Trope as in turn is such a useful concept to describe various literary techniques, but if people ask me what my favorite trope is and I say metaphor, I get stared at. I don’t know the names of the TV Tropes things!

Can we start with my loathing of the flattening of the word trope to mean “cliche?”

Did a tiny big-headed lab mouse get into the LLM?

Oh, I found them. They’re bad. Real bad. Parody movie bad

That’s a lyric? Dear God

Thanks, I want to walk into the sea now.

No. The slave drivers worked. Absentee plantation owner. Sometimes shows up and is meddlesome and yells at the overseer. Otherwise disconnected from actual labor.

Will have some soon.

His mama was from the Isle of Lewis, and his daddy would have been born in Bavaria, but his granddaddy got banished for draft-dodging 4 months before little Friedrich was born.

I saw it in the Cineramadome in Hollywood and came out of the theatre fuming. It felt like watching a kid play with a Kenner action playset.

Watchmen is worse. Then there’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Huh. It’s showing up for me?

I am getting to do something very cool and time-sensitive, so I’m not complaining, but I wish my brain organized things better

I am trying to learn Gaelic, and feel dumb and slow.