So it's Harris' fault that Trump can't muster a coherent sentence or a single true statement?

She 'baited' him?

Misogyny is fucking endemic in the media.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdnl9pg1wo

@cstross If I'm completely honest, happy endings do not haunt me. I love stories that stick with me a long, long time. None of them have happy endings. Some have tragic endings. Most have ambivalent endings.

But I do wonder if, as life begins to feel more precarious to most people, the craving for a happy ending becomes more acute.

@cstross I do wonder if - and I'm just speaking for myself here - it is a sign of privilege and relative comfort that I enjoy being haunted by non-happy endings.

@cstross I think the biggest problem with the Hero's Journey is that it was study meant to describe a common narrative structure that spanned stories from all over the world. When people began to use it as a guide, it became a problem. Reverse-engineering might be handy, but not sublime.

For many, there's an emotionally satisfying landscape to stories that roughly follow this structure, but if emotional satisfaction is all a writer is after, then just rewrite fairy tales over and over.

@zutalorz I was trying to figure out why this photo had such an impact on me. I think it is because we so rarely see photos of cats out of a domestic context, the domestic garden is not quite nature in this way. This is such an amazing picture. Bravo.