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aging exo with a proclivity for glacial starwort and the crucible 🌴⚔️

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@CoolGuyGames Freehand Grip clears all these easy

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@RealKraftyy KEKW

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@leopardstealth @zShimmyz lepFADED

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@Holtzmann Just took my brothers to see it last night and, yes, was very good. Made me feel like a little kid watching the old black and white films at my grandma’s house.

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@jingelhymer HAHAHA

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@leopardstealth Best destiny content on twitch and it’s not particularly close KEKW

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@TheTeawrex I’ll have a pitcher of POG, please.

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@S3pirion

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@GekGemu *screen flashes and elite 8 trainer battle music starts playing*

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@GekGemu Mer Chrimbus, Bikki

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@richeisen For lack of more eloquent phrasing the game is complete ass now. Waste of time to watch if you love football. For all the league suits’ efforts to squeeze every penny out of this game they’ve effectively destroyed it. Saying should go “those who cannot do sit on a board.”

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@GekGemu Based

[Tom Cardy @Tomycardy]

It’s a Christmas miracle! Animation by LankyMF

[Learn Something @cooltechtipz]

The correct way to get rid of lower back pain👇

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@RealKraftyy Hope whatever’s got ya down gets better soon, brother 💜💚

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

In 4 minutes, Kurt Vonnegut explains stories better than anyone I’ve ever heard.

“The shape of the curve is what matters. Not their origins.”

He plots stories on 2 axes:

X: Time
Y: Good fortune / ill fortune

He goes on to say,

“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”

Point 1:

Stories have defined patterns.

In Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces, he makes the case for the Hero’s Journey.

Since then, it’s become the most famous storytelling structure in the world.

Vonnegut argued stories could be divided into 8 shapes.

Each story, he said, fit one of the 8.

Point 2:

Vonnegut says,

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — so the reader may see what they're made of.”

To see who your characters really are, you have to make them suffer.

Only then does your audience have someone worth cheering for.

Point 3:

End on a high note.

Vonnegut says, “It’s not accidental that the line ends up higher than where it began. This is encouraging to readers.”

The way a story makes people feel when they finish is how they remember it.

It’s called recency bias.

Lift people up and they will love you.

***

“There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.”

I wrote this with @RobbieCrab. Follow him for lessons on storytelling + fundraising.

And I talk about creative storytelling & writing fiction. Follow me @nathanbaugh27 for more like that.

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@kjhovey @TheTrueVanguard Happy birthday, hovey 💜💚

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)

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@SkankinZombie sharp dressed man

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@DirtyEffinHippy 969th like checking in