Pretty Girl Problems

Jupiter I 33 I Cis ♀ I ♓ I Pan/Poly I'm an ocean gay

[cuddler--fish]

I will be posting crit role spoilers

[egberts]

search bars that don't let you edit or add on to the current search... why? why are you making me retype it all

[caffeinewitchcraft]

I have a mute character in the story I’m writing and one of my beta readers suggested I use italics when they sign so that I don’t have to keep peppering “they signed” or “their hands flashed” throughout the piece.

But like…I always read italics in a different tone like they’re thoughts. It seems quieter than using normal quotations which makes what they say look less significant on the page than other character’s dialogue.

I really don’t think my audience needs me to use completely different punctuation around a mute character. There’s no need to act like they’re speaking a different language since their muteness isn’t a focal point in the story.

So really this reader’s comment has done the complete opposite of what they intended. Now I’m actively taking out as many of my “hands flashed” notations as possible and just writing in normal body language because, clearly, the other characters understand them and my audience doesn’t need to be coddled.

[fanarchoslashivist]

As an HOH reader and writer I can affirm that once the signing has been established it can just be treated like “said”.

You can add little things for emphasis though, like how fast or flippant a sign is given, also a lot of our “punctuation” is in facial expressions, so wild looks is kind of normal. Also messing up signs and just.. pushing them aside. Like, you mess up a fingerspell and just take both hands and shove the air in front of you to your side, people who sign eventually end up doing this for other things, like a “forget it” motion. It’s like a “wave it off” gesture.

Body language for someone who signs is a lot more animated than someone who speaks, as we use our upper body a lot in our conversations, so the act of “signing” is more than just hand signals.

[caffeinewitchcraft]

Yes….yes GOOD this is the good stuff right here. I’m going to incorporate some of these ASAP ESPECIALLY the pushing the air but to clear it of your mistakes

[hotvampireadjacent]

[bitchesgetriches]

Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.

Delicious. We love to see it.

[tobaeus]

@ralfmaximus

[ralfmaximus]

Ultimately, she spent 20 hours redoing the copy from scratch — and with her $100-per-hour rate, that meant her client was shelling out $2,000 for copy that likely would have ended up being far cheaper had a human just written it in the first place.

I love stories like this.

[tacofriend]

Get peer reviewed!

[lierdumoa]

[my-dailydreams]

[natalieironside]

Traffic enforcement in the US primarily serves two functions: To generate convenient legal pretexts covering otherwise unconstitutional police actions, and to extort money from citizens. Public safety is a distant tertiary consideration which rarely plays any real part in decision-making. Anyone who lists traffic enforcement as an example of an "actually useful/helpful" cop job is a naive little child who willfully chooses to believe in comforting fictions.

[rowles6]

anyone who lists it can be asked "why on earth foes the guy who tells me to drive slower have a gun and cuffs" to unlock secret dialog about the violent drug doers who will only be discovered because their inherently crimeful souls lust to drive 11 miles per hour over the speed limit

[fellweather]

some of the seals in the seal hospital zeehondencentrum (from reference)

[butch-witches-deactivated202412]

what doesnt kill you is still valuable data points for a graph im working on titled "how to kill you"

[rosie-dear-rosie]

[1dietcokeinacan]

Me when I’m a genius entrepreneur and my various business ventures are all doing super well

[padurenii]

1930s era lamps

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

The really funny thing about "snakes aren't mammals your snake girl shouldn't have breasts!" is like yeah. Neither should your cat girl.

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

The fact that this is the line drawn is really funny! Human breasts are actually incredibly rare among mammals! We don't know exactly why humans have big bazongas but it's probably sexual selection, which presents the really funny problem

If your snake women having sex with people is normal and expected...then yeah, they're ALSO probably going to have something resembling breasts. They might even just have breasts in all but function.

[thesophistiicate]

upgrade your life by taking note of the objects you use most and slowly replace them with the most beautiful and high-quality versions of those things you can find.

[m0ney]

Devon Aoki for Betsey Johnson spring/summer 1999˚♡⋆｡˚

[worldofultimategaming]

World of Ultimate Gaming

[pookapufferfish]

[pangur-and-grim]

wait I have one more story. there's a group of anti-abortion protesters who often set up by the Ethiopian cafe I hang out in, and when I was waiting to cross one of them held up an aborted fetus sign and said "how does this make you feel?" and I said "hungry", and then I was so satisfied by my own cleverness that I missed the lights and stepped off the sidewalk into oncoming traffic

[pangur-and-grim]