remy-sparklemuffin.bsky.social
I used to be a proper person. Now I'm just a teensy dancing spider online. Archaic millennial. They/them
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After the destruction of Alderaan, Leia's droids, that she inherited from her bio father, are all that she has left of her childhood home. And her stupid brother just claims one of them and takes it to the other side of the galaxy. Rude.
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I'm a Hotdog with Crispy Outside and Soft Chewy Inside
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It is, he was talking about Russia and Ukraine. I just think it's a little ironic.
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Isn't that more a Perry Mason thing?
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The most notable thing about Loughborough is a tired joke about Australian tourists asking for directions to "Loogabarooga". My uncle Geoff claims this really happened to him, but so do thousands of other people.
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When did Biden become president?
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"Whole Foods, or as I like to call it, Whole Paycheck!!!!"
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Gender neutral bathroom
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I'm getting Geordie, like the announcer from Big Brother.
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I've been burned before by giving people a chance when I knew they were likely to let me down. And I'd do it again, because I don't want to be the kind of person who abandons struggling friends.
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something specific, rather than "how do you dance?"
I believe you that most of the people asking how to make something are lazy.
But it really sucks when you know you're subnormal at a skill, you're struggling with it anyway, you ask for help, and the response you get is "that's beneath me." 6/6
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and flexibility of Humpty Dumpty is going to go pro as a dancer, I'm doing this because (usually) it makes me feel better, and if I'm in the same Beginner Level 1 class in 30 years, it means I'm still dancing.
I've paid for the class, I'm not bothering someone in their time.
And I'm asking for 5/
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Good teachers realize that if I'm asking, I can't "just do it" and they'll need to break it down more. And maybe putting the pieces together is beyond me, but at least I'll have something to work on.
And I get that I'm not your guy. I'm not under any illusion that a 40-something with the shape 4/
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And the teacher says "you just do it".
And it breaks me, because what it means is that to people whose bodies aren't defective in the ways that mine is, this impossible step is *obvious*, to the point that the teacher has never needed to explain it before.
So it's a tad triggering.
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skills than it takes most people. It takes longer for me to get the motion into my head, and then the connection from my head to whichever body part is less reliable.
For the past decade-ish, I've been taking dance classes. And sometimes, in a class, I'll ask "how do you do that movement?" 2/
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I was generalizing from an experience that is not as analagous to your questioner as I thought.
I have dyspraxia. It's a neurodivergent learning disability which impacts physical coordination.
In addition to the bones I've broken from falling off things, it takes me longer to learn physical 1/
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Sure, sometimes. I think there are also people who have ideas but have difficulty finding a starting point, particularly in a composite medium like comics. So "write a thing" or "draw a thing" could be helpful.
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I've never seriously wanted to make comics and I was able to come up with an approach off the top of my head. But I am old and had a bunch of education and experience in breaking down problems that don't always have a clear starting point. If someone's asking "how do I start?", they don't have that.
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That's the eternal discourse problem of who is invited to any given conversation. If a person with a skill isn't obligated to help anyone else, but if they're publicly offering guidance, I think it's better if the guidance is helpful.
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I think asking people with experience is one of the ways we find stuff out. Not that anyone is obligated to talk to anyone else, but if you *want* to help someone, "here is one possible starting point, the rest is up to you" is infinitely more helpful than "just do it".
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When there's not enough food entering the country, even giving money to a genuine individual Gazan means that Gazan eats *but another Gazan doesn't*.
We're just bidding up the prices of food.
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Or maybe you start by coming up with a character, draw them in a bunch of situations, and then think of ways to link them together.
That's the kind of thing they're looking for. It's obvious to people who've done it already. The issue isn't fear of sucking, it's lacking a creative process.
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I think what the OP is looking for is a breakdown of where to start. I've never made a comic, but I figure maybe start with a story idea that you think would be a good comic, split it up into pages and panels, storyboard it with stick figures, play with it to see what works, and then start drawing?
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UBI vs single payer healthcare let's gooooo
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Heisenbucks, the more certain you are about who has them, the less certain you can be about them being spent.
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Did West Brazil conquer Guyana?
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Redwall has an uncomfortable species essentialism, where most herbivores are Good and most carnivores are Evil, although badgers are an exception to this.
But I did love them when I was 10.
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Full house, cheddar over brie
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Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Yarvin the Cringe?
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Mehdi was pretty explicit before the election that it was better to elect Harris and fight her on one issue than to elect Trump and have to fight him on everything.
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I think one of the most insidious lies of the manosphere is that only the "top 10%" (by whatever metric) of men will have happy/successful relationships, so it's not enough to just be normal - you need to be extreme to get into that 10%.
And it's just nonsense.
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Really the most effective approach is aging a few years - there are more 22yo women open to dating a slightly camp 22yo man than there are 15yo girls who would date a 15yo dweeb.
But "just wait" feels like terrible advice to a lonely, frustrated teen.
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But I get why teenage boys who aren't hitting the threshold would be susceptible to manosphere stuff.
"Be funny, kind, confident" gets you offered a place as a gay best friend. First time you hear that, cool, fine, whatever. Fifth time... you're looking for something to break through. 2/
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My experience nearly passing as a teenage boy was that if you didn't hit some baseline level of masculinity, girls would read you as gay, and most of them were not interested in dating at that point.
Being insufficient masculine seems a better side to fall on than being excessively masculine! 1/
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"My body count is zero. Why, how many people have you murdered?"
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We had one but we attached it to Caitlin Jenner, sorry.
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Up to the armpits?
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I am glad that we know where Leia got the holster for her blaster pistol now. That was worth getting Ewan McGregor out of bed for.
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Everything Everywhere All At One
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There's one scene in III where Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman get to Do An Acting that's pretty good. Also it's got some very memeable moments - tragedy of Darth Plagueis, Hello there, high ground...
But it doesn't hold together as a complete film.
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Isn't "legion" the term he used for how many offspring he wants?
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I thought it was a comparative, more widow than widow but not as much widow as widowest.
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I think the plural is "milves" but I could be wrong
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I would but I'm out of mana
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Blues Brothers 2000 is so underappreciated
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They're worse. Traditional TV was structured around ad breaks, so they could maintain escalated tension or fill a lull. YouTube just drops them mid-sentence.
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I'm hitting 42 next month, it's the nerdiest birthday