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"Anyway, that's all I got. Have a good rest of your day. GFY, bye!"

Jesus Christ, Finch.

No. No, dear. That could never be. You poor dumb hill person. That's really what you imagine in your mind right now? That is so sad and tragic. I just–I can't–I can't even with this.

– Judy to Tiff regarding a certain Funyuns trip

and one episode later...

No, don't you say you're sorry. Stay strong, bitch.

– Judy, again; shortly before the best trailer stunt

When the Ents had reduced a large part of the southern walls to rubbish, and what was left of his people had bolted and deserted him, Saruman fled in a panic. He seems to have been at the gates when we arrived: I expect he came to watch his splendid army march out. When the Ents broke their way in, he left in a hurry. They did not spot him at first. But the night had opened out, and there was a great light of stars, quite enough for Ents to see by, and suddenly Quickbeam gave a cry "The tree-killer, the tree-killer!" Quickbeam is a gentle creature, but he hates Saruman all the more fiercely for that: his people suffered cruelly from orc-axes. He leapt down the path from the inner gate, and he can move like a wind when he is roused. There was a pale figure hurrying away in and out of the shadows of the pillars, and it had nearly reached the stairs to the tower-door. But it was a near thing. Quickbeam was so hot after him, that he was within a step or two of being caught and strangled when he slipped in through the door.

Much better.

Sandpaper is still affordable. Give its eyes cataracts.

https://slrpnk.net/comment/14721367

As a casual comment in a different thread, with no more explanation or summary than the title, it was well received with more upvotes than both of these posts combined, and none of these criticisms. None of those folk needed a TLDR or anything else.

Imagine my surprise when the posts bombed by comparison, and in communities I thought would like it.

¯\(ツ)/¯ whaddaya gonna do?

Also, whoa whoa whoa, we now have to explain why we think a post should be read? Not 'No', but 'Hell no'. You decide. If a summary and reason-to-read are required, I'll just stop posting.

"Long texts"??
To quote Leon, "Man, nobody fսcking reads anymore."

I liked this so much I posted it to Best Of. Cheers!

This is true. As have I.

The link worked (on Jerboa) for me, mate. Not sure why they caught hell here. Maybe folk didn't bother to actually click through? Idk.

I bet if one makes a post specifically for Valente's piece it will climb fast. I figured most of lemmy had already seen it, then it quickly got upvoted and commented. -shrugs-

edit: Wow, was I wrong or what?