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tieflingkisser

lesbianslimefriend

here's where to find it on windows 10

the-tiny-dragons-tea-room

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

the-tiny-dragons-tea-room

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

marougus-the-dragon

AI is a freacking plague, I share this for any windows user.

holespoles

henriëtte ronner-knip (dutch–belgian, 1821–1909), "study of eleven cats" (details), 1904

whatkindofnameisella

ursula k le guin affirmations for your day:

it is our differences which make us dearer to one another

it is never too late to start loving

the enemy is not the foreigner, but the ones who tell you to hate the foreigner

everyone should have food, shelter, and work

everything is a yin and yang metaphor if you try hard enough

sci-fi is important

squeakitties

following weird horny furries who are into shit like pooltoys and transformation and stuff is enrichment. the vitamins and minerals of posting

squeakitties

twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083

once you get over your ass and realise you will never get some people and that’s ok you are basically immune to right wing fearmongering. otherkin? none of my fucking business

stevishabitat

mandate-transgenderism

I must not fall victim to disgust. Disgust is the heart-killer. Disgust is the little-death that brings total apathy. I will face my disgust. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the disgust has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

turbozarky

hell you may even like it

#my personal favourite is going #damn. god's garden sure is big and wide huh. ah well

beardedmrbean

kureiois

kosmogrl

Been a while but can't say it's been for naught

#drawing #sketch #progress

depsidase

heywriters

How to survive the phase of shitty writting? I know i can't skip it in order to grow, but realistically, how to not give up? I already tried to quite completly, but i still feel that call,nbut when i try to write it feels so pointless. How to keep going knowing everything i create is worthless for now and i don't even feel i'll ever progress? I’m trying to come back after quite long time of not writing, i was writing for years before but never got any good, so obviosly i wont come back to write a masterpiece right away, i never aimed for a mastepiece in fact, i just want to make it any readable and i know i need to practice but i’m worried it can never get better.

I get asks like this every now and then, and they always contain the problem.

Your writing is not shitty. It is not worthless.

Bloggers using these terms to describe early writing are often being either glib or depressing. Ignore their advice if it is making you feel bad.

Do you write for pleasure or for praise/accomplishment? If the latter, then you are simply in the practice stage. Practice is inherently worthwhile and no effort in this regard is a waste.

If you write for pleasure, then everything you create fulfills its purpose by being entertaining to create. A small child does not drop the crayon when it realizes its drawing will never be in the MoMA, does it? No, they don't care they just like drawing stuff. Adopt that mindset. Just write to get words on the page and ideas developed because you want to.

My advice for the insecure writer:

Stop re-reading your own work; you're a very biased critic right now and that in itself is holding you back.

All improvements are for later drafts. Trust me, you'll have whole new ideas by draft three so put off the nitpicking and focus.

Avoid outside opinions, writing advice, and blogs like mine for a while; we tend to inadvertently make you feel like you've done everything wrong and need to start over.

Stop starting over. Stop deleting your early drafts. Save all of it (this was the best advice I ever received).

Read and watch books and movies for motivation, and to analyze their strengths and weaknesses.

Do. Not. Compare. Yourself. To Other. Writers—your art is about you and what concerns you, other creators have nothing to do with it.

Remind yourself dumber people are doing it wrong confidently. Copy their confidence.

When you feel self-doubt creeping in again, tell it to take a hike, you've got a story to write.

Whatever you write, no matter the quality, take pride in being a writer at all. Lazy suckers just use AI.

There's nothing wrong with making a mess. How are you supposed to learn from constant perfection? Scratch out dumb sentences, leave afterthoughts in the margins, and side tangents in brackets. If the writing isn't going well, write ROUGH DRAFT in big letters at the top to remind yourself it's just a sketch of what you had in mind, not the finished product.

"...i’m worried it can never get better" I have great news for you! This fear will only be realized if you quit. Since you feel the pull to write there's clearly no point in quitting, your brain already knows writing is the answer. Ideas don't like to wait, and life will keep trying to interrupt you with bigger things, so there's really no time like the present. Go write!

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everythingfox

He’s having a pedicure

the-semicolonoscopy

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

the-semicolonoscopy

Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!

woolandflax

Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-

woolandflax

Has a Chinese son, names him bèng-dá, and he hates me

woolandflax

My beloved son 䨻龘 just trying to write his name in kindergarten

inthefallofasparrow

worldheritagepostorganization

World Heritage Post

ode-on-a-grecian-butt

official-lucifers-child

so make it

Cunt

andrikq

I feel like this is something @theshitpostcalligrapher would write.

theshitpostcalligrapher

no no this one is a @carpe-aurore, I do chunkier scripts and she does a copperplate that would slay this

homunculus-argument

Okay, that's IT. As a bisexual ranch dressing supporter I just can't continue to follow you in good conscience. Why do you industrial carpet shippers all think it's okay to use bland women as a scapegoat for premium disco culture? Maybe if you actually bothered to read the ukranian degeneracy thesis you'd understand batman's suntan technique, but I guess you're just too busy making free insurance consultation posts, so whatever.

Blocked, flambéed and unfollowed.

I want this as a medieval calligraphy manuscript framed on my wall.

theshitpostcalligrapher

LOOK LOOK EVERYONE I HAVE SEEN YOU ALL @'ING ME THESE TAKE TIME

that being said, @homunculus-argument :

my work tracker app says this'll be $100 bucks Canadian, I take cash, tattoos, uranium glass, or Hot Topic gift cards

theshitpostcalligrapher

ah SHIT I MISSED TWO WHOLEASS WORDS

parkchanwoohoo

This whole series is so goddamn funny

stitchposts

what is your LEAST favorite stitch?

I don't like counted work at fucking all. So: the cross stitch.

rabbitindisguise

reading this as someone who does cross stitch but is scared of the other kinds of embroidery is like overhearing an incredibly tall and buff person say they have beef with Mr. Tom, the kitten that chills at the bookstore

stitchposts

FUCK Mr. Tom and his stupid little fluffy tail ok. And his little charted designs.