Explain your reasoning plzzz

They really need to teach financial literacy better in schools

This would get greater daily returns, but I feel like you're failing to acknowledge the perspective that a lot of people just don't want to maximize whatever earnings they might have. For me personally, $1000 a day is vastly more than I would need to live comfortably for essentially the rest of my life. I don't have any desire for more than that.

I'll take the $1k per day, not bc of the higher accrued amount, but because I like the idea of guaranteed income better than a one-time payment.

After all, lottery winners are the people most likely to go bankrupt.

I think people in fandom would be happier if they focused more on things they love than the things they hate

The whole “how the hell does this predatory creature get enough sustenance” thing that plagues fantasy and sci-fi occasionally gets so absurd it loops around into being funny, like the scene in Star Wars when the Millenium Falcon is flying through an asteroid field and gets swallowed by a worm.

I could complain about that, but I could also conclude that the supply of reckless space pilots flying into asteroid fields has been consistent enough for the past few million years for animals to evolve to prey upon them.

Who knows. Maybe there are enough adventuring parties roaming about the Forest of Doom to increase the available biomass at their trophic level in order to sustain tertiary consumers like giant spiderwolves...

“You’re going into the Catacombs? No one survives the Catacombs! Many an adventurer has tried!”

“Uh, how many have tried?”

“Enough to form an entire ecological niche for species specialized to prey upon them!”

“Oh. That, uhh, that is a lot.”

“Right? It’s pretty fascinating actually. I’m writing my thesis on it right now.”

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when i say i like hiking, i don’t mean “eight mile backpacking trip with special gear and an emergency beacon” sort of hiking, i mean a three mile loop to go look at pretty things and then a huge brunch after.

this is in no way a slam on hardcore hiking, it’s very fun, but i mostly just need to lower people’s expectations when i say hiking is a hobby of mine

"No no, that's ranger hiking. I like hobbit hiking."

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i actually dont think there's anything funnier than people watching a show or whatever bc they heard it allegedly had gay people in it then getting upset when it includes incredibly normal genre specific tropes that they personally dont like, like maybe you should have checked that before you watched it king and then they get mad at the show for being the show that it is instead of embracing it for what it is. like I'm so sorry that axe murderer 30000 had axe murderers in it and didnt have a happy ending and was really violent but i do think there are some context clues around it that could have let you pick up on that

This also applies to recommendations. I really wish people on here would stop recing things exclusively because of representation. I still remember that post that went like ‘if you’re sad that OFMD is over try Black Sails, or Interview with a vampire, or Hannibal.’ And, nooooo. Don’t do that. I kind of get Black Sails at least it’s also kind do about gay pirates. But why on earth would you think that people who like a mostly light hearted comedy show would want to watch serious dramas with extremely gory violence? You would do that in other contexts: ‘Oh you like Community? Try watching Breaking Bad, it also has straight people in it.’ That’s an obviously unhinged statement. And it’s not like there still is so little queer media that you can’t afford to be picky. You absolutely do not have to watch every show that has a gay person in it.

"A cishet person must have made this, no queer person would ever portray queerness in this way."

"This artist must be white."

"No SA victim would ever handle the subject in this way."

"No woman would ever write women like this."

"This creator is obviously neurotypical. Everyone with autism/ADHD/depression understands-"

Nope.

People who make these blanket statements are very frequently proven wrong when the creator comes out as a member of that group. And even when they aren't proven wrong, even in cases where the creator isn't from the group in question, actual members of the group who don't fit whatever arbitrary criteria are being expressed will see these statements and feel excluded and erased.

Not everyone in your group is going to share your experiences. No single individual gets to personally decide what does or doesn't count as a "valid" expression of trauma or being part of a particular group, and creators are also not obligated to out themselves in order to "prove" their validity.

If something doesn't resonate with you, all that means is that it doesn't resonate with you. You don't have to like it. But you don't get to decide what it means to someone else.

this is so important

I love first-person because it’s about what the narrator chooses to tell. What do they focus on? What do they leave out? What can you learn from reading between the lines? Are they lying to you? Are they lying to themself? It’s great for unreliable narrators and for epistolary storytelling! It’s intimate but there’s still a distance because you aren’t really seeing the narrator’s thoughts–you’re just seeing the story that they’ve constructed.

I love second-person because it’s a conversation. Does “you” mean a broad, indefinite “you”? Does “you” really mean “I” but with plausible deniability? Does “you” mean one specific person? Can they hear the narrator? Do they know the narrator? What is the relationship here? Who’s talking? Who’s listening?

I love third-person limited because it’s focused and intimate. What does the world look like from inside this character’s head? What are they seeing? What are they feeling? It doesn’t grant them the privacy that first-person does; the narrative isn’t something they’ve chosen, it’s invisible and inescapable. As a reader you’re not watching so much as astral projecting.

(I love singular point of view because of how much it leans into that limitation. You’re not getting the whole story; you’re not seeing anything unless this character sees it. How do you embrace that? What do you do with the gaps around the edges? How does that define–or warp–the events that they’re experiencing?

I love multiple points of view because of how it broadens your understanding of the story and the world. If two point-of-view characters react in opposite ways to the same thing, what does that tell you about them? About the world? How does it feel to spend time inside a character’s head and then see them from someone’s else’s point of view? How do all of these viewpoints work together?) 

I love third-person omniscient because the narrative is a character. It’s great for stories that know they’re stories! It allows for a camaraderie between the narrator and the reader! It allows for wider and more cinematic descriptions because you’re not limited to what a specific person can see! It lets you look at the characters from outside while still giving you the option to delve into their heads because you have full control over what you’re focusing on!

And I love authors who can combine viewpoints in ways you wouldn’t think would work but manage to pull it off! Stories with multiple point-of-view characters where one is first-person and the others are third! Stories that combine first- and second-person! Stories where the omniscient narrator suddenly refers to themself in the first person! Stories where you realize halfway through that you were wrong about who was narrating it!

Isn’t it fantastic that there are so many different ways to tell stories!!!!

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My elf OC is the classical regal healer type with silky long hair and wearing green but he was raised by humans and his name is Zebediah Flintwood so everyone expects him to be a rough-and-tumble gunslinger when they hear he's coming.

He started dressing like a steampunk cowboy and crafted a gun-shaped wand to not disappoint people. It also helps to confuse enemies.

Probably confuses the hell out of allies too, if I just got shot to near death, seeing cowboy point a gun at me is gonna make me run (or depending on where I'm injured hobble) for the hills.

You won't escape. Zebediah is the best sharpshooter this side of the Chionthar. He can heal a papercut from half a league away while blindfolded.

Zebediah Flintwood is so quick on the draw that he can heal you before you reach the 'u' in 'ouch'.

Zebediah Flintwood is so good that he can cure your headache before you know you have one.

Zebediah Flintwood was once kidnapped by pirates and then released two hours later with six wooden legs and an eyepatch as keepsakes.

Zebediah Flintwood can diagnose cancer by ear.

Zebediah Flintwood can french kiss your cavities away and straighten your teeth with his tongue.

When Zebediah Flintwood uses hand sanitizer, it kills 100% of germs.

Zebediah Flintwood can make a vampire's heart race and a skeleton blush.

Zebediah Flintwood makes all his healing potions out of lead and cyanide.

When Zebediah Flinthood was sneaking into a prison in full metal armor, he gave every guard an appendectomy without being noticed.

At first Zebediah found the jokes amusing, if baffling. But then people started taking them seriously and expecting him to be this impossibly amazing super-healer and that's an expectation he can't live up to.

His adoptive dads Xavier and Yochiel Flintwood.

Looking up famous Zebediahs to make a historical and relevant quip. Turns out, ain't many. So we're gonna do name etymology instead.

According to several sourse, Zebediah's a hebrew name made up of two roots for 'gift' and 'god;' which taken together mean 'gift of god.'

From this, we could probably extrapolate stuff about Xavier and/or Yochiel's religious sensibilities, and approximately how miraculous baby Zebediah's entrance into their life.

I think this baby fell from the sky like clark kent, and flowers bloomed in the massive crator.

I think you might be right.

Or at least that's the story they told him as a kid.

His dads adopted him when they were young. But due to the aging discrepancy between their species, by the time he came of age they were very old men.

They're still alive and married and very supportive of their son's healing career and the jokes people tell about him (they came up with like half of them). They tell everyone he's the secret to their longevity.

he was so compelling i had to draw him!

no references were used for gun, the gun thigh holster or the hat so uh. please don’t don’t look too closely there? Idk.

What a fancy lad, very stylish! (don't let anybody know, but his parents picked his outfit for him)

I think he would. That sounds like the kind of showmanship and commitment to the bit that he'd appreciate.

He won't treat you as a sidekick, though. You'd be equal partners in adventure.