State of the World (even if the article is specifically about S. Korea)

Koreans have begun blowing their money not out of ignorance but out of common sense. A small pleasure now is better than a promised future contentment that will never come.



So basically, Weimar hyperinflation/the marshmallow test when given to poor kids.

WiP (Meadowville)

Jumping forward a few chapters so we can get the the part where the plot (?) finally starts to go somewhere:

It is early on a Sunday morning- even the church-going families are just getting breakfast ready. The early-morning fog is still lifting, and the air carries the scent of green grass. Untrammeled by school, Anna wakes early. The cat is awake too, and eventually Walt groans and yawns and decides he’d better get up and let them both outside. ( Read more... )

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Fanfic Etiquette Question

What do you do when you come across a story that’s either hilariously bad, or deliberately hilariously bad, but you’re not sure which?

80% of me wants to recommend this Agent Carter soulmate AU as an amusing Larry-Blamire-style parody, but 20% doesn’t want to embarrass the author if they are, in fact, innocently unaware of the redundancies filling their prose: reiterations of what has just been stated in an earlier sentence, or an earlier clause of the same sentence, almost as if the characters, or the author, were repeating themselves.

Oh well.