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rylandsgrace

“I don’t want other people to decide who i am. i want to decide that for myself. ” – Emma Watson

Happy international women’s day!

batsandboba

obsessed w the wording of this headline

#funniest

sinizade

Fenris my beloved 🛐

#fenris #dragon age 2 #dragon age #da #DA2

siderealsandman

annatheginger replied to your photoset “Pride Interrupt Icons Reblog if you use! ”

I appreciate these, they’re so cool, but this is like the third or fourth pride icon set ive seen without the pan flag :/

My bad!!

#awww yay!#n7 #mass effect

matchagirl

sorry but if your bed isn’t against at least one wall you’re not valid

heartsdesire456

I used to think this post was stupid because most people like both sides of the bed free but then I realized some psychopaths put their bed like this so not even the headboard is against a wall and this post is about these animals.

ranger-truth

A single person’s bed is generally against 2 walls, a couple’s bed is generally against 1 wall, and people with 0 walls have no fear of the dark/unseen with direct access to their head, and therefore cannot be human.

unnonexistence

ok the bed just out in the middle of the room is bad but have you considered: only the footboard end against a wall

crumplelush

no i hadn’t. why would you put that image into my head?

demansiabites

Okay, but how is this

time-traveling-fetus

dashbork

I’m at a loss for words

pyramidschemeofthesun

This was the bed of Thomas Jefferson.

froginakettle

STay out of my study unless you intend to have sex with me

itsapmseymour

BACK UP, YOU CANT JUST CHANGE THE SUBJECT TO THOMAS’ FUNKY BED SET UP AFTER JUST LOSS-ING TUMBLR LIKE THAT

elodieunderglass

People need time to grieve

#funniest

lyriumrain

WHAT????

Thedas stands for The Dragon Age Setting??? 😭😭😭😂

#dragon age #da #oh my god #funniest #da funniest

the rubber duck

For anyone curious what they mean by the rubber duck, rubber duck debugging is a tactic used by programmers to figure out bugs in the code. To do it, they explain the code, verbally, line by line, to the rubber duck until they find it.

It’s also very useful for writers, and I’ve used it multiple times with rubber ducks, stuffed animals, and my friends.

brunhiddensmusings

“when i say it out loud i realize where the stupid was”

elidyce

I literally cannot count the number of times I’ve gone to someone and told them ‘I can’t figure out what’s wrong with my story, please let me explain it to you’ and that was all it took. Sometimes they ask helpful questions like ‘did you remember to feed them’ or ‘so is this all on the same day’ but other times I don’t even need that, it just figures itself out as soon as I try to explain it to someone else.

It’s one of my go-to pieces of writing advice. You’re stuck on your story? sit down and tell me/someone all about it.

#writing

varaxxian

I missed the Mako so much.

varrictithrass

#funniest #mass effect #mass effect funniest

thatwritergirlsblog

Tips for Writing a Difficult Scene

Every writer inevitably gets to that scene that just doesn't want to work. It doesn't flow, no matter how hard you try. Well, here are some things to try to get out of that rut:

1. Change the weather

I know this doesn't sound like it'll make much of a difference, but trust me when I say it does.

Every single time I've tried this, it worked and the scene flowed magically.

2. Change the POV

If your book has multiple POV characters, it might be a good idea to switch the scene to another character's perspective.

9/10 times, this will make the scene flow better.

3. Start the scene earlier/later

Oftentimes, a scene just doesn't work because you're not starting in the right place.

Perhaps you're starting too late and giving too little context. Perhaps some description or character introspection is needed before you dive in.

Alternatively, you may be taking too long to get to the actual point of the scene. Would it help to dive straight into the action without much ado?

4. Write only the dialogue

If your scene involves dialogue, it can help immensely to write only the spoken words the first time round.

It's even better if you highlight different characters' speech in different colors.

Then, later on, you can go back and fill in the dialogue tags, description etc.

5. Fuck it and use a placeholder

If nothing works, it's time to move on.

Rather than perpetually getting stuck on that one scene, use a placeholder. Something like: [they escape somehow] or [big emotional talk].

And then continue with the draft.

This'll help you keep momentum and, maybe, make the scene easier to write later on once you have a better grasp on the plot and characters.

Trust me, I do this all the time.

It can take some practice to get past your Type A brain screaming at you, but it's worth it.

So, those are some things to try when a scene is being difficult. I hope that these tips help :)

Reblog if you found this post useful. Comment with your own tips. Follow me for similar content.

#writing

jonklassen2

gentlemanbones

dreadpiratecherry-deactivated20

was-fleur-prince-deactivated201

I have no idea what’s going on

pewterkat

Congrats, we have reached a period of time where there is a generation that does not remember the first memes.

ryanthedemiguy

Look, i’ve been on tumblr for nine fucking years and I don’t get this meme. I remember seeing it at some point, but have no clue what it means.

nerdfighterwhatevernumbers

because this meme is pre tumblr and pre-youtube and is about 17 years old, almost twice as long as you’ve been on tumblr the ancient depths of albinoblacksheep will never die

actualaster

#this video fucking SLAPPED #funniest

madejdeactivated

GHOST FILES (2022)

#shane madej #ryan bergara #ghost files

tchaikovskaya

none of yall know what propaganda actually is, do you?

tchaikovskaya

this is legitimately the absolute funniest thing anyone has ever added to one of my posts, thank you for your service

guardiantempest

#funniest

stevenrogered

it’s almost that time of the year again, so you know what that means

gaynfl-moved

fullmetalfisting

You know, that’s fair

valentinedagger

[id 1: a screenshot of the folgers incest commercial

id 2: the tumblr “This reblog was flagged as explicit” banner

end id]

ellieintheskywithdiamonds-deact

prayer circle for the person using a screen reader and has to hear the words “folgers incest commercial” out loud

#funniest

veryfunnymemes

blackberryshawty

Like how bout you mind your business okay

geekandmisandry

I can only hope that you hit a tree instead of a person.

livebloggingmydescentintomadness

as long as you’re on the road with me, putting my life in danger, it sure as hell IS my business. don’t look at your fucking phone while your car is moving. you’re going to kill someone.

thecuckoohaslanded

I did a report on actual studies of this for college. It is part of a category of behaviors referred to as “distracted driving,” a category which includes driving while under the influence of alcohol or other drugs.

The reason drunk driving is bad is you have inhibited judgment and a depressed nerve response. If you are drunk driving, and there’s something you need to avoid or react to, you are more likely to make bad reactive decisions, and make them much slower than a sober person would. (I do not recall offhand the name for the type of distraction this represents neurologically.)

Looking at your phone is something called a COGNITIVE distraction, which means your focus, in that moment, is entirely on a separate task, because contrary to popular belief, “multitasking” is not a thing that actually exists neurologically. It is possible to switch between multiple tasks in such a way that you make progress towards both at nearly the same time, but within the same INSTANT, your brain CANNOT, by design, perform two cognitive tasks at the same time without greatly impairing your performance at both of them. Even talking on the phone while driving, keeping your eyes fully on the road at all times, is a cognitive distraction that makes it much harder for you to pay attention to your driving and to the people around you, and even people who claimed to be proficient multitaskers, when tested, proved to be highly prone to accidents while talking on the phone AND far less effective at responding to the conversations they were having, because it is not possible for the human brain to do both things at the same time. Talking on the phone while driving was found to be approximately as bad as drunk driving.

But it gets worse.

If you are traveling at highway speeds, and you look down at your phone for just six seconds, you will have traveled roughly the distance of an American football field while your eyes were completely away from the road.

This, obviously, is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.

A person under the influence of alcohol will have a DELAYED reaction. A person whose eyes are not on the road because they are texting will have NO reaction. In the event of an accident, this means full speed collision head on with no actions taken to mitigate the damage.

What every study ever done on the subject showed, unambiguously and by a CLEAR margin, was that TEXTING WHILE DRIVING IS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE DANGEROUS TO YOURSELF AND OTHER MOTORISTS THAN DRUNK DRIVING. You are both more likely to be INVOLVED in an accident and less likely to REACT to it in time to save your life and the lives of other people on the road.

Drunk driving is punished HEAVILY by law, and rightly so, because it is a reckless endangerment of public safety.

If you text while driving or check facebook while driving or do anything else on your phone instead of keeping your eyes on the road, YOU ARE MORE DANGEROUS TO YOURSELF AND OTHER DRIVERS THAN A PERSON WHO IS SEVERELY DRUNK, YOU ARE A THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND YOU SHOULD BE STOPPED. Other people on the road have every right to hate you for it and to hope someday the law catches up on this issue.

If you’re driving on the same road as me, YOU TEXTING IS MY FUCKING BUSINESS, because you are putting MY LIFE in danger.

If you want to text while in transit, you shouldn’t be in the driver’s seat.

nonbinaryartistsarah

Friendly reminder:

DON’T BE DOING ANYTHING ELSE BESIDES DRIVING WHEN YOU ARE DRIVING.

NO “IF” OR “BUT” ABOUT IT.

mayihavethisdanse

a fo4 playthrough, as expressed in discord commentary

While looking for something in my Discord logs, I stumbled over the nonsense I liveblogged at tolerant friends during my first run of Fallout 4. Some selected excerpts for your (possible) amusement.

General observations