Sleep well Marjane Satrapi. You were a huge influence on me and my work in a way that cannot be understated. You will be missed but your work will carry on for generations to come

Western passport holders will never understand. To go anywhere with a third worlder passport like a Filipino one, you need your tax returns, certificate of employment, bank statements, marriage certificates, sometimes a recommendation from a citizen of the country you want to travel to, everything possible to prove that you have a job and a family at home and you're not planning to be an illegal immigrant, JUST to get hit with a rejection because the embassy didn't believe you had enough proof.

Americans and Western Europeans will never understand how insanely hard and bothersome it's to travel anywhere with a weak passport, let alone immigrate.

EU Advice to people who have friends in places with weak passports- go to your department of foreigners and ask for something that called Formal Letter of Invitation or something similar. It usually is called something similar and costs a few euro/whatever currency you have. It will not be more than a fancy coffee at Starbucks or such place.

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

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Wait a fucking second… This is different in English than it is in German! I’ve not been doing it wrong my whole life (but I have been doing it wrong for as long as I’ve been writing in English lol). I did a sanity check with my copies of Lord of the Rings, and look:

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

It’s funny reaching the end of the first Artemis Fowl book and the epilogue is like “Fowl was a massive pain in our collective arses for decades and Holly became our foremost expert in defeating his many evil schemes, and she never stopped hating him”.

I’m sure we’re all aware of our struggles for book-accurate character depictions in the Fowldom. Well, I found one… in a completely different story.

Shdjjdjfjfjff I love this …. And couldn’t scroll past without giving it a quick sketch too

So growing up with the AF series i LOVED the Gnommish code, but it always took forever to write/draw it well. As i got older, i thought that the gnommish we see in the books makes sense for printing/technology, but wouldn't be very practical for hand writing. And while the fairies are pretty technologically advanced and would therefore type most things, i believe there'd not only be a point in their history where they would have written in a simplified gnommish, but there's also still practical uses for it even in a technologically centered era.