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This came to me in a fuckin dream….
"He is a hero to X and he literally does not care at all, this is about duel monsters dammit" is basically the story of Seto Kaiba's life post-mind crush. This is what happens when you self-actualize.
the reason trump demanding the EU buys american cars is ridiculous. americans out there might be used to cars like the ford F150
in some EU countries this requires a licence higher than a car to even drive due to its size but could you imagine driving this mfer around these streets
you might say oh thats a backroad, be fair well alright
the fact of the matter is these cars aren't being bought in europe because they are just not practical to drive in most of europe. forget licencing and fuel cost aside (the cost of petrol is MUCH higher in europe than the US and they guzzle fuel)
they are just impractical for daily use
all of those above examples were for italy, which fair enough ok. let's have a look at a much more care dependant country, like the UK
this is a fairly average street in the UK. where the HELL would you park that beast and you would struggle to get it even down the road. the EU isn't not buying american made cars because they're suppressing the US market, there is just little to no demand for US style cars
American car, European parking spot
Amazing pottery skills
Flawless
This is the most technically proficient pottery throwing I've ever seen. The economy of motion? Literally everything in one pull, one squeeze. Absolutely no even minor touch ups required. This shit is like watching a skilled magician even as someone who knows how to throw on the wheel. I am watching this the way that someone who is great at a few card tricks watches Penn and Teller.
a phrase that kinda bothers me when talking about women's historical roles in europe is "cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children." you hear it so often, those exact words in the same order even. and once you learn a little more you realize that the massive gaping hole in that list is fiberwork. im not an expert and have no hard numbers, but i wouldnt be surprised if fiberwork took up nearly as much time as the other three tasks combined, so it's not a trivial omission.
it's not a hot take to say that the mass amnesia about fiberwork is linked to the belittlement of women's work in geneal, but i do think there's a special kind of illusion that is cast by "cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children." you hear that and think "well i cook and clean and take care of children (or i know someone who does) and i have a sense of how much work that is" and you know of course that cooking and cleaning were more laborious before modern technology, but still, you have a ballpark estimate you think, when in fact you are drastically underestimating the work load.
i also think that this just micharacterizes the role of women's work in livelihoods? cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children are all sisyphean tasks that have to be repeated the next day. these are important, but not the whole picture. when we include all kinds of fiberwork—and other things, such as making candles or soap—women's work looks much more like manufacturing, a sphere we now associate more with men's work. i feel like women's connection to making and craftsmanship is often elided.
Nah pop off queen you hit it.
please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts
Good news! At various points in your development, it is!
As you write, you level up in little ways. It's not like D&D where you get a level all at once. Oh, no. You get tiny improvements to your skill tree, and there will be points where your build is entirely unbalanced. As you adjust to these changes, you will naturally regress in some areas. This is just your mind and overall skill level getting ready for the final leveling, where you're briefly fully balanced again!
TL;DR: Regression is a natural part of improvement, and while it's frustrating as hell, if you keep going, you can write through it.
Also this.
This is so true and such a good thing to remember but I also want to add sometimes you really are worse at your craft than before and that's ok too.
Maybe you had to take a long break from your craft. Life happens. When you pick it back up again there are things you may have to re-learn. Take it one step at a time.
Maybe you've picked up a lot of writing advice that doesn't work for you. It'll take some time to figure that out and learn what's useful to you and what isn't. Writing styles vary just as widely as visual art styles. What works for one writer doesn't always work for another.
Maybe you're trying to write something you're not actually interested in. Don't force it if you don't have to. And if you really have to? Find a way to make it interesting to you or to make the writing process more enjoyable.
Sometimes accidents and illnesses happen that can have long-term effects on how we write and perform. There are so many different tools out there that can help you through all kinds of difficulties. If you find yourself in a difficult situation where none of the tools are helping — that's ok. Your writing does not have to be as good as or better than your old writing. It is still worth writing and reading no matter how imperfect or inferior you may personally find it. You will always be a writer until you decide not to be and there are readers out there who will love your writing, flaws and all. Please keep writing if it brings you joy.
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Some final thoughts and tips:
Don't compare your unfinished drafts to polished, published works. That isn't a fair comparison.
There are plenty of authors out there whose earlier work was more enjoyable or more critically acclaimed than their later work. That hasn't stopped them from continuing to write. Don't let it stop you either.
I guarantee there is a reader out there for your writing no matter what. Everyone has different taste and one book's flaw can be another book's strength.
Go look up Lynda Barry's art. She draws "bad" on purpose. She draws like a child and it is so inspirational. Many of my peers attended a workshop of hers near the end of their illustration degrees and it had such a profound impact on them. She gave them permission to be "bad" at their crafts and showed them there's joy in doing something imperfect. I guarantee there can be joy in writing "bad" too.
there's something incestuous about seasoning tofu with soy sauce
crazy that soy can be turned into both flavorless texture and textureless flavor. maybe we should try just keeping both?
Let's try for neither. Take the texture and the flav
Oh wait that's soy milk. Rescind post.
I STILL LOVE TRIGUN!!!!!!!!!
Poster for a con i will be attending in may!! Excited hehe
wait if they give nicol bolas amnesia the best and possible funniest thing they can do is give Nicol Bolas a redemption arc... where some way through the arc he regains his memories but continues with the redemption arc because F it why not.
He should be domesticated, like Vegeta
Now who in the Magical Gathering universe is woman enough and sufficiently blue haired to How To Train this Your Dragon…
…Oh.
Unironically shipping this
You must above all else resist the urge to complain about being single in front of your friend's dirtbag boyfriend or he'll say something like, "I can set you up with my guy Basically Fine Eric. He likes to do the worm while he sucks stray peanuts up off the carpet down at the bowling alley on Friday nights, and that's his only redeeming quality. Give him a call," and your friend will be like, "C'mon, man. Not Eric," and their boyfriend is going to get all defensive about Eric like, "Don't be like that. Eric's basically fine."
Let them get nasty in my comments section. Don't be a hater.
Israel continues the massacres in Gaza... 232 souls taken in less than an hour! We are dying before your eyes—please, don’t leave us alone! Save us, do something... protest, donate, participate. I don’t want to die!
Please don't let us die alone here. Donate, share, like anything.
The martyrs have become 320 martyrs. Every minute we die here. Please interact.
im in a dd/dd relationship and we just fucking whip our bed with our belts every night before passing out
me: oh man, Joann Fabrics is closing. That's going to really suck for a lot of people
Sophia, the Victorian ghost who haunts a lamp I bought at Brimfield: not the least among them Joanne. though I suppose her business acumen must have been wanting if she gave the shop her Christian name- it just seems undignified. was that what drove her customers to other establishments?
me: well, nothing- it's a chain, and in most places, there weren't any other fabric stores.
Sophia:
Sophia: there weren't. any other dry goods stores. selling fabric.
me: not usually, no.
Sophia: in a whole town
me: no.
Sophia: and now there will be nowhere to purchase fabric at all in those towns
me: not in person. I guess people can buy it online
Sophia: what if they don't know what different weaves feel like? how will they learn if they never get to handle them?
me: some places have free swatch service on their websites-
Sophia: so they'll wait a week or more for a swatch, decide if they like it, then send away for the full amount of goods they need and wait even longer for that? what if they want something finished sooner?
me: they'll just be frustrated, I guess
Sophia: wait, why did Joanne's shops close? if she had such a monopoly, surely she'd have made quite a profit regardless of the name
me: an even bigger company bought them and couldn't use them to make billions of dollars, so they're forcing them to close
Sophia:
me: wait- PUT MY SNOW SHOVEL DOWN AND STEP AWAY FROM YOUR LAMP
I made this about a different business that was the victim of private equity and I hate that news stories keep coming up where I can use it.
Former Minnesota Vikings punter, Chris Kluwe, who was blacklisted from the league for standing up for marriage equality, speaks at a city council meeting where he calls Trump a Nazi. He is subsequently arrested and carried out by police.
I just want to clarify a few things, because I have a feeling some people may share this without watching the video in full and/or getting further details from related news articles:
Kluwe was there to specifically protest the installation of a [massively cringe] pro-Trump plaque. Per ABC News: "Kluwe, a Huntington Beach resident, was protesting the council's decision to place a plaque commemorating the public library's anniversary. The plaque included the words "Magical Alluring Galvanizing Adventurous," an apparent nod to President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again slogan."
Kluwe was not just arbitrarily hauled off by cops for speaking out against Trump. If you watch the video until the end, you'll hear him announce his intentions to engage in the "time-honoured American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience." From there, he defiantly approaches the stage where the seven [aforementioned cringe, right-wing lunatic] Huntington Beach City Council members are all sitting, knowing full well that he is about to be arrested and charged with disrupting an assembly.
Thanks to this deliberate act of protest, some of Trump's 24/7 news blitz will now be interrupted by images of a former NFL player being carted away by a gaggle of dour looking cops:
(this is a good thing, if that's not clear; I feel like too many people have forgotten about the tactical use of arrests by activists, especially during the Civil Rights era, to highlight injustice or disrupt a media narrative)
Anyway, kudos to Mr Kluwe for this, I hope more public figures will follow suit.
