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klapollo:

klapollo:

Im watching the parade and Julia is on the Sesame Street float and they actually outfitted her muppet with noise reduction headphones 😭😭😭😭😭

i cry

A safe and happy Thanksgiving to all my autistic friends! My your day be free of stress and sensory overload!

aifsaath:

veryrarelystable:

zagreus:

“if it’s not plot relevant, cut it!!” is such awful writing advice

if JRR Tolkien had cut every bit of Lord of the Rings that wasn’t directly related to the central plot, it would have been just one book long, COLOURLESS and DULL AS DIRT. 

all the little worldbuilding/character details are what draw you in and give the central plot weight, FOOL

The plot is not the same thing as the story.  The plot is the mechanics of how one thing causes another.

Some classic stories have no plot to speak of – the characters just wander from one situation to the next.  Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz are examples.

Some stories have partial plots, where some things in the story cause other things, but other things come out of the blue and pass away without consequence.  This category includes classics too: Huckleberry Finn, The Wind in the Willows.

Even in stories with a strong plot, sometimes the most iconic moments fall outside that plot.  Think of the No-Man’s-Land scene in Wonder Woman or the dying dinosaur in Jurassic World II.

Ah, but those aren’t classics, I hear someone say.  Well, I disagree in the case of Wonder Woman (although time will tell), but let’s go right to the top of the English canon, Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

What’s the most iconic scene, if you had to pick one to illustrate for the front cover or the playbill poster?  Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it’s the Yorick skull scene.  What does that have to do with the plot?  Precious little.  It’s just a way to keep Hamlet busy until Ophelia’s funeral arrives.  And even there it’s not very well fit for purpose, because it doesn’t explain why Hamlet is hanging around in a graveyard anyway.

That’s because, tight though the plot of Hamlet is, the story of Hamlet is not reducible to its plot.  Hamlet is a three-hour exploration of death and skulls and murder and corpses and funerals and ghosts and “what dreams may come”.  The plot is just there to drive you around between the features of that mental landscape.

So the question isn’t “Does this serve the plot?”  The question is “Does this help explore the idea that the story is about?”

(Why yes, I have written all this somewhere before.)

YES, ALL OF THIS

antifaspiderman:

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madamehearthwitch:

tiger-in-the-flightdeck:

lightspren:

molded-from-clay:

midnie:

this just in: romaine lettuce carries the e. coli virus and you will Fuckign DIE!

The health alert spans across the following states as a precaution: California, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, Illinois, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey.

Throw it out.

Date: Nov. 20th 2018

AGAIN? Isn’t this the third time this year?

Not just America, California is one of the largest exporters of romaine lettuce to other countries. FYI!

Jennie-O turkey is also being recalled because of a salmonella outbreak.

Be careful friends.

Update: I was curious about all of the recent outbreaks and recalls and found a list. These are some of the products that have been recalled this fall

• Peanut Butter Crunch (salmonella)
• Many different cheeses, particularly those made by Green Cedar, Margie, Quesillo or Alebrije (salmonella or listeria, depending on which brand)
• Some kinds of Natural Life dog food (too much vitamin D)
• Mauna Loa Macadamia Nuts (E. Coli)
• Duncan Hines cake mixes (salmonella)
• Various brands of curry powder (lead)
• Gravel Ridge’s Cage Free eggs (Salmonella)
• Working Cow Ice cream (listeria)
• Bazzini’s Pistachios (Salmonella)

Most of those, however, were able to be traced back to a specific batch and recalled. However, if you’ve bought any of these things lately, I would still be a little cautious.

Unfortunately, since they can’t trace the exact source of the contaminated lettuce, all we can do is avoid all romaine lettuce for now.

Honestly with all of the outbreaks related to romaine lettuce in the past few years, you might just want to avoid it in general, but that’s just my opinion

the warning is not limited to those states listed above. everyone should throw their lettuce out. its serious enough that the cdc is recommended sanitizing the fridge where the lettuce was stored w bleach water and throwing out any food that was touching the romaine or even in the same drawer with it (we lost about 20$ worth of food doing this but thats way less than the hospital bills would be if we got an infection)

here’s the cdc warning in full

cutestlesbian-pearl:

insomniac-arrest:

lesbianing it up in cartoons like

swords and jackets swords and jackets, *loud screech* NOT DYING, swords and jackets

punk-mahoucore:

Hi. I worked in retail for, quite literally, 15 years. Working on Black Friday (and Thanksgiving) sucks. Like, trust me, I know. A have the scars of countless midnight shifts to prove it.

That said, don’t give PoC and poor people shit for going shopping on that day. That might be the only time they can afford something nice for themselves like a new TV or whatever and it’s not their fault that capitalism turned it into something terrible.

Go hog wild on well off white people and corporations though.