Comment and Link Roundup: July 29, 2020

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

Doing the hermit-crab shuffle [three comments, not counting the postscript]

Ask me about my special interests [four comments, two of which are new]

Blog formatting skills

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by lydamorehouse) The costs and benefits of smart-home assistants.

[mild cw: death] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by ilzolende) Blog recs.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by rustingbridges) The hostile fee structure of Paypal.

[cw: nsfw text] [AO3; Wayback] (OP by Huitzil) Hey, remember that porn-worldbuilding giftfic I got a few years ago? The author wrote a revised and expanded version! I highly recommend it, as well as the chapters that *weren't* inspired by me.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by siderea) Various ways to follow a Dreamwidth blog (in this case, siderea), and the circumstances in which one might pick one over another.

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Links:

[cw: food] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP is technically by extrajordinary, but the bulk of the thread is by petermorwood; h/t ilzo-misc) Restaurants in ancient Rome.

Two laugh-rule entries:
[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by siderea) The Great Chain of History.

[Bulwer-Lytton; Wayback] 2019 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest, in which one attempts to write the worst opening line for a novel.