truly not trying to be dismissive but I genuinely dont know how to respond beyond laughing emoji react

A social practice I really cant get behind is sending exorbitant amounts of instagram reels as a form of communication

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Chainsaw man movie went unbelievably hard

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

and then the terrible part is I keep coming back because I think looking at it has itself become a checking behavior. like it is fueling the obsessions while being the compulsion to such an absurd degree

even when I'm cognitively like "huh I don't agree with that opinion" (with some exceptions, like I'm not really comparing myself against magas standards or something), there is still the voice in my head thats like "but consider... maybe you think that because you are actually evil and dumb?"

like the clickbaity youtube titles and the grand moral pronouncements and nature of the it just being where everyone vents their most petty pet peeves does this thing where I'm constantly checking myself against millions of peoples standards

Internet is a such a specific kind of nightmare for my particular kind of OCD

Didn’t know you could do it that bad bud

Wow until dawn movie is almost a remarkable feat of badness

Florida ordered to dismantle Alligator Alcatraz over environmental impact The ruling, which gives the state 60 days to act, comes as Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to convert a prison in North Florida into a second immigrant detention site.

Breaking news: A federal judge is giving Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz. The ruling forbids state officials from moving any other migrants there.

its such a baffling interpretation like do they also listen to their friends telling the stories about their lives and think they're being forced to identify with them i do not understand

Reading Blackouts right now. Absolutely brilliant book. Would lose much of it's intended effect and resonance in third person.

I'm fighting with a cloud I'm just here to complain.

Don't need to read Oliver Twist in first person, but Lolita absolutely needed to be written that way.

just don't understand the debate at all. I feel like you match the POV to the needs of the story being told, not create a dictum on which is the "right" one for all story telling.

The complaint usually seems to be "I have read books written in first person that were poorly written" and like. well yeah. could say the same for any POV

Also recurrent opinion that first person is somehow juvenile, YA adjacent, or *new*. Think you'd have to have read maybe 4 books to think this. So of the most highly praised classics of all time were written in first person.

of a book is not you? You are their audience. The person they are telling a story to, just the same as in third person.

weirdly common opinion on first person narration ive encounter and I am so baffled by it. also saw people saying "young people only read first person because they're narcissistic and have to project onto the protagonist."

Fundamentally do not understand this opinion. The first person narrator

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

Freedom to cause offense without being jailed or sued is a thing.

Freedom to cause offense without being criticized, shunned, and despised is not. The very concept is incoherent.

assumption that no one could be writing anything other than very plot driven genre fiction

The reality is probably that the only real way to learn to write is to read a lot of books and read those books like you're studying them and then practice and experiment but I am still always trying to find advice online anyway but so much of that advice seems to be operating on the

It's so cute I love it!!

#shirachuu again bc of course

its too real

rewatching bojack horseman s6e10 good damage and slamming my head against the wall

A chart titled "Most Americans approve of Zohran Mamdani's proposals to lower the cost of living"

A Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds that Mamdani's proposals (freezing rent, free universal child care, taxes on the rich) are overwhelmingly popular, especially among Democrats – and that's nationally, not just in deep-blue NYC. www.yahoo.com/news/poll-zo...