Do you remember anything fun that you’ve made as a kid? I was really proud of this “camera” I made out of a tea box. I filled it with hand-drawn “photographs” and was very disappointed when people and objects wouldn’t reenact them accurately enough at my request.
This is the cutest damn thing I have ever seen
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#art #comics #adorable
Need another video game recommendation:
1) available on Steam
2) has a good Russian option for interface
3) has a wide range of vocabulary reinforcementCome on, people, what am I even paying you for?
speaking of not paying for things, that’s a pretty good way to guarantee you get a Russian language option
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #games #Russia
HPMOR, now with a writer actually less cringy than the original harry potter!
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#Harry Potter #Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #((this amusement not to be taken as expressing an opinion regarding the statement itself)) #high context jokes #our roads may be golden or broken or lost
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I wrote a blog post a few years ago explaining how molecules get to the right place at the right time. The short answer is that cells are nothing like the nice, peaceful animations. Cells are extremely crowded and things move extremely fast. Glucose molecules, for instance, move around cells at 250 miles per hour and collides with something billions of times a second. An enzyme might collide with a reactant 500,000 times a second. And proteins can spin a million times per second. So as you suspect, by random chance molecules are in the right spot very frequently.
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#biology #the more you know
Concept: YA fantasy/sci-fi setting with the obligatory child-sorting algorithm where one of the categories is clearly just House Awesome, except the big book three twist is that the people in charge are aware the setting runs on story logic, and the true purpose of House Awesome is to serve as a narrative quarantine for kids who’ve been identified as potential protagonists.
(At first you think it’s going to follow the standard trajectory where a single rugged individualist rises above the rest and Smashes The System, but in reality that’s precisely the problem: the system works because the various heroic destinies in play end up burning up all their energy trying to assert narrative dominance, leaving the outside world mostly unaffected. The actual moral message is some heavy-handed Aesop about the perils of unchecked individualism.)
@specsboy1999 replied:
I like the idea of putting all the potential protagonists together and watching them spend all their time trying to one-up each other to become the “ONE, TRUE PROTAGONIST!” Killing them off is just asking for someone to get away and over through you, keeping them at war among themselves may cost more but is better in the long term, just make sure to stop co-operation through unfair advantages.
Precisely. If the baddies tried to murder all the potential protagonists, they’d be providing them with a Common Enemy For Former Rivals To Set Aside Their Differences And Unite Against – they’re genre-savvy enough to know how that ends. Better to indulge them and channel their heroics into harmless one-upmanship until their endlessly serialised adventures wander off into narrative irrelevance.
Ironically, the only way to overcome the baddies’ evil scheme is to stop acting like you’re the hero of the story!
(Would it be too on-the-nose for the fellow-student-antagonist the genre requires to be a thinly disguised Harry Potter expy that takes a good, hard look at exactly what sort of person would become a magic cop straight out of high school? Yes, very likely it would. We’re gonna do it anyway.)
@spinningthehamsterwheel replied:
So do we have a viewpoint character in this theoretical story?
Given the premise, I think the most appropriate framing would be to present it as an anthology-style short story collection, with each story focusing on a different potential protagonist. Imagine if Wayside School was somehow even more meta than it already is and you’ll have roughly the right idea.
(Heck, maybe even get multiple authors in on it to really drive the point home. It’s almost a shame it’s too late to make a NaNoWriMo prompt out of it. Oh, well – there’s always next year!)
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#story ideas I will never write
Brinens and Things 