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• pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Feel free to skip the overwrought metaphor

  Well there goes 90% of the show, so no, you get the long version now.

  We’re both standing in the middle of a soundstage (lit like a European discotheque), and you whisper-talk at me at a volume 0.01% louder than the score:
  “I’d love to hear some of these examples of bad writing in the show! You can feel free to skip all of the overwrought metaphors.”
  and I respond
  “Well if I skip the ‘overwrought metaphors’, I seriously doubt I’ll have anything left to talk about!” then you say something about how hard this is on you emotionally, I quietly affirm that I’m here for you, then you bitterly reject it, and then I pinch off a pithy-sounding bon mot that’s actually nonsense, and walk off, leaving you standing stock-still in the grip of Powerful Emotions. Then we repeat all of this six more times, taking breaks for vomit-inducing scenes where 15,000 suicidally depressed animators shove every single item in the effects library onto the screen.

  But seriously, I know you’re just sea lioning. It’s not possible to ask that question in good faith. Imagine if I snottily asked you to give me an example of bad writing in 1994’s It’s Pat, you would tell me “uh, fucking everything, piss off” and you’d be right to.

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  • USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So that’s a “no?”

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    • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I believe I made it quite clear that I get to do the pithy bot mot that’s actually nonsense, stay in your lane.

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      • USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I get to do the pithy bot mot that’s actually nonsense

        The term is “bon mot.” Don’t worry though, this in no way affects my impression of your ability to judge what is or is not good writing.

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