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20 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
So, #NiNoBilMa week 3 post is now live. This week's two-pronged prompt is animals and colors.

I'll be doing mini prompts on Twitter on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week, due to scheduling stuff on my end.

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Related to this, and as I mention in the post, I am very grateful for the steady stream of new newsletter sign-ups I've had this month. As the only thing I'm doing differently is NiNoBilma, it seems like it's getting some attention, in a modest way.

Today's #NiNoBilMa mini prompt.
Color: Blue
Shade (Optional):
Ultramarine. Animal: Weasel.

My first line: "If she'd ever seen a weasel with such strikingly blue eyes, she hadn't noticed." A blue square labeled with the word "blue".A square of ultramarine (a deep, rich blue color) labeled &q
Ultramarine is the color of blue pigment derived from lapis lazuli. The name does not refer to the color of the sea; it's Latin for "beyond the seas", because it had to be imported into Europe, making it -- from the point of view of the Italian peninsula -- "the overseas blue".

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22 Dec
Sitcom where Kacey Musgraves and Janelle Monáe play housewives who live in neighboring houses with a white picket fence in between their perfectly manicured lawns.

First scene of the pilot shows each of them walking out a side door and towards the picket fance.
They have a strangely generic conversation with each other with perfectly blank faces and muted aspect, exchange formulaic well-wishes and excuse one another, then walk back to their houses, which are revealed to be cut off right where the initial shot was framed.
The episode and then the remainder of the series continues with every scene taking place only in the extant portions of the houses or yards (which end just as abruptly as the houses). Events elsewhere are referenced, sometimes as though the audience had seen them.
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21 Dec
transphobes: For anyone to be "non-binary" there must be a binary for them to be outside of and if the binary exists no one can be non-binary because then it wouldn't be a binary anymore.

real life: "Henges" are a class of earthworks named after Stonehenge. Stonehenge isn't one.
Transphobes seriously act like they believe language is a magical programming language for objective reality, and if there's ever any kind of disconnect between the two, any kind of ambiguity or contradiction, it's going to break the universe.
Meanwhile, in actual reality, language is like... IDK, man, whatever.
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21 Dec
Don't know if it's a consequence of people moving away from cash for purchases and thus not having change or what, but it just hit me at random that it's been ages since I've seen those charity coin collectors where a slot drops your coin at the edge of a funnel and it spirals in
They're apparently called "spiral wishing wells" and you can buy one for $400-500. The price is surprising but I assume it's because it's designed to collect money in a public place, and also have kids leaning all over it.
Video for anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, or just wants the satisfaction of seeing one.

If it weren't a pandemic I would be hunting one down and feeding a roll of quarters into it one at a time.

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21 Dec
This is true when talking about people who leave religion, and there is a broader point about nuance: words absolutely have different meanings that allow for apparently contradictory things to be true at the same time.
The word "paradox" has been flattened of a lot of nuance by the fact that so many of us learn about the concept through sci-fi stories that present it as something like a destructive force of nature: something that cannot be, and will punish the universe if forced to be anyway.
But paradoxes in the classical sense includes statements that when read in an obvious and straightforward way appear to be self-negating, but which when parsed out as intended will nevertheless resolve as true.
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21 Dec
"Diamonds don't shine" and "the sky isn't actually blue but only looks blue because of rayleigh scattering".

Both of these are super reductive about what words can mean in a way that I despise.
Sure, diamonds don't emit light. That's true! But they do shine with refracted light.

Absolutely nobody ever objected to a description of *shiny* objects as shining until a Black woman had a hit song that mentioned shining like a diamond.
And rayleigh scattering explains *how/why* the sky is blue. Saying it's not "actually" blue... what you mean is there's not any blue pigment causing the color. Which is a trivial observation. "The sky" is a visual phenomena, not an object. It has no substance at all.
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21 Dec
Short jeans, or "sheans".
Full-length jorts, or "florts".
Romper jorts, or "romports".
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