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The Fray's how to save a life (2005) is the sonic equivalent of a very expensive, very depressing IKEA commercial.

and now i want to see such a commercial

 

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Finally finished Don Quixote, just under the wire for 2025.

After hundreds and hundreds of pages that were mostly "Don Quixote and Sancho met a random traveler, who hijacks the novel to tell their personal story for several chapters, despite being largely similar to similar tales from other travelers," the story picks up in the last 250 or so pages, with nobles who decide to prank the pair with making all the stuff they imagine come true (I think we're supposed to be laughing at Quixote and Sancho, but it basically makes the nobles come off as jerks, while our two protagonists come off pretty heroically and nobly) and then a final successful conspiracy to get Don Q to give up being a knight, after which he essentially dies of despair, renouncing his chivalrous ways.

A lot of pop culture needs to be audience tested less, but this is one where in addition to an editor, someone needed to sit down and ask Cervantes whether he wanted the audience to like Don Quixote or not, because Cervantes is all over the place on this. I think modern audiences would mostly be on Quixote's side, in the way that we like the well-meaning but at times delusional characters on Parks & Rec.

For me, the book was just OK, although I'm sure it's a lot better for native speakers, who will pick up on a lot of allusions I know I missed and for whom this is a formative cultural text in the way that Shakespeare is for modern English-speaking pop culture.

As I finished it, though, I realized there's probably enough stuff in the implied setting that Don Quixote believes in to add up to a slim Shadowdark zine, so I might do that. Obviously, it's a job better handled by a Castilian speaker, creating something similar to Brancalonia, but hopefully me cranking out six to eight pages of Quixote-inspired stuff won't offend the native speakers too badly.

The moment their arms spun freely in our air, they were doomed -- for Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers, by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally Naughty word insane.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The moment their arms spun freely in our air, they were doomed -- for Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers, by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally Naughty word insane.

Honestly, Quixote believing the obvious fiction he reads to be real makes him a pretty modern man.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The biggest challenge in getting into publishing is all of the "everyone already knows this" knowledge that seems impossible to research on your own on the internet.

I downloaded the Explorers Design template for Affinity.

Installed it based on the instructions and ... I don't seem to be able to use it.

So I install it based on online instructions for installing templates for Affinity. And again, I don't see a way of actually building pages using it.

I'm sure the answer is right there and obvious (to the extent that anything in Affinity is obvious) once it's pointed out to me, but damned if I can figure out what's going on here.

And this was all meant to make my life easier.

 

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The biggest challenge in getting into publishing is all of the "everyone already knows this" knowledge that seems impossible to research on your own on the internet.

I downloaded the Explorers Design template for Affinity.

Installed it based on the instructions and ... I don't seem to be able to use it.

So I install it based on online instructions for installing templates for Affinity. And again, I don't see a way of actually building pages using it.

I'm sure the answer is right there and obvious (to the extent that anything in Affinity is obvious) once it's pointed out to me, but damned if I can figure out what's going on here.

And this was all meant to make my life easier.

I don't do anything professional on my computer, so my attitude might be different, but I have said that I want my computer to support (in the sense of "make it easier to do more") my hobbies, not to be my hobby.