Don’t trust anyone that bashes dark skin women.
rhemamichelle
so what do u think about plays
i like how in a theatre time and space are necessarily metaphorical. i don’t like how plays always have to begin with someone walking onstage and talking. too many directors try to work around this by having someone walk onstage and brood in silence for a moment before talking. this is worse.
sharp-tender-shock
If you were directing a play, how would it begin?
bagpipes at the back of the auditorium so everyone turns their heads and when they’ve turned back around the play has already begun
amazon has a microjob site called “Mechanical Turk” which is so astonishingly on the nose that I kind of respect it. Just straight up “hey you know that story about the chess-playing robot that was actually just controlled by a guy? That famous symbol of how ‘automation’ is sometimes just a cover story for making labor invisible? That’s you. You are the guy sitting in the box making the robot play chess. We’re calling it MTurk to make it sound hip and modern.” Like, at least they’re admitting it?
It also lets us look at 'automated' services and say to each other "they're definitely turkin' it".
(in case no one has said this to you in a while) i am proud of you for continuing to exist when it feels impossible
AO3 should have an Annotation Mode where you can click to view all of the author's commentary and thoughts about certain parts of the work. A little comment that says "I spent five hours researching vintage radio mechanics for this and didn't even end up using it" or "this is an ancient Hebrew literary technique!" would make my day
