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sometimes, but not consistently // rpg writing @deepunderstone

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Gaiman... maybe???? But even then there are surely better examples.

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This is such a weird way to characterise all of these people. Dick was failing to publish lit fic the entire time he was writing SF. Pynchon clearly doesn't just read 'a bunch of junk'. Rowling moved from YA fantasy into police procedurals, perhaps the pulpiest contemporary genre

[Jorge of the Wired @saturnine_grace]

Kind of sad creator archetype: admirer of high culture but can't quite pull it off (Gaiman, Rowling)
Very cool creator archetype: reads/watches a bunch of junk and pulpy stuff and alchemically transmutes it into gold (Pynchon, PKD)

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@daisygirlboy @UkeCreature Read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Tyrant Philosophers series, starting with 'The City of Last Chances'. Or Richard Swan's 'Grave Empire'. Or a load of other books tbh, loads of writers are doing this right now, it's very trendy.

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@quendergeer Based on his subsequent posts he's repeatedly doing this with Gulf/European carriers in an effort to get to Hong Kong?? Bro just go with a Chinese company and fly over Russia like a normal person.

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@NaoLoverNeko @WhapXI @RKleoh @cosyposter So a silly one then

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@left_plain and the bakery is called "paris baguette"

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@nise_yoshimi I got busy and never finished the review I intended to write but I have proof I would have covered this. Great novel btw.

[Xeo ¯³ @xe0_xeo]

Hitoshi Yoneda

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@SaliuArts @AlexeyGorboot @azure_meraki

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@hemuphobia ignore the haters read valis it slaps

[Tokusatsu GIFs @tokugifs]

GARO Special: Beast of the Midnight Sun (2006)

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@nise_yoshimi Something similar happens in the first episode of the most recent series of Doctor Who.

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@nise_yoshimi Reading Whedon's Firefly etc. through this lens: a tacit, under-acknowledged acceptance of China's future cultural dominance through the slang, but no actual attempt to imagine what future China looks like or depict actual Chinese people.

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@ANoMoreHero @Omgiamonfire Kamen Rider ZO and Garo (TV franchise, start with the first one). Both from the same director as Hakaider.

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@the_ason @mike_senters 'foreigners' the world over have to live with the consequences of your terrible country, we should get to complain about it

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@barry_halverson @meadwaj Yeah, it means if you split your base by losing it to a third party you're screwed.

Good luck!

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@barry_halverson @meadwaj They won an election by getting lucky that the right was fractured between 2 parties, without much popular mandate.
They have responded by governing in a way that almost guarantees fracturing the left/left of centre.
Not difficult to see where this ends up.

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@DPJHodges @shaun_vids The Mail IS the far right!

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@angryaboutbikes endlessly serialised TV for financial purposes has broken Americans' brains to the point where they are no longer able to conceive of stories having 'an ending'

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@earthdistance Also even if it did see more stars than two eyed cows or people then how would it know that was 'twice as many as usual'? There's no frame of reference from which the last line makes sense.