Although it's going to be a challenging read, since I would embrace stoicism in my life, and thus, I think I can take this read as a getting stared into the matter.
@sun@grillchen I don't know why this suggestion amuses me so much. I think it has been a thing. On saying this, you can't have them being female-only because of trans women rights now. Even if this is abused by criminals.
@sim@sun it would be great if taxis would be affordable again in the west. or car renting more prominent. well it changes. there are some areas/communities where u have to be part of the local car renting thingie to buy a appartment/house.
average car lies still for pber 23h per day. it makes sense 500 people to have less than 500 cars.
how many though is a diffferent topic.
also it is wild how much space streets, parking lots and co take up.
imo a good city needs parking lots at the outskirts and REALLY good public transportation from parking lot to everything else.
so if u visit the city u leave ur car outside.
though as long that is not the case i dont blame people for using their car.
@kaia Yeah... I did wonder about the location too. Finding it hard to find information about the painting itself, but the painter is Jacques Joseph Tissot. It is called The Bunch of Lilacs. I should probably look into artists more for their paintings, but then I have also had some horror stories doing that.
"Seldom does there occur in society any lapse so astonishing as the uncomfortable remarks innocently made by men and women to each other. Some persons who are careful and considerate in other respects, seem to have a woeful lack of that quality which we call tact. They wish to be pleasing; they would not for the world intentionally say or do anything to injure or wound the sensitiveness of a friend; yet they are continually saying those "things that would better have been left unsaid.""
If the writer thought that tact was missing in his time, imagine what he would think of how we speak to each other now!
"There comes to mind now an imposing woman, who prided herself on the fact that she always said just what she thought. At a reception, she filled the room by her manner; it was impossible to continue oblivious of her presence.
Bowing affably to her acquaintances, she sailed—for women of this type do not walk—up to a modest little lady whose health, she had heard, was declining, and in a loud voice exclaimed: "What have you been doing to yourself? You have aged fifteen years since last I saw you!" Not unkind by intention, she was but practising her system of saying just what she thought, and she was constantly urging upon her friends the propriety of this course; but what an unbearable place our world would be if we all followed this example of inane and inconsiderate bluntness."
"Holmes gave us some good advice when he said: "Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.""
I think more people, perhaps even myself, could learn from this advice. Certainly, some people treat acquaintances much better than they do their family and close friends.
I really like having multiple POVs, because it becomes challenging to try to convey what a main POV character is thinking when you aren't telling it from their POV. You have to get creative. It also gives you an impression of how other people in the story see your POV character which is great for storytelling for your readers.
@grillchen That's interesting and a great application of what I mean too. It reminds me that confidence is often about appearance. You can be a nervous wreak inside, but if you do the thing and remain calm on the outside then you come across as confident and able. You can basically blag your way through to confidence.
I still don't know how filmmakers and script writers manage to fuck up game-to-film adaptations. The mediums really are so similar to each other, most of the script is already there for you to use and even the visuals. But somehow they decide that they just want to do their own thing, that people wouldn't want to see the game story but in film or TV series form so they have to change most of it... crazy. They may as well do their own thing at that point.
Turton Tower is a manor house in Chapeltown in North Turton, Borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England.
It was built in the late Middle Ages as a two-storey stone pele tower which was altered and enlarged mainly in late 16th century. It is built on high ground 600 feet above sea level about four miles north of Bolton. William Camden described it as being built "amongst precipices and wastes."
In 1603 William Camden described it as built first for defence, that tournaments were held there in the 14th century and that it was entirely rebuilt of stone in 1594.
Thurland Castle is a country house in Lancashire, England which has been converted into apartments. Surrounded by a moat, and located in parkland, it was originally a defensive structure, one of a number of castles in the Lune Valley.
In 1402 Sir Thomas Tunstall (d. 05 Nov 1415), was licensed to crenellate the building. The castle passed through successive generations of the family and was eventually inherited by Tunstall's great-grandson, Sir Brian Tunstall, a knightly hero who died at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.
Sir Brian was a younger son of Thomas Tunstall III and the heir of his brother Thomas IV. Dubbed the "Stainless Knight" by the king, he was immortalized in the poem Marmion - A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott.
The building is constructed in sandstone rubble, with slate roofs. It consists mainly of two ranges on the north and west sides of a courtyard. Its architectural style is a mixture of Elizabethan Revival and Gothic Revival. It is approached by an arched bridge crossing the moat. Its windows are either mullioned or mullioned and transomed, and there are two towers, one of which has two storeys, the other three. Many of the parapets are embattled. Around the building are terraces with bastions.
Why are images so good at keeping metadata but my office program sucks so hard at it? Apparently I managed to write basically an entire novel in one day and I don't know what I did for it to keep the wrong records. Lmao.
It seems like we have overcomplicated things by making a man or woman mean something more than biology. It has left a lot of confusion in its wake and I don't know how to make things clearer. We would have to drop a lot of baggage if we just made it about biology.