More difficult to craft, and less likely to get on TV. It’s also a lot easier to dismiss as just a bunch of cranks, and risks allowing people to rebrand the March as JUST about those comments. Something like this you want to allude to the comment, without giving the opposition the opportunity to use it to derail you.
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It makes a strong visual impact. It gives a sense of solidarity to all the marchers who are doing this for themselves and for other marchers. It references one of the President-Elects more egregious comments, without allowing the main drive of the march to be side-lined into that one nasty back alley. It is quirky…
How does Facebook work on these sort of complaints? From this I would assume - possibly too optimistically - that it is some sort of automated content checker? It just scans the post/video for some preset triggers that would get it taken down, like there was a nipple or some sort of copyright infringement? So this…
Oh, and Stephen King’s ‘The Long Walk’ also deals with a lot of the same issues — albeit without directly pitting the children against each other — and predates both :D. It’s a pretty rich seam that a lot of writers can draw from.
The point for me is that he didn’t NEED to be told he was doing something risky and dangerous. Everyone knows that using your phone while driving is a dangerous distraction and could end in disaster, the same as speeding, drinking, or taking drugs. Yet beer companies aren’t required to put ‘could cause danger driving’…
No, but he was 9 at the time. If he did it he wouldn’t have been charged anyhow. Even the people who think he did it say it was probably an accident. he was 9, he didn’t understand what he was doing, and he hasn’t been implicated in any crime since so not really like Cosby at all.
Balayage! My hairdresser does it and while it looks simple, the effects are gorgeous. It gives a real, rich dimension to the hair, sort of like a graduated ombre?
The MiB was an effective antagonist because the idea of this man returning again and again to brutalise the girl who didn’t die for love of him...was horrifying. I just felt we spent too much time with him? I loved Maeve and her crew, and I liked Logan as a character because he was the one person we spent time with…
I loved it — but I binge-watched it after a busy period at work and I do wonder if the pacing would have put me off otherwise. I mean, it was beautiful but there were times I was a bit “oh, Dolores is having a deep think again. Time to make a cuppa.”
Right? I only watched the first episode, but there were so many icky vibes out of it I decided not to watch on even though it was funny in parts.
It would have been more interesting to play it out as this traditional rom-com scenario, with meet-cutes and waky misunderstandings...intercut with these just a bit off, claustrophobic scenes from Aurora’s POV where you realise that to her it’s a stalker horror story.
Maybe the people that built the shape took this situation into account? ‘What if someone wakes up by accident? Then there’s no food so he starts waking up the pods and eating them?’ ... ‘OK, let’s make it really easy to turn on all the stuff?’
I would assume that because once they get to where they are going, the rich people don’t want to sleep on the ground as they get things built? So the ship is a sort of floating/landed luxury resort and they commute from there to building the new communities?
Is it terrible that I would have written the same story and then at the end have it clear that when something happened to Aurora, Pratt woke up another girl? It’s pretty horrible isn’t it?
On the other hand, with Trump talking about getting rid of Obamacare — will that result in a lot of vulnerable people who are currently having a good life with a well-managed disease suddenly struggling to afford the drugs necessary for that management?
Oh she looks so gorgeous!
Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with
Eastasia.
I mean, you could genuinely track a not-that-unlikely path from this article to the Hunger Games.
I feel bad for YA dystopia writers. There they sit in their garrets, churning out terrible, unlikely, heel-turn worlds for young readers to explore and enjoy. Then they read the newspaper and suddenly their high-concept, knights-move plot is just, like, Tuesday’s headlines in the paper. Only maybe even true.