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ljwrites

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Translator, researcher, writer, and mom. This is my alt for creative writing. Current main project is a novel about a branch of Koreanic people in 1st century B.C.

Avatar is a typewriter with multicolored butterflies on it, found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/susannaht/5092985916/

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    @weirdwriter And the aesthetics are so on point, too, though I have to enlarge to read what's in the frame! @JessMahler

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    @weirdwriter kind of horrifying how much corporate social media has taken away, that lewds and porn have gone from being a matter of course to something we expect by default to be unavailable online. @JessMahler

    SoniaSulaiman, to random
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    All Palestinians are beyond the event horizon of horror.

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    @SoniaSulaiman It is truly unthinkable.

    juergen_hubert, to random
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    Testing if the page review looks correctly.

    https://sunkencastles.com/german-folklore-map/

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    @juergen_hubert It looks great to me!

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    @writers I did this twice for short stories, once with a trans woman who does her best to live as a man for a while and I didn't want to use he/him pronouns. Another time was with a nonbinary lesbian protagonist in ancient Southeast Asia whose pronouns could have been they/them in a modern English-speaking context, but first person was simply easier.

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    Started on and it's wonderful getting drawn into the world and characters over again! 😍

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    Okay but Ree reminiscing about her relationship with Larry and how Smythe took him away gives strong "asshole ex who took the dog" feels lol. And that was in addition to trying to kill everyone she loves, which is above and beyond what the vast majority of asshole exes do.

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    It seems Usther has changed since the end of B&B, though I'm not entirely clear what precipitated the change from the power-hungry girl we knew to the tired, directionless woman. Maybe being backstabbed almost to death by a friend and student does that.

    Her and Ree's relationship comes across as one-sided as it did in B&B, with Ree constantly in Usther's thoughts while Usther seems to take a distant back seat in Ree's. Maybe I'm not being fair to Ree, since she does think of Usther as a priority in her life and she has the rest of the book to show how much she cares.

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    "Dead monarchs made for nasty undead, which some claimed was due to inherent power but Ree thought was more likely due to inherent assholery. Sometimes particularly malignant deaths or acts could leave behind unstable death energy, and she'd rarely heard of a monarch who HADN'T done terrible things."

    • The Beautiful Decay by Veo Corva
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    The anti-monarchist sentiment of The Beautiful Decay is refreshing in any work of fantasy, a genre with a sordid history of wide-eyed buy-in to the divine right of kings. I also think it packs an additional punch when you realize the author is in Britain xD

    Ree's criticism of monarchy isn't just a throwaway line either: without spoiling too much, the story itself has elements of conflict between self-rule and centralized rule. It does a good job, I think, of speaking for autonomy and against monarchy while still dealing out plenty of criticisms at the places self-rule can end up.

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    A nation-state is imagination backed by violence. It is a story that rewrites history, recreates landscapes, and rolls implacably over lives and bodies that get in the way of the national narrative. Resistance requires reimagination, the making of new stories to live, love, fight, and die for.

    cazabon, to privacy

    Remember #Patreon set up new on-by-default sharing of your account information with every other Patreon user (and maybe the world)? Remember people posting how to turn it off, because they were using confusing language/dark patterns to try to #trick you into oversharing?

    I got the "welcome to the new Patreon" today, and ... they've turned the "Community Profile" setting back on after I deliberately turned it off.

    Go check your settings, and opt out -- again.

    #privacy #greed #e14n #dammit

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    @cazabon Thank you! Turned it back off, and... wow, a friend wasn't kidding about the new site running heavy as hell, my puny old computer started overclocking & overheating immediately on loading the site. I'm glad not to have much of anything to do with it other than sponsoring a couple of people.

    juergen_hubert, to mastodon
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    I've seen a lot of voices saying that " does not need to grow to be successful", and "we don't need to put in more effort to welcome new users", and frankly this attitude is pissing me off.

    "The reason that social media did not work as promised is not because we misunderstood the nature of the internet and the possibilities of digital connectivity, but because oligarchs took over the digital space."

    If there is any chance of using social media as a force for democracy, we desperately need a system that cannot be taken over by the oligarchs. And, right now, the is the best candidate for this.

    Thus, there is homework that needs to be done. We cannot just rest on our laurels and proclaim that the tech is already good enough, and that the tech approach somehow magically solves all the problems of other social media platforms. We need to get away from the overwhelmingly white male European/North American user base and look for ways on how to increase user participation - not to mention participation of users from Asia, Africa, and South America.

    If we try to maintain the Fediverse as the home of a small, incestuous group of people with a particular tech slant, the oligarchs will win.

    https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23896050/protest-decade-2010-revolutionary-handbook-vincent-bevins-arab-spring-brazil-occupy-hong-kong

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    @juergen_hubert Yeah this is why I'm on the fedi, and why I spend time and contribute here--not because it's technologically the best or socially the safest or fairest, but because it's the only one with a chance in hell of being OURS, that just might escape the march of enshittification. That makes it worth fighting for, worth the cost of pushing back on the endemic racism to create a better culture where more people might feel welcome.

    juergen_hubert, to Germany
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    Known fascist Elon Musk supports German fascist party in upcoming elections.


    https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-immigration-migrants-germany-far-right-extremism-twitter-x-2023-9

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    @juergen_hubert What an unforeseen turn of events! </s> Scary times all around.

    juergen_hubert, to Starfield
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    I'm currently doing the Crimson Fleet quest line for , and my boss and her boss have given me different directives that might or might not end up being in conflict.

    I guess even a dreaded fleet of space pirates has the same work place problems as any other. 😁

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    @juergen_hubert and if workplace cultures are anything to go by, you'll be the one to take the brunt of any conflict that happens xD

    ljwrites, to random
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    Okay it's been a brutal workday but let's see if I can finish the final little scene before midnight, like a literary Cinderella 🤞

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    A good night to everyone but my husband who wanted to talk to me about money at this crucial moment :blobcat_disapproves: Tbf he doesn't know, and didn't press it when I said I was too tired to pursue this right now, but I'm too stressed to be fair!!

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    @CatFoxBirdLady @writers That's the dream, never having to hide it! I never actively concealed anything, exactly, but I did have to present in a certain way and it never quite fit. No longer a problem in my freelance job, fortunately.

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    Okay the last boost is so me and I am amuse xD https://dice.camp/@miriamrobern/110968720699458702

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    And I have the reminder of what happens when my pace is NOT sustainable... https://ljwrites.blog/posts/nanowrimo-experience/

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    @Tattooed_mummy @alternative_be That seems like a good plan!

    phire, to random
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    @phire I've had this experience, too--my mental health and overall well-being have seen a dramatic uptick since I made room in my life for a regular writing practice.

    seachanger, to random
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    if you (like me) missed the whole alabama thing, here's an explainer with links

    "The video also gives us all a sense of catharsis. We’ve seen so many viral videos of Black people getting beaten up or killed. Here’s one where things went the way they would if we were writing the script."

    https://thegrio.com/2023/08/07/why-the-montgomery-riverfront-uprising-is-making-black-people-so-damn-happy/

    ljwrites,
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    @seachanger Alabama Sweet Tea Party omg xD

    fox, to random
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    @fox Evidently they used corporate data as well for training at first, but the companies raised a stink which is how they got the option to opt out I guess. https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-enterprise/grammarly-ai-writing-zoom-earnings

    Really goes to show who they see as the client and who the product...

    ljwrites, to fantasy
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    Oh, your Medieval Europe neeeeeds to be all white to be pure and historically accurate? That is a fantasy, all right. A fantasy of a world with only white people, how quaint and provincial.

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    @brunogirin Yuuuup.

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