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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 1d

[Angel whispering on your shoulder] make your villain a 17th century repper failson. Nobody can stop you

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 2d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 2d

I still get confused between 'One' and 'Series'

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 2d

The Nutty Repressor

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 3d

I need €0.01 more of physical books in my amazon basket for free delivery recommend me something bloody and faggoty

Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 3d

when you see this you know that when you keep scrolling down it's a coin flip whether the text will be 'epic bacon' or '14 words'

George R R Martin depicted as the soyjak and Tolkien as the chad

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 3d

One Battle After Another really taps into something that terrifies the American psyche: roads that go up and down a little bit

Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 3d

She has A Reputation in every Irish trans space for coming in, being personable for a week or so, and then making it clear exactly why she has That Reputation

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 5d

When Gretchen made very similar criticism to the article above she got hit with 'well it's just a story for a roguelike game it doesn't have to do anything'

& aside from the obvious ('of course, you're 12') it's also a sequel to a game that was praised for its writing or at least reactive dialogue!

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 5d

"I wonder what Nick Land is posting about these da-"

The start of a Nick Land tweet which reads 'I tend to over-do it on the Jew posting,'

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 7d

On track for my usual PTA reaction of thinking 'yeah, alright' night-of and then waking up three days later and realising 'yeah he cooked'

Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 7d

NW: One Battle After Another

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 7d

NW: One Battle After Another

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 7d

Headline reading

Martin to take 'full responsibility' for FF presidential campaign

Headline reading

Taoiseach: 'I'm not responsible for everything that unfolded' around Jim Gavin's exit

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 8d

🤓👆 The Japanese title implies Dracula doesn't actually own the Castle anyway

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 8d

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 8d

I now wish I had listened to my better judgment

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 9d

It's still bonkers to me that UT2K4 didn't have a story but had these narrative-esque objective maps, while UT3 did have a story and at most had 'attack the enemy core'.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 9d

I've been seeing a lot of this even in books that seem like they should be more driven, pulpier, more plot & action-focused. What frustrates me about it—to be clear, I adore a contemplative lost-in-the-landscape literary meander—is when it seems to stem from a televisual concept of *time*.

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 9d

I'm seeing a lot of this in the romantasy space! there are books with minimal story apart from the romance, so you end up with an iterative structure where the leads go to a series of locations or make a series of small advances on their MacGuffin quest, as set dressing for their escalating intimacy

Mythcreants @mythcreants.bsky.social · 9d

A new thing we’re noticing is books where way less happens than you’d expect for their length because of worldbuilding info dumps or long scenes of explaining plans. You get through a 100,000 word novel and realize the whole story was spent picking up magic groceries.

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 9d

Against my better judgment I'm going to ask for context

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 9d

can I say something without everyone getting mad

onion person @junlper.beer · 9d

another gem from my favorite subreddit

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 9d

It's a very good read, and it's reasonably accessible but she is kinda in that wheelhouse of 'let's assume the Freudian account of the repressed subconscious is true and go from there' (this is not a value judgment, it's just the framework she assumes familiarity with)

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 9d

A classmate is a 21 year old self- described radfem. Hold. Hold!

Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · Sep 11

Might fuck around and present a seminar on Butler and Barthes via the Isabel Fall story I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter idk idk

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 10d

"clanker" is a pointless term because you can't insult a computer. The people who should feel insulted are the people who use AI, but we already have a term for them: diarrhea clowns who live in the sewer

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 10d

Good morning

If someone who previously described themselves as trans now states "I'm not trans", it is not unreasonable to conclude "they have detransitioned"

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 11d

Smiling serenely as I watch a building's internal humidity drop from 75% to 49%. I'm gonna live, man.

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Six Tigers in a Trenchcoat @rawrmom.bsky.social · 11d

I keep thinking there is something interesting about her re-recording older tracks to gain control of those albums, but, maaaaan, if I wanted to listen to an artist hold a publisher's feet to the fire I'd just go listen to Prince.

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