Metasyntactic Variables

revacholianpizzaagenda:

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New fan translation of the Disco Elysium novel posted on reddit!

This one comes with the extras and also the original writing/editing/worldbuilding credits, and the lists of hundreds of names of Elysium characters, geographical entities and assorted concepts that fill the inside covers of the printed copy. Hours of unrestrained fun with the lists alone.

And footnotes. So many footnotes. And fayde checks everywhere because you wouldn’t believe the stuff that was canonized in English by the game to begin with.

laughingpinecone:

Three perfect pears (Harry/Kim 3sentence)

(3sentence ficathon)

VISUAL CALCULUS [Challenging: Success] – The fruit crates over in the back of the corner store are commandeering the lieutenant’s full and unwavering attention; there is something about the pears – a sizable specimen at the bottom, green, fat and imposing, balancing two smaller ones on top of it, one elegantly curved, the other a short, wide thing that sits in front of its brethren like a snout – that is calling to him, daring him to complete the picture, trace lines and shapes beyond the surface image of reality.

INLAND EMPIRE [Heroic: Failure] – Do not kid yourself, don’t do this, old fool, do not dare to hope… your friend is a creature of logic and habit, his thoughts concern the world as it is, and I might tell you that those pears stacked together are shaped a lot like you, with your gut, hair and muttonchops, but he, he is surely thinking of baking a pie, or of an old inside joke with a mechanic friend you’ll never meet.

PERCEPTION (Sight) [Easy: Success] – You better wish well to whatever faraway connection is filling his thoughts, Harry, because if there is one thing Kim Kitsuragi is right now, it’s happy: would you look at that, under the endearing line of his moustache now blooms such a perfect, contented little smile.

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theshepherdscrown:

“No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were…sort of…bad on equal terms. What set Vimes’s teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.”

— Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett

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cipher-fresh:

mysteryspotcast:

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  1. Follow their official social media on all platforms and only trust statements from the union itself, and articles they promote (be wary of other articles).
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  3. Be vocal in your support and inform others in your communities.
  4. Stop using ChatGPT and other AI tools, even for fun.

[ID: The Destiel confession meme. Cas says “I love you” and Dean says “The Writers Guild of America is now officially on strike, bringing the US entertainment industry to a stop. The things they are fighting for, like restrictions on the use of Al to replace workers, will affect not just film/TV, and not Just the US, and they are holding the line for all of us.

Please make sure to vocally show your support online, be wary of articles and only trust statements from the union’s official social media, and stop using Al tools like ChatGPT, even for fun, as they help develop the tools these corporations are using to put people out of jobs and devalue the creation of art. #WGAStrong” /End ID]

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