adelineday

There's been a recent spate of users leaving comments on stories that praise your work and promise to offer writing feedback as long as you give them your email.
          	
          	Whatever you do, don't fall for this trick. If they actually enjoyed your writing, they'd talk about it outright instead of trying to drag you to another site.

Ornacopa

@adelineday I see.
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adelineday

There's been a recent spate of users leaving comments on stories that praise your work and promise to offer writing feedback as long as you give them your email.
          
          Whatever you do, don't fall for this trick. If they actually enjoyed your writing, they'd talk about it outright instead of trying to drag you to another site.

Ornacopa

@adelineday I see.
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adelineday

Is it weird that I haven't received any new notifications since yesterday morning?

adelineday

I follow a lot of people, so it was strange that they all went silent.
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Ornacopa

@adelineday I follow a minimal number of people so I wouldn't know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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adelineday

It's not relevant to what I write at the moment, but one thing that has recently blown my mind is the fact that many of the Egyptian pyramids were already considered ancient by the reign of Ramesses II (1303 BC – 1213 BC). 
          
          In relation to this, his fourth son Khaemweset (lived 1281 BC - 1225 BC) is considered to be the first Egyptologist because of the efforts he made to restore historical monuments.

adelineday

@Ornacopa It's humbling (and a little scary) to learn that people back then also looked at stuff and thought 'these things are old as hell.'
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adelineday

@Ornacopa Probably literally as well. Most ancient civilisations formed near rivers, and I think the Nile might have been one of the first places people settled around in prehistoric times.
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Ornacopa

@adelineday Civilization in the Middle East and North Africa is as old as bread.
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adelineday

I got to thinking about Chinese literary classics and figured it would be fun to summarize them badly.
          
          Dream of the Red Chamber: A boy ends up in a love triangle with two of his cousins while their dysfunctional family falls from grace. 
          
          Journey to the West: The Monkey King is totally not the protagonist. He and the rest of the party keep getting sidetracked on their pilgrimage because demons find the monk really attractive and delicious.
          
          Romance of the Three Kingdoms: China's best generals and strategists (who might secretly be gay for each other) play 4D chess, raze the country, and don’t care how many people die as long as someone comes out on top.
          
          Water Margin: The heroes are arguably just as bad (if not worse) than the corrupt government they’re fighting against, but they eventually sell out and get screwed over like everyone else. Also, tons of misogyny. 
          
          The Golden Lotus/Plum in the Golden Vase: An X-rated Water Margin spin-off where everyone is a pervert, and the protagonist’s husband just can’t keep it in his pants. 
          
          The Scholars: Society sucks and scholars are a corrupt lot.

Ornacopa

@adelineday Sounds dramatic.
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