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cicerfics

Was discussing this topic with @miri-tiazan and we need to crowdsource opinions on something.

Do you find it painful to have your blood pressure taken (via your upper arm, NOT a wrist cuff)?

Yes, it hurts a lot

Yes, it hurts somewhat

Yes, it hurts a little

I experience significant pressure but no pain

I barely notice any sensation

Nuance / I'm bald / my blood is made of vanilla extract

Remaining time: 2 days 8 hours

If you choose the 'nuance' option, please explain in the notes!

#m

colorado-rockies-official

bunny moment

colorado-rockies-official

the baseball crowd loves unexpected animals far more than the baseball game

colorado-rockies-official

you come into our house and say something so brave and true

cyprozombiegirl

Remaking this post since I’m pretty sure it got deleted, and a lot of people found it very helpful. This is a medical diagram of before and after bottom surgery for trans femmes.

finalgirlcock

this shit is actually life changingly informative to girls who are on the fence abt bottom surgery or scared of getting it

wintersnighttravell3r

Lindsey Graham has died after a brief and "sudden illness," according to a statement from his office. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

LETSFUCKINGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NEVER KILL YOURSELF

merinnan

vaspider

hobbular

Friend of mine was submitting a job application and discovered that they REQUIRED a photo:

We’re trying to decide which of these is a better option:

or

nowlander

innerchildabortionclinic

your cat was an honor to see in the window

tweetsongs

i agree so much about making your blorbos pathetic but i do fear that many take this to mean 'make them more traditionally feminine/submissive' which genuinely hurts my soul. make your blorbos pathetic in interesting character-oriented ways. understand their neuroses and turn the dials up to eleven. juxtapose the parts of life they handle extremely well with the parts of their lives that make them eat shit. make them angry. make them cold. make them pave their own way to hell while building walls preventing them from seeing any other way. please i'm begging you no more pathetic as an euphemism for bottoming im gonna mclose it.

imtotallystoked

@pangur-and-grim You did a good job I think with Cameron and Merulo :3

1rakus

thinking abt how they bothered to make another peter parker after andrew garfield WHILE andrew garfield was still around as if he hadn't acted the most charming awkward romantic guy of all time. like were you guys not devastatedly in love or

redstonedust

some people like to get mad at disability benefits because they think its unfair people who dont work get a payout from the government while they have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week. but if you tell them "yeah that sucks i think you should also get a universal allowance and not have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week" thats apparently the wrong answer.

ryan-sometimes

Tumblr I need everyone to log in rn because the most important, quotable, instantly iconic celebrity post of the century just dropped

ryan-sometimes

A ship — a magnificent ship — full of gay men. And me.

I am furious, but I am sailing.

thepanaculty

And what is the charge?! A ship??? A magnificent ship full of gay men and me?!

crap-userrname16

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Haven’t had a chance to watch the tutorial yet, but I’m seriously considering making this for my gf’s niece

quinnandersonwrites

I saw a hot writing take recently that had the right idea but the wrong reasoning. So. *throws two cents on the table*

OP said they were tired of "diet writing" and "trimming the fat" to cater to lower attention spans--and I agree. To me, that means when writers cut quiet, atmospheric moments or filler-that's-actually-characterization (the Beach Episode) in order to hit plot points as quickly as possible. I hate how every show moves so fast now, like the writers are scared to linger on a moment. Or they don't trust their audience to stay engaged. I also want the fat back.

The part about the post I disagreed with, however, was OP didn't cite the above examples as "trimming the fat." They cited Chuck Palahniuk's advice about cutting phrases like, "he knew" and "she wondered."

Here's the thing, though. Palahniuk doesn't recommend cutting "she knew" and the like to make your writing shorter. He suggests it to make your writing more fulfilling. Which is the opposite of trimming the fat.

Don't take my word for it. To quote the author:

Instead of saying: “Adam knew Gwen liked him.” You’ll have to say: “Between classes, Gwen had always leaned on his locker when he’d go to open it. She’s roll her eyes and shove off with one foot, leaving a black-heel mark on the painted metal, but she also left the smell of her perfume. The combination lock would still be warm from her butt. And the next break, Gwen would be leaned there, again.”

^ How is that "diet writing"? That sentence went from being 5 words to being way longer. You can keep "he knew" if you want, but if anything is "trimming the fat" here, it's that.

thoodleoo

there are a lot of really good ancient roman laws but i think my favorite is that, if you got struck by lightening and died, you couldnt have a proper burial because it meant that the gods hated you