I read the thread and what isn’t clear from one tweet that this 9yr old was reffing an adult women’s league, not a children’s league. And that woman who argued with said child ref was a player not a mom.
they should have left dorian and the inquisitor in the in hushed whispers timeline for like a month just because it would’ve been funny
dorian: i can’t believe we have to walk through this desert. AGAIN
cassandra: we’ve... never been here before
inquisitor: dorian, cassandra doesn’t remember the battle of the western approach
dorian: oh of course. well, i’m not saying i liked the army of walking corpses, i am saying that they broke the monotony
inquisitor: i don’t miss the were-varghests. or the fade whirlpool
dorian: [in the tone of someone saying something absolutely hilarious] well you can’t really miss the fade whirlpool
inquisitor: [cracks up laughing]
cassandra: is this what heatstroke feels like
josephine: inquisitor i know you think it’s helpful but you have to stop saying “see that’s funny because those were literally your last words in the other timeline”
inquisitor: i don’t think it’s helpful
josephine: could you try to be? because our forces are falling apart as we speak.
inquisitor: oh wow. okay i know this is a boy who cried wolf situation here but those were literally the last—
inquisitor: hey mother giselle just brought me a letter and i want to say upfront i know i stood by you through the last time you reunited with your father but if we have to do it again i’m going to kill him
dorian: understandable but i’m going to have to ask you to not
inquisitor: can i at least tell him that in the other timeline we were gay married for three decades or something
dorian: a reasonable compromise
cullen: we met this tevinter necromancer two days ago and now he’s in all our war table meetings?
inquisitor: cullen i’m going to be real with you i was much more understanding the first time we had this conversation but if i am separated from the only person who understands what i’ve been through right now i’m going to start shaking like a chihuahua and then possibly start biting
dorian: i hate to admit to any such reliance but yes if you try to remove me i will probably simply tell you when you’ll die
inquisitor: and it’s not even a good one, cullen
dorian: distasteful way to go, really. pick something else this time
dorian: dare i ask why our dear friend solas has been looking at us like that
inquisitor: oh so you know how we still never really figured out what his deal was in the other timeline
dorian: i remember
inquisitor: i’ve been implying that we did just to fuck with him
Scrivener is a writer’s best friend.
It’s a word processing software created with unruly, complicated novels in mind. However, some writers stay away because its many features can be seem overwhelming at first. If you want to use Scrivener, but haven’t taken the plunge yet. Or if you already use Scrivener, but haven’t explored its many features, check out my three part guide to writing a novel with Scrivener, from planning to editing and all of the key smashing in-between.
1. Planning with Scrivener
Scrivener comes with tools dedicated to outlining, researching, and brainstorming your manuscript. The first part of this series details everything you can do in Scrivener before setting that first line down in ink (or pixels.)
2. Drafting with Scrivener
The second part in this series covers the actual “writing” part of writing. It covers multiple composition modes (even making your screen mimic Microsoft Word!), writing in split screen, word targets, and more.
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The third part of this series gives advice on exporting your writing into a standard manuscript format, saving each version of your work as you go along, and the best tools for revising your manuscript.
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Disclaimer: This is not an ad. I am not being paid by the Scrivener people. I just really love this software.
Reblogging this because I’m currently writing with Scrivener. (In conjunction with using the Forest app to time my writing sessions and the progress tracker I made.)
I forgot how utterly amazing this software is, so I’m re-blogging my three Scrivener guides!
The four features that are killing it for me right now are:
A separate text file for each chapter. The organization make it so easy to move around my manuscript, so that doing things like going back to certain chapters to find information I need isn’t an utter nightmare. Equally important, I try to make sure my chapters are between 1,500 and 2,500 words for consistency. Having a separate text file makes it easy to see how far away I am from that mark. Which brings me to feature two.
Targets! I can set manuscript targets, session targets, and chapter targets. This means I can tell Scrivener I want my novel to be 40,000 words long, my chapter to be 2,000 words long, and that I’d like to write 1,500 words today. I can even say I want to finish my book by August 1st, and it’ll tell me how much I need to write each day to meet it–adjusting automatically if I go over/under my daily goal. It’s motivational too, pushing me forward because I’m never far away from hitting a goal.
Statistics! Scrivener goes above and beyond for manuscript statistics. I click one button and it tells me how many words there are in my book, how long the paragraphs and sentences are on average, how many chapters there are, the longest and shortest chapters, how many pages the document would be as a paperback, and even how long it would take to read!!!! I. Love. It.
Paragraph highlights in composition mode. This is a comparatively insubstantial feature, but in this drafting phase it’s been really helpful for keeping me moving forward–focusing on the words I’m currently writing, not going back and changing the ones I wrote twenty minutes ago.
Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation: it’s a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me — because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation
Amazon owns Audible, the monopoly audiobook platform that controls >90% of the audio market. They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon’s monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library.
That’s a hell of a lot of leverage to hand to any company, let alone a rapacious monopoly that ran a program targeting small publishers called “Project Gazelle,” where execs were ordered to attack indie publishers “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle”:
DRM ON FUCKING BOOKS???
The publishing industry 100% loves DRM on books. Like the publishers themselves will often insist upon it because they think it stops piracy.
The only media industry that doesn’t 100% love DRM is the music industry, and that’s because they released digital content without DRM before they realized they might need it. (You might have heard of it - it’s called the Compact Disc.)
(I’ll put a cut here, this got long.)
For a while, I was de-DRMing my Kindle books specifically so Amazon couldn’t spontaneously decide to just…take them all back. I should probably look at doing that more.
I love it when Cory does this.
Aside on How People Defeated The Music Industry With a Felt-Tip Pen/Sharpie.
CDs, like records before them, store their data in a long spiral track. Music CDs go from the inside out; data CDs go from the outside in. This prevents your CD player get confused/ruined by trying to play a data CD - it will look at the middle, see nothing, and go “nothing for me here!”. This is good.
When you put a CD in a computer’s CD player, it will check the outside first (assuming it’s more likely to be a data CD), then check the inside (so it can still play your tunes / rip them).
So a music exec came up with a dastardly plan: put something that ‘looks’ like a small data file on the outside of music CDs. CD players will still be fine (they will start from the inside), but computers will think it’s a data CD and ignore the music! No ripping possible!
… except people realized you could just do a quick line around the outside with your favourite black pen. The computer wouldn’t be able to read the data file on the outside, so would then (correctly) think it’s a music CD.
The ‘small file on the outside of music CDs’ thing died very quickly after that.
“Last year, Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav made $246.6 million; Disney’s Bob Iger made $45.9 million; and Paramount Global CEO’s Bob Bakish made $32 million. These individuals make more money per year than almost any entertainment executive before them. Just a small portion of each major CEO’s annual salary could cover the cost of the guilds’ reasonable structural and financial demands, and yet, they say it’s not possible. How could that be? Because it’s not about the money. It’s about power and perception. Almost none of these CEOs built the companies they run. We are not negotiating with Jack Warner or Walt Disney. We’re not even negotiating with the people who enriched these companies, like producer Robert Evans at Paramount in the 1970s. These CEOs are basically people who just work there—and who have contracts that allow them very large amounts of money. And right now, they don’t want anyone to know that. They don’t want anyone to know that they don’t actually build anything. They don’t want anyone to see them capitulate and bend the knee to any degree by making a deal with the writers and actors who build the product they fund and distribute. They don’t want to reasonably negotiate with these artists, because they think it will make them look weak. They think it will make them look like chumps, make them look simply like the employees of these companies that they are.”
— Justine Bateman on the Destruction of the Film Business (via wilwheaton)
This is absolutely it. All this crap is about nothing but the perceived power that comes with having a big fat paycheck, and (the fear of) losing face.:/
Always nice when math helps make it all the more clear how ridiculously reasonable the worker demands are.
This is what the studios have brought everything to a grinding halt for.
My sibling sent this to me with no explanation it’s how we communicate
i genuinely think we should have more cross-gender acting in film. i think cis female actors should play cis male characters and vice versa without the characters’ masculinity or femininity being a joke and i think this ought to happen enough that it isn’t a big deal at all. cast timothee chalamet as marie antoinette he can pull it off. let gong li play an emperor. this will be good for everyone, especially me
