Carl Winslow had a hard life.
random bitter aspiring authors on "writing advice" blogs: Don't make your main characters super special mary sues. don't make them better than other people or more interesting. your main characters should be boring average guys with the personalities of wood pulp
the Epic of Gilgamesh: Gilgamesh was objectively the best man ever. He was the hottest, sexiest, most gorgeous hunk of pure manly awesomeness that ever lived and he used a sword that weighed 120 pounds.
not caring if people think you're stupid is a life hack. recognising that you are kind of stupid is an even bigger life hack. we build entire societies to take care of each other bc we're all kind of stupid. it's fine.
Some art and maps of a game I’m running in mothership for my online friends. The premise is that the system was divided between two ideological camps, but sponsored a joint scientific expedition after receiving a mysterious radio broadcast from Kairon at the edge of the system.
Death of a Salesman happens like every day to upper crust Americans but instead of poetic suicides they just join Qanon.
one thing I love about zetian from iron widow is that when xiuying offers her coverup powder "in case shimin is abusing her" she says no because if he did I'd Fucking Kill Him.
and then when xiuying says she keeps it for girls who need it zetian just looks at her and basically goes "why don't we just Fucking Kill The Guys if they suck shit that bad"
MIT graphene breakthrough could make chips one million times faster
Researchers at MIT and several other universities have discovered that graphene can be used to slow light down below the speed of electrons to create an intense beam of light.
The researchers call the effect an “optic boom”, since it is similar to the sonic boom caused by shock waves when a jet breaks the speed of sound.
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mecha combat
Enemy Stando: 「B O N G O Q U E E N 」
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