Ashdroid โ๏ธ๐ค @Ashdroid@octodon.social
| she/her, I guess |โ๏ธWhen you just want to get two soft tacos from Taco Bell, but the guy in front of you at the drive-thru orders $38 worth of stuff plus more when he's at the window.
THEY FOUND A WHOLE DINOSAUR FOSSIL THE WHOLE THING IT''S LIKE A STATUE YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE ITS FACE http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery/
thornton tangelos, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1935
@polymerwitch well there's other flavors in "cola" (vanilla and citrus e.g.). if you want to get close to REAL cola find this: http://qdrinks.com/mixers/kola
Parov Stellar is one of my favorite electroswing producers
Good: My cat loves to kill spiders.
Bad: Kill, not eat.
Good: Other spiders eat the dead and dying ones! ๐
Having a really beautiful day: Gray skies and all day drizzle, a lot of espresso, and even more Alkaline Trio songs.
She actually stayed still to let me take pictures https://mastodon.social/media/ULESRrxAmeSGeSBS8dk https://mastodon.social/media/ebCUbLfTDGVb8YkJCCE
Kinda was checked out of everything for the past few weeks.
For better. For worse.
Your written orders are always carried out promptly by your soldiers. Unfortunately, your inability to place commas appropriately leads to the fall of your empire.
#writingprompts #writing
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(I say "he" because I'm thinking of a particularly terrible (well-selling? somehow??) author who should have his writing license revoked.)
Ask me about the quality of prose in my favorite books? "uh, pretty good, I guess? Easy to visualize what the author was describing?"
Ask me about the quality of prose in books I dislike? "HERE'S MY 50 PAGE ESSAY ON EVERY POOR CHOICE OF WORD, PHRASE, CLICHร, IDIOM THE AUTHOR MADE AND WHY HE'S A FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED BEING ANd I'm only on page 15"
For me, a book's prose is like a movie's music. When it's good, I don't even notice it. When it's bad, I can't pay attention to anything else.
It took me a while to get used to it, but I love Mastodon's multilingual personality. On Twitter, if you don't speak the languages, you will never see them on your feed. Here, it's a consciousness expansion. A world bigger than your tongue!
My partner is more amused than he should be that my birthday this year falls on Dyngus Day.
Oakland Proud. 19th & Webster, Oakland, CA.
Tough to have lunch and pay attention to work colleague conversations with a battle elephant staring me down through the window, I tells ya.
Deep colors and light sent from the center of the galaxy to our eyes over 50,000 years.
A film photo taken during the ice storm that hit Eugene in December.
