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24 Apr, 7 tweets, 3 min read
🧛🏻‍♀️ Last night I finished writing the first new chapter in a decade of my supposedly-web-serial tantric Buddhist vampire romance novel.

🧛🏻‍♀️🥀🍷 I will publish this first love scene of the novel on May Day, next Saturday, for the date's traditional associations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day Image
🧛🏻‍♀️📕 The new chapter of my vampire novel won't make much sense out of context, so if you think you might want to read it, you could try reading the book from the beginning now.

buddhism-for-vampires.com/the-vetalis-gi…
🧛🏻‍♀️ On the other hand, the new chapter won't make all *that* much sense even in context. It's mostly foreshadowing events that occur later in the book. I hope it's interestingly mysterious, but I can't definitely promise to produce the next chapter in less than another decade. Image
🧛🏻‍♀️ The chapter presented technical challenges, including complicating and forwarding the pairwise relationships among nine characters. (Only two are involved in the actual event!)

No professional would have backed themselves into such a situation. I had to make a spreadsheet.
🧛🏻‍♀️ Making a lecture on comparative linguistics erotic was also a difficult bit of engineering, and your experienced results may vary.
🧛🏻‍♀️ So the result is a rickety contraption you may want to avoid. On the other hand, I can promise that it is almost perfectly dissimilar to anything you have ever read, and it's only a couple thousand words, so what have you got to lose?

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I know almost nothing about Stoicism. Advocates: what book or long article makes the stronghold case that it has substantive and significant content?

(From a distance, it appears to be a hope that something with desired properties must exist, with no demonstration that it does.)
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In order to do the things everyone does, you have to say the things everyone says. Unless you are willing to be a weirdo—which may exclude you from doing things anyway.
This explains the otherwise puzzling fact that the only part of the otherwise dead trad MSM anyone is willing to pay for is culture war opinions. Saying the correct thing about this morning’s outrageous noodle incident is genuinely worth paying $thousands/year for social cred.
Someone pointed out recently that what you get from most of the top-by-revenue substacks is access to correct culture war opinions a few hours ahead of the mob. Pay for them so you can sound superior. (The others are all financial advice, which also has obvious dollar value.)
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Why do *I* always get stuck with the thankless, grindy tasks the official experts in the field evade responsibility for?

Professional historians of science managed to gloss over “why exactly did logical positivism fail” because it was hard, so I had to write that up. Now this.
Historians’ passing over of the death of logical positivism: the camera tastefully cuts away from the scene and all we hear are muffled screams in another room. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.…
They had to kill everyone off before starting the sequel (“Postmodernism Does Science”), but they’d written themselves into a corner.

Coming up with a convincing story for how the heroes of Season One all suddenly died would take way too much exposition. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.…
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Research reveals that there are two kinds of guides to writing sex scenes. The first advises you, in perfectly seriousness, to include all the most ghastly clichés (without characterizing them as such). The second goes through the same list and says “these are ghastly clichés.”
100% of the fiction writing guides I have read, I came away thinking “if you need this advice, you absolutely should not consider writing fiction even as a hobby.”
I read somewhere “sex scenes are highly technical; do not attempt without special training.” Because I am an idiot, I got intimidated by that, and somehow imagined that books about how to write properly literary sex scenes would say something non-obvious.
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Finding out what works in education would have greater leverage than nearly any other research. The field is treated as worthless: a self-fulfilling prophecy resulting in little worthwhile work attempted.
Nearly all the research is on K-12 education. Universities exempt themselves from study? They are assumed competent, where everyone accepts that K-12 is a swamp. Contributes to their slide into mere credential-granting.
A further step: the research on university level education is nearly all on undergraduates. I did a literature search recently on graduate school ed research (for obvious reasons). There’s practically nothing.
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