Comment and Link Roundup: April 28, 2020

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

Vocation [three comments]

[cw: drugs, amnesia, maybe medical abuse] The onomatopoeia of breathing

[cw: food] The one about food routines [four comments]

How to Backup Your Dreamwidth [two comments, one of which is new]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph; in response to contrarianarchon) Relatively good computer skills; the wonders of virtual machines. [two comments, one of which is new]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) How to block the annoying sidebar videos on Serious Eats.

[arguably cw: embarrassment squick] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by argumate) Clever vs obvious solutions.

[cw: nsfw text] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by feotakahari) Foot fetishism vs snake fetishism.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by sanesparza; in response to rustingbridges) Dream points-of-view.

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Links:

Some selections from old Youtube bookmarks I was going through:

[cw: abuse] [Youtube] (by TL Forsberg) A bilingual music performance.

Three laugh-rule entries:
[Youtube] (by Joe Nicolosi et al) A trailer for a hypothetical genre-savvy horror film.

[Youtube] (original by Toby Turner; translated version by Draazil) The Dramatic Song, as heard from the foreign grandma's perspective. (This one is only funny if you speak Icelandic or--in my case--have already heard the original English version (which is also hilarious in itself, btw))

[Youtube] (by Jordan Taylor et al) How to write a worship song (in 5 minutes or less).



There is a blanket [cw: illness] on the rest of this post.


Comments on my own posts:

Early Friday Five: April 10, 2020 [two comments]

And when she hears the words, I hope she knows she'll be okay

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Teachers coping badly with the sudden shift to online instruction.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) The ethics and logistics of obtaining yarn during a plague.

[cw: death, Trump] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by mozzadoor; in response to sigmaleph) It's a safe bet that not *all* people dying of COVID-19 are people who have never died before.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by siderea; in response to illariy) Studying online is normally better than this, I promise.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) The inevitable anachronisms of future stories set in 2020.

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Links:

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Comments

[contrarianarchon]

> Dramatic Song

... yeah this is why I so intensely dislike listening to music whose lyrics I cannot understand... It *is* pretty funny, though.