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Thursday Next posted:Oh, here we go! My number one writing pet peeve is people who are ostensibly allergic to the word "said". If your ability to describe a situation is decent, then you don't need to expand on the fact that your character "snarled" something. If you try and act a scene (and this is a scene as much as it is a fantasy validating her non-fatness) out loud by actually doing the actions your characters are using, guess what? Every single person looks loving bonkers. I will also never recover from "guzzled".
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cash crab posted:My number one writing pet peeve is people who are ostensibly allergic to the word "said". If your ability to describe a situation is decent, then you don't need to expand on the fact that your character "snarled" something. If you try and act a scene (and this is a scene as much as it is a fantasy validating her non-fatness) out loud by actually doing the actions your characters are using, guess what? Every single person looks loving bonkers. This drove me insane when trying to read 50 Foot Ant's giant STDH stories where pretty much every "said" synonym was "snarled", "growled" or other similar things.
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Oct 26, 2017 17:57
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I wish I could remember which actual published book I read as a kid where a character "goggled" a line, which was the moment I became very aware of that bad writing habit.
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Oct 26, 2017 23:30
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Mr. Belpit posted:I wish I could remember which actual published book I read as a kid where a character "goggled" a line, which was the moment I became very aware of that bad writing habit. I've been reading a detective series that's been going since the mid 90's and it's depressing how things went from "I got paged. I need to find a phone" to "I googled the address on my phone"
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Oct 27, 2017 00:42
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bean_shadow posted:"Afterwards we can watch Marley and Me!" Marley and I.
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Oct 27, 2017 01:03
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The fat people stories display a strange sort of anti-talent. I'm seriously kind of impressed that someone could write a story where someone crashes her birthday party and devours the entire cake, while making the narrator seem like the most insufferable person in the room. Also, someone should program a neural network or whatever the hot computer thing these days is to spew out endless variations of "lard planet" or whatever. The amount of upvotes it'd get on that sub would crash reddit.
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Oct 28, 2017 21:28
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Can we get some 50 foot ant stories in here? It always used to make me laugh how he'd describe his wife as SUPER HOT ( AND PREGNANT)
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cash crab posted:My number one writing pet peeve is people who are ostensibly allergic to the word "said". If your ability to describe a situation is decent, then you don't need to expand on the fact that your character "snarled" something. If you try and act a scene (and this is a scene as much as it is a fantasy validating her non-fatness) out loud by actually doing the actions your characters are using, guess what? Every single person looks loving bonkers. said bookisms.
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Oct 29, 2017 01:31
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Odd. I somewhat prefer the sound of the first version, the one with all the bits we're supposed to be avoiding.
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Oct 29, 2017 01:35
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Adverbs, so many adverbs. How is that better?
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Oct 29, 2017 01:54
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Wasn't there a thread that made fun of the fatstories? I think one of the good posts satirized the writing with "[fat person] said, fatly."
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SerialKilldeer posted:Also, someone should program a neural network or whatever the hot computer thing these days is to spew out endless variations of "lard planet" or whatever. The amount of upvotes it'd get on that sub would crash reddit. God, wouldn't it? I'm convinced half these people are just competing to come up with the most over-ornamented, obtuse insults they can think of, like the childfree guys and their endless array of bizarre terms for children and mothers. Whichever one of them first said "hmm, no, 'hambeast' just isn't a strong enough term to describe this husky middle-aged guy I saw at the supermarket, I have to go stronger" created a monster.
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Oct 29, 2017 06:16
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My personal favourite is seeing people try to combine "Landwhale" and "Ham Planet" and say "Land Planet"
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Oct 29, 2017 12:06
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Danaru posted:My personal favourite is seeing people try to combine "Landwhale" and "Ham Planet" and say "Land Planet" I dunno. Whaleham sounds amusing. Or hamwhale.
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Antivehicular posted:God, wouldn't it? I'm convinced half these people are just competing to come up with the most over-ornamented, obtuse insults they can think of, like the childfree guys and their endless array of bizarre terms for children and mothers. Whichever one of them first said "hmm, no, 'hambeast' just isn't a strong enough term to describe this husky middle-aged guy I saw at the supermarket, I have to go stronger" created a monster. I think my favorite childfree nickname for kids is "semen demon." Or possibly "crotch dropping."
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Antivehicular posted:God, wouldn't it? I'm convinced half these people are just competing to come up with the most over-ornamented, obtuse insults they can think of, like the childfree guys and their endless array of bizarre terms for children and mothers. Whichever one of them first said "hmm, no, 'hambeast' just isn't a strong enough term to describe this husky middle-aged guy I saw at the supermarket, I have to go stronger" created a monster. I find it very strange and mysterious (no I don't) that "hambeast" and similar terms are actually almost exclusively used to describe huge women. In fact, the fat hater stories in general are almost always about women. How weird!!!!
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Oct 29, 2017 15:59
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Oh! Thank you, I love this.
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I'm still a fan of  personally. I never thought of hamplanet or lardwhale or whatever being gendered insults, but maybe that's just me. 
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Oct 29, 2017 18:17
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Most fat hate is deeply, frighteningly misogynistic. Dudes like that see women as sex objects, so a woman who is fat or unattractive is basically subhuman to them. What I don't get is the guys who are personally affronted by the existence of fat people, like did a fat kid steal your lunch or something?
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Oct 29, 2017 19:56
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Most fat hate is deeply, frighteningly misogynistic. Dudes like that see women as sex objects, so a woman who is fat or unattractive is basically subhuman to them. My friends little brother went through a phase in his early high school days where he said fascism wasn't inherently evil and that states should have the right to ban fat people. He went ROTC out of high school and lives in Colorado now but I hope he's mellowed out since then because goddamn.
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Drunk Tomato posted:I find it very strange and mysterious (no I don't) that "hambeast" and similar terms are actually almost exclusively used to describe huge women. Yeah, you're right. I was mostly just thinking of the time in the old GBS fat-hate thread that noted garbage poster Three Olives posted a picture of a slightly husky middle-aged man he'd seen at the supermarket, standing in front of a shelf of bread, and was like "lol look at this gross FATTY FAT FAT buying junk food!!" I don't know if that was a case of Three Olives being gay and doing the same "anyone of the gender I'm attracted to who isn't personally attractive to me is a war criminal" thing straight dudes pull on women, or whether it was just Three Olives being an awful person. Or both.
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Oct 29, 2017 22:49
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Bertrand Hustle posted:What I don't get is the guys who are personally affronted by the existence of fat people, like did a fat kid steal your lunch or something? I see this a lot. People very passionately highlighting the dangers of obesity while condemning the supposed rampant "fat acceptance movement" as if they cared about the health of fat people when all they really think is that fat people are gross.
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Oct 29, 2017 23:23
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Well, they are.
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Strudel Man posted:Well, they are. User name is sad disappointment.
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Oct 30, 2017 03:22
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AlbieQuirky posted:User name is sad disappointment. OP doesn't get high on his own supply.
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Oct 30, 2017 06:32
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That was typed with one hand. 
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Get back to analyzing, you crazy analysts
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Oct 30, 2017 06:48
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Hey Susan, are you coming to the orgy on Sunday afternoon? I hear Todd from payroll is gonna be there!
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Oct 30, 2017 06:51
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Dear Penthouse, you'll never believe what happened to me
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His 100 employees having a huge fuckfest not being enough, our intrepid writer decides that the only thing that might explain his coming back a day earlier than planned is a loving office building in the middle of Atlanta all of a sudden collapsing in itself and nobody even bothering to report on it
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Also: analysts? More like ANAL-ysts hahaha
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System Metternich posted:His 100 employees having a huge fuckfest not being enough, our intrepid writer decides that the only thing that might explain his coming back a day earlier than planned is a loving office building in the middle of Atlanta all of a sudden collapsing in itself and nobody even bothering to report on it The orgy in that building accidentally converged on a structural weak point that was barely safe for a foursome. drat engineers just don't take these things seriously!
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System Metternich posted:His 100 employees having a huge fuckfest not being enough, our intrepid writer decides that the only thing that might explain his coming back a day earlier than planned is a loving office building in the middle of Atlanta all of a sudden collapsing in itself and nobody even bothering to report on it He also decided to be more believable the story needed a loony tunes-esque ending.
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I'm with the commenter on that last one, but about all of them. The last one is so stupid I refuse to believe it's not written by someone trying to make fun of every tumblr stereotype. yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 09:37 on Oct 30, 2017 |
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Oct 30, 2017 09:24
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Seriously, I get being annoyed about unwanted "compliments" from randos, but 1) grow a thicker skin and 2) there's much worse and more threatening than being called foxy by a man who can't even reach you
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Oct 30, 2017 09:31
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I like how the commenters censored name takes the shape of a penis. Male privilege everywhere!
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Oct 30, 2017 15:32
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This is utterly unbelievable. What kind of an office building has 100 workers coming in on a Sunday?
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Trash Boat posted:This is utterly unbelievable. What kind of an office building has 100 workers coming in on a Sunday? The kind that has them coming in each other, apparently.
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