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nihilistninja on ao3. 18+, nsfw, untagged dead doves. assorted danmei. same username on the azure heavens website

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thread of stuff i've made! first up: ao3 fics
https://t.co/8un5oU67rp

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@robop_style the original criticism this sprung from (magic can easily undermine the intention behind your work, eg when used as a deus ex in a story that's not meant to have a deus ex) is reasonable, but why is the proposed solution "magic rules" and not "better writing"

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not trying to be dismissive but i don't think writers would get writer's block ever again if there were unit tests for novels like. if you know where you need to end up and how to tell if it's good that's the hardest part???

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so apparently some people get programmer's block similar to writer's block, where they just stare at a blank text doc and panic. but like. don't they already know what they're coding? like just figure out what your goal is and then get there 😭😭

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@robop_style i've had love in the new millennium on my to-read forever, i should get round to reading it one of these days

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sometimes the justifications for bigotry are a polite fiction so that audience and creator both can indulge in the bigotry they already wanted to indulge in, and it's embarrassing how readily some people supposedly critical of the piece will buy into that fiction

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i've been replaying danganronpa, where the game mechanically forces you to be a perv, and i've seen people argue that it's on purpose so that players can perv and argue they had no choice. which puts this whole argument into a different light lol

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one of my fave things is when people respond to "this piece of art has a sexist trope/stereotype/implication" with "actually the thing is justified by the narrative!" like. ok so the creator wrote in some excuses along with their bigotry. how does this make them look better

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like, this idea that modern art (or any art, people do this with shakespeare too) will make you ~feel~ if you just ~engage~ properly is just - no. audience reactions are pretty conditioned by expectations and their relationship to the art actually. context matters.

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i'm watching this video and thinking about how one of the things that rarely gets mentioned in these discussions is how little historial context is given around art by educators
https://t.co/4Ctw8ddtgS

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at some point pro-modern-art takes feel like they're calling ppl stupid, shallow or uninformed and like. not every artform everywhere in the world is taught like it exists in a bubble so this is a failure of certain systems and pretty solvable maybe

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@robop_style the care work angle is so interesting. reminds me of how people will refer to fan fiction as food (which some fic writers hate with a passion).
i do wish other websites had tagging systems half as good as ao3's, though, so i could filter out all YA books forever

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@FanAstraea tbh if it was just one odd person being defensive about their bs stats i wouldn't care but this whole "no one who truly agreed with me would dispute my facts" mentality is so prevalent and it pisses me off

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absolutely begging some ppl to learn to read studies. please learn basic stats and how study design works before you regurgitate some stats you read somewhere. also "if u agree with my arguments why are u disagreeing w my stats, that's sus" bc you're making my side look bad??

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og tweet is like seeing a graph w/ the variables "temp" and "time" showing how long it takes water to boil, and going "wow so if u leave water lying around for long enough it just boils?" . if u want to persuade people, producing easily debunked stats is not the way to go

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this study didn't "find" shit about the % of teen pregnancies caused by incest. chances are they picked roughly equal numbers of incest and non-incest cases, to better compare the circumstances of ppl in each situation (religion, age, etc)

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for context, part of the reason i'm so mad is the moment we started getting quotes, he bailed on the aircon project in favour of his dumb moving fantasy, so now all the work is on me. which. i was the one who wanted aircon in the first place, but it still stings

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i never mean to be condescending but it's SO frustrating to watch someone insist on a course of action and just be sitting there like "you don't want to do this. i know you don't want to do this, and if you thought for 5 minutes you also would know"

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anyway thanks for coming to my rant ig now you all know way more than you ever wanted to about my dad and his stupid decisions lol