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wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???

Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.

First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.

I see first person stories like I'm sitting down across from the narrator getting the wildest tea imaginable

Most accurate way to read a first person story

second person stories are about you

Me: So anyway, I went down to the shops yesterday and --

Person I'm talking to: What? I didn't do that!

Divorce seems to radicalize american men in a way that needs to be studied

A divorced american man will join a right wing terror group because he didnt get custody of the kids he didnt take care of at all

An american man will have an affair with a colleague, get caught, get divorced, and join isis

Intelligent words from @junequeer

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Ruling made April 4th, 2025. This is current.

Context:

As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

diving back into msscribe lore made me remember this; imo one of the funniest things about the My Immortal fanfic is the context to which it was born in the HP fandom at the time. In the early 2000's, HP fandom was a veritable arms race of who could write 'the best' most 'sophisticated' HP fanfic and the BNFs (Cassandra Clare, for example) were elevated to their pedestals because they were seen as the most talented fic writers. There were pissing contests, passive-aggressive comments about so-and-so being 'a mediocre fic writer' just shared between supposed 'friends', like one's popularity currency absolutely depended on whether or not the fandom deemed one's writing 'good enough'. Everyone was trying to be the goddamn idk Jane Austen of HP fandom pretty much. Even by 2006 (and msscribe's fall from grace, if you even care lol) this was still more or less the case- so the fact that this absolute unrepentantly bad HP fanfic came out during that time, the fact that Tara just kept posting chapters and doubling-down on people's criticisms and abject horror, the fact that this fanfic gave NO FUCKS about spelling, grammar, keeping characters intact, or even the original context of HP at all makes My Immortal's existence so much funnier than it already is on its lonesome. My Immortal was a slap in the fucking face to the entire established system and it reveled in being so.

Tellingly, I think, most people online today aren't going to know those 'popular', supremely 'well-written' fics off the top of their head, but even some IRL people I've talked with know and love My Immortal. Hell, Tom Felton has read it for his IG! Amy Lee either read or reacted to it a few of years back! It has it's own wikipedia, countless illustrations, works inspired by it and a cult following even today! I can't say the same for any of those fanfics that came before!

Whether My Immortal was a skilled troll or an unapologetic teenage girl that was going to write whatever the hell she wanted to, goddamn it, doesn't really matter because the effect was the same. Maybe remember that the next time you're agonizing over whether or not your writing is 'good enough'. Sometimes, it doesn't even need to be.

Kinda wild that every time a trans athlete does well it’s all about “ooh wahh but biological advantages” as if the kind of person who is both “Good At And Interested In Winning Competitive Sports” and also “Willing To Risk Losing Their Safety And Everything They Love In Order To Seize Life By The Ass And Be Who They Are Out Loud And In Public In A Society Prepared To Shred Them Alive” isn’t the kind of supremely driven person who might be actually pretty well-suited to Work Hard Get Point

Shocking You Would Allow This Trans Athlete Compete Against Normal Children When They Obviously Have The Advantage Of (checks notes) Wanting To Accomplish Their Goals More Than They Fear Death

My NSFW Catgirls zine.

the REAL truth that this coward won’t admit is that you absolutely did not have to do this no matter when you were born. my mp3s went straight into that thing looking exactly like they were downloaded and I learned their weird names like god intended. you and your “put together” ipod have nothing on me and my 45 🖾 🖾 🖾______%a&us.fr.uk by Various Artists

Seized by a sudden urge to learn a bit more about Australia's territories, I stumbled onto this thing:

They created a new territory to give the ACT access to the sea I'm dying

We created a whole new territory because NSW and Vic couldn't stop squabbling over who would get the capital and then had to create ANOTHER territory because the new capital territory was unfortunately surrounded by NSW

It's not even controlled by the ACT they gave it to the federal government (who reside in the ACT and have an unusual amount of control there).

i don't know why the ACT gave it up but we still have the right to build a train line there if we want and if we do it's under our jusrisdiction

management sim arse governance rules

From what I'm given to understand, this insanity came about due to the people choosing the location for the ACT having the mutually exclusive desires of

Listen I know we've been in a couple of wars where we were a valid military target so I can't roll my eyes at the idea, it's a valid concern if you don't know where travel technology and future military operations are headed, I mean we did settle down that coast in the first place so it's not a ridiculous vector of approach, but I just cannot erase from my mind the concept of people terrified that Aotearoa is coming for our politicians.

Quiver in fear from all of our (checks notes)... eight ships

Seized by a sudden urge to learn a bit more about Australia's territories, I stumbled onto this thing:

They created a new territory to give the ACT access to the sea I'm dying

We created a whole new territory because NSW and Vic couldn't stop squabbling over who would get the capital and then had to create ANOTHER territory because the new capital territory was unfortunately surrounded by NSW

It's not even controlled by the ACT they gave it to the federal government (who reside in the ACT and have an unusual amount of control there).

#“in the vicinity of the landlocked ACT”#it it no where near the vicinity of#theyre like 3 hours away from each other#also. yuin mention 🎉

By Australian standards that's vicinity. Personally I think they should've picked up the whole ACT and moved it to the coast.

But they had to put it inland and by the mountains so the poor white politicians wouldn't get too hot and lose the ability to think!

"The most significant reason, which all politicians agreed with at the time, was that whites could only really thrive and lead by living in a cold climate"

- Canberra Historian Dr David Headon, quoted in Cadell, C. (2013) *Sydney vs Melbourne: the real Canberra story"*, Australian Geographic.

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/ag-blog/2013/11/sydney-vs-melbourne-the-real-canberra-story/

Oh like Discworld trolls!

me (user since 2010) everytime this site is in a 50/50 situation of being nuked every 3 years

The court in Ace Attorney trying to avoid conflicts of interest when all of the prosecutors are fucking defense attorneys

cameron reed (author of the fortunate fall) just published their first story since the 90s‼️