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Define your music taste with 8 artists.

🎵Nothing More
🎵Pop Evil
🎵Seether
🎵Thrice
🎵Breaking Benjamin
🎵Linkin Park
🎵Bad Wolves
🎵The Gaslight Anthem

This is legit just my most played list on Spotify for the past month, because I didn't want to let myself squirm and try to sound interesting.

N.J. Gallegos @drspookyer.bsky.social · 13h

Define your music taste with 8 artists

🎵 Tiësto
🎵 Taylor Swift
🎵 ABBA
🎵 Shania Twain
🎵 Whitney Houston
🎵 Cardi B
🎵 Enya
🎵 Korn

Maple Geekette🩷💜💙 @maplegeekette.bsky.social · 2d

Define your music taste with 8 artists 🎶

🎵 Lights
🎵 Avril Lavigne
🎵 Marianas Trench
🎵 AC/DC
🎵 Queen
🎵 Sarah McLachlan
🎵 Daughtry
🎵 Evanescence

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 13h

the ultimate confirmation that Korn is, indeed, girlypop

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 13h

how dare you come into my house, on the day of my cat's quinceanera

No, that's fine. No new ideas under the sun. I accepted that a long time ago.

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 13h

"This character isn't even in the book. There's no one like this. It's just a dude with rippling abs and torn pants on some alien planet that vaguely resembles one in the book for three pages."

"But by god a human made it. A human with red blood and hormones."

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 13h

no, absolutely. like i see a cover now that is very clearly something someone threw together in photoshop, or is maybe just a collection of colored squares, and i'm like, you know what, good for you

a woman holding a cupcake with the words good for her above her

ALT: a woman holding a cupcake with the words good for her above her

media.tenor.com

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 13h

i never thought i'd miss the days when at least our slop was real, human slop that somebody got paid for

come back to us, awful book covers of yore, with your inexplicable chainmail bikinis and only loose connections to the book

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 13h

I'm gonna call that dumb luck that he didn't die of sepsis. But you know what, sometimes dumb luck and a little skill is what gets you through.

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 13h

the book ends with the hero's best friend saving them while they're down fighting the Big Bad, and getting killed in a way that seems really motivational for a Heroic Second Wind

cut to black, fin

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 13h

the summary of what is wrong with me is that i said this off the cuff but now i kind of want to write it

like tell The Hero's Journey, but through the eyes of all the people around them as they die one by one

Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 16h

And yeah, the book is about the person who does cool things and survives. That's because I want it to function as a book with character arcs and shit. In real life, we only know who makes it after the fact. But a book where I kill the POV every chapter would be amusing but a mess.

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 14h

"Gave himself an appendectomy" is fucking buck wild.

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 15h

The oil example I remember was specifically a real thing. I wouldn't be surprised if it was loans and shit too. Really, anything being sold because why not. If basketball players can sell sprite, eh?

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 16h

"Guess they invented the super soldier serum early hyuk hyuk" SHUTTTT UPPPPP

Eugh. But yes, he's a perfect example. Nobody would believe it. And therefore I refuse to care whether my character's exploits are believable any more.

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 16h

Tiffany Problem is like the gladiators advertising products in ancient Rome, right? Ironically probably the most historically accurate part of that movie which they cut

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 16h

Fought in both World Wars. He should have a movie about him fr fr. I'm not proud of sharing Georgia as a home with many folks, but...

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 16h

They claimed to have sunk the Enterprise three times! Which is how it got the nickname 'Grey Ghost'. Which is what I would name my imaginary show, ftr.

At one point, it had to go into battle still damaged because it was the only carrier above the water line. Engineers went along still fixing it.

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Thomas Parrott @parrotttom.bsky.social · 16h

And don't think I haven't noticed that people complain so. much. more about remarkable achievements if the person doing them is a woman or a person of color.

Assuming your fandom doesn't complain about those just existing in the first place. *cough*eatadickgw*cough*

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