sine lucro friget ludus

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the “sexy lamp test” but for disabled folks: if you can replace your disabled character with a beloved pet dog that needs an expensive surgery to survive then you have to throw out your manuscript 

[ID from alt: A painting of a family in their living room. the adult family members are sitting on the couch; their faces are blurred and grotesque. A girl is laying on the floor in front of them with her tongue out like a panting dog. End ID]

Reading some more of the preview for this book, and I realise this is by far not the biggest problem, but I'm begging this guy to just use 'shadow' instead of 'umbra'. I promise I will not accuse you of being a philistine.

*throws this in the face of everyone who has ever accused me of writing purple prose*

I thought the Amelia Peabody series was purple. I owe the author an apology. Uffda

off topic maybe but the reason human trafficking conspiracy theories are so far removed from reality is actual human trafficking operates in a way that is more socially acceptable than most want to acknowledge. there is an overlap of "human trafficking victim" and "adult or child whose wellbeing is more likely to be disregarded by law enforcement and peers alike"

also shoutout to @gemsofgreece for the term Nolan fatigue while we're at it

Oh, didn’t you know Batman, intergalactic fighters, Viking ships and rappers in Mycenaean Greece are creative choices rooted in actual archaeological credibility?

Thou art correct, I humbly apologize to the british guy, my ottomanly corrupted ass' knowledge is insufficient to judge his groundbreaking masterpiece. I only knew of archaeological research about spine helmets, Robin Hood, Frodo Telemachus Baggins, Antinous' sleazy golden underwear, the Greeks that while they lived in the mediterranean they looked like pink people from the north that somehow didnt burn into a lobster-red crisp, the Kenyan twin queens, the love triangle, the grim dark ugly mediterranean, a godless story that still has one goddess in it for some reason, that Homer was the George Lucas of his time and an ancient "Greece" setting that looks like it came out of the worst anti-hellenic western classicists' asspull takes, so I stand corrected, my knowledge is woefuly incomplete, but now this has been corrected. But oh no, wait, my vulgar modern "Greek" tendencies surfaced, lemme rephrase that last part Sir Christopher "geniousness incarnate" Nolan Sir, i meant takes they pulled out of a very dark and hairy place

like if I can be honest it's kind of foul how every time there's a post On Here asking for art made by women some jokers show up unprompted in the rbs to go "and also here's some nonbinary people!" like okay 1.) that's not what we're talking about. and 2.) like it's very transparent which nonbinary people they feel the need to bring up on posts about women For Some Reason. no one ever seems to spontaneously feels the need to bring up George M. Johnson or Danez Smith as important nonbinary people to include on posts about women.

or to give examples from a different format: it's always Shanspeare and Khadija Mbowe who someone ✨ just happened ✨ to feel the need to bring up when adding nonbinary people to a list of women and never, say, Caelan Conrad. which could mean nothing. but does in fact mean something.

it's giving "women and AFABs" 🫩

If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules

Monitored bank accounts for those under 18. Requiring parental consent for medical procedures. Parental controls on personal devices. "We won't teach this at school because parents are supposed to address it at home." Anything that puts all of the child's power onto the parents' hand, anything that assumes parents are going to inherently do enough of a good job no one else needs to interfer, every single one of these IS going to be used by controlling, neglectful or unprepared parents and already are, and if the system did not account for that very real, tangible, dangerous tendency, then it's not worth fucking anything. You shouldn't make things "for the youth"/with children in mind if you are going to overlook this painfully common aspect of their lives u_u

Is this still available?

you want me so bad it makes you look Intelligent and good taste

Stresses me out so bad when authors who obviously don't drink write characters drinking. Omfg girl he is like 27 shots deep.

the thing is I just don't think intellectual labour is a special class of labour. I just don't think someone who created an intellectual product like a manuscript deserves the rights to extracting rent forever from physical copies of it more than the person who maintains the printers. I will just never be convinced of this.

and yeah h/t to @phenakistoskope there's already many types of creative intellectual labour that do not give you entry into the bourgeois class regardless of how independent and rich you are like what makes "creation" more inherently valuable than editing or typesetting or being a sound recording engineer. why is that not accepted as intellectual work with rentier benefits?