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"If we released it, we could get in a lot of trouble. Wait until we edit it first." It's not ambigous.

@Thorn_ I think pretty much every single sentient creature with access to the news knows that at least 2/3rds of Congress were on the island at some point. (un)Coincidentally, the first set of files they dropped a few years ago had Donald Trump on the flight logs. Those we're pretty sure are already edited. And now they're saying they don't exist (and got sloppy about faking everything (are we serious?)).

No. (9/11 was not an inside job.)

more stories need the word “rizz” in them

A middle-aged man dabs as he gets a blowjob. "I'm cooking!" He exclaims proudly.

@MichaelChaseLit as much as it would mentally damage me, shorthand for 'charisma' unironically would have a place in the proper contexts and I hate that.

Huh.... Yeah, that would work. Especially if the cammer is using a type of sex toy that viewers can activate with tips. Make it a game "'camgirl vs viewers, can you finish me off before I finish this story?"

Yeah sure, retracing history is cool and all, but speculating about nonsense is way more fun, especially when there's a distinct logic to an suprisingly simple explanation.

Etymology is also hilarious when similar sounding words in one language have wildly different origins from two separate languages and so on. And of course then there is the "homo" issue where ancient Greek and Latin have an identical word with different meanings but now kids who speak neither of those will giggle when they hear "Homo Sapiens."

@raziel83 how could you forget Homo Erectus

I know how that feels. Reading someone else's story that seems great and then something minor happens and now I'm out of the zone. ...And it isn't even their fault, they are 90% in agreement with my kink.

It's even worse when it's not even about some sideline bonus fetish or extra detail, it's simply going too damn far.
I like a lot of things, but I DO NOT like to feel bad for the characters. And it isn't like there's anything I'd change either, it's still the same idea, just farther then i'd like it taken...

Anyways I'm gonna be more active on here for the next... 2 1/2 months?... Yeah that sounds like long enough.

On second thought, maybe that's the exact opposite of the solution here.

On tertiary thought, however, I have been thinking about getting on AO3, so maybe I'd better just accept my fate, huh?

It's a racket. Walkable cities and good public transportation are better for equality, health and practicality.

1. Purchase and playing Balatro

10/10 game, valid use of my time. Will be playing again.

2. Playing Bee Swarm Simulator on Roblox dot fucking com. Don't tell me your opinion on a taxpaying citizen playing Roblox, I've heard it before.

3. Typing this nonsense out instead of NOT ousting myself out for the world to see (bonus points because this probably should've been a forum post).

I don't know if there's any lore, but what do you think it does to a a 12 year old kid if an authority figure that is widely portrayed as infallible tells them they're Slytherin (ie. evil) and then force them to only hang out with all the other kids who've been told they're evil? I can hardly think of a better method of creating turning a quarter of your students into the in-universe equivalent of the SS!

@TheLowKing I'm not quite that invested into Harry Potter lore, but wasn't/isn't Slytherin more of 'mischevious pranksters' rather then evil? At least until Tom Riddle/Voldemort/You-Know-Who said "It's Voldemorting time" and Voldemorted all over the place. I feel like at some point we got about half of Slytherin explicitly hate the 'evil' label.

Also, wouldn't the Sorting Hat be WAY older then anything we see in the books (not including spin-offs and historical lore flashbacks). I feel like the thing's kinda necessary for the 4-house system to work. If it's not as old as Hogwarts, then it probably would have been one of the first Dumbledore did as Headmaster.

A CIA agent gets involved in the competition, but all he does is drop LSD into everyone's drinks (including his own) and then watches people go crazy.

No no, there'd be several agents, and they'd all be taking notes.
Also, you want to drug no more than 50% of the people there because then you get to see all the possible combinations of drugged hypnotists, undrugged hypnotists, drugged victims, and undrugged victims.

CIA is not that competent. Especially not during their LSD era.

Ah... that sucks. Get well soon!

I literally had never heard of Mick Jagger. Ever. The only mention of his name I ever heard was the song 'Moves Like Jagger', and the only name I'd ever heard that sounded even remotely like 'Mick Jagger' that was known for moving well was Michael Jackson.

In other words, I live under a rock, apparently.

:D

Well, there are also other MJ's you could mistake them for :)

I wouldn't say you live under rock - just that you are young and inexperienced ;)

At the risk I'm blowing your mind: Elvis is also not a nickname for Michael Jackson.

Would that mean that religious wars are caused by different writers trying to kill off each other's OCs?

If we assume the converse, that religion/mythology is how the characters percive the writers, then it stands to reason that the generally more 'evil' gods (tricksters like Loki) or destructive events like Ragnarok are a sort of 'writer war'.

Although, if we assume the 'gods' are self inserts, and they people behind the divine screen are really just trying to write a good story, then there is a very real chance the wars of our world are merely another part of the story, the supposed 'plot-twist'.