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[Statius]

You shouldn't keep ketchup in the fridge, but you should keep apples in there.

Controversial Opinion. Ketchup isn't fit for consumption.

 

[crookedletter]

Controversial Opinion. Ketchup isn't fit for consumption.

I'll second this, if a little less forcefully. I'll use it for sub-standard french fries, but that's about it. Decent fries need no ketchup.

But also: if you're going to serve ketchup at a restaurant, I don't care how fancy you are or how brilliant your chef. Use Heinz, or some Heinz-adjacent generic. They've cracked the recipe. Any house-made ketchup is garbage.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Ketchup is more interesting as a physics experiment than as a condiment. Non-Newtonian fluids are wild.

 

[Levorotatory]

Ketchup was invented to mask the flavor of things that weren't fit for consumption. It still works in that role. Think hot dogs made with cheap, ultra processed weiners.

 

[TheLobster]

Controversial Opinion. Ketchup isn't fit for consumption.

American one definitely isn't. Given its sugar content, it's basically tomato jelly.

 

[Britva415]

Ketchup was invented to mask the flavor of things that weren't fit for consumption

No wonder kids like it so much.

It's because they don't like anything else.

 

[SimonDoom]

Controversial Opinion. Ketchup isn't fit for consumption.

I like it on French Fries. And as long as it's combined with other condiments, I like it on hamburgers (but not hot dogs).

 

[SmilingLez]

We will never find out the real reason why some of our stories stay in purgatory aka the Pending queue while other stories/poetry get posted quickly

 

[lovecraft68]

Anton Chigurh from No Country for old men is the most over rated, boring, lame AF killer out there.

Like, seriously, jeez, these are the same people who think mobsters are bad ass.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

We will never find out the real reason why some of our stories stay in purgatory aka the Pending queue while other stories/poetry get posted quickly

And anyone who suggests they know is full of shit.

 

[Statius]

And anyone who suggests they know is full of shit.

But I do know. I'm just not telling.

 

[Statius]

It can only be one of two things. There IS a secret cabal preventing certain people from posting comments and stories, maybe I don't know, based on titles, tags, tag lines, maybe someone's just saying 'fuck it, this one's getting lost for month'. Out of boredom.
OR
There's gremlins in the machine.

I like option B myself, which I always thought would make a great title but never could figure out how to write a sex story with it.

Hope that explains everything to everyone!

Peace.

 

[Baztrachian]

Female empowerment is a suitable topic for an erotic story.

Mocking 'female empowerment' is also a suitable topic for an erotic story.

 

[lovecraft68]

Apparently even the official contest support threads have now turned into a look at me joke.

 

[lovecraft68]

Mocking 'female empowerment' is also a suitable topic for an erotic story.

Nah, that's the Loving wives category.

 

[TheRedChamber]

Ketchup was invented to mask the flavor of things that weren't fit for consumption. It still works in that role. Think hot dogs made with cheap, ultra processed weiners.

Sauce?

 

[Bramblethorn]

But you fall in love.

The trees aren't dying, they're going to sleep for the winter. Isn't falling a sleep a wonderful feeling?

In the south, spring is the prettiest season. Up here in the northern climes, fall is the colorful season (or at least most years).

It's winter I hate. Every single thing about it

I love autumn. Both because it means summer is over, and because there's a point in that transition where I can feel my senses shift and suddenly it's like somebody turned the contrast up. The street lights are achingly bright and the spaces between them are achingly dark, and I can go home and be cozy in a way I couldn't do in summer.

 

[SimonDoom]

Autumn is the most poignant time of year. A time of change, when cool temperatures and rain come back, but they're refreshing and a little novel after long, hot, dry summers. It's harvest time. It's raining right now where I am, and it's music after five months of near stillness.

Winters aren't too bad where I am, but I tire of them quickly and long for warmer, sunnier weather.

Late spring is probably my favorite time of year, when things are growing and blooming, and the birds are singing all over, and you can get outside and do things without a sweater, but without having to deal with the often oppressive heat of summer.

I like summer because it's the best time to swim or to get up into the mountains, and it has long days and evenings where you can sit out side and sip a drink and listen to the buzz of insects.

 

[FrancesScott]

The whole point of writing is to have an impact on readers. That impact can be for good or for ill. But a good writer will always have an impact and needs to consider what they want to use that power to achieve.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

The whole point of writing is to have an impact on readers. That impact can be for good or for ill. But a good writer will always have an impact and needs to consider what they want to use that power to achieve.

And I'd add, you can't have it both ways. You can't take credit for any positive influence your writing has, then lay all the blame for anything negative on the reader.

 

[The_Cunctator]

Past-perfect tense statements are the wrong way to provide information about stuff which happened previous to the story or scene in which it's being stated.

Second-person voice is not for storytelling, unless it's to inform someone of shit they did while they were unconscious or amnesiac.

Chekhov's Gun is one of the most useful concepts in storytelling.

In media res, handled skilfully, is a powerful

 

[The_Cunctator]

Err...technique.

He said, wondering what had brought him to the pass of writing this with unsteady hands on his phone as she sank onto his engorged phallus...

 

[The_Cunctator]

I love autumn. Both because it means summer is over, and because there's a point in that transition where I can feel my senses shift and suddenly it's like somebody turned the contrast up. The street lights are achingly bright and the spaces between them are achingly dark, and I can go home and be cozy in a way I couldn't do in summer.

Primo Levi wrote: There is something about September that makes a man think..."forever".

A characteristically simple, beautiful insight from him.

 

[Britva415]

In media res, handled skilfully, is a powerful

Agreed. What I'm describing is a clumsy abortion of IMR

 

[Actingup]

Apparently even the official contest support threads have now turned into a look at me joke.

I'm going to disagree on this:

1) You would expect that each support thread would reflect the personal style of the volunteer running it. The volunteers on Lit often have vivid personas. So what? Bland is boring.

2) Right now, Lit seems to be trying to recover from a crisis that was particularly visible to authors, although less so to the general users. An intense, fun-centred effort around a contest is a good way to get things back on track just when many authors would be unsure about whether to bother. Judging on the number of stories published so far, it's working. You could argue, of course, that a support thread makes no difference, but in that case, why have them?

We can probably wait until a year's passed and we see the results on ratemyliteroticasupportthread.com to see how it's gone, but right now I'm on the side of #notajoke.