Meg's Mumbles

"Steve Irwin of Los Espookies" gets me every time.

Look, I realize that the whole Schrodinger's Mitch thing has real political consequences on a national level, but since I'm not from Kentucky and have no say whatsoever in the outcome of the situation, I'm honestly just finding the entire thing grimly hilarious. Has Horrible Turtle Man died? We don't fucking know! Turns out senators can just not show up to work indefinitely and there are no consequences! What fun!

Cannot believe this post is still relevant completely unedited. This timeline is utterly off the rails.

We also figured out—the hard way—that the ancients probably cut each layer of linen to the proper shape before gluing them together. For our first linothorax, we glued together 15 layers of linen to form a one centimeter-thick slab, and then tried to cut out the required shape. Large shears were defeated; bolt cutters failed. The only way we were ultimately able to cut the laminated linen slab was with an electric saw equipped with a blade for cutting metal. At least this confirmed our suspicion that linen armor would have been extremely tough. We also found out that linen stiffened with rabbit glue strikes dogs as in irresistibly tasty rabbit-flavored chew toy, and that our Labrador retriever should not be left alone with our research project.

I love this in every way possible. What is it from? Where can I read more?

The pitfalls of experimental archaeology and puppies.

Academics are just like that.

WOW YAY thank you @captainhelion , one for this important update and addition to my tbr and two, because I remembered you didn’t have the username On Here that I met you under but had forgotten what you changed it to!

what if u were a private investigator who excelled at your job but struggled as a woman in a male dominated field so you created a false male identity under which to open your business and one day a con artist who is obsessed with classic films and lacks a stable sense of identity shows up and basically moves into your office and starts using the identity you created for yourself and his personality clashes with both yours and the version of yourself you projected onto the false identity and you therefore start to feel that your own identity is being eclipsed by his as he transforms the identity into something not just of yourself but also of himself and he starts to feel insecure in both his own identity and yours as he fails to live up to your expectations whilst searching for his own identity within yours before you both realize he IS himself and yourself and you ARE yourself and his self, and also you were in a workplace situationship this whole time. well this happened to my good friend laura holt on network television from 1982-1987.

your kink is not my kink *but your kink is okay* don't forget that part

ID: screenshots of three sets of tags: 1. i read this at a time where i am struggling to get a characters voice and perhaps that was a bad time to read it but youre right 2. its why dialogue being my achilles heel hits so much harder - because it becomes so quickly inescapable 3. ah my arch nemesis - dialogue. but this is an interesting read tho

There is a post I saw ages ago, and cannot find which is maddening, but it had some very useful advice about finding character voices by using various scales. I have tried to recreate some of the scales since they've helped me. All of these are going to change depending on the situation, who the character is speaking to etc. but it can help to get a baseline. Formal ----- Casual Does the character speak as though they're meeting the head of state, or like they're talking to their best friend? When they meet someone new, do they say 'Hi!' or 'Pleased to meet you.'? Verbose ----- Taciturn Do they ramble or are they a person or few words? Rude ----- Polite Do they demand to see a manager, or ask an assistant if it would be possible to get some help? Blunt/To the point ----- Meandering Do they say exactly what they mean, or do they hedge/soften their words? 'This will not work' vs 'I think we could also look at other options' Complex ----- Simple Think of this as a scale from scientists discussing black holes at an academic conference to explaining black holes to a five year old. Clean ----- Vulgar Do they swear a lot? Do they make dirty jokes? This one tends to be a bit hazy i fanfic because there are characters who definitely feel like they should swear a lot, but are restricted by being in a PG-13 rated show/game. So for my current Character, Osiris from Destiny... He tends to be fairly formal, especially with people he doesn't know well. He is verbose - the man goes off on rambling tangents frequently and loves talking about things he's interested in. He can be rude - he often ignores the niceties of social interactions, but it's not (usually) because he intends to be rude. He is very blunt and speaks his mind and appreciates others doing the same with him. He tends to fall on the complex side of the scale - he will casually throw high level scientific and philosophical terms into a conversation and just assume everyone understands him. His language also tends to be clean - he doesn't swear much in casual conversation (though he has been shown to in moments of frustration). If he does dirty talk with Saint in the bedroom is up to the writers' interpretation. One thing I also tend to take notice of is if a character uses a lot of contractions or not. Do they say 'It is' or 'it's'? 'We are' or 'we're'?