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[StillStunned]

There was a paper about homosexual necrophilia in ducks that won an ignobel award several years ago. It turned out the building their offices were in had a regular problem for a while of ducks flying into the windows and killing themselves. Male ducks would land near their fallen victims and try to mate with the male dead ones.

I can just picture the dialogue.

Duck 1: "Fuck you!"
Duck 2: "You wish! Over my dead body!"
Duck 1: "Just you wait..."

 

[SkyBubble]

Em dashes are basically the written version of someone who keeps interrupting a conversation to say, “Oh, and another thing!” or “You know what’s really important?” They break the rhythm, grab attention, and pretend to add meaning, while actually just killing the flow.

Mostly.

 

[SkyBubble]

Semicolons are underrated.

True

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Welp wouldya look at the time? It’s go touch grass time. Bye everybody love you

 

[Bramblethorn]

 

[UnexpectedLuggage]

Birds are overrated. Especially ducks.

You bite your tongue! Don't you dare besmirch the good name of my feathered idiot friends.

 

[SimonDoom]

Birds are overrated. Especially ducks.

Only the fake ones.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Only the fake ones.

They're all fake!

 

[Statius]

They're all fake!

It's like trying to convince people that Christopher Marlowe wrote Shakespeare's plays. You know it's true but no one will listen!

 

[Baztrachian]

Actually, it was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, but we shouldn’t expect too much from the masses.

My personal belief is that Shakespeare was an invention of the 1950's and his so-called "works" were literary forgeries penned by none other than Vic Tayback.

 

[TheLobster]

It

They're all fake!

What a legend! He got on TV, he could’ve had fun and some hearty laugh with the hosts about the silliness of his supposed “movement”, but no: he keeps it up all throughout, completely straight-faced, fields the questions without corpsing, and even manages to make serious point about media freedom and censorship.

Amazing role model. Every conspiracy theorist should aspire to be like this guy.

 

[SimonDoom]

I think it was Jackie's bird opinion that raised the red flag.

 

[EdwardsOtherSide]

H.P. Lovecraft was even more classist than he was racist.

No matter how much textual evidence you provide, people get really belligerent about this one.

 

[SimonDoom]

The best ten year period for popular music was 1966 to 1975.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

I think it was Jackie's bird opinion that raised the red flag.

Try to silence me all you want people, but I will continue saying it LOUD and PROUD:
American coots are the devil. They can fuck right off with those wacky ass feet.

 

[SimonDoom]

H.P. Lovecraft was even more classist than he was racist.

No matter how much textual evidence you provide, people get really belligerent about this one.

I'll throw some logs on the fire. HP Lovecraft is way overrated as a writer. He has some cool, macabre ideas, but his writing style was antiquated even by his day, turgid and wordy. He didn't employ dialogue that well, or often enough. He overused the odd device of a story within a story, i.e., the main character, who experienced something horrific, would narrate the story to another person, who narrated it to the reader. This created a sense of distance between the reader and the action, which dilutes the immediacy and the horror. It also tips off the reader that the main character survived, so it's a spoiler.

I had never read Lovecraft until a few years ago, but I'd heard for years about Chthulu and the man's impact on horror, and I was disappointed.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Try to silence me all you want people, but I will continue saying it LOUD and PROUD:
American coots are the devil. They can fuck right off with those wacky ass feet.
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What is it with all this anti-feet talk lately?!

That's it. I'm starting a foot-fetishist support group!
#FootRights!
#FootLoversArePeopleToo!

 

[Erozetta]

Dead categories:

I know there's a lot of lamentation about Letters & Transcripts, Reviews & Essays, Celebs & Fanfic as well as Chain Stories being dead categories, but I think I found a deader category.

There are stories there over two months old that have barely cracked 600 views. Mine are among the most viewed in September. There are currently two entries on the new list.

I'm thinking this is a category that could be culled, save a little on storing audio files, and no one would ever even notice. (I'm talking poetry with audio, I forgot to trim the simple audio one out of the image.)

And the controversial opinion is the idea of outright removing a category instead of adding one.

 

[StillStunned]

I know there's a lot of lamentation about Letters & Transcripts, Reviews & Essays, Celebs & Fanfic as well as Chain Stories being dead categories, but I think I found a deader category.

Toys & Masturbation seems to be a black hole for reader engagement. "Sweet Dreams, Poppy" is the only story in that category for the past month that has more than three comments.

 

[Erozetta]

Toys & Masturbation seems to be a black hole for reader engagement. "Sweet Dreams, Poppy" is the only story in that category for the past month that has more than three comments.

I mean, everything in that category is still getting over 1k views for the most part.

Most in poetry with audio for this month haven't even cracked 100 views. There were 14 total entries last month. And many don't even have a single comment.

And I checked the ones for this month, there are four entries, one with 100 views, zero comments on any of them.

 

[Lifestyle66]

The Literotica admins have recently changed the author's homepage, archiving older items.

My last story posted to Loving Wives hasn't received ANY new comments and the rating remained static for the last three months. That's unusual, since the number of views continues to increase at a rate of about 20 or more per day.

Is it possible the Literotica admins are making other changes to the site which impacts comments and ratings?

 

[Erozetta]

The Literotica admins have recently changed the author's homepage, archiving older items.

My last story posted to Loving Wives hasn't received ANY new comments and the rating remained static for the last three months. That's unusual, since the number of views continues to increase at a rate of about 20 or more per day.

Is it possible the Literotica admins are making other changes to the site which impacts comments and ratings?

Possibly, but I don't think that's at play in this category. This is the all time top list:

https://www.literotica.com/top/Poetry-With-Audio-46

Two entries with 9 and 14 votes.



And the 30 days and 12 months top lists have zero entries.

 

[SimonDoom]

And the controversial opinion is the idea of outright removing a category instead of adding one.

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But why would you do that in this case? The listenership for this category may be small, but it won't be served by another category, so if you get rid of this category you're screwing over a distinct group of readers. That makes no sense.

 

[Erozetta]

But why would you do that in this case? The listenership for this category may be small, but it won't be served by another category, so if you get rid of this category you're screwing over a distinct group of readers. That makes no sense.

The content could always be merged with audio, which has a larger listener base.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

What is it with all this anti-feet talk lately?!

That's it. I'm starting a foot-fetishist support group!
#FootRights!
#FootLoversArePeopleToo!

Bird feet are not real feet.