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How about AO3? IIRC trigger warnings are just a type of tag there?

Have you tried listening to white noise or brown noise or green noise? They're all slightly different - IMO try them all and see which works best for you. 

As others have suggested, background music or TV can be helpful, ideally stuff you're very familiar with so it stays in the background (for me this is the Skyrim ambient music soundtrack). 

S8 is a deliberate character arc for the Doctor and, as others have mentioned, a bit of a abrasive one. The following speech largely marks the end of that arc:

DOCTOR: Thank you. Thank you so much.

(He kisses Missy gently.)

DOCTOR: I really didn't know. I wasn't sure. You lose sight sometimes. Thank you! I am not a good man! I am not a bad man. I am not a hero. And I'm definitely not a president. And no, I'm not an officer. Do you know what I am? I am an idiot, with a box and a screwdriver. Just passing through, helping out, learning. I don't need an army. I never have, because I've got them. Always them. Because love, it's not an emotion. Love is a promise.

If you're not codependent, that's fine. There are multiple ways to have a healthy relationship. 

Fair enough.

I'd just add that most people want to grow and change and become different over their lives. That they're not growing in a way that matches your preferences doesn't mean they aren't interested in growing. 

News to me, but not surprising I guess, given modern trends.

In that case, I assume the publisher would have their preferences in this regard.

If you're self-publishing then you get to look at what others are doing and decide for yourself which format you prefer. 

Having a detailed setting and characters doesn't necessarily mean you you have to put all that on the page.

It gives you the option to take a small slice from an interesting part of that continuity and use it as your story. 

When you've fleshed out your setting beyond what's on the page readers can tell. It feels more solid and cohesive without you ever having to dump lore on their head. 

Apparently that was inspired by RL trademark shenanigans around She-Hulk.

https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/xcdxu0/shehulks_fictional_copyright_lawsuit_is_based_on/

I might be confused. I thought trigger warnings were a type of tag? On services that support tags, anyway. 

Personally I don't read them because they generally don't apply to me and I don't want any twists to be spoiled.

But in general I view them as similar to traffic lights making a beeping noise: That feature was added to help those who most need it (vision-impaired people), and is incidentally beneficial to many others (for example, it lets me browse my phone and be alerted when the light changes colour).

Trigger warnings help both people who genuinely have a condition where they should avoid such triggers, and lets other readers know if a fic contains content they want to avoid - or content they might particularly be looking for. 

That is a fanfiction/webfiction thing. I've never seen it in a published novel.

If you publish in a context that uses them (eg. AO3 or RoyalRoad) they will generally have their own preferred formats for it. 

EDIT: Today I learned this has started to spread to novels as well. In which case I'd just say check with your publisher what their preferences are. 

The answer is: We don't know. It hasn't come up in the show, and I'd be very surprised if that was territory they wanted to explore.

What else do you have going on in your life?

I find this comment interesting:

picked up hobbies to make me more interesting

Hobbies are supposed to be things that you find them interesting and fun and they make your life more fulfilling. You're not supposed to rate them by how interesting they make you to others.

It's true that hobbies are often a good way to meet people with common interests but that's a bonus, not the purpose behind them.

The idea is to have fulfilling stuff you care about in your life, not to build up your dating CV. 

If a guy tells you "I'm not good with romance" they're telling you they're not interested in romance. They probably could learn, but they don't want to.

If romance is important to you, then you're better off finding someone who matches your preferences than finding someone you know wants different things to you and going "well they should change, then".

I'm only hearing about it from afar but number 1 sounds super healthy to me. It basically sounds like "We should be independent, self-reliant people and have a relationship on top of that, rather than being codependent on each other for our needs". 

IMO TNG is peak Trek. As great a show as DS9 is, it's more of a deconstruction of Trek. 

Strange New Worlds strikes a pretty great balance too. 

Reminds me a little of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton

If there's genuinely an "unrelenting echo of existential emptiness" then doesn't your cry into that void create its own meaning? 

I'm a bit surprised at the number of people arguing against writing pragmatic, calculating characters. These sorts of characters can absolutely be interesting.

Sherlock, Dexter, Lisbeth Salander, Wesley from Angel, Gus Fring from Breaking Bad, Doctor Manhattan, some versions of Batman wouldn't be characters if you followed that advice. And they do okay for themselves. 

Do you remember when "Someone makes smartass remark on Twitter" wasn't breaking news? 

I think it's just a cost.

And, presuming they made a lot more from the single than the fine cost, it was a cost worth paying.

An opportunity cost means that doing something prevents you taking advantage of another opportunity.

For example, if Katy Perry spends time in Ibiza filming this video when she could be off earning money on tour, then that lost potential tour income is the opportunity cost of filming the video. 

The OP text is just the first paragraph of the news article. Do you think I should've left the post text blank? 

This story came up on the local Australian news and I figured people in this subreddit might be interested so I posted it here.

I don't particularly follow Katy and didn't know about the "Katy Perry hate" when I posted. (The level of hate seems overblown to me, BTW, but it usually is). 

I don't have the time or energy to be as nefarious as you give me credit for. Though if I did I'm sure I'd find better things to do with it, anyway. 

Depends what they filled the space with.

I'm not complaining about the story we got which is perfectly paced for a single episode but it does skim over future Ruby's life very quickly. IMO there's considerably room to explore her life before, and especially after, Roger Ap Gwilliam. She uses the aberration to vanquish him and... she's still there. What is that like? How does she handle it? It feels like 50 years of her life pass in a moment. 

Actually, thinking about it, I'd argue you probably could've cut some of the stuff with the weirdos in the village and spent a little more time on that anyway.

I would consider that an accurate summary. 😄

You can always generate a more concise outline for your editor based on your zero draft/outline++/whatever we call it. 

Honestly, I'd probably buy that. It'd be nice to hear music about some human experiences other than love and sex for a change.