Notices by Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club), page 21

Every once in a while I remember to go in and check my list of muted accounts. Occasionally, there are accounts for whom I don't remember why I muted them. Once in a while, there are even accounts that show as muted but which I've still seen posts from, which is weird.

@keithzg For sure. And, honestly, I think it was a little odd given that so much of my work is writing stuff that will have other people's names attached to it. Wouldn't you want it to *not* have my voice, but rather the sort of organizational voice we've developed as a department? Oh well!

Similarly, this explains why my attempts are writing novels or even short stories have mostly sucked. I have a way with words, I think, but I'm not great at crafting a story.

I still think I'm a half-decent poet, but that's entirely different kind of writing in which, often, "having a way with words" matters a lot more than the ability to weave a compelling story.

A boss once described my writing as "good, yeoman writing," in that I am a technically effective writer, but that it lacks a clear voice. This was sort of insulting (though I don't think it was intended to be -- she was offering constructive criticism), but it honestly has helped me view my professional writing as more of a trade than an art. I'm not an architect, but I'm a very competent bricklayer and I'm OK with that.

@keithzg This is true, but surely that was all in the works months or even years ago, right? They have to have been working toward an end already...but perhaps not as quickly as we ended up seeing, if they'd not had these other things offered to them.

@keithzg I think they are fundamentally not great writers. They're good enough, but once they ran out of GRRM content and were just going by some bullet points he gave them, they had to rely on their own writing which is workman-like, but not especially artistic or subtle. Knowing as much, they went for spectacle and wrapped it up quickly. That's my theory, anyway.

@maloki There's also a sillier interpretation (warning, birdsite link): https://twitter.com/badcree/status/1130315031290290177

@keithzg @thurloat Yeah, it's happened to me before and I honestly didn't think much of it. Just wondered about it today, more out of curiosity than anything else.

@JordiGH lol, no. But that would be something special.

@JordiGH Also, she is believed to be unable to have children because of a witches curse (though it's unclear if that's actually true; at one point she's asked if she ever considered the witch was lying to her), so she considers the dragons to be her children.

@JordiGH No, but also kind of?

She received three dragon eggs as a wedding gift. No one has seen living dragons for centuries, and the eggs are believed to be essentially fossilized, so they're just rocks. Until one day, she walks into a fire with the eggs in her arms (it was her husband's funeral pyre, if I remember correctly). Instead of being burned alive, she survives and the eggs have hatched. She's now got three dragons (one literally suckling at her breast).

@JordiGH Here's a long article that does a pretty good job explaining why people are so mad. https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/5/17/18624767/game-of-thrones-series-finale-season-8-episode-5-the-bells-daenerys-dany-kings-landing-targaryen

@thurloat Ha. Mostly, it doesn't matter because remote actions can be done instance-side, too, but it's occasionally more convenient to do it remotely.

@thurloat It was actually an attempt to remotely favourite a toot, despite what the URL seems to indicate.

Does anyone else see this message when trying to do remote actions? I've seen it a few times recently, and I wonder if it's just because Moosetodon is "out of date" with mainline Mastodon at this point. @thurloat

https://mastodon.club/media/TSm14J5CaVD4Jd1rAv4

Maybe I was less surprised by Daenerys' heel turn at the end because I binged the entire series in a matter of weeks, so my memories of all her other not-so-great actions were fresher than people who'd been watching it week-by-week for a decade.

I mean, yeah, they could have done a better job building to that moment, but I wasn't really shocked by it.

@bartleby @JordiGH Also, in the original, they felt the need to tie He-man into the whole thing, since it was a spin off, which meant a lot of extra fluffy that the reboot was able to ignore.

@JordiGH @bartleby Yeah, my wife found the original on YouTube and wanted to refresh her memory after (or maybe before?) we watched the new one. In a way, the intro makes more sense in the original, because it's drawn out over a longer period of time (three episodes instead of one, I think), but mostly it's pretty bad. But, like most cartoons of that era, it was mostly meant to sell toys, not necessarily to actually be a well written story.

@JordiGH I haven't heard any complaints about that part, in particular. But, yeah, the Iron Throne was destroyed in the finale, but felt thematically appropriate to me. Also kind of darkly humourous, because in the end they still have an absolute monarchy, but now the ruler is chosen by a council of lords and ladies, rather than heredity. So...they just sit on a new throne, I guess?