By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!
This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.
This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.
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Girls don’t want to work. They want to think about fictional characters.
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Your lie will be more convincing if you have to pee when you tell it.Â
Because of a phenomenon called the ‘inhibitory spillover effect,’ the need to control your bladder also forces your brain to activate more self-control, which helps hide the tells you have when fibbing.Â
Another note for those new here; my approach to every show or book or whatever I like, in fandom, can be best summed up as “Steal good bits, then take a hammer and FIX the canon” so do keep that in mind if I seem to use, say, three paragraphs from a story and then completely ignore the entire rest of it.
“In the new canon…”
Listen canon is a punk bitch and can shut the fuck up I don’t give a shit what Disney says it’s mine now
I relate to this to a molecular level I don’t even know what fandom you’re originally referring to
Doesn’t matter it holds for every fandom.
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writers when they don’t find the trope they want between their fav ships online:
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If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both – you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
– Ray Bradbury
THE TRUTH
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE AT THE BACK
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“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.”— J. Spredemann
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I love saying “of course” instead of “you’re welcome,” like of course I’m helping you that’s what I do, you were foolish to even consider an alternate dimension in which I’m not helping you. you idiot. you absolute buffoon.
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“I could look it up but it’s more fun asking friends” gang
“there’s probably an objective answer for this but let’s see if someone has a rant locked and loaded” group chat
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Reflection from Mulan was so crazy she literally sang “If I were truly to be myself I would break my family’s heart” and 8 year old proto-gay me was like “I don’t know what you mean but I know what you mean”
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