I talked to an author a lot this weekend, and an amusing thing she said was that romance authors tend to be kind of mean, and people who write horror or violent thrillers tend to be nice.

If there's truth to that, I guess the theme would be that people like to write about what they're not. It's a way to explore or express something that they don't otherwise explore or express in their real life.

This feels like a conversation we may already have had. :) In the past few years I've met a few 3/5s.

I am a Manifesting Generator 5/1 Heretic/Investigator also emotional authority.

What's your HD?

You are correct. Been working with it for close to a decade. 😊

#iching #oracle #compass

do you tip your uber driver if they spent most of the ride singing? haha

Yes and also down with the walled garden advertising model

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And then we took some other photos with my friend crouching down to have more variety in the shots:

#photostr #photography #artstr #plebchain

Today my standing desk came unplugged and when I plugged it back in it would no longer lower to sitting height. I contacted support, and they gave me the instructions to reset it. Now not only is it fixed, but it turns out it can lower all the way to seiza height! I can use my desk while sitting on my knees! I've had this desk for 6 years and never knew this. 😅

“Whole grains” = “I’m a communist loser”

There are some forms of age censorship or ratings that, when you examine them, are kind of backwards.

An example is the Yugioh dub. When Yugioh was dubbed into English and played on western cartoon networks, they didn’t want to show as much death as in the original Japanese version, even though they were for the same age group. Just different cultural standards. So for the dub they created the concept of the Shadow Realm, and so instead of getting killed by a death trap, someone will instead have their soul sent to an eternity of darkness. Hell, basically. This was considered more suitable for children as a concept: eternal darkness and unhappiness rather than physical death.

A lot of Brandon Sanderson books are kind of PG-13. There is a lot of action and death, but usually not a lot of blood or gore, curse words are in fantasy language and thus mostly don’t count. But like, some characters get magically tortured in agony for centuries. Just not in a bloody way.

My novel draft is basically a rated R book. Violence, blood, curses from characters that would curse, etc. But ironically far scarier things happen in Sanderson novels than mine! Nobody gets a century of agony in mine. Just good old fashion normal temporary agony. But because it’s more explicit, that makes it equivalent to R.

Had success just going to my wallet and pasting your Lightning address in, sent you 21. 🤙

When people start eating more red meat and avoid sugar, grains & beans, and seed oils, they often feel significantly better within days. It’s remarkable how one “cheat meal” can make you feel awful.

Once you stop poisoning your body, you begin to feel just how toxic those foods really are.