The Human ambassador bowed, hands behind their back.
The Xturi envoy extended a big, soft paw. "I was told Humans greet with touch?"
"Are Xturi comfortable being touched?"
The Xturi's large, round eyes opened wide. Their thick, silky fur rippled as they laughed. "We relish touch!"
"Excellent!"
Another hug for my brain. I always look forward to seeing microsff
everyone loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl with Human Feet. shout-out to a real one
It looks like it would be so excited to run over when you needed a bowl
Got distracted. Saw a cool bug
Has anyone tagged @elodieunderglass yet?
Oh yes I do love the bowl!
Love it got one of my very own for a daily smile.
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.
Consider me encouraged.
i'm genuinely having so much fun writing a jock protagonist. can't believe i never tried this before. all these years i've been limiting myself needlessly
i've created an extremely elaborate magic system based on linear algebra and not once does the narrator ever explain how it works. he doesn't know. he doesn't care. that's nerd shit. he is going on a lad's night out and if you try to tell him anything about equations he'll put his fingers in his ears and go "lalalala"
i feel it's important to add that my other protagonist is an academic and does know how the magic system works, but he doesn't get a POV chapter until halfway through the story. which means that over the course of 40,000 words we gradually build up a solid working idea of this world and its laws, as understood by Jock Protagonist - and then it switches to Nerd Protagonist, who's like, "just so we're clear, he was wrong about basically all of that."
This is genius
“Instead of listening to those who misunderstand the history of “Court-packing,” Democrats should adopt the framing used by Senator Robert LaFollette, Jr. to back FDR’s plan. A Progressive Republican from Wisconsin, LaFollette argued passionately that the president wasn’t trying to “pack” the Court; rather, he said, FDR was trying to “unpack” the pro-business bloc that had taken it over in the preceding decades. [Quote] There is a lot of talk of the President “packing” the Court. Let’s not be misled by a red herring. The Court has been “packed” for years – “packed” in the interests of Economic Royalists, “packed” for the benefit of the Liberty Leaguers, “packed” in the cause of reaction and laissezfaire. Let’s be frank about this matter. The vested interests have for years prevailed in the selection of judges. Under our form of government the will of the majority should prevail. If the majority of the people want progress, they shall have it. [The 1936 election] made it clear and unmistakable where the vast majority of the people stand. They want to be free from the shackles of vested interests. They have rejected the Economic Royalists. In the words of Lincoln, they want a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. They cannot have it if the Supreme Court places itself above the Constitution and arrogates to itself legislative functions. One clear way in which they can have their will of last November expressed is to have the Congress “unpack” a Court which has long been “packed” by the forces of reaction. [End Quote] Of course, this argument fell short at the time, because its basic cynicism ran headlong into the stubborn idealism that all too many Americans still had about the institutions of government. But thanks to the ethical scandals and political gamesmanship that have come to define the current Supreme Court, the argument that the Court has been “‘packed’ by the forces of reaction” seems quite obvious. As a result, the argument that it now needs to be “unpacked” would carry much more weight.”
Unpack the court from the vested interests.
Prev. Prev don't leave this in tags the people should know
And then think about how little in taxes are paid on the those daily billions.
when i was a teenager it felt very revolutionary to be cruel to myself. like some kind of slow passive protest against how much everything hurt. i starved myself of sleep and food and tenderness because it felt right. it felt sharp and angry and radical and i wanted to be those things. adulthood is the realisation that the world is already working to cut into you well before you learn how to do it yourself. caring for yourself and others is the real protest
It explains so much
i want to attend a terry pratchett book club that includes at least one gen x or older british person because i feel like there must be so much brilliant stuff that is going right over my young american head
Probably! I'm still getting jokes on reread now, in my thirties. But if you don't have any gen X brits who are also Pterry fans close to hand, may I present to you L-space? It's quite an older site, built out of the old Usenet alt.fan.pratchett listservs, and it includes quite a lot of helpful metadata on everything Pratchett published.
In particular, L-Space contains the Annotated Pratchett File, being a repository of all the references anyone could suss out from about 1992 on, usually verified by asking Pterry himself if he'd meant to do that or not. There is also a set of annotations available in a crowd-sourced format through the Lspace Wiki.
Annotations make getting the jokes funnier and you get to learn more about the layers of meaning in the work, plus you can chase weird rabbit trails off them in your own time. I highly recommend anyone who enjoys Discworld and knowing stuff spend some quality time with one of the book annotations at some point.
I learned something today. It’s a good day.
