How true is this or are we doing the same thing “generation killed industry/way of doing things” that the boomer media is so fond of?

It is. The meme has four glottel stops, this has three. The meme has the “el” removed, this doesn’t. Weirdly, the meme has the “o” sound removed for for “of” as well.

It’s an entirely fictitious way of pronouncing something, it equates a very, very small subset of the country with “Britain” and is a great example of “fake American British accent” becoming the “norm” to the extent where British voice actors are training to put on voices to sound “more British” (such as Tracer in Overwatch).

The meme might as well say “burdle der wurder” and claim it’s how American’s say it - kinda close, but also really far 🤷

THAT’S how Americans think British people pronounce it? I was looking at the image for ages trying to sound it out.

Please tell me no one seriously thinks this?

“Worst” case I can think of is “Bo’el o’ wa’er” and even that is incredibly limited to like…four boroughs of London.

US: Let’s send weapons to our allies that are at war! Iran: We’ll do the same! US: shocked Pikachu face

People who earn more contribute more? They still take home more because it’s tax banded. No one goes “up a tax bracket” and earns less. It’s a nonsense statement.

Making $60k in Quabec your take home is: $44,428

Making $140k your take home is: $91,713

Using this example, all they’re going to feel is their take home pay more than doubling.

EDIT: Source: https://turbotax.intuit.ca/tax-resources/quebec-income-tax-calculator.jsp#

Just because I don’t have a solution doesn’t mean the problem isn’t worth highlighting imo

Now go watch some “problematic consent” porn next to her and see what happens!

I wonder if there’s a clear marker pre-50 shades of grey and post-50 shades of grey…that book seems to have done a number on people.

And then I checked out a competition for unpublished authors looking to break into self publishing.

Seven judges. ONE wasn’t porn.

The entire discourse is like this. Seriously, there was a great threads where someone asked to spend money on anything that was literary and indie. Crickets, despite indie authors attacking her a few days earlier for not reading indie.

I’m not searching this out, I’m searching out indie authors. On instagram yesterday, I checked out the indie author hashtags and every single one was porn.

So…why have the 14th amendment?

Sometimes monthly, sometimes quarterly, sometimes bi-annually. Depends on the magazine.

People that have never felt at home anywhere tend to write from a very different perspective (the BoJack episode where Diane goes to Vietnam comes to mind) so I really recommend it (even though my family seem to have stuck completely to about a 50 square mile radius in south England for 600 years until I came along and moved overseas).

Ooo forgot about Uncanny. I’ve read a few editions, might be time to get the old bank card out.

Nearly all are digital now, but they’re the successors to the old pulp magazines. I think Locus is still a print magazine, though :)

CNF = Creative Non-Fiction

My wife is an author and I was trying to explain this to her the other day. Pirated copies aren’t “lost customers” but were statistically unlikely to ever be customers in the first place.

I get what you’re saying, though I can’t recommend Ender’s Game because your money goes to supporting gay conversion therapy. Plus, once you get into the second book, the similarities with Ender’s Game becomes a lot more dubious, and by the third book disappears entirely.

However, “Opinion is all you’re going to get” and “objectively bad” is kinda oxymoronic 😉 Are there objectively bad books? God yes, I have read enough hopeful author’s in my life to say that basic cause & effect or the notion of “story” as something apart from “series of events” are not always understood. However, I think you’re right that this is a case of opinions based on style.

TBP (the trilogy, not just the first book) is a lot more to do with societal responsibility than a single hero (though individual failings are also a theme, though usually in how they impact society/humanity as a whole). It focuses on our place in the universe from a cultural point of view starkly different to the rugged individualism of the West (most Chinese SFF doesn’t have a single protagonist), and TBP requires an enjoyment of playing with theoretical physics and geopolitics that is rather different from how they are used in contemporary Western sci-fi. So I 100% get it.

It definitely isn’t for everyone, and Chinese fiction in particular can cause a lot of headaches because of this difference in how the world is perceived between Western and Eastern cultures (Legend of the Condor Heroes - another Chinese series I love - is a great example of this), so it really isn’t your “fault” (I hesitate to use that word) for it not being your cup of tea!

I don’t really read books digitally (my poor eyes now I’m in my 30s…) or listen to audio books. However, I do have multiple copies of the same book. I have four editions of The Hobbit, for example.

This is something I find interesting because it brings up the question: are books art in their own right, not simply a format for the story? My answer is YES! I love the look and feel of my Folio society edition, I love the smell and memories of my grandfather’s worn copy, I love the annotations in the second hand copy I got from a closing down sale (like the last reader was sharing the experience with me). And I love having a copy I’m willing to give/lend to friends and family that won’t break my heart if it’s lost.

This is the first year where I’ve decided not to have any reading goals. It isn’t work, it’s pleasure. I don’t have video game goals, or cloud watching goals, so why book goals? This year, I will read when I feel like reading!

Right!?! I even found my own writing spiraling into “and everybody dies” endings recently, so Becky Chambers was a breath of fresh air!

Not patronising, not naive, but utterly hopeful.