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Would anyone like to join me in my New Year’s tradition of reading about good things that happened…

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86 Stories of Progress from 2024

Would anyone like to join me in my New Year’s tradition of reading about good things that happened this year?

A couple highlights:

There are now ZERO COAL POWER PLANTS in the UK. Zero! Also zero in Slovakia, which closed its last coal plant a full SIX YEARS ahead of schedule! This is great because coal is like, the dirtiest fuel source ever. It’s awful for the planet, it’s awful for our lungs, it’s just The Worst. Goodbye and good ridda...

Starting off the year with a banger in my own personal opinion

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Starting off the year with a banger in my own personal opinion

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Sometimes I get the feeling the only way we could achieve a STAR TREK segment on budget would be to have 60 minutes of Mister Spock playing

Somewhere, Bob Justman is chuckling. :)

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I am definitely not the only person to point this out, but there are fewer than I would have…

wildishmazz:

I am definitely not the only person to point this out, but there are fewer than I would have expected.

This is Arthur Dent’s dressing gown(being modelled by Ford Prefect).

And this is what you would probably get if you gave a picture of it to a production assistant and told them to find the closest match they possibly could.

last time my mom visited I was talking to her about parenting and how I appreciated a lot of the…

3liza:

last time my mom visited I was talking to her about parenting and how I appreciated a lot of the choices she and my father had made about raising me and my brother and she agreed that just listening to the child and taking them seriously was the One Weird Trick to cutting out like 60% of conflicts between parents and children. and she said one time I was about three or four years old and we were all going to the grocery store, and at the threshold of the store I just had a meltdown. i was ...

i come from the universe where everything is the same except disney heroines get like an ounce of…

technovillain:

technovillain:

i come from the universe where everything is the same except disney heroines get like an ounce of their fathers’ obviously dominant genes and their clothes are like 80% more historically accurate. it’s beautiful here.

another go at briar rose this time because i was exhausted doing her other one last night :’]

also the historical inspo for her peasant and royal looks :]

and belle’s too –

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me throwing the canterbury tales across the room: flying chaucer

me throwing ‘sailing to byzantium’ and ‘the celtic twilight’ across the room: YEATS

*whispered* I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you both to leave this library.

ckret2:some of the best writing advice I’ve ever received: always put the punch line at the end of...

ckret2:

some of the best writing advice I’ve ever received: always put the punch line at the end of the sentence.

it doesn’t have to be a “punch line” as in the end of a joke. It could be the part that punches you in the gut. The most exciting, juicy, shocking info goes at the end of the sentence. Two different examples that show the difference it makes:

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She saw her brother’s dead body when she caught the smell of something rotting, thought it was coming from the fridge, and ...

hey so this was insane

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hey so this was insane

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Lol, to restore the original artist’s credit—Grant Snider once gave me permission to “reprint” this comic on a coconut cake for my editing professor’s retirement. “Definitely the most unique request for reprinting!” he said.

I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

Here’s a link to his book!