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jacqui shine
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a woman on the case (non-gendered)

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"stealing" "stories"
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
hi!!! you KNOW i wanted to pop in there about editors stealing stories, but i'm mature now
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
i answered "both," which is, they said, the "right answer"
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 AM
the thing is, you can FEEL that any awkwardness is on the editor's shoulders, but that doesn't mean that's how it will go down
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
i guess it tells us “basic observation skills” were never that good in the first place
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
so you literally see no difference or intensification or change, huh, weird, sounds like it wasn’t that strong an education
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
he doesn’t imply it, he straight up says it!
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
get jamie raskin too while you’re at it
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
yes, i tend and nourish my figurative language in the garden in my mi—
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
me: are you saying my wanting to send hakeem jeffries a fax that says YOU’RE A LOSER is a trauma response
my therapist: no, not exactly
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
100%
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't; i try to err on the side of keeping the commas if there's any chance that's why they're there.
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
but some of it is dependent clauses after conjunctions that don't take a comma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (too much time proofing yesterday, lol.)
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
yeah this is sometimes a hard needle to thread—some comma usage is part of the author's style idiom!
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM