Writer, film nerd, analyzer of media nonsense. Eiiri on Ao3. For my writing and art, check out @eiirisworkshop. I also run @thepromptfoundry where you’ll find monthly themed writing and art prompt lists.
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How many spaces were you taught to put after the end of a sentence?
I was taught to put 1 space, and I still do
I was taught to put 1 space, but now I put more
I was taught to put 2 spaces, but now I put 1
I was taught to put 2 spaces, and I still do
I was taught to put 2 spaces, but now I put 3 or more (?)
I was taught to put 3 spaces, but now I put 1
I was taught to put 3 spaces, but now I put 2
I was taught to put 3 spaces, and I still do
I was taught something else (4 or more spaces? None?)
I was never taught any specific rule for this
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I need to note this poll is going to skew dramatically because this is very explicitly about WHAT KIND OF MACHINE WAS COMMON WHEN YOU LEARNED. Typewriters didn't always have even kerning (actually I suspect they USUALLY didn't have even kerning) and a worn machine could do funny things with letters, so you'd double-space to make it clear it was a deliberate ending and not your typewriter being a diva. The double-space provided clarity.
Once we moved away from manual typewriters, there was no need for this--a computer will always have even kerning unless you've deliberately picked a font that mimics a typewriter (or is really badly designed), and computers don't have platens to wear down. I took keyboarding in 1998 and my teacher was still teaching two spaces, but many of us instinctively used one, and by the time I graduated high school they were teaching one space (although probably not entirely consistently yet).
Cloud, have I got great news for you about @icannotreadcursive ‘s main series
Yeah, yeah, that is pretty much exactly what I’ve written isn’t it
Reminder, analytical AI and generative AI aren't the same. While I loathe generative AI and feel there is no ethical way to use it at this time, analytical AI can serve valuable purposes in many fields.
Send me a word, any word, and if it’s in my WIP document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence or line it appears in.
applepiesundae36 asked:
Which of my favourite semi-obscure animals is your favourite?
Olm
Arabian Sand Boa
Shoebill Stork
Jerboa
Pink fairy Armadillo
Tenrec
Giant Salamander
Blue Dragons
Multiple of these
I haven't heard of any of these/Nuance
apolladay answered:
Which of my favourite semi-obscure animals is your favourite?
Olm
Arabian Sand Boa
Shoebill Stork
Jerboa
Pink fairy Armadillo
Tenrec
Giant Salamander
Blue Dragons
Multiple of these
I haven’t heard of any of these/Nuance
I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?
But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”?
Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.)
Or any sentence containing the word “finally”.
If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.
Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.
Encouragement and acknowledgment are so much more effective than punishment.
One of the moments that I think about a lot when I think about how much I love my Dad, is that once when I was a teenager prone to spending long hours alone in my room I emerged to spend time with the family, he joked “Oh look, it’s the lodger!”
And before I’d even processed what he meant (that I was behaving more like a tenant than a family member), he went on some kind of internal flashback journey, and said “My father used to say that to me and I hated it, I don’t know why I said it to you,” and he apologised, and never made a joke like that again.
It’s like he did a speedrun on overcoming generational trauma.
Unmute !
Captions
Woman in purple, in a high pitched, enthusiastic voice: if you’re not at work today or you’re working from home, you may be wondering, whAt day is it?
Man in suit, emotionless and factual: itsmonday
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emotionless and factual? that man is heartbroken. you can hear the grief in his voice.
Guess what day it is again folks
It’s monday
Happy first Monday of 2023 to those two newscasters specifically.
Happy First Monday of 2024 to those two newscasters specifically
Happy First Monday of 2025 to those two newscasters specifically.
looks like ao3 is down again and i was in the middle of a multi chapter fic when it died on me.
and if that happens to you, this is what you can do to download the fic:
i'm sure a bunch of people know this and use it but in case you don't, hope this helps
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