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valdenmen

Template Wikipedia in google docs for your roleplay/OC needs.

Save it to your own google drive

file > make a copy

Save it to your own device so you can edit it offline

file > download > Microsoft Word (.docx)

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ellipsus-writes

We’ve seen a number of writers sharing stories about suddenly losing access to their Google Docs today.

It’s still unclear what’s causing this, but if you’re concerned about big tech creeping in creative tools and spaces… you’re definitely not alone. (We’ve written about de-Googling and censorship before.)

You should be able to write freely—without fear of deletion, censorship, or extraction.

All writing should be safe. It should stay yours.

We want to help build a space where writers are in control:

Ownership of your work. No surveillance; no surprise removals.

Sync, share, and collab, without scraping or data-selling.

A writing tool that you know is safe, now and in the future.

Please stay informed. Back up your work. And don't be evil (👀 Google).

~ the Ellipsus Team xo

everythingfox

Real love

(via)

petermorwood

This is Absolutely Charming.

writing-prompt-s

What are some chronic illnesses that can only occur in a fantasy setting?

beleester

Partial transformation - mummy rot is slowly turning you to sand, a near miss from a medusa left you with partially stoned body parts, etc.

Hypnotic suggestions from being mind controlled persist after the controller’s death, causing the victim to occasionally take actions to support the cause of a mind flayer cult that no longer exists.

Repeated demonic possession has left the patient with permanent gaps in their soul’s defenses, causing them to immediately get re-possessed if they go outside a consecrated area.

Post-resurrection trauma as the revived soul remembers an unpleasant afterlife.

Magical healing can get very weird if something is stuck in the wound. It’ll get you back on your feet, but you can get outcomes like “there’s a chunk of wood fused into your chest because the magic couldn’t figure out how to get the arrow out of your chest and just healed it in place,” and this can cause mobility issues or infection vectors down the line.

ihasafandom

SHealth tied to something else - the health of a tree, the amount of frost on the ground, the inverse of another person’s, the political power of whoever cursed you

Curse of bad luck - makes any small illness or injury potentially fatal if not treated with anti-curse in addition to anti-infection procedures

Magical reliance on a magical or nonmagical substance - can have any number of side effects

Repeatedly being drunk by vampires can cause an increase in blood production and therefore high blood pressure and related ailments. Can be treated by blood letting.

There’s a lot of hybridization happening in a lot of fantasy settings, and that’s just asking for a lot of people with weird half-dragon genetic disorders. Works out fine for some people, not so much for others.

Parasitized by (insert creature here). If you don’t take the correct precautions to keep it dormant it will continue to spread and eventually hatch out/transform you.

Repeated contact with the undead has left you open to their influence - leading to hearing or seeing things that other mortals can’t, which can distort or distract from more mundane concerns.

Alternately to being more vulnerable to intrusion, one’s soul can form a scar that makes helpful magic more difficult to take in.

Sleep disorders that make one fall into an impenetrable sleep at a specific trigger, or to do so for years at a time.

Out of phase with 4D space, one’s body not connected to itself or anchored in place/time in the usual way. There could be a consistent two hour gap between the things you hear and what has happened, you might clip into the floor as if it was in a different place for you, or you might slide through the material plane in cross section.

Intermittent intangibility.

Split into two people, each with only half your traits.

Stuck in a mirror.

ihasafandom

Sensitivity to ambient magic - like the thing where peoples’ joints ache before a storm but for being near ley lines or people with a lot of magic built up or other magic reservoirs. - The potential for magic, but where the magic has not yet begun.

knives-in-the-dishwater

Heal spell dependency: years of repeated serious injuries being healed by magic causes the body to stop healing naturally. seen often in professional fighters and those with a long career in hazardous occupations.

the forgotten dread: memory modification magic has caused the subject’s conscious mind to forget some past trauma, but their subconscious still remembers, causing them emotions that they cannot explain or justify ranging from mild discomfort to blind panic when presented with triggers related to the aforementioned trauma. often encountered in cases where the subject has paid an unscrupulous mage to make them forget their past as an ill-advised alternative to therapy.

Psychically Transmitted Memories: the subject’s mind has been linked to another person’s and, although the bond has since been severed, they have retained memories or thought patterns from the other person that are difficult to distinguish from their own.

Negative Life Syndrome (previously “False Life Syndrome”): seen most often in cases when the subject is exposed to dark magic while in the womb, Negative Life Syndrome leaves the subject’s life energies tainted by undeath without making them truly undead. common symptoms include intolerance of radiant magic, aversion to sunlight, and the inability to set foot on hallowed ground; rare symptoms include healing from negative energies, sudden necrosis, and the desire to eat flesh or drink blood of living beings.

lycanthropy

Early Life Possessions: the subject was possessed by a spirit or demon during early childhood or infancy, and the possessing presence was in control of them when they learned important milestones, such as how to walk or speak. The subject is now dependant upon the possessing presence to help them perform these tasks or, in cases where the presence has since been exorcised, performs the relevant tasks at a level appropriate for an infant or small child.

kiragecko

Body requires nutrients not found in human food, and you must eat rocks, or gems, or some other alternative. You may or may not have the ability to actually digest these without magical assistance

Awareness of too many dimensions makes it difficult to interact with just this one - either to keep track of conversations, or walk to specific locations without ending up on another planet instead

Telekinetic psychosis - delusions tend to physically affect those around you (but HIGH chance for ableism in this one!)

you have flare-ups where your skin tends to slough off and be replaced by some other substance

After sharing life energy with a dying loved one, you’re now both trying to survive off one person’s supply. Like chronic fatigue, but if your loved one gets too big of a bruise you won’t have the energy to get up until it heals

living in reverse

stuck at a certain age

supersenses lead to constant overstimulation

you’re a changeling, and if you don’t have someone who loves you close by, you’ll turn back into sticks and mud

sleepy-bebby

R.I.P z-lib, you were there in my darkest hour.

However, if you use TOR, you can still access it. And if you don’t use TOR, you can follow these instructions to access it.

Backup of instructions

Instructions in jpeg format

peachdoxie

There’s a bunch of adhd advice out there that’s like “people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done” and it’s like well what if I don’t want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

electrictopaper

this gold shouldn’t stay in the comments

ALT

fixyourwritinghabits

Even short-term consistent high stress situations can lead to burn-out, which can take years to recover from, not weeks. You need to make sure advice for “making your ADHD work for you” is actually working with you and not weaponizing your brain against you. Here’s some techniques that really do help me.

Use all tools at your disposal. Get a bullet journal and make lists. Put down appointments in your phone and a physical planner. Set timers and reminders for things you need to get done. It takes practice, you do need to work on the habit, but it does help.

Write shit down immediately. Listen, you’re not going to remember it. You won’t magically recall that apartment, that birthday, or the thing you promised to bring to the party tomorrow. Write it down the moment you learn it in a place you will consistently check (again, shout-out to making lists and using a planner). This works so much better.

Use multiple alarms. I have an alarm to get up, leave for work, take my meds, and get ready for bed. I need those alarms, and I could probably use more. Sometimes I turn them off and forgot, but using them keeps me on track.

Be consistent! Wake up at the same time, try to go to sleep at the same time. Eat food and go to school or work at the same time. If you have time blindness, set up those alarms to remind you to do things.

Chunk your goals. As small as you can make them. If ‘do the dishes’ is haunting you, split it up in your list as taking the dishes out of the dishwasher, putting them away, filling the dishwasher with dirty dishes, clean the sink, etc. Whatever works to keep you on track.

Schedule your writing/art/hobby time. Listen, I know this one sucks. It’s nice to spontaneously burst with creativity, but if you don’t work on sitting down and doing it consistently, you’ll struggle with finding time to pull from that well you know you have. Make use of all the tools above - checklists, timers, goal chunking - to get your creative endeavors going.

googifs

Astronaut Mark Kelly smuggled a gorilla suit into the ISS, without telling the rest of the crew

unclefather

Winston

papasmoke

Winston

gay-jesus-probably

My favourite incident like this was the Skylab 4 mission, where the crew arrived at the empty station, only to find several people already inside, to their great alarm. Upon investigating, they realized the intruders were wearing the Skylab 3 mission patches… and were also just dummies the Skylab 3 crew had made and left there without telling anyone, specifically to fuck with the next team.

Can you imagine entering a supposedly empty space station and seeing this? Fucking terrifying. I love it.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I’m just impressed that, in an environment where weight and available resources are so carefully accounted for, people still find windows to pull bullshit like this.

rickmvx-deactivated20150128

sntg

i think about this video a lot

harperandmary

Wtf is going on

no-chill-at-all

mockingburb

Hey y’all film crew member here. For those of you asking, they’re running like that to stay out of the shot. For us crew we TRY OUR HARDEST TO NOT GET FILMED. IT’S IMPORTANT. It’s like playing the floor is lava but with a side of “you’re fired” if you lose too many times. We’ll do anythING to not be seen. Duck around corners, dive under tables, jump in the bushes, assume fetal position on the floor, climb trees, get in the robot, hide in the trojan horse, become a vampire, you fuckin name it. My fav game while watching a movie is “guess where the crew is hiding in this shot” it’s great fun you should try it. The only problem in this particular shot is there is nowhere to hide except behind the camera which IS MOVING REALLY FAST. Why they didn’t just leave the room I have no idea. it could be any number of reasons. Time, lack of proper equipment, need to supervise/direct, etc. The real question is how the hell did Gaga not fucking lose it seeing a herd of film nerds scamper desperately in circles behind the camera

derinthescarletpescatarian

Love all the film crew people in the notes sharing their dumb hiding locations

petermorwood

For all the effort put into keeping camera and crew out of shot (I won’t mention boom mikes because I Am Nice…) a production like “Excalibur” with lots of shiny surfaces can make things ten times more difficult.

Mirrors are easy because they’re usually on walls not actors and, unlike actors, walls rarely move about during a scene.

After seeing crew, camera and lights reflected in that armour - and Merlin’s helmet, too - for the first time…

…it can need conscious effort not to watch out for the next time.

Despite that, “Excalibur” is one of my favourite versions of the King Arthur story, and it’s overdue another watch.

*****

“Knights of the Round Table” (1953), had no problems with reflections. Instead, it had costumes and colours like medieval illuminations brought to life…

… so it’s a shame it was such a bad movie, stodgy, joyless, by-the-numbers, badly written and badly acted.

While it looks like (and, given the timing, may have inspired) the vivid illustrations in books I had as a kid, it also plays like a kid’s version of the story, not good in a movie aimed at grown-ups.

But with a palette far more realistic than Hollywood’s current Mucky Middle Ages fixation with dingy greys and browns, it IS pretty to look at.

creativepromptsforwriting

How to create an atmosphere: Train Station

Sight

people patiently waiting for their trains, lost in their phones

passengers running down the platform to catch their train

someone struggling with all their baggage

small children running around

people waiting for their loved ones

a sad, but sweet goodbye

an excited and happy hello

people drinking and eating on the platform, waiting for their trains to arrive

people getting confused at the ticket vending machines

passengers waiting in line at the service desk to complain or to find a new route

people routinely checking the time and arrival of their delayed trains

Hearing

passenger trains arriving and leaving the station

the beeping of the doors opening and closing

the whistling of the conductor when the train is about to leave

a freight train speeding through the station, making it impossible to hear anything else at all

announcements of trains arriving, being late or being redirected to another platform

announcements about being careful to not let their baggage unsupervised and to only smoke in designated areas

pigeons flying around

passengers running down the platform, screaming for the train to wait for them

Touch

the stickiness of the floor

the gush of wind when a train drives through

Smell

that specific smell of every train station, that can't be pinpointed

the smell of fresh pastry from the bakeries inside the station

the smell of fast food and old oil

the smell of pigeons living inside the train station

that specific smell of train tunnels

the smell of cigarette smoke coming from the designated smoking area

Taste

stale air on the roofed platform

overpriced coffee or tea to go

sweet kiss goodbye

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nixcraft

Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

caroline-vibecheck

KillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKill

the-composite-doll

[ID: a screenshot showing instructions on how to remove the Windows Recall & Snapshots]

"Some good news. 1, it’s being slow rolled out at the moment. 2, it’s reportedly really easy to turn off.

Click the Windows button on your keyboard

Open the Settings app and go to Privacy & Security > Recall & Snapshots

Disable the Save Snapshots option

If you already have snapshots taken, you can delete them by clicking the Delete Snapshots

prettygoodnames

The longest list of noun names you’ll ever see

Here is an ever-growing list of noun names + nicknames. Suggest some more in the doc or in any way you wish.

(Seriously come get ya’lls noun names this is like the longest list ever)

marauders4evr

It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:

It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.

galwaygremlin

wdym you can hear it?

superpaperclip

Basically, it’s a form of synesthesia, movement-hearing. In this case, you expect to hear a thud, so you do. It’s estimated that 20% of people experience this type of synesthesia, as opposed to 2-4% for other kinds.

eat-the-door-to-the-v0id-deacti

YO what the FUXK

burntcopper

The longer you watch it the more you get convinced that you can hear a distant thud and the air displace.

lasrina

I heard the thud. I closed my eyes and the thud stopped. I opened my eyes and I heard the thud. My goodness but human brains are a mess.

macleod

This was easily the first ever viral post on Tumblr back in 2011/12. Perhaps even before the great “what your leg feels like after falling asleep” followed by a picture of a static teevee channel.