Technical Support Specialist, AEW fan, and horror film reviewer. Podcast producer and voice actor. Conservative, blind, and Christian.

Joined August 2007
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By Crom and Valka, I believe she has struck at Set’s heart!
Yes, Romance, especially the "spicy" stuff, is recession proof for obvious reasons. Calling it Literature with a broad sweep, however, is a bold choice. Men do read, it's just that they're digging into older books or independent/hybrid writers. Dungeon Crawler Carl (despite recent stuff), Red Rising, etc are popular with men. @monsterhunter45 was able to buy a mountain in Utah through writing Men's Fiction. The truth is that there is a huge decline in literacy rates overall and in order to stay afloat publishers and writers are firmly milking the Romance cow for all its worth since it's both sure and socio-politically safe for their investors. That results however is an inbred bookmarket that repeats the same stuff over and over while ignoring potentially new audiences. Anyone who knows anything about business can tell you that if you aren't growing or innovating you're not going to last long. Tldr; All the publishing eggs are in one basket and that's not good.
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Approachability is what they mean. Either way, still obtuse.
Absolutely ludicrous. A blueprint to destroy Literature.
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Honest Feedback was and is the catalyst for my growth as a writer. Lying hurts the consumer in the short term and the creator in the long term. Also, lying isn't nice. It means you think the relationship cannot survive truth.
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“Legendary” Allen Sale retweeted
This is 1) brilliant and 2) something every 10 y/o should learn
One of my workshops is teaching 8-10-year-olds how to suture a wound using a real surgical technique. Yesterday, 0/6 were successful. Every one of them said it was impossible. Today, 5/6 are producing stitches close to what they should be. They have two more days to refine their technique with surgical precision. The point isn’t that a 10-year-old needs to know how to suture a wound. The point is that they learn they can do hard things, that failure isn’t final, and that they can keep trying when it doesn’t work the first time. A great way to teach this is to give them a challenge they believe only an adult can do. By Friday, if they pull it off, they will gain the confidence that comes only after achieving something they once thought impossible.
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Give me K&B please.
What I wouldn’t give to walk through Circuit City again
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Replying to @DisaffectedPod
Having done more than a little deep reading on the topic... The tradition of lynching was a way for southern Democrats to get around Radical Republican courts which would hold the line on burden of proof (or sometimes artificially inflate it) in a sort of 19th-century affirmative action. Most lynching was basically extrajudicial community justice. However, as with any such movement, the most enthusiastic participants were often in it for the crusade rather than the community. The class-and-race warriors who were happy to execute blacks on a rumor because it gave access to property and helped bust up community solidarity after the Republicans lost power in the south in the late 19th century. There was a protracted race war in the south from the 1860s through the 1960s, financed by the Federal government backing first one side, then another, in the interest of keeping the South from re-emerging as a viable power block against the Yankee victory in the civil war. The legacy of this among lower-class blacks across the country is the closed, unthinking, tribal, and violent attitudes you see on display in the Karamelo issue and its post-trial scream-fest. The problem was really never the "whites" or the "blacks," -- blacks and whites were both pawns in a power game being played several levels higher, and the facts on the ground have always been much more complicated and less flattering to partisan vanities than anyone involved can afford to admit. Now, of course, we get to live in the aftermath of that century-long color revolution conducted on our own soil by our own government, and there's no really good solve for all the problems that were created in the meantime.
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Add a smidgen of dark whimsy and this describes me.
I run on coffee, books, and sarcasm. It's a delicate balance.
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If you're anxious for a bunch of strangers to hop into your mentions (I don't know why you would be, but like what you like) just say you don't like Disney Star Wars and/or you think this current gaming generation is terrible. Like flies to honey.
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This is a great thread for folks under 30 to read. Almost to a person, the repliers (ranging from their mid-30s to mid-50s) had their lives fall apart, hit a dead end, or go through a major personal or career crash at 27. It's part of the normal rhythm of life, and seeing SO many people share their version of it may help you lift your eyes from your feet to the horizon. Life does, in fact, get better as it goes on. There are ups and downs, but the more experience you've got under your belt, the easier they are to ride.
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I need the old people here to tell me what they were doing w their lives at 27
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Non gamers underestimate how many people use gaming as their way to decompress after work, stress, burnout or just life. For a lot of adults: gaming IS self care.
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Received this stellar mug over the weekend! (Forgive the bad lighting. I’m a blind dude and not a photographer.)
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Also, I’m pissed at myself because I thought I ordered a patch to go with it. But apparently not. I blame Kickstarter’s rubbish accessibility for this oversight.
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It's kind of insane how intersexual competition just goes unnoticed the second it's framed as gender wars nonsense
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Ladies, if you are (unfortunately) attracted to men, heed my advice: marry the leftist, feminist, mega-nerd. Sure, there will be Lego Millennium Falcons and probably too many guitars, and he WILL geek out over the twenty-fifth anniversary re-release of the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings in theaters, but your career will flourish, your nervous system will regulate, and you'll be able to write all the strange, wonderful little books with magic and kissing you want..
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COVER REVEAL!! The Lionheart: Icon of Justice by @J0hnADouglas is a starter book into the the Age of Adventures releasing this July. Preorder link in the replies below👇
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Evergreen.
"You haven't provided any evidence!" has become a hectoring mantra; the equivalent of sticking the fingers in the ears and screaming. I have argued with a lot of fuckwitted deceptive dip shits who argue with bad faith. They have always advanced evidence--what they don't advance is a good argument for interpreting the evidence the way they do.
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"I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but a lich ain't one."
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And take an improv class; several even.
Every wrestler should train catch wrestling, judo, BJJ or just any kind of standard shoot grappling! EVERY ONE
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Everybody’s first horror movie was Scream or Halloween. Prove me wrong!
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Yup.
‼️POPULAR GAMING OPINION‼️ Being an introvert, staying home to play games, read books and do my nerd hobbies is better than going out and partying.
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I chatted with ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty about how he’s bridging his passions for wrestling, art, and fashion through a new collaboration with @wwdcast Out now on @SI_wrestling. Give it a read 💫 si.com/fannation/wrestling/f…
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