Rabbit Cube

"I hate the commodification and commercialization of creative works that are just ticking boxes and saying buzzwords to-" you mean genre? we've been doing that forever it's called genre. how come we throw rotten tomatoes at 'cozy sim' or 'dark romance' but not noir or sci-fi or fantasy? I'm asking this question in earnest because to me it just seems like "if it's an established thing it's genre and otherwise it's Stupid Twee Bullshit"

Syllable count is so faaaake. (I am looking up Double Dactyl poems and have repeatedly run into “oh I see if I squash this into one syllable it works” but like the difference between saying a word as one syllable vs two syllables is not concrete. To me anyway.

I have a really acute sensibility for syllable count and stress, to the point where it feels physically slimy to have to go back and reread a line to make it work, but it's interesting to me how strictness about rhyme and metre is most strongly associated with written poetry, since the reader needs to reconstruct it smoothly in their head without ever having heard it recited. Meanwhile, though, the actual successor to the popular verse of the past is not written poetry at all but hip-hop, which has far more latitude to bend these strictures because it's received as a canonical performance to which the transcript is more like a libretto. There are so many metrical cheats that work elegantly if you deliver them with intention, but seem clumsy to someone reading blind!

Regarding?

the fact that this is a way words can get made. dictionaries making up fake words with fictitious etymologies and people taking years to catch on

oh this is like how mapmakers would add fake towns to their maps so they would know if people copied them instead of doing their own surveying

Well yes, but usually people don't make those paper towns real after being told they're fake.

idk what yall are mad about the new Lies Your Older Cousin Tells You machine is working great

Happy horse on mars day

The cool thing about death note is you could feasibly explain the basic premise of it like the mechanics of the note and also L and lights weird homoerotic shit and you would have a pretty good idea of what the entire plot is like without ever having to explain the terrifying floating clown monster

in a normal year I think we'd have talked more about the fact that recently there were 17 earthquakes in a single day apparently centred on Area 51

This is that rare Far Side ripoff that actually nails it.

Oh that's so cute!

oh god they were teammates

*trying to pitch public transportation to Americans* it’s like a legal form of texting while driving

It's uhhhh The Good Old Days. Your grandparents had it and you don't. Get mad about that or something. Freedom and the American Dream or something

Charlie Kirk is scheduled to speak at UVU. I have the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time

IT WASN'T ME I PROMISE

since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"

some people think this is a shitpost so i want to clarify that i am dead fucking serious. make mage the official gender neutral honorific NOW. i want it on my passport. i want it on my bank account. i want doctors and judges to use it for me. i don't care if it sounds a little silly. people thought "missus" sounded crass at first. call me mg.