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How to Be Miserable and Cruel

Reliable methods for avoiding emotion and making everything suck for everyone. — Happiness, friendship, peace, satisfaction — these and other positive emotions make life enjoyable, fulfilling, and worth living. But they come at a cost: they require giving up negative emotions — like anger, bitterness, and sorrow — that make life difficult, meaningless, and full of suffering. And nobody wants to do…

Emotional Intelligence

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How to Be Miserable and Cruel
How to Be Miserable and Cruel

Jan 20

A Quick Message to Transgender People

I’m just gonna get straight into it. — If gender is a social construct, then transgenderism is a psychological construct, as it occurs only in the mind of the transgender. Therefore, to insist that a male is a female or that a female is a male simply because they think they are is nonsense. And herein lies the…

Gender

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A Quick Message to Transgender People
A Quick Message to Transgender People

Jul 1, 2021

Writing Dialogue Is Easy

What’s difficult is figuring out what your characters want, why they want it, and what’s preventing them from getting it. — All stories are drama, all drama is conflict, all conflict emerges from desire, and all desire is determined by motivation. …

Dialogue

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Writing Dialogue Is Easy
Writing Dialogue Is Easy

Jun 10, 2021

Screenplay Edit: “Tenet”

A line-by-line edit of a scene from the script. — Tenet tells the story of a secret agent recruited by a mysterious intelligence organization to investigate the source of time-inverted objects and stop a terminally ill madman from inverting the entropy of the universe. The script was written by Christopher Nolan. In this scene, the protagonist learns about inversion. 💬…

Editing

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Screenplay Edit: “Tenet”
Screenplay Edit: “Tenet”

May 14, 2021

Screenplay Edit: “Gravity”

A line-by-line edit of a scene from the script. — Gravity tells the story of NASA astronauts Matt Kowalski and Ryan Stone, who, after a debris field destroys their shuttle during a spacewalk, attempt to return to Earth. The script was written by Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón. In this scene, debris caused by cascading collisions of satellites interrupts a…

Editing

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Screenplay Edit: “Gravity”
Screenplay Edit: “Gravity”

May 9, 2021

Screenplay Edit: “Avengers: Endgame”

A line-by-line edit of a scene from the script. — Avengers: Endgame tells the story of the Avengers as they reassemble to travel back in time and reverse Thanos’s destruction, thus restoring life to the universe. The script was written by Christopher Marcus & Stephen McFeely, based on the comics by Marvel. In this scene, Steve, Natasha, and Scott are…

Editing

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Screenplay Edit: “Avengers: Endgame”
Screenplay Edit: “Avengers: Endgame”

Mar 29, 2021

Screenplay Edit: “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”

A line-by-line edit of an excerpt from the script. — The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King tells the story of Frodo Baggins and company as they complete their quest through Middle Earth to destroy the One Ring. The script was written by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson, based on the novel by J…

Editing

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Screenplay Edit: “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
Screenplay Edit: “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”

Mar 20, 2021

Screenplay Edit: “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”

A line-by-line edit of an excerpt from the script. — The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers tells the story of Frodo Baggins and company as they continue their quest through Middle Earth to destroy the One Ring. The script was written by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson, based on the novel by…

Editing

17 min read

Screenplay Edit: “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”
Screenplay Edit: “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”

Mar 2, 2021

Black Slaves Were Not Kidnapped by White Slavers

And anyone who tells you otherwise is sus. — I am confident that this article will receive no attention — that it will not be promoted or appear in recommendations — and that what ears befall it out of chance or misfortune will be deaf to its message. I am also confident that the people to whom such ears…

History

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Black Slaves Were Not Kidnapped by White Slavers
Black Slaves Were Not Kidnapped by White Slavers

Jan 16, 2021

How to Communicate with Conservatives

Principles for liberals, to get what you want. — Liberals and conservatives are fundamentally different from each other, and the discrepancies between their personalities make it difficult for the two to intercommunicate; indeed, whereas liberals tend to be more open and concerned with feelings (and as such tend to use more abstract, emotional language, which conservatives tend not to…

Communication

11 min read

How to Communicate with Conservatives
How to Communicate with Conservatives
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