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So I was browsing Twitter, right?

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NaNoWriMo Support Group

I'm off to a terrible start (1200 right now), but the month is young, plenty of time to come back. How's everyone else doing?

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What's your favorite quote(s) of all time?

Most of the things said by Khalil Gibran. I used to rotate these through my sig, but then Rick and Morty happened..... here's a few.

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking."

Idunno basically google anything he's ever said, fucking genius.

this is awesome

amputation bandwagon?

nobody ever jumps on my trends.

Apparently it's socially unacceptable to refuse to go to your mother's funeral

Lucian said
Tradition is great and all, but we didn't have the study of psychology for six-thousand years.

People were dumb before the -ology suffix was invented. Idunno. I'm pretty sure we were all thinking about thinking for as long as we've been human beings. It's basically the human condition. I'll grant you, just cuz we've been doing the funeral thing since forever, doesn't necessarily mean that's automatically the best way. But it does probably mean that most people think it's the best way, as that's been reinforced every generation since Adam and Eve (or Caesar the ape, or whatever). Hopefully that helps explain the reaction.

Apparently it's socially unacceptable to refuse to go to your mother's funeral

Frizan said
I don't think Rax expected people to "not be shocked", per se. More like he expected them to maybe understand his position without going full retard and acting like they know how he should handle his mother's death.

six thousand years of documented human tradition have given us a pretty good idea of how to handle a death though.

NaNoWriMo Support Group

It's essentially a war story, in the vein of like 'Saving Private Ryan' or 'Blackhawk Down' or along those lines anyway, stylistically -- only it's set in fantasy. The narrative follows a few units around a mission gone bad and just sorta documents the confusion and chaos. At least in my head, it's all super thematic, rather than like an action-orgy -- of course that all turns into your run-of-the-mill 'War isn't heroic' message, so it's really not all that special, but it's clicking to me right now, so I'm just gonna go on ahead like it's the most profound shit ever written, and hope for the best.