shoutout to torao for calling minami gay live onstage at their first ever performance

set-wingedwarrior

Liar.

200kyenpot

SHE WAS A CHAOTIC BISEXUAL THIS WHOLE TIME

trying to draw while watching the new hbomberguy vid was a bad idea because for the entire second half i was like this

The Lower Decks brainrot is back and stronger than ever <3

help her

Lower Decks writers had the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever and they took it.

Boimler every time something goes wrong on the USS Cerritos so pretty much daily ig

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Those Old Scientists

BEFORE THE BEGINNING

Louis: Ni-san, I know he saved your life, but do you really have to be so close and friendly with Sherlock?

William: You want me to be...less friendly with my husband?

Louis:

Louis: Honestly? Yes. Yes, I do.

fozmeadows

the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?

dduane

Absolutely all the above, with only minor variations.

We are so back

200kyenpot

Holy shit there are still other EdNoah shippers!?

have some mercy my dude

ofmd as text posts | part 8/?

200kyenpot

Have you ever experimented with serial writing? In my personal experience, that's done a lot for me in developing those skills. Disclaimer that I know that won't work for everyone, but it might be worth a try?

seeingteacupsindragons

Sure. I used to do that on fictionpress back in college. The problem is:

There's basically no way whatsoever to actually publish that in current anglosphere publishing model. None. Patreon, maybe, but that requires already having an audience. No one reads short serial fic. Which is sad, because I'm fairly certain people still enjoy it immensely. But there's no outlet for it.

And I still would have the issue translating it to a novel format. Sure, novels can come in series, and do, and there's some of that you can keep. But they are....loooong installments.

200kyenpot

There are enough examples of enduring classics that came into existence because of serialized writing that it might be worth exploring using it as a way to build up plenty of material to edit through.

Also, I think there's still a small audience for serial writing, especially in sci-fi and fantasy publications, but anyway, beside the point. In my opinion it helps to dip back into serial writing to build those spontaneous expansive worldbuilding skills.

200kyenpot

Have you ever experimented with serial writing? In my personal experience, that's done a lot for me in developing those skills. Disclaimer that I know that won't work for everyone, but it might be worth a try?

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