Oooh! I didn’t know this had come out.

4/4
Of course, every rule can be broken for effect, but you can’t break a rule well until you know how it works.

3/4
“She drifted into the store” > “She breezily entered the store” > “She entered the store like a breeze”

“Her mood exploded” > “Her mood was explosive” > “Her mood was an explosion”

“Her eyes dripped” > “Her eyes were drippy” > “Her eyes were liquid”

2/4
…is concentrated in that one word.

“I gave him a fist to the face” reads slower than “I punched him in the face”. The faster others understand what you’re saying, the better you are communicating.

There’s a hierarchy to this. Verb > Modifier > Noun

Preach. I’ve been struggling with ‘Fires’ for almost five years. I’ve got a good 50k on this one I started in October.

I think it comes down to a pervasive theme. Real darkness is in the way it’s told more than what is told. Though, what is told can certainly help.

Variants are so much fun.

Ooooh, okay! My first thought was some highly stylized Arabic, but then that’s way too many glyphs contextually.

When Trump starts renaming the days of the week, which family members do think he’ll snub?

What language is bottom right?

It’s such a fun movie. I was worried they would try to do a bunch of world building like in the prequels, but nope! Just a bunch of sci-fi bullshit and optimism.

You can project anything onto anything and call it subconscious bias.

You are right that people miss things on second or even third readings. But we’re talking about ‘Buffy’. That got “read” thousands of times over twenty years and only after his cancellation did people see “it”. “It” isn’t there.

Okay, but that’s meaningless without the political will to do something about him.

They do, but it’s not the majority. Anyone who sees wealth as an end unto itself has at least some sympathies towards MAGA. Every 22yo with a crypto vault is ideologically if not nominally aligned with Trump.

Not enough to realize that audience bias can skew authorial intent, apparently.

Monkeys know air exists because they know they can drown.

Whedon spent decades being lauded for his progressive female characters. Seeing sexism in them now is either (a) confirmation bias or (b) Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Bias and apophenia

People always knew gravity was a thing. The first toddler to fall over knew gravity was a thing.