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"It looks like a sewer access cover. We had one outside our old apartments- no idea why it was a dome, but it took 8 kids and 4 jump ropes to remove it so we could climb down into the tunnel. (Don't ask.)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lou Stuells
4 days ago
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"Other than because of the cost to get the pills, what kind of idiot deliberately declines to take their meds?
Having a chronic illness can cause depression, and sometimes the focus of that depression ends up on the pills- especially those with..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by papafrita, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, Kadin2048, vsync, Elsa, Meghamora, regicide is good for you, lalochezia, cotterpin, Brainy, spaceman_spiff, Cat Pie Hurts, drjimmy11, wendell
3 weeks ago
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"Dude, let me be the one to tell you, you are living in a romantic fantasyland of what it means to be a writer. There are 37 of us in Debut 2009. We all have our first novels coming out next year.
We have a software engineer, a software tester,..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by pete0r, sugarfish, rongorongo, roofus, elisynn, chicainthecity, desuetude
3 weeks ago
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"A’ight, so I was eleven or twelve; we lived in the Carriage House slum- we didn’t have AC and come summer, it was so hard to get to sleep. It was loud outside; people talking, people laughing- we didn’t have cable, most of us didn’t have tvs. So..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by shavenwarthog, stavrosthewonderchicken, PROD_TPSL, docpops
4 weeks ago
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"She passed off work that was not her own as her own. Doesn't matter if it was hired work or not. It's plagiarism by any reasonable definition.
No, it's not. She hired Nate to write a paper for her. Nate agreed to write a paper for her. It is a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by desuetude
Last month
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"Why do (bad) writers persist in using these plot devices?
Because they work. However, you're looking in the wrong place to find the cliches in The Incredibles- it's not a superhero movie; it's a masculinity reclamation movie that happens to have a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by leibniz
Last month
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"Well if it makes you feel any better, people often say that my (m) husband and (f) I look like siblings. After being asked twice, "Are you sure?" after telling different people that we're not, I've changed my answer. *Now* when it comes up,..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by muteh, pinksoftsoap, miss-lapin, nebulawindphone, h00py, The Toad
Last month
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"This is what our developmental therapist had us do when our daughter just wouldn't sleep regularly (she would get up, scream herself to vomiting, etc., etc..) However, these were at the year and a half old range, so you're probably going to have to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by streetdreams
2 months ago
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"Strange Horizons Magazine implores you to NOT start here- their list of horror stories they've seen too often." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by burnmp3s
3 months ago
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"I think the fact that she serially aborted several embryos indicates that she does not, in fact, want to be pregnant.
I like how you skip the part where she's intentionally inseminating herself. She is going through the trouble of obtaining semen-..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Snyder
3 months ago
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"If you're Buddhist, you don't forgive or not forgive. You acknowledge the struggle (in this case, caused by your attachment to perfectionism,) and stop struggling against it. Once you do that, you have right view, and you can move on to right..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lucyleaf
3 months ago
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"You want equality of the sexes? Equality means your menses aren't profane OR sacred, and they're as good for a joke as a fart.
Hurf durf parity eater- hey, let's spent 2000 years where they're sacred, after the last 2000 of them being profane and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agregoli
3 months ago
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"Ping lines are most often found in horror movies and films based on actual events. In the case of the latter, it's a way for a screenwriter to ease suspension of disbelief. You sit down to watch Titanic, and you're immediately removed from the story..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by macinchik, treepour, palmcorder_yajna
3 months ago
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"I'm sorry it made you mad, but you admit your response should have been deleted. What do you hope to achieve by posting your deleted response to Metatalk?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
3 months ago
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"I was 7. I watched "Somewhere in Time" with my mother, and to this day, my ideal man is tall, dark-haired, blue-eyed, and would literally move time to get to me. (As you can imagine, this has caused some disappointment...)
I was 13. I..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by schyler523, Lord Widebottom, ekstasis23
3 months ago
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"Vernon Gerbeth's books on Homicide investigation are considered the bibles of the business. Practical Homicide Investigation and Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation. They are expensive, but they're worth it. If you'd like to borrow my copy..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by LobsterMitten, rtha
3 months ago
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"Yeah, what taz said. What readers are looking for with these kinds of romances is forcible seduction- which exists only in romance novels and fan fiction. And it should be noted that forcible seduction scenarios usually include lots and lots of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by wires, hadjiboy
4 months ago
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".
Man, D&D gave me a place to be amazing when I was just a dun little kid from a crappy neighborhood. We had a lot of fun mocking ol' Gary, especially for 2nd Edition, but my imagination owes his imagination a huge debt.
Roll the dice to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Deathalicious, tehloki
4 months ago
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"I can't speak to the rest (it sounds to me like you guys aren't communicating very well,) but to your example.
I would feel very defensive if my husband, in the midst of a giving holiday, started to make account of how much he'd spent on me. I'd..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ifjuly, moonlet, aielen, eatdonuts
5 months ago
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"It's this simple for me- I didn't vote for Bill the second time because of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Hillary is against gay marriage, but for civil unions. Obama is for gay marriage, but against making churches perform them. I find Obama's position to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, Dreama, Blazecock Pileon
5 months ago
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"Just don't go, and forget ever making them understand. Whatever grand fantasies you have about delivering the perfect speech and crystallizing their errors for them in a moment of epiphany, it's just not going to happen.
You're the child, and..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Solomon, hannahq, The Toad, anaelith
5 months ago
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"My husband and I looked into a house a few years ago. The agent tried to sell the beauty of the ARM loans, saying that when it adjusted, our payments might even go down! I said, "But it's an interest rate. It might go up." And her response..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Malor, JHarris
5 months ago
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"Austin, the only industry party outside of LA that really, really counts.
Nicholl Fellowship, the industry party in LA that really, really counts." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by KAS
5 months ago
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"Write a young adult novel. Get the life you wished you'd lived out of your system. Then start living the life you have." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by hannahq
5 months ago
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"INT. THEATRE - DAY
Matt and Jessamyn sit in a deserted theatre; Matt puts his feet up. Jessamyn dumps Junior Mints in the popcorn. They both shift slightly in greeting when CORTEX arrives...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by PostIronyIsNotaMyth, roomwithaview
5 months ago
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"I've been in precisely your position. I haven't found god, but I'm much more content after realizing that being agnostic means "I don't know." It doesn't mean, you are all wrong, but okay, maybe, there's a possibility someone out there..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jejune
5 months ago
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"And this is just a side concern- I realize you have really BIG ones right now- but regardless if the kids misinterpreted, I'd make a special gesture to pull them aside, and to thank them for coming to you, and to emphasize that you took their..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by AlisonM
5 months ago
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"I'm not trying to be their best friend or anything, I just want to get off campus.
If that's the case, then why not just ask if you can catch a ride off campus next time they go? Offer a few dollars for gas, and go on your merry way...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ClaudiaCenter
5 months ago
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"There's another version of need that occurs prenatal: the putative father has decided he doesn't want to be a father, and consequently, won't pay for any prenatal care unless the mother proves its his child. Forced to choose between a test that MAY..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agregoli
5 months ago
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"When it comes to a that kind of plot point, you have to be careful. Because audiences are not necessarily trained to spot a coming twist, but they are trained to understand what's important. It's the whole "if you see a gun in the first act, it..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by churl, gnomeloaf, kdar, saffry, peacheater, andraste, umbú, TheDukeofLancaster, lovecrafty, Rock Steady, edmz, safetyfork, theiconoclast31, puddleglum, JimN2TAW
5 months ago
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"Some of my drugs aren't even available in generic. I've been suffering my full asthma symptoms for the last month because I can't afford Singuair (which my insurance company has decided in its infinite wisdom is experimental, ever since doctors..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by perilous, willie11, BrotherCaine, spaceman_spiff
5 months ago
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"I try to look her in the eyes while talking but that makes me seem weird
It may *feel* weird, but it doesn't seem weird when you're the one with the breasts. Keep looking her in the eye. Blink occasionally. That's all there is to it!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nickyskye, dabitch
5 months ago
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"So yeah, it hurts. It almost seems like nature intended it that way..
Yeah, sort of the way nature intended us to die of infections... until we figured out the wonder of antibiotics. Gee, imagine that.
Please, anonposter- ignore the princes of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by grouse, miss lynnster
5 months ago
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"Also, don't stop at one or two rejections. I've had stories rejected 10, 15 times before I found the right market for them. Sometimes, it's not that the writing sucks, it's that the piece doesn't fit the publication.
Nevertheless, continue to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ooga_booga
5 months ago
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"We always call them (#)shots, as in, "There's a quadshot of the explosion." Replace quad with howevermany iterations you want (and if you're only the screenwriter, expect the director to replace it with a four minute, inverted dollyshot.)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by planetkyoto
6 months ago
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"As a working screenwriter, we need the strike, and aspiring scabs might want to really look at why this strike is getting ready to happen before they offer their services.
If you write an episode of Metafilter Towers, you get paid according to..." [
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favorited 143 times, recently by merelyglib, iamkimiam, Baud
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, I'm sorry, Colbert, Stewart, Letterman, O'Brien, they're not scabs. The rats crawling around writing the soaps right now, those folks are scabs. The whiny little bitches taking fi-core right now- I consider them scabs. But Letterman signed an..." [
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favorited 32 times, recently by almostmanda, iamkimiam, pjern, JDHarper, ewagoner, tehloki, Brainy, rtha, schyler523, cobra_high_tigers, aerotive, Lizc, flibbertigibbet, ChestnutMonkey, dirtynumbangelboy, Mick, sparkletone, thedanimal, jonp72, Phire, infobomb, mothershock, eriko, the dief, melissa may, liquorice, good in a vacuum, oneirodynia, Gary, spaceman_spiff, stavrosthewonderchicken, Tehanu
6 months ago
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"I can empathize with you so much; the first sangha I considered joining, I spent some time painting the interior and exterior to pay for a class they required, but I couldn't afford. While I painted, I got to hear all about the sangha drama- petty..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jeanmari
6 months ago
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"Dear Bugbread,
There's something Tom and I have been meaning to tell you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pjern
6 months ago
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"I'd just like to drop a note and express interest in a future Mefi Anthology that simply has a theme (death, pancakes, plates of beans, whatever,) and no explicit genre or shared world. I read the settings Wiki on this, and I just don't get it. I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dejah420
6 months ago
