[ SECRET POST #3503 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3503 ⌋

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[Avatar: The Last Airbender]


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[Overwatch]


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Comments

Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Here

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Why!? Just, oh God, why!!!!!!?

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I told you not to eat the fruit, my child!

I FUCKING TOLD YOU!

Re: Advice Thread

[sparrow_lately]

Because life is unfair and often punishes kind people

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

You know those big concrete blocks that are used on construction sites as weights, they have an arched space under them for scaffold bars or pipes and shit to go underneath them without crushing them, is there a specific name for those things?

Re: Advice Thread

[kaijinscendre]

Like these?

http://img.archiexpo.com/images_ae/photo-g/56829-1885241.jpg

Re: Advice Thread

[mrs_don_draper]

Cinder blocks?

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I'm writing a fic for someone else in a blind exchange. They like AUs, especially modern or supernatural ones. The canon we've matched on is already a period supernatural canon. I'm not going to write a coffee shop or high school AU; I want the characters to keep their special powers and for the fic to be about the stuff in the original canon. I've looked through their history and they only really get excited by AUs. How do I write a modern supernatural AU that feels like an AU to the canon? I feel like it would just end up being the same thing but with cell phones or computers or something, which they wouldn't even use on a hunt.

Also, I want to keep this relatively short. I usually take 15k+ for a fic and I have time for about a 5k. So, any thoughts on writing short AUs? This fic also has to be shippy so I have to give time for romance, which also increases the length of a fic.

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. See, this is something where it really depends a lot on the specifics of the canon involved. Because the most interesting thing is going to be translating the period presuppositions to a different period.

And also - I mean, in my experience, when we say "period" we often mean "genre", right? So for instance I think when you have a supernatural Western, or something like that, that's not really going to be an 1870s period piece. It's mostly going to be referencing the Western as a genre, not the actual historical moment. And so if you're doing a modern updating on that, it's really more of a genre AU - not just changing the period, but changing the genre logic from Western to something like, you know, American college story, or whatever. Because in addition to the different settings and societies, you also have a basically different set of expectations with regards to genres across those two cases.

Am I making sense here or just rambling?

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[(Anonymous)]

Maybe make it an FBI AU? A special supernatural section that deals with supernatural problems.

Some sort of convention? Either supernatural (in the vein of something like a home show or gun show or something like that) or something Comic-conish of the characters might be into.

Rock star AU?

Superhero AU?

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I cannot decide between San Miguel or Staroprammen, which beer should I buy?

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I've had San Miguel, and I've never had Staroprammen. So on that basis alone, I recommend Staroprammen.

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone used duolingo.com for learning another language? Was it any good? Did you find it worth using?

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[sarillia]

I really like it, but I'm someone who loves to just dive right in and try to answer questions even before I've learned everything. I learn from getting things wrong and then correcting it. I also like to see a lot of examples and sort of figure out a lot of the grammar on my own rather than depending entirely on theoretical explanations of it. I learn better when I can get it to make intuitive sense to me that way.

But I know a lot of other people who don't like it because they want more information provided than Duolingo gives outright. In fact I know more people who don't like it than people who do. I just got lucky that it fits my preferences perfectly.

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[(Anonymous)]

It is amazing and free.

That being said, the times I've used it, I've only done it in spurts. Learning a language is hard when you rely on self-motivated and don't have structure to push you through when you get lazy. And I don't think anything is a true substitute for finding a language conversation partner and actually speaking. That being said, for the cost of $0, Duolingo is probably the best you'll find.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm using Duolingo right now. Its alright, not the best, but really good for the price (free!)

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[(Anonymous)]

It's got pros and cons.

Con (in my view): I think you get more vocabulary/phrases than grammar? At least, to the extent that it teaches grammar it does so by putting phrases in front of you and getting you to just recognize them by using them. So, to use terms really broadly, closer to an immersion experience than a textbook? If you're the kind of person who wants to really understand the mechanics of a language, it probably will frustrate you. And if you pick up languages quickly, you might get frustrated with the pace.

Pro: it's easy, it's free, and it does teach you a lot just through a trial-and-error/immersion kind of learning. It also has you use the language in a lot of different ways, including speaking! Which you won't get from a textbook. The way the app (or the website, I suppose--I have the app) looks and works is fun, there's a bit of a game element involved, and you can adjust the settings so that it pushes you to do a little more in order to keep up a streak/win points/etc. Since I have it on my phone, for a while it became the thing where, if I had a moment where I had too much time and started getting bored, I'd say "better do my duolingo for the day!!" So it's a great replacement for solitaire, lol.

Bottom line: it's good. How good it is depends on what you're looking for, and I don't know how far it can take you, ultimately? I didn't advance very far in the end, but I'm lazy.

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

How do I not feel awkward about still living at home in my thirties?

(Yes, I have my reasons.)

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Move out or start claiming your parents live with you. Or say that it just because the probation service housing was full.

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[(Anonymous)]

Don't care about what other people think.

Re: Advice Thread

[tabaqui]

Just embrace it, bb. You live at home. You have reasons. Moving out is a 'new' thing, anyway, since families lived together for generations and centuries before this.

If you're thirty, your parents are probably older/aging, so if you *must* explain yourself (which is not incumbent upon you), just say it helps them with bills/health issues/mobility/whatever. I'd move in with my mom/have her move in with me in a heartbeat if i could.

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[lb_lee]

Why would it be awkward? One of my wealthier friends still lives with his mom, because... well, they cohabitate well, and the rent on Long Island is ridiculous. They're already in a house far too large for his mom and her bf alone, so why NOT live together?

Lots of people stay with their families. No shame in that.

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Depends why you feel awkward. Awkward because of social expectations of independence? Like a lot of people pointed out, it was the norm for a long time, and it's once again becoming, if not the norm, then pretty darn common. Or do your parents make it feel awkward? Is it not a good fit? Then you might have to think through ways to make it easier somehow. Establish boundaries. In any case, find ways to reframe your thinking. Awkwardness is a result of expectations, so take a good look at those expectations. They might not be worth the value you're giving them.

Re: Advice Thread

[sparrow_lately]

How does one say "actually, [family member], you're abusive"?

Booze Question: Stocking a Home Bar?

[(Anonymous)]

So I'm going to be living on my own for the first time in YEARS, and I'd like to stock a home bar because I are an adult now.) What are the essentials? I don't want to spend a whole lot of money, but neither am I freshly 21 and will drink anything as long as it has alcohol in it.

What are the basics I should be investing in, and what can wait?

(Additionally, what are brands that are decent, but not account-emptyingly expensive?)