#Metaphor

Jordan Cobb

inkphemeral

Love scrolling through audition sites and seeing the sudden increase of roles for Black actors, but if I see one more casting call with the words “sassy,” “no-nonsense,” or “feisty,”

Gorm

metaphorician

After years of floundering, I think I'm finally getting it: You get energy by spending it. The fuel tank metaphor is completely misleading. The body supplies energy to meet demand.

🌾Chase🌾 aka prairie tooka

PrairieTooka

Hey cool wanna read a fun classic introductory text on decolonization for no reason at all?Tuck & Yang 2012 - Decolonization Is Not A Metaphorhttps://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%2

Scott R. Swain

scottrswain

I've been thinking about an approach to pastoral encouragement/exhortation I've seen over the past couple of months. It's especially prominent across various social media platforms among a certain "Reformedish" type

Dan Davies

dsquareddigest

Controversial opinion! Reading scientific papers (particularly preprints where you cannot be sure that there are not major errors) is a demanding and tedious way of getting partial information. it's absolutely

castor ☆

castor_beans

every gaysian writer has done this at least once:-made a biblical reference -included a word in their native language and then made it a metaphor-wrote about how their mother treated

Damian Counsell

DamCou

Looking forward to the #CaptainTomMoore press conference."Why didn't you start your sponsored walk earlier, when people were in a better financial position to donate?""Don't you think your military medals fed

Mask wearing and still pretty distant Tom Tomorrow

tomtomorrow

fuck. I keep making jokes. what else can I do. but doctor I *am* pagliacci That layer of ironic detachment is looking kinda thin out there, if you skate on

Daniel Reck

danhreck

Anyway, these really don’t look legal, these look like Trump violating the tax code and daring the IRS to enter into years of litigation to do anything about it, which

Hannah Rivkin

hannah_rivkin

I've never tweeted about something I found unpalatable, but I've sat on this for a week and today is the day. The subject in question, this article: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/heroes-of-the-pandemic-a-canadian-professor-has-a-peanut

Kimimi

_Kimimi

I love writing about games and my work's decent enough but I kinda feel I'm missing the mark in terms of what people actually want to read? I look around

davemakes ✨🔶🎶

davemakes

CHROME: hey i put a button up here called "reading list"ME: what is thatCHROME: ...ME: (clicks it)CHROME: You'll find your reading list here. To save a page for later, click

Thomas Wier

thomas_wier

Weekly Georgian Etymology: ჩრდილოეთი črdiloeti ‘north’, lit. land of shadow, from Old Georgian ႹႰႣႨႪႭ črdilo shadow plus –et, < čero shadow poss from PIr *caHyáH + PK *dil- morning. In

Jack Butcher

jackbutcher

How to turn content into cash: (thread) 1/ Pick a platform“Fish where the fish are.” — Charlie MungerSince this wouldn’t be very helpful without context, I’ll use @visualizevalue as an

🎃Audrey “Aud-ly Spooky” Burges🎃

Audrey_Burges

When I’m in the middle of a book and can’t get to my computer, I text myself reminders about plot points, snippets of conversations, and other ideas. I just texted

SAR✨ WORKING ON ZINES

atsuhinass__

I think it’s super neat when fic writers babble about their work. LIKE YES. BE PROUD OF IT. TALK TO ME ABT THE PROCESS. ABOUT HOW CHOSE A SEXIE METAPHOR