YEEEAAAAHHHHHHH I knew a woman (demo version) on spotify broke 10000 listens! it's easily one of my faves by you, I sing it all the time and when I first heard it I *did* know a woman with a tortoise so that was pretty cool. Anyways I'm probably like. uh. a large number of those listens lmao congratulations on the milestone!!
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thank you!!!! i also like that one - it’s the least produced but my brother and i made it in like half an hour and then were like, “honestly? fucks” and didn’t touch it again.
hi! just read the newest chilliad update (amazing stuff btw!!) and was struck, not for the first time, at the depth of character and world building that's been put together. i'm also working on a large-scale fiction project based on the lives of a college baseball team and others in that orbit. i was wondering whether you had any tips on managing so many characters with personalities/individual lives, as well as the believable college atmosphere (especially when building the world and atmosphere basically from scratch). hope that's not a big ask, i'm just really inspired and admiring of your work :)
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goshhhhhh thank you so much! i wish i had a really smart, collegiate (ha) answer to this but i fear mostly it’s a combination of deciding who the people are ahead of time and then how i’d need them to move the story along. so it’s not just who are they, but who are they to each other? dité has to push helen to behave in certain ways; why would she do that in this scenario, and why would helen let her?
a lot of the time when you work out what a character needs to do, it will tell you a lot about who they have to be to make their role make sense. so maybe that’s kind of backwards to what feels intuitive but that’s usually how i do it!
as for the atmosphere, i’m glad you feel like it’s believable! i think it’s quite heightened but it’s based on an epic poem so i felt like maybe i could get away with that.
perhaps as a general rule of thumb you should try to live your life in such a way that the whole world doesn’t immediately start celebrating like the ewoks at the end of Star Wars when you get brutally murdered on live TV
Idk why we’re guessing how you eat string cheese but here is how I eat it. You’ll have to tell me if you do it the same way. I try to pull off the thinnest and broadest string possible from the side, and then continue all the way around the string cheese. The goal is to end up with a string cheese “core.” This is more difficult than one might expect, because oftentimes the string cheese does not want to string the way you would want it to—it can string away in very deep gashes or stop stringing halfway down. I rarely end with a successfully cored string cheese, but it’s very gratifying when I do. Doing it this way also turns string cheese into a fun little game.
Others have told me this is a terrible way to eat string cheese but I stand by it.
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i LOVE this way of eating string cheese and i think it should be made law
I hesitate to even ask this bc I fear the answer but my curiosity drives me forward. Do you make it WETTER or MUSHIER than it would typically be as part of your consumption?
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something that i should have remembered, but somehow didn’t, is that the internet is full of gumshoes
