⭐️Etrnl-Secret⭐️

“Wouldn’t you like to know, weather boy.” I’m unable to like things just a normal amount. Now thanks to the internet, that’s everyone else’s problem too. come for the writing and art content, stay for the entertainment value of my descent into madness. | Unapologetic Freak | Asexual 🖤 🩶🤍💜| Amateur Digital Artist | Lover of words, both written and read | AO3 supporter | -26- !!-Minors DNI-!!

[ath3alin]

so fucking humbling to be like “no I like that character a normal amount” and then you can literally feel your heart rate spike at a mention of them like a dog that just heard the word “treat”

[briarbramble]

This whole thing of going: “omg holy yap!/yap alert!” Or “I ain’t reading all that” etc, in response to seeing a post or message that is exceeds the character limit of a twitter post is an attitude that seriously needs to hurry up and just die. Same with people mocking others for verbally “speaking too much”. It’s ridiculous.

I’ve officially hit my boiling point with this bullshit, I am so truly sick of it. It’s unbelievably rude and disrespectful to do this, and quite frankly it’s just fucking cruel. It’s so deeply unnecessary! When someone does this they are simply just telling someone to shut up, trying to shame them into being silent because they personally cannot endure a mild annoyance, or even bring themselves to be polite about voicing this. All the while having the fucking gall to frame the “yapper” as being the rude one who is violating an unspoken social rule!

I also believe this is honestly indicative of how wide-spread and prevalent anti-intellectualism is becoming. That now anything longer than 1-2 paragraphs of no more than 3 simply worded, short and sweet sentences is now the threshold for a post or message to be seen as an insufferable “wall of text” or an “essay” apparently. How the fuck is anyone supposed to effectively communicate and explain anything like this? All it does is stifle and entirely shut down open discussions! I fucking hate this, it’s miserable!

It frames open and precise communication that values detail as being shameful. It conveys that being caring, passionate, and just emotionally genuine, as all being negative traits that must be corrected, and thus are “deserving of” social ridicule. It makes the world a less interesting, inquisitive, curious and thoughtful place and I just… despise it so much!

And this isn’t even me getting into the ableism aspect of it! I personally know the lasting damage this shit can do to one’s confidence, self-perception, self-worth and ability to communicate in a way that is just… sustainable, because that’s the impact that years and years of being told I’m annoying and I need to shut up or “calm down”, be less of myself, has had on me! As someone who is autistic with adhd, and that comes with being hyper verbal. Over, and over, and over again, ridiculed and mocked for a behaviour I simply cannot mask without destroying myself. It makes me never, ever want to speak!

All because it’s apparently just too much to ask that people simply just give “annoying” and “yappy” people like me the benefit of the doubt! Just a tiny bit of fucking grace! No, they need to wound me, it’s not enough for them to just ignore me, and I’m not allowed to be upset about it or even defend myself, lest I be scolded for “taking the bait” or “taking it too seriously” or not being the “more mature” person. It’s not fucking fair!

I just want to be genuine, friendly, passionate and talkative without being mocked for it! I’m so sick and tired of being forced to justify how I think and exist.

[twiirlotus]

[rquartzz]

you are my favorite wavelength

[rquartzz]

what a privilege to love something so finite.

(as always click for better quality)

[kerrry444]

i want her fucking me so hard she has to apologize and let me know that she’s almost done and that i just need to stay still.

[soapydoll]

Did I ever talk abt the time i was at a bdsm club and one of the pups was on all fours and barking and being cute and the dom on scene was like “hi puppy! Do you do any tricks?” And he said “I can beatbox!”

[soapydoll]

I was like. Doubled over incapacitated laughing the entire time. He was really good and a big sweetheart and I felt kinda bad but I couldn’t stop thinking “why the am I getting the beatboxing puppy unskippable cutscene at the bdsm club”

[thagomizersshow]

I think the fact kiwi birds have nostrils at the tip of their beaks isn't just y'know, an adaptation for sniffing out worms, but also important for their vibes and aura.

You can't see it, but you can feel it

[briarbramble]

So I’m getting better at drawing Idiot Horse

[romanyeva]

Just had to talk a friend down from a two cakes crisis. Her cakes - meaning her fic - are absolutely fine, but she felt a little down and checked out the rest of the dessert table. She got caught up in the whole comparison thing. "Oh man, this fic is way better than mine 😞."

And hoo boy, have I ever been there. When I was writing prolifically, I just wouldn't read. I couldn't because I knew I'd go into that fic measuring mindset and declare myself the loser, have to step away from the keyboard and stare out the window a while. And if I had an exchange deadline? Absolute worst timing.

Not everyone goes through that of course, but it's more common than you think, even with so-called established writers. I've seen people delete wips or even their whole account over that burden of doubt. So here are some possible tips to crawl out from under that burden:

Table it. You're done for the day. You've been staring at that cursor for too long. You have no perspective on your work anymore. Go do something else: play with your dog/cat/fish, go for a walk, eat something, go to bed if it's late.

Re-engage with the source material. Watch an episode, read a chapter, listen to that podcast, whatever it is. Find that voice in your head that sings in harmony with the source.

Read positive comments left on your previous work. Trust what they've told you. Because the liar here is your doubt, not your readers.

Hit up that friend you trust and ask them to tell you your strengths. Even if you don't believe it right now, you have strengths as a writer. Maybe it's worldbuilding, maybe it's dialogue; your friend will give you concrete examples. You don't need a beta right now, that will come later.

You're not alone. This is a community. Even if it's a rarepair or gen fic in a niche fandom - and especially then! - someone will be so happy that you brought that cake to the table.

[so-many-ocs]

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

[the-tired-tenor]

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

[adv3nturelust]

Give credit to the 30-year-old who worked on this for free and offers this service for free!

[marsh-mallow-adopts]

WHAT?!

[triona-tribblescore]

I study graphic design and my tutor recommended and used this in his classes at art college last year, it’s so good it has SO many features for free, I really recommend it, even if you’re just trying to learn the basics of PS, such a wonderful thing <3

[naamahdarling]

I use this and it’s fucken great. No bullshit. Really works. Sometimes the world is kind.

[sassycurse]

one of the best feelings tbh

[importantcatpics]

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[spirkkock]

my friend just had an art show and they were communicating with the gallerist over email. They could clearly tell that the gallerist was using AI to respond to their emails, but just rolled their eyes and moved on.

and then on the day of the show, my friend asks, "where is the camera I requested?"

gallerist: "you didn't request a camera"

my friend: "I did, and you confirmed that you would have one here."

gallerist: "that isn't true."

and then she proceeded to pull up the email thread, and my friend could see that every single email they had sent had been summarized by AI, and that the gallerist had then had AI write a response to them based on the AI summary, and that the AI had detected that they needed a camera, and confirmed on behalf of the gallerist that they would bring a camera, but because the gallerist had offloaded the work of actually reading and responding, she simply hadn't actually made any note of it herself, therefore didn't bring it, nor did she even know one was needed.

so my friend had done all of this communication about their needs and expectations to be able to make the show possible, and the person whose job it was to read that information and get it done had simply.... not read the information and not done it. because AI.

[tokkibean]

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

[harpyharpyharpy]

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

[justsomeantifas]

call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.

[robobun]

@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.

[justsomeantifas]

💅

[aggrokawaii]

Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.

[amuseoffyre]

Remember that time male swimmers were pulled out of training because Kate Ledecky was leaving them ‘broken’ by swimming better than them? Remember how she didn’t even notice, because she was busy actually training?

[notanadult]

Shooting is a sport that has no reliance on strength and so any allowance for gender variation is irrelevant. The last time there was a mixed competition (1992) a chinese woman named Zhang Shan won it.

[murderxbaby-deactivated20190102]

It’s often presented as for the benefit of women. After all, they’ll be heartbroken when they‘re hurt or bested by men.

Projection is a hell of a drug. 

[dick-graysons-left-butt-cheek]

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

this is why they drug test Serena like crazy. the believe no woman should be that good. let alone a black woman. and black women have always been considered “manly” and less feminine.

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

also can we talk about how surfing is segregated as well? like how the dude who won this years international surfing cup or whatever was given $30,000 worth of prize money, while the woman who won the women’s comp was only awarded like $16,000 of prize money???? or whatever it was. but I know it was either half or less than half of what the man won. like why can’t they get the same prize money and when they’re competing internationally in the same competition? they surely have the same level of skill and talent.

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

the pay gap in sports between men and women is fucking insane.

[torukun1]

The pay gaps, not to mention lack of sponsorships for women athletes who don’t look like models is insane. If you weigh over 250 pounds, no one will sponsor you. It’s why most female Olympic-class weightlifters live in poverty/out of their cars.

[shipitbabyonemoretime]

[intersex-mhacha-deactivated2020]

Reminder that in international (and usually national too) womens athletics anybody with 5m/mol of natural testosterone or higher is disqualified. (See legal case of Dutee Chand vs IAAF.)

Do you or somebody you know have PCOS? You are banned from international womens athletics because you are supposedly in posession of an unreasonable advantage in sports.

Folks disqualified for hyper-androgenism in womens athletics.

Francine Niyonsaba

Caster Semenya

Dutee Chand

Margaret Wambui

And more

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Why are those disqualified overwhelmingly black and brown? Because testing is case by case when an athletes performance “raises suspicions”. They overwhelmingly test athletes of colour, for being too fast and not meeting white expectations of femininity.

Racism and intersexism(discrimination against intersex people) in sports is abject evil. Desegregate sports.

[jeanjauthor]

All of this.

[annonymousp]

Oh, this some good stuff. I share to others 

[lov3rgrrrl]

ABSOTUTAFUCKINGLUTELY. I AM SO INCREDIBLY SICK OF EVERYONE REGARDING WOMEN AS INHERENTLY LESS THAN MEN. “THERE IS NO SEXISM IN BA SING SE” MY ASS

[thecleverpenguin]

And you know those loudmouth imbeciles who insist on testing black women are probably pissed off and fuming they can’t think of a way to apply it to black men vs white men. Also the fact is if those pointless tests weren’t just targeted at mostly black women they would likely eliminate most female athletes because you can live your entire life not knowing you have higher testosterone levels, you can have regular periods and have kids and not know that you have it because it often doesn’t effect your life in the way those idiots claim it does. But because some (probably racist) fools with an iq that is three digits in negative numbers believe anyone with testosterone is a secret man (even if they identify as a woman and have always done so) and out to make all those nice (mostly white) sports ladies cry, women of colour a predominately being targeted by repeated invasive tests. It’s disgusting how normalised it is.