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absolutely disgusting that i have to create the the things i want to create

Sometimes you need to read something twice to get it. You might need to watch a movie three times to understand it. You might have to have that album on repeat for a week until the lyrics make any sense. You're allowed to engage with it and can keep engaging with it until it means something to you. People will see a painting at a museum and laugh about not getting what the big deal is but like you can come back, you can see it at another time, and maybe that next time it'll be different for you. I'm of the belief the "media literacy crisis" would solve itself if more people just sat down and did it again. Watched, read, played, listened, etc like I don't think people are getting more ignorant necessarily I just think we're not glorifying personally replaying things nearly as much as we should be.

"How do you brainstorm your ideas and stories?"

Listen, man, I've been using thinking about fictional characters and their problems to avoid thinking about The Horrors since I was single digits in age. I have no idea how to start. Nor do I know how to stop. The inside of my head is constant "what ifs". I just made them fun instead of horrifying.

Gotta say, when i first started dbd i was totally convinced Charles was just waiting for Edwin to figure it out, there was absolutely no b present in their bromance in the first episode. I had snogged my homies for less than the love sick stare Charles sent Edwin from the other side of their window just saying

actually i think graduates of a university should have access to the library databases forever and ever amen

sometimes someone will casually mention using chatgpt or some other generative ai thing and I can actually feel the little

above my head

"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A HUMAN AND YOU USE EM DASH

Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)

Hello, JSTOR!

Would you have any collections of fairy tales and folktales? Or articles about their origins?

Here's a search we ran for open access fairy tale content, and another for open access folktale content 🧌