a BOOK you say?? from a LIBRARY???????????????????????

“Nancy Drew Signature Theme” - Games 2-15

(Every member of the Clue Crew ought to have this on their blog at some point :))

somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.

and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.

I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

We often eat pie at work...for morale.

"As a treat" implies a special occasion, a temporary state. "For morale" makes the joy essential, because you have to have good morale to keep going.

I'd really love if feminists would stop pretending that all women are afraid of men

Or that we have to be afraid of men.

This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

I just had a debate with myself over using the word mezzanine, wondering if I should describe it instead. Ultimately I decided the character would call it a mezzanine, and therefore readers could look up a new word if they didn't know.

It's how I learned words like myriad as a seven year old reading Lord of the Rings for the first time, why would I steal that experiance from someone else by simplifying language?

I don't know about y'all, but books are how i know my vocabulary in the first place

my favorite thing relevant to this is when a dumb character uses regional or obscure words completely casually, but i have to look them up. To me it's a big weird word, but to the silly town drunk in a story what else are you supposed to call that thing??

anyway, read outside your culture as well, even if it's just the state/city/country next door that you've never been to. you will expand your vocabulary substantially.

and like ... having different characters speak differently is good. It means they have unique voices. Characters with different backgrounds and life experiences will speak and behave differently - if they don't, you're not doing a good job as a writer.

And yes, you should work to make your writing accessible, but that doesn't mean making it too simple.

You ever just look at something you wrote and are trying to decide if it's genius or terrible

Every time.

Some cool facts about TRT :D

Reblog if you recognize that Jesus Christ is Lord

You know how in the game setup menus, there's that thing where you can adjust the voice, music, and effects volume individually?

And while you do that, there's an audio clip running with all three of those components so you can hear how they balance when you're making changes, yeah?

For most of the games, I think that audio is a section of dialog or maybe sometimes a clip of Lani doing a weird voice. Regardless, it's at least something innocuous enough that I've never really paid attention to it. But uhhhhh, NOT SO MUCH in Stay Tuned for Danger. In STFD, this menu gets you a man's voice saying:

So that's a thing I wasn't prepared for

I don’t remember doing that with STFD. I remember the opening letter in most of them, but that’s just gold!

There's no one else in this photo!! Who's the gal Rick?!?

IS IT THE YACHT

IS THE YACHT YOUR GAL RICK

Pretty sure it’s the yatcht

It’s definitely the yacht. Mr. Player’s date is his yacht

Ugh

Doctors that prescribe birth control for acne (or actual reproductive health issues like PCOS or endometriosis) are giving their patients one-size-fits-all bandaid “solutions” rather than actually treating underlying causes.

If your acne/other health issues are actually caused by a hormone imbalance, your doctor needs to determine which hormones are out of balance and by how much, and then customize a solution that works specifically for you.

Not only that, @prolifeproliberty, but acne is technically a form of skin sensitivity.

Suppose there’s something in, say, your moisturizer or makeup (speaking of: clean your phones and brushes!) that is causing your breakouts. Throwing synthetic hormones at skin sensitivity is just going to make it angry.

I dare somebody to ask how I learned that.

Exquisitely put, my friend.