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Acquired Stardust
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Claire Keane
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we're not kids anymore.
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Jules of Nature
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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@theartofmadeline
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sometimes i hate being a writer bc literally everything in the world can give me an idea for a story and that makes me want to write it before i finish the stuff iāve already started and then that makes me want to punch myself in the face
Friendly reminder that this blog is pro-choice and if you donāt think a woman should have full control of her own body, then kindly unfollow me right now and go to hell
Please answer honestly! Some of us writers have been talking about feedback in the writeblr community and what would be the best way to answer comments on works, especially comment tags.
Good evening, writeblr community (or good morning or afternoon, depending on where you are!), Iām here with a poll on what all of you think would be a good way for writers to respond to comments. A few of us are at a loss of what to do, because we read them, but weāre not quite sure how to go about it.
Itās a quick poll, two multiple choice questions, and one long paragraph answer for any other thoughts and suggestions.
Tagging: @quilloftheclouds @royalbounties
to anyone out there whoās struggling with having no friends ā wondering where you belong in this world, searching for a place to belong ā you matter. you are so important. and you will find your people or maybe just a special person who feels like home. it may seem like your loneliness will last forever, but it wonāt. it never does.
More Writeblrs Please!
I need more writeblrs to follow and connect with. My dash is basically dead so help me revive it! Reblog if youāre a writer!
Saw this somewhere else and felt the need to post it cause no one else ever really tells you this stuff
My mom never really noticed. She noticed when she was breast feeding my little brother and blood started coming out instead of milk.Ā
My mom said she felt and saw a little lump in the shower. She was lucky enough she found it at stage 2
My mom had a mammogram. The radiologist thought the spots were just regular calcium deposits.Ā
Turns out it was triple negative breast cancer that had spread to her lymph nods. Mastectomy, radiation and chemo saved her life.
This could SAVE a life.
dont be embarrassed to reblog, this post could be life saving
Signal BOOST and pass it on. I had a breast cancer scare before (luckily it was just scar tissueā¦) and information like this kept me calm and collected at the docās.
As a cancer patient myself, who found my own cancer through a supposed LARPing injury last year, i know how scary it is and how important it is to catch it early. Please spread this around!
listen to ur boobs
its all in the boobs
hoW MANY TIMES AM I GOING TO REBLOG THISĀ ! SORRY FOLLOWERS , #sorrynotsorry
Always reblog!Ā
REBLOG,THIS COULD SAVE SOMEBODY!!! DONT BE EMBARRASSED!!!
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Reminder that anyone who grew their own breast tissue can get breast cancer. That includes trans women, intersex peeps, and cis men who may not have been aware there could be some breast tissue in there. The only way to be sure you donāt have any at all is if youāve had it all removed. If youāve had tissue removed for reasons other than cancer, they likely didnāt remove all of it. If you find something weird, regardless of who you are or how you identify, get it checked out.
All of you should reblog this. Breast cancer affects everyone and thereās not enough information about it.
Richard Roundtree, the actor who played Shaft, had breast cancer. He found a lump under his nipple while in the shower. Everyone should do self exams.
http://www.imaginis.com/breast-health-news/shaft-has-breast-cancer-men-can-develop-the-disease-too-dateline-november-9-2000
Fiction love: villains who quasi-reform, but never actually turn nice.Ā That sadistic manipulator who used to crawl inside your head and make you doubt your own worth and sanity is now the asshole on the team who snarks at everyone and likes exactly two (2) people, and refuses to grovel for anyoneās forgiveness but just keepsā¦ quietly saving everyone. Because the people worth their time will notice.
They leave weird little gifts for the people they donāt hate. Nice(ish) gifts, not Jared Leto gifts. But, like, the most cheerful person on the team gets this soap. Attempts to confront them on the fact that theyāre doing nice things for people will be ruthlessly mocked.
But they just. Keep helping these people they donāt even like that much.
Also I like this trope because like hell am I going to trust someone who went from trying to destroy me utterly as a person to trying to win me over and make me forgive them, but to see them go from wanting to destroy me to just sort of tolerating me, my backstabbing instincts are like,Ā āWell, look at that, they only threatened to poison me twice this week, they really are trying.ā
when im in a bookshop or library and im trying to read the titles of the books on the shelves
me reading any of my own writing: what the fuck are you talking about
i meant to be a casual fan but it ended up ruining my life
is it possible that plants have consciousness?
this is actually a small sub branch of botany thats been growing and gaining some recognition in the past 5 years or so called plant cognition! weāve been thinking about if plants can possibly be intelligent to any degree for centuries, but the main paper that started up this huge discussion in the modern era was one called Experience Teaches Plants to Learn Faster and Forget Slower in Environments Where It Matters by Monica Gagliano, a plant researcher in Australia who specializes in it. because the results indicated that plants were possible of learning and retaining information in a kind of memory in response to environmental changes, it received a lot of backlash and denial- generally in science, that kind of intelligent reaction to an organismās environment is a good indicator of cognitive behavior in the organism. it got rejected by 10 different journals before being published in 2014.Ā
the experiment worked like this. iāve talked before about mimosa pudica, a tropical plant that curls its leaves back when touched (they go back to normal in a few minutes):
this is to help deter predators among other things. but in this experiment, Gagliano used it as an indicator of stimulus and to test cognitive function. Itās well known that pudica has a rudimentary nervous system that can even be temporarily inhibited using anesthetics (just like ours can!). she hooked up a ton of these plants in pots to identical rail systems that allowed them to be lightly dropped in an identical way, juuuuust heavy enough to trigger the stimulus so all the leaves drop down when they hit the bottom (a piece of foam so they wouldnāt actually hurt the plants). every time the plants would be dropped, they would close up.Ā
but after the plants were dropped about 60 times each, they stopped responding to the drop.Ā
they remembered that no harm was coming from this action and decided that it was against their best interests to keep expending energy closing their leaves. they 200% learned to stop.Ā
she decided to test it further. she put some of the plants in a shaker and let them receive a more jarring response; the plants closed up as usual. then, she put them back in the droppers and dropped them again. they didnāt close up. they had remembered that response. this dispels the obvious rebuttalĀ to this experiment of the plants just being tired; they still closed up when stimulated differently.
they just chose not to close up when they hit a stimulus they remembered.Ā
it turns out that not only could they remember to keep their leaves open when dropped on the apparatus, but they remembered afterĀ 28 days when she kept testing it!! apparently by the end of the experiment, all the plants had decided to keep their leaves open when dropped!!!!
how do they do this?? we literally dont know. they have no central brain, only a basic nervous system. can other plants do this???Ā
well, adding onto that, venus fly traps can count! like. they have three hairs inside their traps, and all three must be touched within 20 seconds for the trap to close. once closed, those three trigger hairs must continue to be stimulated by thrashing prey, or the trap will reopen.Ā
so yeah like. basically āare they sentientā: apparently to an extent???? we dont know exactly why or how but they are??? maybe???? sort of????? at least some of them are?? but they dont have a brain so everyones like????????????????????? maybe its through a signaling network????????????????? but like how would that even work?????????
plant consciousnessĀ is still new enough to be dismissed as crazy by a lot of biologists but like. the evidence is there. we donāt know a whole lot and its clearly a radically different kind of intelligence than we know in animals, but itās there and we 200% dont know how it works yet or even the full extent of how plants use this intelligence (for example: does a redwood have the same intelligence as a venus fly trap?? how does it learn things and use that knowledge???)Ā
national geographic wrote an awesome article visualizing the experiment here if you want to read more!
@quilloftheclouds
p l a n t s
P L A N T S
YES PLANTS
Thereās a novel idea in here somewhere.
I was talking to someone today about writing, and I was surprised by how amazed they were by writersā ability to create a story. They couldnāt understand how JKR was able to create the world of Harry Potterāhow she came up a world so far removed from our reality.Ā
It made me realize something; not everyone can come up with worlds on a whimsy. Not everyone can create characters that they grow so fond of that theyāre like real people in their eyes. Not everyone has gone through the experience of a character derailing their story and swearing it wasnāt them typing those words in that document. Not everyone can just envision a story and then just write it.Ā
Iāve been making stories since I was a small childāitās something so ingrained in me that to imagine not being able to write (no matter how much I agonize over writing woes) is such a foreign concept to me. Writers, cherish your ability to create stories. Because not everyone can create stories. Because there isnāt anyone in the world who can write the stories you are writing. Because you donāt know when or where there might be a person in the world who needs to hear your story.
Moms on Quora be likeĀ āhow can I forcibly stunt my childs growth intellectually, emotionally and sexually because I donāt like that theyāre turning into their own person with needs, wants, and feelings that are separate from mine, including having their own beliefs, experiences, secrets, and crushes on people I donāt like?ā
You DONāT you fucking sociopath
your 16 year old son doesnāt need to give you the password to his laptop and add you on facebook, leave him alone, he does not need to prove to you that heās only looking at Intellectually Stimulating Contentā¢ that conforms to your beliefsĀ
Stop harassing your 9 year old daughter to let you read all the texts between her and her best friend because they might maybe be talking about having a crush on some kid from school or talking about their complex feelings towards your parenting style
Donāt take the door off your kids fucking room because they wanted a little privacy and alone time away from you, which is necessary to properly grow as a human being, you hyper controlling monster
Ew
Stop itĀ
āwritingā is canceled now we call it word wrangling
Cursed Creature here
Symbols and Signs: Animals
Animals are among the first symbols any human race has used. From birth we know that certain animals represent traits that are human, such as courage, wisdom and strength. I would look into Viking, Egyptian, Christian, Native American Legends and Greek/Roman mythos for animal motifs.
Tigers: a symbol of strength, power, energy, passion, ferocity, sensuality, beauty, speed, and wrath.
Panthers: symbolize strength, , adventure, loyalty, triumph, and a spiritual mind or personality.
Lions: courage, power, royalty, dignity, authority, justice, wisdom, and ferocity.
Koi Fish: fortune and luck, perseverance in adversity, and strength of purpose. (Japanese)
Dolphins: gracefulness, playfulness, gentle, harmony, intelligence, friendship, community, and generosity.
Crabs: trust, emotion, protection, regeneration, and transformation.
Shark: calculation, perceptiveness, and instinct.
Dove: peace, hope, love, freedom, promise, maternity, and messenger. (Christian)
Eagle: patriotism, spiritual protection, guardianship, opportunity, freedom, skill, authority, vision, power, and leadership. (Native American)
Peacocks: Glory, royalty, power, beauty, awakening, refinement, and incorruptibility.
Hummingbirds: joy, energy, vitality, healing, peace, infinity, agility, playfulness, loyalty, and affection.
Snake: duality, the search for balance, rebirth, patience, awareness, wisdom, ambition, evil, healing, intellect, protection, royalty, and awareness. (Christian, Greek, Egyptian)
Frog: f fertility, luck, purity, rebirth, renewal, healing, metamorphosis, and opportunity.
Turtles and tortoises: steadiness, protection, patience and stability
Butterflies: beauty, metamorphosis, transformation, fragility, grace, resurrection, transition, and change.
Spiders : fate, death, rebirth, and signifying a crafty or resourceful personality.
Dragonflies: prosperity, peace, good luck, purity, and harmony.
Scorpions: death, transition, sex, control, solitary, passion, protection, and defensiveness.
Horses: power, grace, beauty, strength, freedom, and nobility.
Foxes: cunning, playful, quick thinking or strategic personality, wisdom
Ant: group mind, patience, action
Antelope: action, agility and sacrifice
Armadillo: safety, boundaries, medicine shield
Bat: rebirth, secrets, blood and initiation
Beaver: builder, protector
Boar: Fire, savageness, power, the sun
Buffalo: sacredness, life, abundance, prophecy (Native American)
Cat: Royalty, cunning, evil, independence (Egyptian)
Bear: Strength, Motherhood, power
Coyote: laughter, humor, foolishness
Crow: Death, greed, murder, wealth
Deer: gentleness, trust, innocence and purity
Dog: Loyalty, nobility, true friendship
Hawk: Speed, persistence and quick wits
Lizard: Self-reliance, longevity, age, wisdom, evil
Mouse: Timidness
Otter: Laughter, curiosity, mischievous
Owl : wisdom, deception, death (Greek/Roman)
Rabbit: Virtue, serenity, low curiosity, quiet talent, fertility, (Chinese)
Ram: self worth, stubbornness (Chinese)
Raven: Magic, the messenger, mystery, dreams, death (Norse)
Sheep: trusting and naivety
Wolf: knowledge , leadership, savagery, teamwork, fear, Motherhood (Native American, Norse, Roman)
