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[itheginger]

i love the linguistic trend of expressing something difficult to describe by just not including an adjective where there usually would be one. “i had a day today,” or “he’s definitely one of the characters of all time.”

it’s like i can’t describe this so i just won’t. you get it tho.

[makomoriz]

no i don't. cheers

[devilleworship]

saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

It's not as if this shit has been around SOOO LONG. We all existed JUST FINE before this shit became THE THING someone decided to shove in our face like...

[bolasaurus]

Dude, I wouldn't even fucking notice until I go to Google something and the search actually works again.

[serenitynerd]

The only reason I would notice is my life would suddenly get easier

[madlori]

Writing advice you're not going to like.

People sometimes send me Asks wanting writing advice.  I suck at it.  I don’t really know how I do the writing, or how one should do the writing, or what one should do to get better at the writing.  All I can ever think to say is “write a lot of stuff and you will get better at the writing.”  Which is true, but hardly a bolt from the sky.

Well, as it turns out, I do have one piece of Legit Writing Advice, and I am going to share it with you, right now.  If you were in any of my writing workshop groups at a con, you’ve heard this advice already.

Warning: you’re going to fucking hate it.  But if you do it, you will thank me.

If you have a piece of fiction you’re serious about, something you might want to actually shop around, or just something you really are into and want to make it as good as you can…do NOT edit it.

Repeat.  DO NOT EDIT.

REWRITE.

As in, print out the whole fucking thing and re-enter it, every word (or use two screens).  Retype the whole thing.  Recreate it from the ground up using your first draft as a template.  Start with a blank page and re-enter every. single. word.

I hear you screaming.  OH MY GOD THAT’S INSANE.

Yes.  Yes, it is.

It is also the most powerful thing you will ever do for a piece of fiction that you are serious about.

Now, let’s get real.  I don’t do this for most things.  I don’t do it for my fanfiction.  But if it’s something original, something I might like to get to a professional level - I do it.  You absolutely COULD do it for fanfiction.  It’s just up to you and how much time you want to sink into a piece.

You can edit, sure.  But you WILL NOT get down to the level of change that needs to happen in a second draft.  You will let things slide.  Your eyes will miss things.  You will say “eh, good enough.”

The first time I did this, on someone else’s advice, I was dubious.  Within two pages, I was saying WHY HAVE I NOT BEEN DOING THIS ALL THE TIME.  I was amazed at how much change was happening.  By the time I got to the end, I had an entirely different novel than the one I’d started with.  When you’re already re-entering every single word, it’s easy to make deep changes.  You’ll reformat sentences, you’ll switch phrases around, you’ll massage your word choice.  You’ll discover whole paragraphs that don’t need to be there at all because they became redundant.  You’ll find dialogue exchanges that need reimagining.  Whole plot points will suddenly be different, whole story arcs will reveal their flaws and get re-drawn.

You cannot get down to the fundamental level of change that’s required just by editing an existing document.  You have to rebuild it if you really want your story to evolve.  You will be AMAZED at the difference it will make.

It will take time.  It will seem like a huge, Herculean task.  I’m not saying it’s easy.  It isn’t.  But it is absolutely revolutionary.

Try it.  I promise, you will see what I mean.

*PSA: Tipsy!Lori wrote this post.  In case you couldn’t tell.

[meiselr]

This is so true. I really encourage anyone to do it. It helped me a lot during my revising of Murderer’s Maze and my Dystopian Modern Gospel AU at the moment.

[scriptmedic]

Guys, this is so incredibly true I can’t even begin to talk about it. I don’t talk much about my own writing on this blog, but I will tell you this: this is the single best editing tool I have ever seen. Ever. Take it from an editor’s daughter: this works.

How do I know this works? Because my best stories, for better or worse, have all been written by hand, and typed into a computer, which is close enough to exactly the same process. The number of errors I have caught, sentences I have fixed, words I have stopped to seriously reconsider, is flat-out ridiculous.

If you truly want to transform a story you’re working on, give this a shot, whether it’s 5 pages or 500. This one works, guys. You won’t be disappointed.

Thank you so much to @madlori for posting this and to my amazing beautiful wife for pointing it out to me.

[ofchaosgoddess]

help I’m having ideas beyond my available free time

[nothereforthedrama]

help I'm having ideas beyond my available energy levels

[slowly-spacing-out]

vote senshi tumblr sexyman 2026

-Can cook

-Cares about proper nutrition

-Has decades-long trauma that he avoided addressing until his friends helped him through it

-Cares about the environment/ecosystem he's in, helps keep the dungeon clean and nice

-will make you bread (among other things)

[Gif ID: Senshi from Dungeon Meshi saying: "Give it to me! I'll make you bread!" and then chanting "Bread!" before being hit in the face with the ingredients for bread. End ID

-Once got turned into an elf

-Look at him

[Image ID: Four screenshots of Senshi from the Dungeon Meshi anime. In one, his arms are crossed. In the second, he is crying. In the third, he holds his axe, ready for battle. In the fourth, an imaginary loaf of bread is shown floating above his head, and he is saying "I can make bread!" End ID.]

[cepheusgalaxy]

"Doomed yaoi" this "doomed yuri" that what about doomed found family. What about finding comfort in these new people after going through so much on your own—a community, a solace, a home to come back to. Caring for them with all you've got, only to realize that it wasn't going to work, ever, no matter what you tried. Only to have it ripped apart, no matter how much you tried to hold them close. Found family that becomes lost family. Found family that takes your heart with it when they go.

[romanceyourdemons]

guy working on an artwork they knew would push them technically: what the hell why do i keep doing this wrong. am i haunted by malevolent spirits and such

[tam--lin]

(7/30/26) The Red Cross just declared the second US blood crisis in its history.

Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.

We need ASAP donations of blood, for people to spread the word, and for manager types to help facilitate others' donations. All blood types are needed, but universal donor blood (type O) is especially dire.

[tam--lin]

Useful notes and reminders from the reblogs:

Many things that previously made people ineligible have been rolled back. If you previously thought you were ineligible, please consider checking current guidelines!

While O- is the most dire need as it can be safely given to anyone in an emergency, all types are needed! Our emergent release blood is being pulled for patients who have a high chance of death if they don't get blood within the hour. Once they're stabilized, they can have their type confirmed and get blood of a specific, matching type released to them so that O- can go to the patients who need it most.

Canada is also in a blood shortage, not just the US. Even if you're not in the USA or Canada, maybe check locally, especially if it's summer where you are.

[disabledandtrans]

email to: [email protected] or fill out this form

[disabledandtrans]

progesterone tracker is here.

oestrogen tracker is here.

testosterone tracker is here.

if you experience any disability or neurodivergency please fill out this form. it is equally important to me to have data that says progesterone doesn't affect autism or testosterone doesn't make you hard of hearing or whatever, as it is to document changes. so if you have any health condition. please fill it out. even if it to say "no change". i am begging you all.

and if you can't. please. please do reblog. i need this to be as big as humanly possible. it is the best way forwards to inform decisions.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

What's everyone's favorite thing that gives them hope?

Personally mine is how the world is slowly moving on from cringe culture as a whole. I see people out in the world confidently wearing a Disney backpack and no one seems to question them anymore. It's nice.

Lemme tell you a secret- most people don't notice that kind of thing anyway. Usually if you see someone with a marvel or star wars or disney shirt, most people won't even comment on it. In fact, I've been meaning to tell this story- I was having a bad day this one time, a really REALLY bad day, and I needed to go to the store to get something. So, I brought my favourite stuffed animal with me for emotional support. And nobody, NOBODY commented on Piggi. Nobody stared, nobody asked me about them, in fact I distinctly remember one little girl looking at me, before her mother noticed and immediately regained her attention.

Cringe culture was never as alive as we thought it was. In the real world, nobody cares.

... You know what? This is a great idea! Reblog this post with one thing that gives you hope!

My personal Thing is writing fanfiction with my partner and my friends :)

[liketolaugh-writes]

I'm always a big fan of putting current events into historical context. I see a lot of people, especially on Tumblr, speaking super fatalistically about how the world is the worst it's ever been, the future is doomed, democracy has failed and the end of humanity is nigh. Etc, etc, you've all seen them.

But the thing is, things used to be so much worse. We've come so far as a species. Things are bad, but they're so much better than they were, which means there's no reason to believe that they cannot get better still. Human selfishness cannot stymie forward progress forever, because otherwise we would not be where we are.

We know things can get better, because they already have.

So here's a few of my favorite facts, organized by topic:

Everyone Is So Fucking Stupid Uneducated

The American public education system, which mandated free, tax-funded education for all children, was established in the 1800s. By 1870, all US states had adopted it. Before the 1800s, literacy rates (the basic ability to read and write, not the '21% of Americans are functionally illiterate' party line) could be as low as 22% among women and 67% among men. No matter what criticisms you might have about the modern system, it still produced people that could read, write, multiply and divide, and who knew basic history.

America's first public library was founded in 1790. Prior to that, all library access was restricted to scholars and experts. In those days, the only source most people had was their Uncle Paul who knew everything (probably.) Today, there are public libraries in most cities.

The modern peer-review process only became mainstream in the 1970's. Prior to that, scientific papers were considered based on the reputation of the scientists involved. Feedback was only offered afterward, on an informal basis. In other words: if people trusted you, you could publish anything you liked as a scientific study, and if you weren't well-known, you typically couldn't.

I was able to make this list with academic sources I found on Google.

Medical Care Is Impossible To Get

Humoral theory was disproven in the nineteenth century. Enough said.

In fact, President Harrison, who died in 1841 of what was then believed to be pneumonia, was treated with mustard, mercury, enemas, emetics, and bleeding. At the time, no better medical care existed. (It was probably typhoid, btw.)

People started washing their hands before surgery in 1867. In the 1930s, when the lobotomy was invented, there were still people who would refuse to do it.

Antibiotics were invented in 1920. Before that, if you got an infection, you died. Period.

Insulin therapy was invented in 1921. Before that, if you developed diabetes, you died. Period.

The first c-section where both mother and baby survived was performed in 1500. Before that, if you got a c-section, you died. Period.

We started to understand nutrients in the nineteenth century. Thanks to the efforts of a number of different scientists and advocates, many critical nutrients, like vitamin C, iodine, and niacin, are manually added into common foods to prevent the illnesses caused by nutrient deficiencies. I would bet that most of you have never seen a case of scurvy, goiter, or pellagra.

The modern EMS system was created in 1966 to save lives more efficiently. Before that, people having medical emergencies in small towns were often transported via hearse - not because they were already dead, but because those were the only vehicles equipped to transport a person lying down.

(Listen to Sawbones for more fun lessons in historical medicine, as well as thorough breakdowns of modern 'wellness' trends and the science that is - or isn't - behind them.)

The System Wants Us To Fail

Child labor was outlawed in the US in 1938. Before that, it was not just legal, but quite normal to send your kids out to do work and then steal their wages.

The Americans with Disabilities Act was created in 1990. It vastly improved access to accommodations, and therefore access to public spaces. While the enforcement still needs improvement, people who were alive when it first came into law felt the impact.

The foster care system was implemented as an alternative to orphanages, which had far worse outcomes for orphaned or abandoned children. By the 1980s, there were no more orphanages in the United States.

OSHA was established in 1970, granting the first protections against unsafe workplaces. Before that, there were no measures against workplace exposure to asbestos, lead, unsafe practices, or anything else your employer might desire to do to you.

Social Security Disability Insurance was established in 1956, while Supplemental Security Income was established in 1972. I think you can guess how things went before that. (Here's a complete guide to modern social services for people with disabilities.)

The first Black woman was elected to Congress in 1968, Representative Shirley Chisholm. The first disabled person in 2006, Representative Tammy Duckworth. The first trans person in 2024, Senator Sarah McBride. All of these things would have been unthinkable in bygone eras, but they've happened now. It's harder for them, but it can happen.

Q&A

"But what does it matter that these tools exist if no one uses them?"

They exist! Even if not everyone takes advantage of them, they exist! You are not forced to be ignorant! You know these things because of the tools available to you!

"But they're hard to access..."

They exist! They exist because of people that made them exist! Yes, making them more accessible is the next step, but making it so they exist was the first.

"But this isn't good enough!"

You didn't spawn into a fully finished world with all the sharp edges smoothed down. None of us did, just like the people who came before us didn't, and the people who come after won't. History is a process. The hope is that someday, people in the future will look back to now and say, "Wow, how did they live like that?"

Because things got better.

[lactating]

the classic roll onto side and sleep for two more hours trick - ill try it now!

[lactating]

i wake up and ten thousand years have passed. i dreamt of watching a light rain fall onto a stormy sea. theres nothing left of anything.

[edenemy-art]

SHAKE AROUND THAT PATHETIC WOMAN. PUT HER IN A BLENDER. THROW HER AT A WALL. CHEW ON HER. IM TIRED OF YOUR MEN ITS TIME TO TOSS AROUND YOUR GIRL BLORBO LETS GOOOO

[edenemy-art]

“add tags” nah. the lesbians got me i can feel it

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Same

[allthefoolmine]

Reblog if you too do not want to share outside with them.

[scribefindegil]

everyone who is not currently in the process of moving please pause and take a moment to be grateful that you're not currently in the process of moving

[zechery-deactivated20220114]

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

[shadows-ember]

This is humanity

[siawrites]

Happy Birthday, Curiousity.

[labelleizzy]

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

[the-cimmerians]

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

[codenamewife]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

[beentobeetle]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CURIOSITY !!!!

[nickelmining101]

Happy birthday Curiosity!

[the-real-yahoo-mail]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

[no-one-offical]

Happy Birthday, Curiousity!

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

[bayfuzzball7050]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!!

[changeling5am]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

[geniuscomediae]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!!!

[thecacophonyspeaks]

happy birthday curiosity 🎉🎉🎉

[somethingsomethingdgronpa]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CURIOUSITY!

[respectundead44]

Happy birthday curiosity :D

[bookishsparrow]

happy birthday Curiosity

[themysteriousskull]

do you ever think about how if you dive into the ocean and go deeper and deeper you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light, and if you go up into the sky and go higher and higher you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light

[jasontoddsreanimatedcorpse]

sometimes a post makes you get out of bed at 230am to spend a quick hour on something like this

[arcanetrivia]

[Image description: A color image in portrait orientation. The background transitions smoothly from a starfield on black at the top, through dark blue, medium blue, lighter blue, then back to medium, dark, and another starfield at the bottom. In the very center is a black silhouette of a human figure, appearing to float on its back as on the surface of water. Above it in the blue "sky" area are a curved, thin white line like the contrail of a jet aircraft, and two small black silhouettes of seabirds. Below in the deep dark blue, just before the starfield, are some silhouettes of fish. /end description]