Bacon Prompt 221
"How do they sleep like that?"
"Like what"
"Halfway upside down with their neck cranked to the side."
"You sleep like that too most nights"

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Bacon Prompt 221
"How do they sleep like that?"
"Like what"
"Halfway upside down with their neck cranked to the side."
"You sleep like that too most nights"
Writing prompt 220
"He's perfect"
"Only while sleeping. That man is a monster"
Things I’ve noticed are essential in plotting and would probably have saved me a lot of time if I had considered it earlier
The START of your story - how fucked up flawed is your premise/character at the start? what do they have to change? why are they HERE?
The END of your story - How do you want your main character/theme/universe to change after your story? Does it get better or worse? THIS SETS UP THE TONE DRASTICALLY.
What you want to happen IN BETWEEN - the MEAT of it. What made you start writing this WIP in the first place. Don't be ashamed to indulge, it's where the BRAIN JUICE comes from. You want a deep dive into worldbuilding and complex systems? Then your start and end should be rooted in some fundamental, unique rule of your universe (what made you obsess over it?). Want to write unabashed ship content? Make sure your start and end are so compelling you'll never run out of smut scenarios to shove in between scenes (what relationship dynamics made you ship it in the first place?).
The ANTE - the GRAVITY of your story. How high are the stakes? Writing a blurb or interaction? start with a small day-in-the-life so you can focus on shorter timelines and hourly minutiae that can easily get overlooked in more complicated epics. Or you can go ham on it and plot out your whole universe's timeline from conception to demise. Remember: the larger the scale, the less attached your story may get. How quickly time flies in your story typically correlates with the ante (not a hard rule, ofc, but most epics span years of time within a few pages, while a romance novel usually charts out the events of a few months over a whole manuscript.)
Everything else follows….?
Public service announcement.
Blue/purple lips and fingernails is a symptom of low oxygen in lighter skin tones.
In darker skin tones you're looking for grey or white lips and fingernails. Other places where this may be not evidence is the tongue and gums.
Figured since everyone gets taught what low oxygen looks like on lighter skin. Everyone should know what it looks like on dark skin too.
-fae
I got certified in three different levels of first aid over a span of 5 years without learning this. in case anyone was wondering why sharing this information is necessary.
New writers I am begging you to take writing advice with a grain of salt. And pepper. Maybe some cloves. Or garlic powder. What I mean is spice up your writing, instead of listening to stale rules that might not work for everyone.
Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care
Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck
Well, OP, I’m officially invested in this shit. Your whiny ass is doing self care if I have to drive to your goddamn house and do it for you.
By Talos this can't be happening
reblog this everyone i wanna see what happens when op’s reverse-hubris forces them to practice basic self care.
why? because it’s funny and completely possible actually so good fucking luck op
I figured out roughly how many notes it's been getting per day and multiplied that by the number of days left until the end of 2023
If we keep it going at this rate we'll be far past 666k
IMPORTANT
Okay so clearly I've underestimated y'all
So how about we make this more interesting?
I will practise self care if this post reaches 666k BY THE END OF 2022
Op you have fuckethed with the devil this post has gained 30,000 notes since I reblogged it last night
Reblog to throw a hedge apple in OP's driveway
What the fuck is this eldritch fruit? I'm in.
It's Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the osage orange or hedge apple. It is known to be native only to a small area of Texas and the edge of Oklahoma and Arkansas. Before the invention of barbed wire, it was pruned repeatedly and shaped to make dense impenetrable hedges to contain animals.
The fruits are inedible—not poison, they're just hard and taste bad.
The wood is super-strong, burns hotter than any other wood, and is ideal for making bows!
We should just fill this post with other interesting things as reasons to reblog it
Actually I like this idea, we should do that. Here's my fun fact contribution; actual old English, what one could call Anglo-Saxon (as opposed to, for example, Shakespearean English, which a lot of people call old English but is actually antiquated modern English), is a Germanic language, and modern English shares a lot of roots with German because of that. It was also, at one point, written with runes.
The hagfish is a deep-sea fish speculated to be related to lamprey. It exudes a strange goo that is believed to be used to clog the gills of attackers. This goo has been found to be a very good substitute for egg whites in cooking.
HAGFISH SLIME EGG WHITE SUBSTITUTE???
Saponify is a word which means to Turn into Soap
Which is great cuz it means you can threaten to saponify someone and it will both confuse and frighten them!
Wizard Convention Banned Spell List 2022: Saponify
i swear that whenever the wizard council discover a new spell they just ban it immediately. why don't you just ban all magic ever at this point??
cranky because you can't saponify people when they're annoying anymore aren't you
2.11.22
She had played trumpet for ten years.
Ten years. All the late nights of practice. Hundreds of smaller performances lead up to this moment. Yet she was still so nervous.
What if she missed a note? Would they laugh? Would they even notice? Or was this another moment in time when she would play every song just as it was meant to be?
Making posts knowing no one will see them.
I can see this post!
can confirm, i also can see it :D
Okay so that works. I guess reblogs are the only way, for now.
Clean sheets, amazing experience 10/10. Changing sheets, the worst 0/10. Why does something so good have to involve so much suffering
When I mentioned taking a day off to move house, my manager asked who I went with for my mortgage
When I told him I was renting he asked “why don’t you just borrow ten grand or so off your parents for a mortgage deposit?”
Sir, we lead very different lives
Have you considered being born into wealth? You should try it some time. It’s not hard. I was born into wealth all by myself!
I once visited a coworkers house and a cleaning service van pulled into her neighbors driveway. She said ‘They’re using THAT maid service now? How cliche! What service do you use?’ I felt like I’d somehow been transported to another dimension.
One time I was working at a thrift store as a cashier and talking with this dude about how expensive living and school were, and he looked at me and was like “Just go over to Europe, school is free there. Have your accountant write it off as a business expense so you won’t have to pay taxes on it” and I was just so fucking baffled I couldn’t speak
the skiing is by far the least batshit thing on this thread
Rich people are so wildly out of touch with how working class people live their lives.
One time I was chatting with my boss and we started talking about how I was looking to move to a new apartment and how difficult it was to find something because it was expensive and she looked me in the eye and said “price isn’t what matters, find a place that suits your lifestyle”. And I was flabbergasted like… I JUST told you I was having trouble finding a place I could afford, and you think you pay me enough I can afford to look for a place based on lifestyle?
how do you tell someone “i’m not ignoring you i’m just disconnected from reality right now and the days are all blurred together and i feel completely apathetic towards everyone/everything around me so it’s really hard for me to maintain a conversation” without saying that
Brain broken. Still like you. Talk later
The more I learn about judaism the more I wonder where tf christianity got all its bad shit. Why is divorce a sin in christianity when judaism has recognized the right to divorce for nearly a millennia and has codified religious laws for it. Why does christianity consider sex to be dirty (to the point where puritans considered it a sin to enjoy having sex with your own spouse) when in judaism it’s considered holy and it’s a literal mitzvah to have sex with your spouse on the sabbath. Why does christianity consider it a sign that you’re faithless if you question your religion when in judaism that’s considered an essential part to developing your faith. I’m probably stating the obvious here but I still can’t get over the fact that there’s no historical basis to any of this shit before christianity started, it’s like christians just said “hey guys what if we took the torah and built a new religion around it but this time it was actively hostile to human life”
I hate that tumblr’s search function is such a nightmare, because I am SO SURE I HAVE ANSWERED THIS BEFORE
But basically in historical order, the reason Christianity is fucked up is:
1) Paul of Tarsus (50s CE): was a Jewish Greek-speaking Roman citizen who never met Jesus, but after a “conversion experience” of some kind, he got really on board with this new religious movement, used his ability to travel and communicate with the wider Roman world to spread the religion. The oldest books in the Christian New Testament were written by him. And he basically co-opted the religion from the non-citizen Aramaic speaking Jews who actually knew Jesus. Instead, Paul is the one who decided Christianity should be its own thing rather than a version of Judaism, and he made it accessible to the masses of the Roman empire by getting rid of all the Jewish laws and customs people didn’t want to follow. And once your religion becomes adopted by an empire, things get REALLY messy. And even if Paul hadn’t just been a more successful missionary, the Romans sacked Jerusalem in 70 CE, which basically crushed the Jewish movement started by Jesus of Nazareth.
2) Augustine of Hippo (400s CE): once Christianity is the dominant religion of empire, you get THIS guy. Also a convert. Are you noticing a trend? He starts his life as just a dude in North Africa who enjoys partying a little bit too much. And then he Gets Jesus and for the rest of his life he feels that his inability to control his sexuality (both in his youth and when he’s trying to repress it later) is what gets in the way of his relationship with God. And then he extrapolates that to sexuality is the main thing that separates humans from God (a point that I, as an asexual have some Thoughts about). And thus he popularizes the doctrine of Original Sin, where the Fruit of the Tree gave Adam and Eve knowledge of sex, and Christianity got really sex-negative as his ideas became more influential. Like, Augustine lived in the 400s CE and priests were regularly getting married until like the 1100s. To be fair to Augustine, he was kind of building on Paul, who wrote in 1 Corinthians 7 that it was better to be single, but if you were married you should stay married (no divorce!) and enjoy sex. Augustine just goes further.
3) Martin Luther (1500s CE): Formerly a Catholic priest who started the Protestant Reformation with a list of 95 theses, and they were all about the practice of selling “get out of purgatory free” passes to enrich the Catholic Church. Which was obviously super corrupt and very bad! I do not approve of indulgences! But as a result, an absolutely essential part of Luther’s Protestantism was that you could NOT buy your way into Heaven. Specifically, the way the Catholic Church was getting away with it was by arguing that you get into Heaven by doing good works, and giving money to the Church was a good work, so you make a donation and you get a Hell Pass. So Luther decided to rip this theology up by the roots and said that you could not earn your way into Heaven, not by money, not by good deeds. The only way you get into Heaven is by believing in Jesus. And that’s the direct beginnings of contemporary Evangelicalism with its demand that everybody believe in Jesus Or Else. Because there’s nothing you can do. And if you waver in your faith, then you’re no longer meeting the ONLY criteria available for going to Heaven.
And that’s how we got here. Or at least a simplified version. There were lots of other people who messed things up along the way. But these three guys are (based on my reading of history) the ones who did the most work to turn the religion of the Torah into something that is, to quote theygender “actively hostile to human life.”
Fantasy Guide to the Debutante Ball
In recent years due to the rise of Bridgerton, the concept of a debutant has piqued a lot of your interests. I’ve been answering a lot of questions about debuts so I’ve decided to compile everything into one guide for you all (y'all deserve a guide because I’ve not made many in ages cause I’ve been absolutely swamped. I’m going to try do more).
What exactly is a debut?
A debut is the entrance of a member of the nobility, the gentry or the wealthy into the society of the day. They are being formally introduced to their peers and their future social groups. This milestone marks them coming of age and being able to finally take part in society as adults. Both boys and girls make their debut in society. But we will be focusing on the girls for today.
How to Debut in Polite Society
Like many traditions, there are strict guidelines one must follow. Most debutants are at least 16, ranging to 16-20. They must be a member of nobility, gentry or a part of an influential family in order to participate.
In European tradition, the debutant is introduced to the Royal family by a female relative, who has already been presented at court. They are formally introduced to the court and society, making their bows or curtsys. Once this ritual has been observed, every debutant will hold a ball at their own home to celebrate their coming out. Every debutant will host a ball and attend other debutants’ balls over the weeks of the Season. They would also attend different events throughout the Season in order to meet their peers and make connections. The tradition of the debutant ball has become a rarity in recent years though some still practise it.
In 19th Century America, one debut’s by holding a ball to mark one’s entrance into society. Peers, influential figures and other affluential people would be invited to witness the debutant make their entrance. In more recent years, a debut is made through International Debutante Ball. A debutante must be recommended by an established member of society or a member of the committee (usually a female relative) similar to the European tradition. However, in American tradition the debutants are escorted by her father rather than a female relative and once she’s presented, she is escorted by a younger male escort. The American debutant does not get away without her curtsy however, she must perform the gesture known as the St. James Bow to attendees or in Southern tradition, the “Texas Dip”.
What to wear to a Debut
Everything, even down to what you’re wearing, is set out in tradition. When debuting at a European Court, the traditional choice is a white court dress (though soft pinks and shades of white are permitted). The dress was short sleeved and had to have a train. The debutante wore long white gloves, a veil in her hair with three white ostrich feathers and jewels. Before the debutant has been introduced, she would hold her train over her arm and then let it fall when she has been presented. American debutants have a more complex colour scheme since they can participate in the ball for up to three years first time debutants wear wear white, post-debutantes black and on the third year they wear red.
I also really recommend watching Downton Abbey 4x09 because of how accurately it depicts the debutante’s journey from before ceremony, the actual ceremony and post-ceremony.
When you finally find out about your ADHD.
Bacon Prompt 219
" I wanna see how long it takes till he cracks!"
"Character A, we could do that for hours. its not worth sitting here."
"You're no fun!"
Bacon Prompt 218
"This conversation is over!"
"Nah, It's just begun." Character B slams the door shut and shoves Character A into a chair.
"I'm not asking anymore. Tell me where (Character C) is now!"
"Or what?" Character A says with a smirk on their face.
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