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‧₊˚ 🗣️ ✩ three hundred assorted dialogue prompts
¹⁾ “it’s too early for this.”
²⁾ “say that again, but take all the words bigger than two syllables out for me.”
³⁾ “you never came to bed last night.”
⁴⁾ “ibuprofen and a red bull is not breakfast.”
⁵⁾ “where the fuck have you been?!”
⁶⁾ “i can’t believe you told him.”
⁷⁾ “look, all i’m trying to tell you i- oh god, no, please don’t cry.”
⁸⁾ “taxi- taxi!”
⁹⁾ “i broke it off last night.”
¹⁰⁾ “no way that’s true.”
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Sandman Mystery Theatre Book Club
Sandman Mystery Theatre is a 90s Vertigo detective series, set in 1938, that follows amateur sleuths Wesley Dodds and Dian Belmont in a crime ridden New York City.
We’ll be reading one arc (four issues) a week. Meetings will be held in the Stars and Sand Discord Server every Friday at 7:00 PM CST, starting on the 21st.
Trigger Warnings for the series below the cut
You gotta read Sandman Mystery Theatre! (Assuming you haven’t yet) It’s vertigo so be warned that there are probably a million trigger warnings that should go on it, but still! 10/10 Wesley and Dian stories
I haven't yet! This is probably the motivation I need to actually read it. Also i love vertigo so i'll probably be ok, but thanks for the warning!
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‧₊˚ 🗣️ ✩ three hundred assorted dialogue prompts
¹⁾ “it’s too early for this.”
²⁾ “say that again, but take all the words bigger than two syllables out for me.”
³⁾ “you never came to bed last night.”
⁴⁾ “ibuprofen and a red bull is not breakfast.”
⁵⁾ “where the fuck have you been?!”
⁶⁾ “i can’t believe you told him.”
⁷⁾ “look, all i’m trying to tell you i- oh god, no, please don’t cry.”
⁸⁾ “taxi- taxi!”
⁹⁾ “i broke it off last night.”
¹⁰⁾ “no way that’s true.”
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I really don't understand how "without getting kudos or comments a fanfiction author is going to assume that people who clicked their fic didn't like it" became a controversial take.
I don't know why some people think an author should imagine, or guess that people who click their fic enjoyed it it when nobody is telling them that.
If you're re-reading a fic constantly, or leaving it up in your tab so that it re-loads every day for a hundred days the author is not going to know that unless you tell them. They'd love to hear it. It would make their day.
And if you don't tell them you liked their fic, there's no reason for them to assume you did.
my favorite thing about being part of the jsa fandom (especially fanfiction wise) there’s just a handful of people who post and I haven’t really talked to any of them so I like to think that when I post, like a post, or do an ask we’re all just like
Also I’m like the newbie so the adds to it. It’s all very fun. I love it.
So I was having a conversation with my 14 year old cousin who’s currently reading Romeo and Juliet for school and I was telling her about how when I was reading the book, me and two of my friends had to film the scene where the Friar gives Juliet the poison and my cousin stops me and screams “SPOILERS.” Confused I go, “do you not know the plot of Romeo and Juliet?” She goes, “no why would I? You just spoiled it for me.” I say “goober, it’s Romeo and Juliet. How do you not know the plot? It’s 400 years old I don’t think I can spoil it.” And she said, “Well, I’m not a loser like you.”
I just love how in Stargirl they just like… don’t have a concrete timeline for the OG JSA. Like ya they have a timeline, established 1941, eclipso, ISA, then death in 2010 but give no dates for when anything happens. It’s all just vague, with things like Pat saying “[the JSA] all drifted apart after that, not until the ISA reformed but that was a lot of years later.”
It’s very fun seeing how fanfics interpret all of this. Like for myself, just from how Rebecca and everyone dressed at her funeral I interpreted Eclipso happening in the 1950s which meant they were disbanded for around 50 years. But then other people interpret it as happening very close together. It’s just so fun.
Also how the show just doesn’t acknowledge why none of the OG JSA age, which I find hilarious.
It’s really all just vague enough that you can really add any comic canon in that you want it can fit rather seamlessly in.
Like when did Ted give you the staff, Sylvester? Was it before or after WW2? And the best part, I am never going to get that answer unless I make it up myself. 😁
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literally everything being said at trump’s inauguration:
I just graduated college and took my capstone on propaganda. Not the just the history of it but also its evolution, how it works, and what makes the best propaganda.
With the ‘unbanning’ of tiktok and the inauguration being within a day of each other a lot of propaganda has been thrown at us. I want to share what is called “the ten rules of hate” from Matt Taibbi’s book “Hate: Inc: why today’s media makes us despise one another”, which was published in 2019.
To give some context for the ten rules, Taibbi says in this chapter (chapter two) regarding the news cycle, "after generations of doing the opposite, when unity and conformity were more profitable, now the primary product the news media sells is division."
But before I state the rules I just want to remind everyone PROPAGANDA OCCURS ON BOTH SIDES. Neither side is better than one another when it comes to propaganda, it is a necessity. I say this as a democrat who believes the next four years are going to be hell. Just today I saw propaganda from both sides, ironically fitting into these ten points.
THE TEN RULES OF HATE:
- There are only two sides
- The two sides are in permanent conflict
- Hate people, not institutions
- Everything is somebody else's fault
- Nothing is everyone's faults
- Root, don't think
- No switching teams
- The other side is literally Hitler
- In the fight against Hitler, everything is permitted
- Feel superior
What most people get wrong about propaganda is that its intention is not change your thought process immediately, no. The purpose of propaganda is to nudge you in a certain direction. Whether that be you seeing that trump unbanned tiktok and for a split moment you think 'maybe he isn't so bad' or seeing an instagram post from Path2Progress saying 'it's a dark day in America' and you get a tinge of fear.
I am making this post because I want you to be able to look at the media you are soaking up and be able to notice that people are trying to manipulate you. Of course, there are other points to propaganda that I did not get in here as I could write several papers on this subject, which I have.
And before anyone says in the comments, "but Trump is literally Hitler", I'm just going to point out that this cycle of calling people Hitler started long before Trump's presidency in 2016. Glenn Beck, who's a conservative commentator really began the "Your neighbor is literally Hitler" movement. In Taibbi's book he writes, "Beck was awesome at this. Al Gore was Hitler. Obama was constantly Hitler." I know must Democrats would not consider these men to be Hitler, but I use this example to demonstrate its use in years past on the other party.
I am going to leave you with a quote from one of the first books written about modern propaganda. It's called "Propaganda Techniques in the World War" and was written by Harold Laswell, then published in 1927.
“But by far the most potent role of propaganda is to mobilize the animosity of the community against the enemy, to maintain friendly relations with neutrals and allies, to arouse the neutrals against the enemy, and to break up the solid wall of the enemy.”