Just trying my best...

I figured to kick start my 2021, I'd make a specific writeblr and post something about my brain child everyday.

[putridcowboy]

Why did we ever stop wearing 18th century clothing

[marzipanandminutiae]

to wear 19th century clothing you Georgian rake

[autisticraptor]

The vampires are fighting

[sosuperawesome]

Dragon Scarves and Pins

Peacock Felt on Etsy

[the-witch-of-one-piece]

I never realized I wanted a dragon scarf I must have one now

[fectriestowrite]

I'm going to be posting this snippet a little earlier than I did last week as I'll be using the rest of my break bothering the family cat! But yes, here we have another snippet from the WIP under the working title Almost did doesn't count 😊 #writinglife #WIP #writingsnippet #prose #dialogue #writingcommunity #mywriting #myphoto https://www.instagram.com/p/CVA68vYIQ-I/?utm_medium=tumblr

[fectriestowrite]

WIP! Here is a small snippet from an introductory novel (that I'm a little more comfortable with) under the working title Almost did doesn't count. #WIP #writingsnippet #writingcommunity #mywriting #myphoto https://www.instagram.com/p/CU2yW5KgGNb/?utm_medium=tumblr

[fectriestowrite]

I knew I was going to have a long break at work today, so I brought some supplies with me. #writing #writingaesthetic #publife https://www.instagram.com/p/CU0GYZLod6I/?utm_medium=tumblr

[fectriestowrite]

A snippet, or possible blurb, for one of my many WIPs under the working title of Given the Chance. #writing #writingcommunity #snippet (with additional red squiggly) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUvfNdbg6-s/?utm_medium=tumblr

[old-screnwriter-deactivated2022]

reminders for writers.

nobody gives a crap if something is cliché or not. what they care about is the execution.

having a bad day of writing does not make you a bad writer.

writing in your second or third language isn’t always easy. you’re doing great.

writing advice = tools. not rules. you’re not meant to follow every advice you read about on the internet. learn the rules so you know which ones to break.

every writer is capable of writing a captivating story, but your story might not be everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s ok. there will still be people out there who’ll adore it.

it’s ok to not excel at every genre. you can write it because you think it’s fun. it doesn’t always have to be a matter of writing something strictly because you’re good at it. it’s ok to explore.

[untouchmyhair]

[earthlydreams-deactivated201709]

This is so cool! But what country are they from? “Africa” is really vague.

[nonhoration]

Their names are Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin, and Bello Eniola and they’re from Lagos, Nigeria. There’s a neat video about them here.

[dontdierobb]

#when will people start giving names to young non-white scientists??#bc that shit is getting old

[jaythenerdkid]

boost the fuck out of this, and make sure you include their goddamn names and country of origin.

[molothoo]

☝🏾

[randomslasher]

Again: that’s not disrespect, that’s journalism. That’s how headlines work. The goal of a headline is NOT to be a substitute for the entire article. It’s to tease the article itself, and generate enough interest and intrigue to get clicks. You only have so much time to capture attention in a headline. If you only have a few seconds and a handful of words to snag someone’s news-scrolling gaze and get across pertinent facts, then you try to make those facts as simple and accessible as possible.

If you started a headline with 4 names no one has ever heard before, most people won’t even read all the way to the pertinent information in the headline, let alone be intrigued enough to click on the article itself. And more people know where Africa is than where Nigeria is. I’m not making a value judgment there, it’s just the truth. It’s a funnel approach: you start by appealing to the broadest or most culturally relevant possible demographic in the headline so people will click on it for more information, and then you start going into detail:

In less than 2 sentences we have names and a location. 

I checked another article about the same thing, with a similarly catchy and vague title: 

And again: names (and this time even ages and pictures) and a location within the first 2-3 sentences of the article, immediately following an eye-and-attention grabbing, snappy and easy-to-digest headline.

This is a basic journalism thing. They ARE named, and in fact their praises being sung–you just have to be willing to read more than a headline before you start judging the content. 

[doona-baes]

#tumblr discourse be like

[appraisedtiktoks]

[petitprincess1]

"Through sickness and in health, motherfucker" 🤣🤣

[somecunttookmyurl]

Listen my dudes Ancient Egypt existed for a really fuckass long time. Literally just Pharaonic civilization lasted 3,000 years. That’s not even including predynastic civilization and Roman rule. If you lump that in you’re looking at more like… 5,000 years. Like. If you want a comparison of how long that is: THE YEAR IS CURRENTLY 2018. TWO THOUSAND. TWO-THIRDS OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PHARAONIC CIVILIZATION HAVE HAPPENED SINCE THE ‘BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST’ We comparatively just entered the Third Intermediate Period. The Greeks will not take over for another 700~ years. Cleopatra will not be born until the year 2931.

It’s a really long time guys.

[somecunttookmyurl]

Anyway look. Listen. I sat my ass down and wrote out a timeline of “when shit happened if you started at 1AD” because I know backwards numbers are hard to process but here’s an abridged version. If the first Egyptian Pharaoh came to power in 1AD then…

300: step pyramid built 450: Great Pyramid at Giza built 815: Pepi II dies and civil war breaks out 950: Egypt re-unified 1350: Middle Kingdom ends 1450: New Kingdom begins 1520: Hatshepsut is on the throne 1650: Ahkenaten switches to monotheistic religion and builds a new city 1680: Tutankhamun dies 1720: Ramesses II ‘the great’ ascends to the throne 1740: World’s first peace treaty signed 1790: Ramesses II dies leaving way too many children 1920: Egypt breaks into 2 states again And now we get to ~~~~the future~~~~. If we started at 1AD all of this stuff hasn’t happened yet 2050: Briefly re-united as a single state 2180: Civil war 2250: Nubian kings take over 2335: Assyrian conquest 2665: Alexander the Great conquers Egypt 2930: Cleopatra VII born 2970: Cleopatra VII dies. Egypt falls to Rome. Fin.

And that’s just starting with the Pharaohs. If you wanted to start with Predynastic Egypt, you can go ahead and ADD ONE THOUSAND YEARS to all of those dates

[somecunttookmyurl]

I hate that this is still getting notes but that it’s getting notes *without the timeline addition* like c’mon, man. I had to do MATHS for this. I DID MATHS FOR YOU PEOPLE AND ALL I GOT WAS A BUNCH OF RACISTS

[lonewolf23k]

Who needs Atlantis when Ancient Egypt was basically the Precursor Civilization the Greeks and Romans lived in the shadow of?

[satsuti]

name a more iconic civilization i’ll wait

[theleingod]

You wanna know how much older Ancient Egypt was than Ancient Greece? To the Ancient Greeks, the events of the Iliad were back in the dim reaches of antiquity, so far back nobody really knew if they ever even happened.

To the Ancient Egyptians, the most likely timeframe for the events of the Iliad happened during a time period known as the “New Kingdom,” because it came after the Old and Middle Kingoms and the first two Intermediate Periods. That’s right: Back when the Greeks were having their foundational myths of heroes and gods, the Egyptians were in the middle of a “New Kingdom” and the pyramids were so old everyone had forgotten what they were even built for.

[somecunttookmyurl]

#and this has nothing on australian aboriginal oral history#egyptians and the cradle of civilisation are babies compared to that

i never said oldest. i never said first. i never said longest.

you will be shocked to learn that, in fact, not everything is a fucking competition and sometimes posts can just be about things without desperate attempts at one-upmanship

[guerrillatech]

[nctinmotion]

Source: This

[brindlefern-deactivated20210619]

[xcziel]

[hungry-skeleton]

I have learned over time to never give your characters placeholder names while creating them because while developing them you will absolutely get attached to the name to the point you don't want to change it and ur epic character will be stuck with the dumbass name forever became it means too much to you

[hungry-skeleton]

My skeleton centaur warrior with opalized bones is named Liam do not make the mistake I did

[aroacedavestrider]

i have a wood elf named glenn whose middle name is “gonk” cause i used the name of my worm on a string as a funney placeholder. it is no longer a funney placeholder

[homeowerectus]

I have a char on a ttrpg and she has some really nice and serious moments and goof off moments and through all of that every NPC, every other player char, the news in universe calls her potato

[raevenlywrites]

The villain of my first NaNo Novel is STILL LBB, and I have yet to come up with an in universe name for those initials is not Lord Baddy Butt

[gailynovelry]

I needed an orange associated name for a quietly terrifying character. Her placeholder was Pumpkin. The placeholder is now permanent.

[fectriestowrite]

I have a MC called Lamb because years ago i had a character that had the energy of - you guessed it, a lamb as they grew up - and I live near so many farms so...

[kintatsujo]

Me: I don’t know if I ever want to be pregnant, I’d rather adopt a kid or two that are a bit older

Someone: Are you SURE? Older adoptees present UNIQUE CHALLENGES

Me: We are discussing human beings not digital pets

[plenoptic07]

Literally every child every born and/or parented presents unique challenges. It’s like people are unique individuals…..or something………….

[kintatsujo]

An amazing and revolutionary concept

[indigo-night-wisp]

When people ask me, “Why do you want to adopt teenagers?” I always answer, “Because you asked like that.”

I’m real over it. If I become a foster mom to a 17 year old kid and I get the privilege of the option to adopt them? You better believe I am legally making that kid mine.

“They’ll be a legal adult in no time, why spend the money to adopt? They’ll be aged out of the system.”

There’s no aging out of family, Marvin.

“They might be rebellious or smoke or do drugs or steal things! What if they won’t listen to you?”

Then I guess I’ll have to step up and do some fruxking parenting, Stanley.

“You want to adopt problem children then?”

All. Children. Are. Problem. Children. If you’re not prepared to deal with the fact that at some point, any child ever, whether you birthed them yourself or adopted them at any age, could become a problem? Then you are NOT ready to have children, and should really just step off and let the people who actually want to be parents live in peace with their kids.

[tearyourcurtainsdown]

Hey I’m so glad this post is picking up

[madame-serpentine]

I feel like some (most) parents just blindly hope their child won’t become the “problem” one without the will to help their child with any underlying problems that might end up making them “the problem”

[fectriestowrite]

I moved my laptop downstairs to try and be better at writing, and so a little one could keep me company. (He demanded m dressing gown to sleep on) #writing #writingcommunity #siamesecat #yWriter #firstpostinawhile https://www.instagram.com/p/CTwjlBxAw7p/?utm_medium=tumblr

[hylialeia]

we all have a limit to the bad things characters can do until we're not comfortable liking them but tbh some of you are just super fucking boring

[claudiaapologist]