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ITS NOT BLURRY. SOCIAL MEDIA AND NEWS PAPERS ZOOMED THAT SHIT IN THEMSELVES.

“Most news outlets are only showing the blurry zoomed in picture of the black hole so I’m posting the entire zoomed-out image of the black hole and everything it is consuming. The tiny black spec in this image is 6.5 billion times the size of our sun. This thing is HUGE.” Dan Farr

#i <3 science

valpwca

you should experience this. via

https://www.vitaminwater.com/hit-refresh-for-exotic-mango-island-pic/and-20fl-oz-of-tropical-oasis/wow/wish-i-was-there/enhanced/e/the-hot-key-is-command-shift-r/electrolytes/be-sure-to-hit-refresh/but-not-too-much/you-have-to-give/the-page-a-chance-to-load/

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Please click the link. You will not be disappointed.

cloudburstbrokenbysunshine

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

#things that make no sense and yet I like them

Romance feels thoughts:

When you finally think you’re over and done with swooning over one guy to only discover he wants to move back to the area and is no longer in a relationship. Your heart. still. flutters. Dangit.

When you are over a guy because he NEVER actually makes a move, but then every time you hang with him and his eyes meet yours: Your. Heart. STILL. Flutters.

Frickin’ heart.

#love life blog #This is me #Thoughts

archatlas

Architecture Students Reimagine Harry Potter

Students of a 12 day course at the Melbourne School of Design were not sorted into houses, but they were assigned Gringotts Bank, Grimmauld Place, the Shrieking Shack and other fan favorites in the Harry Potter universe. their Harry Potter architecture models were laser cut from cardboard (ten house points), hand-modeled (forty house points), constructed in very little time (fifty points), and remind us of the truest magic of all (teamwork).

Students at the Melbourne School of Design had very few spells to work with in order to cast these gorgeously film-accurate 3D models. Students were given 1.0 mm and 0.6 mm boxboard to create their models from. They used trace paper — for windows and diffused lights — and LED lights and motors connected to Arduinos.

cloudburstbrokenbysunshine

I don’t... I don’t think you know how much I love this right now.

#rereadingHarryPotterIllustrated

#Harry Potter #brilliance needs sharing #Architecture #creativity

firbolging

the pride and prejudice musical we deserve:

darcy doesn’t sing a single note even during conversations where everyone else is singing at him that is until the argument following his first attempt at proposing to lizzy where you can see his restraint fall away

his first big solo is the letter he writes her

gelsey bell is mary and the unofficial narrator and she sits down at her piano to describe whats going on but before she can ever reveal her feelings on the matter, starting with that gelsey bell scream, mr bennet comes over and does the whole ‘that’s nice dear but give someone else a turn’

mr wickham has this huge ballad about how darcy ruined his life and its super melodramatic and touching

mr collins proposal to lizzy is an absolute bop that he gets so into he forgets for a moment what he’s doing he’s just owning the stage

wickham has a song where he’s trying to seduce lydia but she’s not even listening she’s just monologuing about how excited she is to get laid

during darcy’s second proposal he keeps hesitating waiting for lizzy to interrupt him like she has done every time before but she doesn’t say anything until he’s finished

at the end mary sits down at the piano and right where she’d usually be interrupted, kitty joins her and harmonises

jane and bingley have the adorable upbeat romantic duet which is just them being super polite like ‘oh so nice to have you here’ ‘so nice to be here’ interspersed with their inner monologue which is just them being like fucking jesus I’m so in love

the bingley sisters probably have a really cool mean solo

lady catherine has this terrifying disney villain song in the garden

there’s for sure a song about ribbon shopping

lunalove-blr

I need this more than air.

whopooh

This is fantastic. Please, universe!

#this is the best show idea ever and you can all just thank me later for it.

1st-1

Timelapse of Europa & Io orbiting Jupiter, shot from Cassini during its flyby of Jupiter

comtessedebussy

Guys. Guys. Look at how high-definition this is. LOOK AT IT. This isn’t a movie. This isn’t CGI. This is OUR FUCKING SOLAR SYSTEM. A;LSKJFA;WFEW

#i <3 science #space is out there #space is magical #you should watch this

theliteraryarchitect

Hi! So I recently discovered removing the word 'that' from 90% of my writing actually made it more fluid and hardly impacted the readability. Tiny achievement but very proud of myself as a novice writer ^.^ I was wondering if (other than the up/down one) there were any other tiny tricks for removing superfluous words? Thanks!

Great question! Honestly, there are hundreds, but here are a few to get you started.

Words You Can (Usually) Safely Cut from Your Writing

That

Then

Start

Begin

Suddenly

Down

Up

Kind of

Really

Just

Basically

In general, look out for adverbs (actually, really), “hedging” words (kind of, sometimes), and ambiguous words (nothing, everything, someone). Some can be cut; others will need to be revised or swapped out. “That” is a classic offender. “Then” can usually be changed to “and.” It’s only necessary to qualify that an action was “started” if the action gets interrupted, otherwise it can be cut. (”She started to cry” becomes “She cried”).

I have a detailed, exhaustive list of words like this (with explanations!) in my book The Complete Guide to Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, which will be done soon :)

Nice to hear from you & hope this helps!

heywriters

Adding some more:

started/began (agh, just realized this was already covered, sorry!)

he began to walk toward the door

he walked toward the door

give

she gave a yelp of surprise

she yelped in surprise

feel

he felt an overwhelming feeling of euphoria*

he was overwhelmed by euphoria / his euphoria overwhelmed him

sound (of)

they could hear the sound of footsteps

they could hear footsteps

over (to)

I walked over to the bed

I walked to the bed

looked/appeared

it looked like they were out of milk

they were out of milk

DO NOT just delete these words en masse from your draft. Sometimes they really do need to be there. Beginning writers or writers who undervalue quality tend to overuse these words, and it makes the reading stuffy and hard to get through.

For example, “He started to walk toward the door” may be a necessary sentence if something happens before he gets to the door. If there is no reason to explain his process of walking toward the door, delete “started to” and just tell us he made it to the door. Alternately I’ve seen writers leave out that “started to” sentence when it was necessary, causing me to backtrack and reread.

The goal is to improve reading comprehension for the reader and sound like you’re great at this writing thing. Train your eye for useless stuffing words and you’ll eventually be able to pick apart your drafts without the help of lists like this.

*Toned down rewrite of an actual sentence I read with my own two eyes.

theliteraryarchitect

Great additions!

#writing #wisdom

zelldas

no other person on this planet was made for you, they were made for themselves. love is all about choices. no one is going to be perfect for you, and i think we need to stop raising everyone on the belief that someone out there, just one other person in the whole world, was “made for you” because it isn’t true. no one is made for you, besides you. other people belong to themselves. if you want to make it work with someone, it’s about hard work, understanding, compassion, communication, and choice

#wisdom #love life blog

dynamicsymmetry

Good stuff.

eerian-sadow

This. This is good fiction writing advice. I really appreciate how it was formatted as “this is a common problem, here is a solution to try in your own work” and not “oh god, don’t do that!” without any extra help. And I extra appreciated the “don’t rely on adverbs” bit, because they do have their place but they aren’t the only way actions can be emphasized.

#writing #wisdom

prefabhenhouse

#dies #laughs #pride and prejudice #YES!

wellfuckthishellsiteiguess-deac

i made this instead of writing

starfallskitter

im reblogging this instead of writing

#This is me #this is just wrong.#i don't think you even understand how this is so relevant to my life.#writing

elencaorange

Twitter

unicornempire

This is some truth laid down right here boy.

#reality #This is me #This Man #i don't think you even understand how this is so relevant to my life.#This sums up everthing

1o9

cloudburstbrokenbysunshine

I laughed WAY more than I should have.

#laughs #muppets #food

bisexualbrucewayne-archive-deac

i’d be a terrible superhero i’d be at home and see the signal calling me in the sky and be like “i literally just sat down”

hallaburger

#laughs #Avengers Assemble!

alriviera

Pride and Prejudice Go

An app that shows you where there’s a young man in possession of a good fortune who must be in want of a wife

sidhebeingbrand

On the radar:

Gentleman with 5,000 pounds a year Handsome tragic veteran Dashing officer of good breeding Gentleman with 10,000 pounds a year Liberal-minded heir to a large estate

Your phone buzzes:

Mr. Collins

sithtantrums

Your mother runs into the room “the lure I placed on netherfield park has worked at last. There is a young man in possession of good fortune, one of the girls must surely catch him”