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I am so proud of you. You are working so hard. You are pursuing your dreams. I see that youāre giving your best. And believe me, it will all be worth it in the end.
I havent seen anyone talk about this yet so im making a post.Ā
So lets say youāre researching something for a paper (or just for fun) and the research paper you want to read is behind a paywall, or the site makes you create an account first, or makes you pay to download, or limits you to only 5 free articles, or otherwise makes it difficult for you to read what you want.
do not fear! copy the link to the article
go to sci-hub.seĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā (the url is always changing so its best to check out whereisscihub.now.shĀ to find what the current url is)
slap the article link in there
bam! free access!Ā
I firmly believe that unless the couple has discussed and agreed to marriage ahead of time, nobody has any business making a surprise public proposal.
Okay except some people want a surprise public proposal.Ā
Girl my husband took me to Spain and gave me a kinder egg on the beach, the ring was inside the capsule (Lord knows how he did that) if any feminist tried to take that away from me I may cut a bitch. Best surprise of my life.
I wish people were capable of analyzing larger social trends and figuring that a significant number of women end up getting pressured into engagements or marriages they donāt want bc the audience that comes along with a public proposal will think sheās a bitch if she says no - instead of thinking āi liked it when it happened to me, therefore it could never turn out badly for anyone, not ever!!!!ā
I think what people are misunderstanding here is that agreeing to marriage ahead of time doesnāt need to be like, asking permission to propose? I surprised my now spouse with a proposal in Disneyland but before that we had several conversations about the future of our relationship, future plans for our retirements and how weād have to get married eventually for immigration purposes. I didnāt go to her and sayĀ āso would you say yeah if I proposed?ā or hash out deets ahead of time, but we had enough of a mutual understanding and communicated desire to get married that, although it was a surprise for whenĀ and how I proposed, it wasnāt out of left field at all.
This is exactly like conversations about consent, people get up in arms thinking that it means you have to have contracts and serious sit down conversations before doing anything when its REALLY EASY to simply COMMUNICATE with your partner so things like this are done properly, yeesh
A piece of advice from my mother: If youāre surprised they proposed, youāre not ready to get married.
My now-husband and I had been dating for nearly a year, we had talked about marriage, what sort of wedding weād like, children vs no children, etc.Ā We went to a shopping center/mall during the holidays when massive sales are going on, and he had me look at the jewelry to see what sort of thing I like.Ā I asked to have my finger sized for a ringā¦just in case.Ā A few months later he proposed, and had the ring I showed most interest in.Ā I was sick as fuck, had been on bed-rest for two weeks due to how sick I was, and he had spent those two weeks helping me get to and from the bathroom.Ā I hadnāt showered for nearly four days when the fever finally broke and I was strong enough to get out of bed.Ā Managed to get up on my own and was on my way to the bathroom when he got down on one knee and proposed to me in the hallway.Ā
The WAY he proposed surprised me, not the proposal itself.
You should know a proposal is coming, be expecting it.Ā Oh, hell, talk about what sort of proposal you would loathe.Ā Now-husband and I had watched a guy propose to his girlfriend in the middle of a mall and the girl smacked her boyfriend.Ā He used a MICROPHONE so everyone could hear him.Ā She took the microphone, smacked him, and stated very clearly āthis is the most humiliating thing you could have done to meā and walked away.Ā
Some people arenāt okay with a public proposal and others love it.Ā TALK TO EACH OTHER.Ā Folks proposing: if youāre wondering what your significant other would like and want to surprise them with HOW you do it, talk to their friends, family, and reflect on conversations youāve had.Ā Thereās a fair chance a public proposal will be a nightmare for them.
Honestly, in the end, a proposal should be just a formality for something that both people have already agreed upon.
Itās not that one canāt make it as extravagant as they want, but it should only come after both parties have already went through the details of what a married life entails and how compatible theyād be and that itās something they both want.
A surprise proposal should always be a surprise becauseĀ āOh shit, I didnāt expect you to do this nowā, and notĀ āOh shit, I didnāt expect you to do this at all.ā
Proposal can be a surprise but engagement shouldnāt be
My unsuspecting followers:
Me, about to go on a serious reblogging spree:
what was remarkable about matilda was that it was her actual family that treated her like shit, not an orphanage or a step-parent or that she was adopted or anything like that.Ā there was no reveal like miss honey is likeĀ āim your real motherā it was all about found family because her family was bullshit and that was just the way it was.Ā it is so rare to see a biological family portrayed as people who donāt get their kids and donāt treat them right in kids media
marvel: āinfinity war is the most ambitious crossover event in historyāĀ
me:
Itās true! Especially given a) the technology they had at the time to pull this off, and b) that they had characters from TWO separate companies as opposed to different characters from the same comics publisher.
So yeah, Roger Rabbit wins the ambitious crossover award, hands down. Sorry Marvel.
The agreement with Disney and Warner Bros was that they could only use their biggest characters (Mickey and Donald, Bugs and Daffy) if the other corrosponding character had the exact same amount of screentime. This is why, in the movie, Bugs and Mickey are sharing scenes, and Daffy and Donald are sharing scenes.
Itās also worth mentioning that every single animator in the industry that wasnāt already working on something was called in to work on this film. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
Didnāt they also have lawyers going through the script making sure that the number of words spoken by characters from each company totalled the exact same?
Plus Porky Pig gets the last spoken line, but Tinkerbell closes the movie.
Also worth noting they were so strict about the screentime being the same that they had to have the exact same number of frames.
domestication syndrome is one of the coolest findings from recent genetics
Yes!
Basically scientists have found that if you start selecting for people-friendly animals, you see a bunch of hypothetically unrelated traits start showing up in all sorts of mammal species: floppy ears, piebald/patterned coats, etc.
This is true for everything from cows to dogs to rats! One of the coolest long term studies on this has been the Russian fox experiments.
So essentially the science goes like this:
You have two copies of every genes, one from each parent.
We tend to simplify genetics, and say that for every single gene you have it is random,l coin flip which copy you pass on to you offspring. We also tend think of genes as a 1:1 ratio of genesā>traits.
But! This is not quite the case.
Genes have a specific physical location and order relative to each other on your chromosomes, and the chance of genes being inherited together goes up the closer together they are located. This means random, unrelated traits can wind up being more commonly inherited together in specific patterns just because those genes are located close together, and you donāt get that completely random reshuffling of two parentās traits. Some of them tend to stay āstuckā together.
This is called linkage, and itās why you often see red hair, pale skin, and freckles together, for example.
The second factor that plays into this is that a lot of times 1 gene affects several different traits (or several different genes affect 1 trait). This means that sometimes you really *canāt* untangle two traits because they have a similar cause. For example, say genes for increased aggression are responsible both for making a spider a better hunter (pro) and making a spider more likely to eat its offspring (con). Because the same gene is the cause of both things, natural selection canāt really untangle them.
Circling back to the redhead/freckles/pale skin example, these traits are affected by a number of different genes, but also one gene in particular: MCR1, a gene that changes how your body responds to hormones promoting melanin production. Again, one gene related to pigment production can affect a BUNCH of different traits. (And also skin cancer risk. Fun!)
Domestication Syndrome in mammals turns out to be due to both linkage and genes affect by multiple traits!
See, when we domestic animals we want them to be friendlier/less aggressive, which normally translates to less FEARFUL.
And it turns out that the same genes involved in adrenal responses and other stress reactions are also involved in melanin, cartilage, and bone production. So when we domesticate animals we get these recurring changes in pigmentation (white patches, piebald costs), floppy ears (cartilage), shorter muzzles and other changes in physical stature (bone growth), etc.
We also wind up selecting for a lot of neotenic genes in generalā that is, retention of childhood traits into adulthood. Thatās because baby animals tend to have lots of friendly/trusting/biddable/curious traits we are looking for.
And honestly, who can say no to a face like this?
ps, since it was mentioned:
the same genes involved in domestication probably help animals form social groups in general. if you need to get along with and trust strangers you need a decrease in the panic/aggression genes.
cats, for example, probably domesticated themselves when they started living close to each other and to humans to feed off of pests in grain silos.
and yeah, some some recent theories suggest humans may have ādomesticatedā themselves:
so basically youāre saying that when we breed animals to be friends, they become friend-shaped.
purely by accident.Ā
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We donāt say this often enough (though I think most of us know it) but men who canāt write women are bad writers. It doesnāt matter how perfect their pacing is or how many awards theyāve been given by other men. If they have fundamentally misunderstood the nature of 51% of the worldās population, they are bad writers, and nothing they have to say about the human condition could possibly be valuable.
If a dude can do the research and tell you exactly what breed of goat his 12th century shepherd would have managed on the hills of whereverthefuck then he should be able to find out if breasts 'swell in excitement'
HOW TO WRITE A CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY THAT LASTS.
hi, everyone ā today i wanted to talk about a topic i see a lot of people struggle with, and thatās writing biographies that canĀ āgo the distanceā so to speak in a roleplay. now, iām gonna preface this by saying that there is nothing wrong with appless/biography-less characters, and sometimes, they are great explorations of character. i have some myself, and iāve sometimes used appless/biography-less characters as a jumping off point to biography characters because, as you may be like me, it takes a little before you truly feel out a character and who they are. things come to you later, they develop differently than you originally looked at them as, etc. iām also gonna say that all of this is my opinion and i just want this to be something for people to reference when they have a basic idea but might be stuck or want to try and develop stronger biographies for themselves. everyone writes and imagines their characters differently.
with that said, i want to introduce you to a magical formula that has helped me with many characters and keeping them alive long-term:Ā past trauma/hardship + weaknesses + future needs/goals = solid character.
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hey do you have any tips on plot development? how to do come up with relevant but dramatic things to keep the plot going? i also donāt want to make it too intense?
I actually have quite a lot of resources that Iāve created over the years surrounding plot development. Iāve linked as many as I could find for you:
Resources For Plot Development
Useful Writing Resources
Useful Writing Resources II
31 Days of Plot Development
Novel Planning 101
How To Write A Good Plot Twist
How To Foreshadow
What To Cut Out Of Your Story
Tackling Subplots
Things A Reader Needs From A Story
A Guide To Tension & Suspense In Your Writing
How To Turn A Good Idea Into A Good Story
Planning A Scene In A Story
21 Plot Shapes and the Pros and Cons Of Each
How To Outline Effectively
Tips On Writing Intense Scenes
Writing The First Chapter
Tips On Starting A Scene
Plot Structures
Finding & Fixing Plot Holes
Below you will find a pack for Dilan Cicek Deniz made by me. Please do not use in gif hunts, gif sets, or crackship gifs, or claim as youāre own. Like or reblog if used.
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