\ (•◡•) /

Clary | 27 | She/Her | Filipino | Catholic | LGBTQ+ Affirming | I write about and participate in media/fandom I like

[coyote-teeth-poetry]

Catholicism is just: believing everyone is worth saving, prayer beads and candles, seeing God in nature, seeing God in yourself, in others, in bread and wine, the sea and the stars are a reflection of our mother, there is divinity in the disgusting, God is not some abstract idea, he is real and touches you physically, he crawls inside you and you are made holy, the dead are your family, you have never felt more loved by God, you have never felt more hated by something else you can’t place, what even is catholic guilt, if this is guilt I’m feeling I never want to be absolved, I need to be forgiven and I already am, the world tells me I don’t need Him, but I’m sick to my bones with the ache of it.

[donuts-multifandom-hellhole]

Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."

This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find

Some people get existential dread from this

Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating

[sleepymccoy]

@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally

Source (non Aboriginal)

And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history

Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)

[chaotic-archaeologist]

This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.

[aggressivelybicaptainamerica]

My favorite fact about Aboriginal oral history is the fact that we pretty recently discovered that the Aboriginal myth of the 7 Sisters, an origin story for the Pleiades star cluster, accurately reflects a point TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO when two stars in the constellation got close enough together to no longer be distinguishable by the naked eye.

The story? 6 sisters running from something that took their 7th sister.

[jinkohhh]

as a gilgar gunditj woman, i was not expecting to see my culture on my dash.

thank you for spreading our words and treating our culture with respect.

[awesomebutunpractical]

The first draft philosophy that has finally gotten me writing for fun isn't "worst version of story" type framing, it's "tell the story to yourself."

Your story isn't ready for polished prose, you don't know what happens yet. This doesn't make it Bad Writing, it's a different type of writing. And this ties into why I think the plotter vs pantser debate misses the mark - both detailed outlines AND make-it-up-as-you-go first drafts are ways to make up the story. This part is for you, so how you do it should be whatever is the most fun or satisfying way to tell yourself the story.

[nuramsvveth]

Ohhh help help! I'm hurt need help...

FUCK BRIAN GET LOST...

Ohhhh I am hurttttt heeelp... 🐦

[mademoiseli]

🔥🕊️ HAPPY PENTECOST 🕊️ 🔥

[grayintogreen]

I think what might help the whole "low engagement in fandom spaces driving creatives out because they don't see the point in sharing anything only to get crickets or critics" is not the shaming tone of "look this is how you get nothing, you entitled shits" that tends to be very pervasive, but rather pointing out how actually rewarding it can be to leave nice comments.

I like to leave very long rambling comments on people's fics and that has actually netted me some very real, genuine friendships and we've become cheerleaders for each other. My friend has a D&D Podcast that she doesn't get ANY sort of engagement out of, so I started listening to it at work and livereacting the things I enjoy about it and showing her my investment and it makes her very happy and it makes me happy that she's happy.

Being nice to people... is actually a good enough reason to do things, shockingly enough. You don't have to do it. No one should shame you for not doing it. But it doesn't actually cost anything to make other people happy, especially if they created something that made you happy.

[clarythericebot]

I checked out my professor's website where she posts her novels for free and was BLOWN AWAY by how riveting the books were, how they filled a niche I didn't even know I wanted (episodic stories about a team of Catholic exorcists that eventually make their way to the Philippines, exploring all the heights and pitfalls of the faith). I was so enthralled by them I decided to typeset them for a better ebook reading experience.

I was shy about this though - my mindset was, authors don't always like getting upfront reviews of their books right? - until my sister urged me to say something. I ended up spilling how much I adored the books in a message to my professor and offering to send her the typeset ebooks, and she was delighted!!! She said that the comments inspired her to make her next books even better :)

Make the comment!!! Share your appreciation of people's art!!! It is so rewarding!!!

(and if you want to check out the novels: https://inezpdl.com/all-things-darkly-illuminated/)

[magpie-trove]

I think a lot of the mistake is in framing marriage as the perfect final happiness, when really it’s a team up to get each other to the perfect final happiness, and it’s not the only kind of team up there can be

[clarythericebot]

Zombies Run Reacts: 5k Week 1 Workout 1

First mention of Ranjit and his novel!! Genuinely, I low-key want to read it. Like, what would someone write in a zombies apocalypse?

(if anyone has headcanins or fanfics of what he writes, let me know!!)

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[clarythericebot]

Zombies Run Reacts: S1 Ep1

I'd fallen off running for a few months. I kept Meaning to come back, but I kept putting off.

And then I get this message.

WELL DANG IF THAT DIDNT DRIVE ME INTO MY RUNNING SHOES

Did the first episode again! I'm actually going to go through the 5K training since I have become a bit of a couch potato once more, but I'm looking forward to journaling about the experience more now that I know a bit of the world, especially since I did get through season 1!

Btw...it is accepted that Same had a thing for Alice, right? At one point Sam said something like, "She and I...well..." and then very quickly moves on because of the grief.

Which is a GENIUS character introduction btw!! One of the most impressive!! In one blow we meet our ray of hope character and pair him with a definitive heartbreak, all the while outlining the steaks. Ahhh the writing in this fun little fitness app ❤️

[anarchopuppy]

Repair Cafés

Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.

Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.

There are over 1.500 Repair Cafés worldwide. Visit one in your area or start one yourself!

Read more…

[ladydei]

Sadly not a single one in North America but what a great idea

[anarchopuppy]

???

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Just had a fantastic date idea where I (fairly small) dress cute and enlist a tall, white, self-important-looking man to take me to the zoo and his job is to pretend to 'impress' me by loudly telling me wildly incorrect animal facts with apparent full sincerity, within earshot of people who look like they know about animals, while I smile and pretend to believe him.

[melorasmushrooms]

Commander Reid Wiseman shoving Rise into a bag so he doesn’t get left behind on Integrity

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Loid doesn't think Yor is odd because as far as he knows she supported herself and her brother by doing sex work at a young age of course she knows how to throw a punch and kick a man through a wall. That's why he never clocks her freaky strength or judges what he believes is her past. He knows that it's tough out there and that you gotta do what you gotta do to survive.

Yuri's weird possessive obsession with Yor makes sense when you realize that as far as he knows she supported them both as children by going off with creepy old men and coming home bruised and bloody. He thinks she was forced to become a sex worker because he wasn't strong enough to protect her. That's why he gets so weird whenever he thinks about her and Loid getting intimate and why in the beginning he feels like he needs to control her love life by setting her up with guys (that he's fully vetted and can easily blackmail if needed). To him, Loid is just the latest in a long line of creeps that he can't protect his sister from.

Meanwhile, Yor, bless her dumb jock heart, has no idea that people are making these assumptions about her and genuinely thinks that she is getting good grades in being a normal woman, a goal that is both possible to achieve and normal to want.

[jisatsu-draw]

Like a lady 🌼✨

reference:

[thegoldenlily]

@gravedangerahead

[the-big-mood]

Stuff like this makes me question if I’m actually passionate about anything

Although he lost the use of both legs, Xie Junwu from Jiangxi Province never lost his sense of freedom. Watch him take on a skateboard from

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

The best piece of writing advice I can give is that you should strive to be sincere rather than original.

You can't force originality. Originality will arise as a natural consequence of sincerity. Make the story completely and apologetically yours, and originality will come by virtue of it being your story.