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@arielmt @maple I like :computerfairies: , but I'm not sure if it'll be clear that it's an emoji picker, so maybe one of the others?

death, vent (---) 

@Lucariwhoa@snouts.online feeling like a disappointment is really rough, I'm sorry lizzie

*offers gentle hugs*

interesting linguistic divergence in English 

"would of", on the other hand, is a compound – you cannot divide it into individual words, because you can't say "I of done it"

but you* CAN say "I would of done it"

so we have this divergence where a formerly derivable phrase is becoming a compound!

*"you" means "a speaker who considers this grammatically valid"

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interesting linguistic divergence in English 

I've noticed an "error" that some local people make when writing messages: a few people have been writing "would of" instead of "would've"

At first, my Editor brain wanted to correct them, but then my linguistics brain took over – this is really interesting!

"would have" has a derivable meaning – each word stands alone, and you can easily figure it out:

"I have done it"
"I would have done it"

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Doctor Who, Moffat, opinion 

@lizardsquid That's one of the reasons I stopped watching after Eleven. I grew bored of the formula, all the unnecessary season-long plot lines.

Moffat doesn't write characters - he writes a god in human skin and the entire universe are just dominos around him.

Doctor Who, Moffat, opinion 

And then there's the interstellar organisation dedicated to killing The Doctor.

Over and over again, Moffat makes the Doctor this mythical figure, that can never be defeated. And it takes all the fun and adventure out of it – I don't want an ultra-important person, I want to see a Doctor who goes on adventures, who follows where whimsy takes them, and who ends up saving people in distress.

But Moffat treats The Doctor as though they're a God.

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Doctor Who, Moffat, opinion 

One of the major gripes I have with Moffat's writing of Doctor Who (approx. 2010–2017) is that the Doctor is portrayed as being the most important person in the universe.

The speech from "The Pandorica Opens" ( youtube.com/watch?v=Pa74e8oAvI ) is the doctor talking about how special he is.

Then there's the question ( youtu.be/lGDC0n89nhA?t=1m39s ). "The oldest question in the universe, and the one that must never be answered".... is "Doctor Who?"

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#MicroFiction
Sarah pressed her nose against the glass. A bright warm day and swaying grass greeted her.

The door opened and she ran into the grass, singing and dancing in joy. Freedom after so long!

She saw people soon after and ran to them.
They were strange, but Sarah was good at making friends.

She slept on a soft bed with food and love for the rest of her years.

“Sarah, was the first living thing from earth to travel to another planet via wormhole, she was found abandoned as a puppy—”

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