Magnets (Or Whatever)

i mean. is it not?

because what is a tumblr post, really, if not a highly unstable cultural artifact? a self-replicating text organism that thrives in a very specific ecosystem of mutuals, tags, and shared context so dense it might as well be its own dialect. remove it from that environment—strip away the layers of irony, the implicit tone indicators, the ten years of accumulated in-jokes—and suddenly you’ve got something incomprehensible at best and actively alarming at worst.

like yes, of course it reads as unhinged on twitter. it was never designed for twitter. that’s like taking a bioluminescent deep-ocean creature and slapping it onto a suburban sidewalk and going “huh. why is it like that.”

tumblr isn’t a website, it’s a containment field for a very specific genre of thought. once breached, you get screenshots floating around with captions like “what does this even mean” and the answer is: it means everything in situ. it means nothing out here. you’ve removed the specimen from its native conditions. it’s going to start screaming.

and ykw i think we should lean into it.

every post should be tagged like:

Pendant

19th century

Germany

Thomas Aquinas reiterated Aristotle's views of successive souls: vegetative, animal, and rational. This would be the Catholic Church's position until 1869, when the limitation of automatic excommunication to abortion of a formed fetus was removed, a change that has been interpreted as an implicit declaration that conception was the moment of ensoulment.[8] Most early penitentials imposed equal penances for abortion whether early-term or late-term, but later penitentials in the Middle Ages normally distinguished between the two, imposing heavier penances for late-term abortions and a less severe penance was imposed for the sin of abortion "before [the foetus] has life".[16]

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Thomas Aquinas and Pope Innocent III also believed that a fetus does not have a soul until "quickening," or when the fetus begins to kick and move, and therefore early abortion was not murder, though later abortion was.[10] Aquinas held that abortion was still wrong, even when not murder, regardless of when the soul entered the body.[65] Pope Stephen V and Pope Sixtus V opposed abortion at any stage of pregnancy.[30][64]

Most of the truly memorable pitches got made eventually, to be honest. For example, it took me two years to finally sell Ira on the pitch that became "Hard Time," but we got there eventually.

Honestly, all these years later, the only ones I can remember are two of my own that never crossed the finish line:

Sisko wakes up as a homeless man in 1995 Santa Monica. (Eventually I adjusted this into "Past Tense." Parts of it also kinda sorta ended up in "Far Beyond the Stars.")

The Defiant travels back in time to just before a crucial battle between the Federation and the Klingons. Worf finds his loyalties divided when Sisko realizes that to preserve the timeline, they must ambush and massacre half the Klingon fleet before the battle begins. (Ira thought we had too many time travel stories. I used this as an Andromeda episode: "Angel Dark, Demon Bright.)

We writers try to use every part of the buffalo.

They will say “don’t you want them to go to the grave without debt”, they will try to guilt you, they will take advantage of your vulnerability.

Source: when my father died, he had some credit cards that my mom wasn’t on that she had no access to. The companies contacted her while she was sorting through the bills and getting a handle on how to run the house alone, badgering her with his credit card debt.

She wasn’t liable for any of it, but if she had ever agreed to pay before finding out that she didn’t need to, she would have been considered to have taken on his debt and would have HAD to pay it. It’s slimy, it’s predatory, and it’s entirely legal for them to do this.

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