to consider that he doesn’t actually know some of his colleagues at all, because he hasn’t been working side-by-side with them for the past year. It’s yet another way in which he’s being humbled. We learn something about both Langdon and Whitaker in that moment. That’s character development. Maybe there’s another layer. Langdon is tall and has conventionally attractive looks, whereas Whitaker is short. We know society likes to dismiss short men. Whitaker is a nice looking guy, too! But, more often than not, the Langdon’s of the world are treated as the ideal — more authoritative and deserving of respect. So maybe that’s some of the subtext too: Just because you’ve moved through life as s “golden boy” doesn’t mean you can talk down to me.
We *should* critique screenwriting that isn’t doing necessary character and world-building
And yet maybe there’s also a conspicuous expectation among certain audiences that every detail be explained and addressed in full
But audiences need to bring media literacy to the table! C'mon people!
Put aside my #Revpit book for a while and focus on the book I'm drafting. Hopefully going back to it with fresh eyes will help with edits. #Revpitwaiting
I wrote about the pleasures of book clubs, particularly when invited to join book clubs reading my work. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
*talking to teenage militant atheist self*
current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church
teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government
current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one
I have had that moment too, of 'what is this??' So I get it.
It's discourse.
You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
And a lot of people, many in positions of power, did a lot of things to cover it up and silence those women. For years. Just so we’re all clear, for the millionth time, he wasn’t sorry and he didn’t have consent. Anyway. Glad that’s all over and stuff like that never happens anymore. 🤡
It's infuriating to see people say the audiobooks are old so the cast couldn't have known etc. These are NEW! Because apparently we're going to have new versions of these for the rest of our damn lives.
