Cyrania de Bergerac

aka the Shadow Girl. A random girl that reblogs whatever catches my fancy. When I do post, they tend to be AU and fanfic ideas if not some of my own writings or OCs. Fandoms range from SW to ST:TOS to Ace Atternoy to Professor Layton to RWBY to Undertale to BATIM to Sanders Sides with smatterings of KH and other fandoms. I generally keep my reblogs and post fun and non-lemony, but have occasional exceptions. Mostly in the serious department and often in accordance with my Catholic faith. Feel free to interact with me and my posts if you want.

[cassieoh]

A skeleton crew doesn't mean a site is going away (though it likely won't get updates and bugs/outages will take longer to fix), but just in case anyone is concerned, here's a link to instructions to download your entire blog

[mtfoss]

Just checked the link and a quick heads up the code recommended in the article has moved from the link provided to here:

GitHub - TumblThreeApp/TumblThree: A Tumblr and Twitter Blog Backup Application

A Tumblr and Twitter Blog Backup Application. Contribute to TumblThreeApp/TumblThree development by creating an account on GitHub.

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

When I mention that the human body really can't differentiate between about 113 and 122 degrees, I often have people ask me, how the hell do you survive out in that? I don't really have a response to it. You just do. I mean, yeah you can seek shade, you can have a bunch of water, you can douse yourself in water and everything, but while I absolutely detest these next three months, June, July, and August, leading into about the middle of September, I'm also extremely used to that baking heat. I just think of it as the price I pay to get nine months out of the year absolutely splendiferous.

[sonpat-rides-again]

Extreme weather keeps you humble

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

I've been in the reverse. The thermometer broke at -40 and the ice crystals hovered in the air since it was so dense.

Yeah it really does.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?

[thatdisasterauthor]

"Use Libre Office."

I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.

Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.

Industry standards are industry standards FOR A REASON. Having everyone on the same workflow can be crucial to getting things done effectively and correctly without creating a lot of extra work. And those things are not going to change overnight, as much as we might want them to.

[thatdisasterauthor]

:| :| :|

Yeah, Word, let me just leave this whole chunk of dialogue without the closing quotation marks. That's the thing to do. How dare I have two punctuation marks in a row. It's not like that's how closing quotation marks fucking work.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I am going to light something on fire.

[thatdisasterauthor]

And you know, for young writers, this has got to be so detrimental just from the perspective of opening your document and seeing a million corrections that, frankly, don't need to be there. If you're a young writer you're likely not going to have the background knowledge to know what is and isn't a good suggestion, you're just going to see a document that makes it look like you made every mistake possible so clearly you must be a terrible, stupid writer and should just give up.

[homunculus-argument]

"I learned a lot from making this" is artist talk for "making this sucked ass and I'm not entirely happy with the result."

[4waystreet]

the idea that predators and abusers are an ontological category of person, rather than everyone having the capacity to be predatory and abusive, leads to people having no regard for boundaries because they think that predation only comes from evil people ™

[noodles-and-tea]

🤔

[wormsdyke]

it would be so nice if you were allowed to start working on projects before you hit the 12 hour until deadline mark but sadly it’s not possible with our current technology. scientists are hard at work but for now this is one of the limitations we must face as a people

[vinylbiohazard]

@saatiun

[songbird-art]

You know, I am kind of tired of people responding "But God/Jesus is always with you!" When I mention how lonely or alone I feel.

It's true. I know this. It's not a lack of faith. He is with me and that is a comfort.

However I don't think that God wanted that to be a replacement for human relationship.

Anyway, I've been so lonely for so long that I genuinely can't remember the last time someone showed up on time to meet up with me. Can't remember the last time a hangout or meetup didn't get pushed back or canceled on me. Unless I'm spending money on someone, not even my own family shows up.

And I know everyone has reasons, and they're usually justified, but I'm so lonely. I wish I was a justified reason for doing anything. I wish I meant anything to the people around me without earning my keep.

I promise I'll be a good lamb, the quietest lamb. Just please love me.

[charlesoberonn]

Turns out you can roll a 7 on a d6

but only once.

[writingdose]

Source

[cyraniadebergerac]

Also this scene.

Scrooge is terrified for Gloomgold, Goldie is about ready to rip his throat out, and Gloomgold is obliviously villainous.

[dmitryanya]

happy early valentine's day to these two

[cyraniadebergerac]

Also this scene.

Scrooge is terrified for Gloomgold, Goldie is about ready to rip his throat out, and Gloomgold is obliviously villainous.

[hellenhighwater]

Eleanor update! So brave! So round!

[thomastanker02]

This is just a reminder to make the most of your day. God never promised you another one

[poetic-grief]

I may or may not be entering a psychotic episode.

I don't think it's too bad, yet, but like my thoughts are definitely going off the rails.

My art is being affected, my thoughts are being affected, my appetite is too, and i cannot think of anything else that is being affected.

The only fair/good thing about these episodes is that they never affect my faith or my prayers. If anything i do certain things more, without scrupulosity too.

I have no idea what triggered this one.

Please just pray for me.

[honeyworships]

please pray for me, I’m moving across the country and going to a new school (a private school instead of a public) and I’m really nervous about it.