Proofreading classmates’ work for my fiction writing class got me like
God have mercy on your soul.
I don’t want to believe that someone, a real human being, actually submitted this as a piece for a fiction writing class. I don’t want to believe. Please tell me you’re lying. Please tell me you made this up for notes. Please, I need to retain some faith in humanity.
My friend, it’s real. I’ll paraphrase because I don’t want to post more, the author really does have the right to write whatever they want and it is their personal work, and the only parameters we were given was “a linear plot,” but it’s honestly just like reading a sixteen-year-old wet dream. If there had been some POINT to it other than just dissolving into the dryad and tiger humping on the restaurant floor, I could get past it, but it ends with them being escorted out of said restaurant and that’s it. No comment on crossing social boundaries or loving someone for who they truly are, it’s the tree getting aroused by tiger titties and the flower boner turns the tiger on. For nine pages.
Best part is we all have to talk about this aloud in class tomorrow.
this is my fratsona. his name is Chad and he’s a business major with a minor in economics. he’s a part of the phi kappa pi clan and has +16 speed when he unironically wears his adidas brand weed socks
Proofreading classmates’ work for my fiction writing class got me like
M24 rifle questions for Gunblr
He gun-toting side of tumblr, got some questions for you for a short story. I know very little about weaponry outside of basic gun safety, so bear with me.
I’m proofreading a pretty lousy short story for my fiction writing class and it ends with a PTSD addled vet (surprise!) shooting his four friends dead during an episode. And if it couldn’t get more tropey trite, he’s an ex-sniper. Character Jimmy carries around an m24 (that’s the only info on the rifle I get from the story, it’s called an m24) in his truck like a security blanket (it’s literally only covered by a blanket), whips it out and shoots his four friends dead from an undesignated distance, but contextually about a front yard’s distance away.
Here’s what I want to know: is this even possible? Can an “m24” shoot four people at such close range dead before they even can process it, would a “sniper” even do that?
From my understanding, rifles get less accurate at short distances, and logically I would think that for close range encounters, a “sniper” would carry a less wieldy gun. Wouldn’t their training have them react differently to getting stuck in what they think is a firefight? But am I completely wrong? I tried looking it up online and couldn’t find anything conclusive or helpful.
Any thoughts or tips to give this writer would be great, thanks!
Footage released today by the North Korean government revealed a test of not one but two high-yield nuclear weapons.
According to the NK Propaganda Ministry, “We have successfully detonated two hydrogen bombs. Behold the growth of our ferocious country from the mycelium of obscurity into a great fruiting body of power. The spores of our national resolve will soon bring the rule of our superior morels to every nation. Our leader need only push a single white button to unleash giant puffballs of fire upon America.”
US Admiral Mary Aubill in charge of the Korean situation has complimented the propaganda minister for his wording, stating, “I’ve met him, he’s a ‘fun guy’.”
