Books and Berries

On storytelling: books, collaborative, fairy tales, mysteries, how-to, and such and so on and what have you Call me Bee or Berry or whatever! Pronouns are also whatever

[caintooth]

I WIN EVERY DAY

[seadeepspaceontheside]

these were the rejected ones

[my-dailydreams]

[heartpeacenquiet]

∧,,,∧ ( ̳• · • ̳) / づ♡ I give this to everyone that is feeling bad right now. It’ll be ok.

[kosmogrl]

I hope july is good and kind to you <3 I hope you get to sit in the sun and feel happy and at peace and I hope that nothing worries you for too long this month 🌼🧡

[enki2]

[maybeasunflower]

[bulkhummus]

its a long journey to erid

[scorebug]

height check. how tall are you people in my phone

[phantomrose96]

me at 22: haha, now WHY would I even so much as bother looking at this $22 pot when, if I sort by cheapest, there's one for $14?? What's it gonna do? Hold water worse? I'm a genius budgeter

me at 29: *looking at the reviews for an $80 oven-safe cast iron braiser*: they say it makes shakshuka like a d ream....

[criminalmindsverse]

CRIMINAL MINDS 2.21 — "Open Season"

[knitmeapony]

Yes yes yes this scene thank you for the tag, heehehehe

[kalindashepard]

It’s funny because this scene must be based on the memoir Special Agent by Candis DeLong. In it she describes being out looking at clothes at a department store on lunch break with another female agent and overhearing a conversation between a man and a woman in which he says he’s an FBI agent. They peer around some clothes racks thinking that they’re going to see one of their fellow agents trying to get a date, and when they don’t recognize the guy they go over and pretend to be interested in the big strong FBI agent themselves and ask to see his badge. The guy actually pulled out a fake badge, whereupon they said “Huh, that doesn’t look anything like ours…”, produced their own badges and arrested him for impersonating an FBI agent. (I remember this bit from a 25 year old book because I actually stole it myself for a fic)

[knitmeapony]

Exquisite. Glorious. 10/10 thank you for sharing.

[mugasofer]

[ilovecats4ever]

[azurele]

[theslowesthnery]

[skybluekagikun]

This is too magnificent (dramatic) to stay hidden in a reply 🦀

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

i wanna be so offline but unfortunately i love my mutuals and fanfiction

[morweneclipsed]

the KIDS act passed the house today. 267-117, 47 not voting.

that's not great. but it's not the whole story.

a few things got worse right before the vote too. the language that explicitly protected encryption, saying the bill couldn't be used to force platforms to weaken it, got quietly stripped out on Friday. that safeguard just doesn't exist anymore.

but this isn't over. it heads to the senate next, and the senate is genuinely not on board. blumenthal and cantwell, two of the senators who wrote the original KOSA, are saying they don't want this version near a markup. blackburn, a republican and the other original author, called the missing duty of care provision a red line.

worth being clear here, blackburn isn't on our side. she wants the policy stronger, not gone. but that's still a crack we can use. her opposition means the house version has zero guaranteed path through the senate as written, and a stalled bill is a bill that isn't law yet. use her objection, don't trust her motive.

senate commerce hasn't even scheduled a markup yet. that's the next pressure point. this thing has died or gotten majorly rewritten at this stage before.

contact your senators: find yours here. tell them you don't want the house version anywhere near a vote.

and remember, if you have to, contact your senators scared. anything helps.

this fight isn't lost. it's just moved.

[whereispearlescentmoon]

If you want to draw characters properly buff you have to be comfortable with them being larger. Getting buff requires you to build muscle mass. It generally requires someone to gain some amount of weight. I am so sorry to tell you this but just adding a line of definition to a still very thin arm does not make a character buff. That makes them toned. Just making their arms a tiny bit bigger specifically in the bicep does not make a character buff. They actually have to get larger.

[ghirahimbo]

"Idiots," I say, referring to the characters I have spent hundreds of my real life hours contemplating.

[faerynova]

anyway. hi. i will probably not be doing much this year. but as we know i had to participate because of the theme

i have removed (almost) every single character on my page except for my harlequin dolls. i will mostly be attacking clowns when i do get the chance to draw

lets gooooo