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Pet peeve trope in SF/F:

The civilization and/or organization that has been around and mostly unchanged for much longer in that setting than the entirety of recorded human history has been IRL.

Minor pet peeve is when people use a word from a language that has no plurals, but invent a plural form “because this is how MY language works”.

Resharing:

How much does a rainbow weigh?

 — Not much. It’s pretty light.

I keep thinking I need to get my national ID card redone, because my current one was done a few days before I turned 18, and it’s safe to say some of the info on it might be a BIT outdated.

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I admit I have a visceral reaction to the argument that it is the writer’s duty to leave as much to the viewer’s imagination as possible.

At which point does a storyteller get accused of telling too much story, when they themselves think they’re not done telling the story they wanted to tell?

Malagasy proverb:

“Raha mpanan-karena tsy mihinana: tsy tompony fa mpiandry entana.”

(“A rich person who does not eat: not the owner, but a guardian of wares.”)

i.e. not using your wealth is just the same as not actually owning it.

A book blurb for the Iliad:

“If you think inviting Eris to your party is too much trouble, here’s an account of what happens when you DON’T.”

Thankfully one I’ve never experienced, but one form of hell must be “I’m a CG artist and I created a piece of CG landscape/spacescape art, and now it gets reposted without credit on social media bot accounts that all claim it’s an actual photo”.

A Malagasy idiom I heard last night:

“hena eny an-tanan’ny saka”
(meat in the cat’s hands)

i.e. something that cannot be taken back, an action that cannot be reversed.

Someone asked why people always remember Dante’s Inferno but not the other two books in the trilogy,

so I, an incurable volcano nerd, replied that people probably remember only Inferno because it’s considered Dante’s peak.

Just amusing myself with the fact that four different languages have been used in this house earlier.

(My brother, sister-in-law, and cousin using some Malagasy while studying German with their teacher; my mother and I speaking French while I’m reading an English-language novel.)

Me, opening the Wikipedia page for the city of Weed, California: “Ha ha, funny town name.”

Me, having read the Wikipedia page for the city of Weed, California: “Man, screw cartoonishly evil billionaires and the cartoonishly evil corporations they own.”