Friday reminder

The women I know don't put up with this any more. We work full time and our husband's help us.

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The good ole boy network is alive and well.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Changing my belief system from "this is the hill I'll die on" to "this is the hill I'll kill you on" has done absolute wonders for me 10/10 do recommend

"you really gonna die on that hill?"

"someone is."

When did you two meet?

Uh, I gave a speech to her Academy class forever ago. […] I was speaking about a test mission I'd flown. Una came up to me afterward and, uh, pointed out a mistake I'd made during reentry. [Bold.] And annoying. But she was right. She had the guts to tell me.

There should be more books that have chapter titles, and then a little summary of the chapter below them. You don't have to be boring with them, or spoil the whole chapter by telling what happens - you could make it vague, like a prophecy of something you know is going to happen, but you don't know how, or with what results.

Having one-sentence summaries like "Chapter 12 - where the Queen's hound makes a fatal mistake" and you're like oh shit does this refer to the queen's actual hunting dog, or the guy that's mockingly called her lapdog? "Chapter 24 - where justice finds a thief, and a thief finds justice" and you're like ooooh shit the cute little pickpocket is going to get caught, and then it turns out that shit, she does get caught, but by someone who actually agrees that she's right to steal to help feed her family, and gets her help instead, which is justice.

You already know what's going to happen, but not how.

In a world where even chapter titles are an endangered species, perhaps we should all be trying to bring these back.

I appreciate it when modern authors put in the extra effort. The two recent examples I can remember were (IIRC) in Nona the Ninth and Going Postal, and they give you an added little puzzle waiting to find out what they mean.

The very VERY first draft of The Stars May Rise and Fall had chapter titles. I made them all bilingual, in English and Japanese, and half of them were little references to song titles and I loved them.

OK so I feel the need to elaborate on this. Like there was one that was 禁断の炎/Forbidden Fire, which was both an obvious reference to just like, being queer in Japan but also a nod to the Bonnie Tyler album Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire, and there was 過去の痛み/Pain of the Past which was all about X Japan’s Voiceless Screaming.

I don’t actually remember why I gave up on the chapter titles but I miss them because they let me give a little shout out to my influences, but if you didn’t know what it was from it was just a chapter title?

I've always loved chapter titles and everything I've ever written (novels and fanfic) has them. The titles are always pulled from a quotation that I include at the start of the chapter which hints at the important plot points and/or theme of the chapter.

I spend hours searching for and verifying the quotations and it makes me so happy when anybody mentions them

  “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.” - Edward R. Morrow (born: 25 April 1908)

yawwnnnn

destresing from editing class with a sleepy Sam

— Vincent Van Gogh

- Vincent van Gogh

lounging...

i think i just like drawing this dude

makeshift baby sling

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