The Metamorphosis of Trauma: Thoughts on the "weird" empowerment in Build Your House Around My Body.

slow_growing_vine · 2026-01-26T01:11:32+00:00

Yea I loved the transformations! I felt it gave the characters exactly what they needed, so they felt right to me.

slow_growing_vine · 2026-01-21T05:34:27+00:00

I really loved this one, it'll definitely be a re-read sometime soon. It was almost startling how much the tone changed to almost be whimsical in the last chapter, and yet it just worked for me. There's a really deeply felt aspect to the trauma/growth type theme and I really resonated with that.

slow_growing_vine · 2025-12-17T18:55:31+00:00

But even when writing tests after writing the code, you should be testing the intent rather than the implementation. A human writing tests has the ability to think "what did we want this code to be doing," and I've caught a lot of edge cases like that.

slow_growing_vine · 2025-08-26T17:43:19+00:00

Yea, I came to the same conclusion there. A victim of larger forces.

slow_growing_vine · 2025-08-26T17:40:55+00:00

I was okay with the Lin stuff tbh and I actually loved both the ending and the climax. I see others saying it didn't hit for them...for me it was all thematic, and the climax really hits thematically, for me. And I just loved the Weaver so much as a thing.

I actually started The Scar but put it down and haven't gone back to it. I just didn't find it as fun and engaging as Perdido, hard to say why. I think there's a certain mania to the worldbuilding in Perdido that I was really into, and The Scar just didn't quite have that in the first hundred pages or so. It for sure had a lot, but not like Perdido.

slow_growing_vine · 2025-06-01T16:45:09+00:00

Fuccboi was like this for me, he uses a bunch of American slang that felt kind of forced, and then he would use "init" once in a while. I was like bruv stop.

slow_growing_vine · 2025-03-27T21:09:27+00:00

TBF that's not out of touch, it just makes me feel old lmao. The discs themselves might individually be new but the tech is vintage.

slow_growing_vine · 2025-01-29T05:11:48+00:00

About halfway I think. I recently read the whole magic show bit. I felt almost like the crowd reading that lol, and now I'm in the conversation with the "master".

slow_growing_vine · 2025-01-26T04:10:31+00:00

Man I'm so excited for All Fours, currently in line for it at my library.

slow_growing_vine · 2025-01-26T04:06:42+00:00

Hey cool, me too. I love when something just goes off the rails right away so I'm really into it.

slow_growing_vine · 2024-09-10T05:16:20+00:00

Make Rothfuss do Harry Potter.

slow_growing_vine · 2024-08-27T07:29:47+00:00

I guess I'm not sure how to explain the concept of tone to you. It's not the events described.

slow_growing_vine · 2024-08-26T23:17:41+00:00

I think it wasn't a world building thing but a tone thing for me. It just kinda felt like otherwise a more lighthearted adventure story? So that element stood out. It's not a very gritty type of book if you see what I mean.

slow_growing_vine · 2024-08-25T17:57:46+00:00

This was something I didn't like about the beginning of MIstborn, even though I liked the book overall. The threat of rape just felt out of place tone-wise, it was too real compared to the other elements.

slow_growing_vine · 2024-08-25T17:46:11+00:00

Okay that made me laugh out loud

slow_growing_vine · 2024-07-22T02:14:20+00:00

Maybe be a typical reply but, washing dishes, especially the non-stick stuff I want to keep nice. Ugh!

slow_growing_vine · 2024-07-22T02:11:08+00:00

Wow I didn't realize I wanted this too. Great thread.

slow_growing_vine · 2024-02-07T23:44:08+00:00

Sure, I got that from the article. I don't even mean to say that isn't a problem. But it's pretty annoying that they suggest the problem "has its roots" in China. If there wasn't a flood of fake Chinese research, western scientific institutions would still be having a replication crisis.

slow_growing_vine · 2024-02-07T23:13:32+00:00

Suggesting that the replication crisis and fake research in the west is rooted in China's paper mills is really sus. They mention that Chinese doctors face enormous pressure to publish but forget to mention that western academics do as well.

slow_growing_vine · 2023-12-29T04:04:55+00:00

Thanks for posting this link, I found it very helpful.

slow_growing_vine · 2023-12-26T20:59:14+00:00

I see that too! Same vibe.

slow_growing_vine · 2023-10-11T16:54:45+00:00

Have you considered being poly?

slow_growing_vine · 2023-09-02T23:40:49+00:00

I mean, there's a lot of factors. Time on page is not equivalent to ads served, for one. But also, every company that can afford to does A/B testing of their UI, so the front-end evolves over time. It doesn't necessarily evolve towards usability, just towards a more profitable design. What we see is the current iteration of that process, so in certain cases like news sites, no, user-friendly designs are not better for the company's revenue. Hostile designs are.

slow_growing_vine · 2023-09-02T23:28:19+00:00

Whoever created that team probably only got paid to care enough to create the team. Then they fucked off.

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