~ ***** a fox chat ***** ~ [Now: a random fact you recently learned?]

…and that’s how it goes :blush:

It’s a nice way to finish up a sentence

I remembered just now, I say, “and that sort of situation”. My go-to word for things is now “situation”. Whatever it is, it’s a situation XD

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I’m wondering if this is aimed at pets :grin: I feel like I’ve heard a lot of people use this toward their pets

Everything is a situation! I like that, too.

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Topic: This is a thought about YouTube for me

@Qualeshia12 made me think about my own channel :grin:

I started a YouTube channel to react to writing advice articles like heck because no one else is doing it. I can’t find any, anyway. Idk if people like it, but I hope they find it helpful.

I had the thought, how long will I continue this?

Until the love runs out (OneRepublic song, Love Runs Out. I love that song.)

The good advice is often on the minor websites, because the bigger places do quantity over quality. I have my work cut out for me :stuck_out_tongue: It’s so nice to find minor websites that I can go back to for my own writing.

Also, definitely want to do writing-related deep dives. There are ZERO on YouTube as far as I can tell. Deep dives take time, but they are worth it. I love going down rabbit holes already, anyway

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Topic: What is a random fact you recently learned?

The Kentucky Derby in Churchill Down is the biggest derby and it started in 1875.

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That’s a coincidink–I recently read Hunter Thompson’s essay on it, probably on the day of the race a couple weeks ago, but the only thing I learned was that he really was as depraved as they say. Oh! I also learned that Goodreads has it listed as a book, so I was able to apply it toward my 2025 Goodreads Challenge. So now I’ve read 71 out of 100 books for the year. Huzzah! ٩(˘◡˘)۶

One other thing, I suppose. I also learned that Peabody and Sherman’s account of the history of Churchill Downs was notably false. Oh, the horror! (⊙.⊙(-̶●̃ₒ●̶̃)⊙.⊙)

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Roger Craig Smith (voices Ezio, Sonic the Hedgehog, plus many others) has been the narrator for Say Yes to the Dress for a long time (since 2007)

As a bonus fact, peccaries are animals that look like pigs, but are actually in a different family!

(Peccaries are in the Tayassuidae family; pigs, boars, and warthogs are in Suidae)

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I haven’t gone that deep, so idk anything about that stuff XD Just basic history from a documentary made in 1994 and a little bit about the triple crown and then watched a separate doc on Seabiscuit, because I knew about him from the Porky Pig cartoon.

But wow, what a coinkidink XD (who knows how to spell that lol)

Sounds like you could make your goal before the end of the year :open_mouth:

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huh, maybe that’s why the business insider video on the race came up in my recommends. I watch business insider already, so things probably just matched up

I heard it started in 1875 and thought, hey, I could use it as inspiration for my story :stuck_out_tongue:

Thought it would be fun to have two characters mention derby day. Not any particular derby though.

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