Bullshit and sometimes art+photos

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[goblinspicemaster69]

Observe

thank you for observing

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I've received some criticism for accepting commissioned posts, so I want to clarify

this blog & the content I produce is currently my only means of income

I'm saving to escape a toxic household

tumblr is notoriously difficult for content-creators to monetize

I accept ko-fi / paypal / commissions instead of reblogging 'sponsored' content (ads from fashion retailers or Adam & Eve) the way most blogs my size do. I don't want this space to feel impersonal; reader support allows me to avoid commercial advertising.

I'm doing my best. I've spent years putting in full-time hours on a blog that has only just started paying part-time wages. eventually I would like to make a living writing traditionally published content, but that's a long ways off. for now I'm just trying to get by, and trying to write fun and weird and (hopefully) surprisingly helpful content on the platform I have. please bear with me. I'm simply trying to turn an obsessive passionate hobby into something I can live (frugally) on.

[leahazel]

The tags are worth reading, too. People will tell you ad nauseum to monetize your hobbies and then yell at you when you do it.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it's bc capitalism has built a culture wherein human creativity is only valued if it can somehow be exploited or profited from

[shaaknaa]

No Ethical Creativity under capitalism

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[ceterisparibus116]

I just consciously don’t do the last one. Whoops

[o6eiyrskb4hg7rix8hih-deactivate]

thank you for brushing my aewsome teeth *leaves the dentist without paying*

[mop-2016-blog]

feeling droopy !! :)

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 1st of april, 2016.

[joeyclaire]

this unironically slaps if someone posted this exact gif in 2020 with that exact description as a shitpost it would have 30k notes

[weebleroxanne]

“Nope,” I whisper as I exit out of a fic with no paragraph breaks.

[writingquestionsanswered]

No excuses, folks! Change paragraphs when:

- the “camera” moves - a new character shows up - someone speaks - someone else speaks - a new idea, subject, or topic is introduced - time passes or reverts to an earlier point - the setting changes - the mood shifts - you want to create dramatic effect

[saltoftheao3]

this is so so so more reader friendly, people, heed it!

[steveyockey]

no “carrd.” you learn things about me based on what you can piece together from the vague details of my life I disclose in rare moments of vulnerability

[valtsv]

received a message from a spambot today that wasn't raybans and i now understand how the people in the john mulaney salt and pepper diner bit felt when the jukebox started playing "it's not unusual" after 7 "what's new pussycat"s

[eccentric-enby-entity]

Having adhd is like having a million tabs open in your brain but you can't close any of them bc that will somehow only make the computer run worse

[adhbabey]

Not only that, that's how i operate on my technology too.

[dovesndecay]

People talk about the surprise albums from people like Taylor Swift or Beyoncé that drop with zero warning but I have just been existing in this world where every album I've ever heard in my life has been a surprise album because I didn't know that musicians had schedules that we could see

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

hey what's your opinion on human exoskeletons?

I think they should come in brighter colors

[ex0skeletal-undead]

The Homes of Hidden Animals Series by Jeniak

This artist on Instagram // Twitter

[kakyoiniisms]

catgirl maid that likes violence and will destroy your home instead of cleaning it

[glumshoe]

As recently as three weeks ago Google had an image search function that let you search by type of Creative Commons license, so finding free to use/no attribution required images was so easy. Now it looks like they’ve sabotaged that function and limited it to just Creative Commons/Commercial and my job has suddenly become exponentially harder.

[glumshoe]

goodbye Google hello Bing

stock image websites are useless to me because they never ever seem to contain images of the correctly-identified species

[ex0skeletal-undead]

If you’re looking specifically for photos of animals or plants, the iNaturalist website allows you to sort image results for a species by license. I use it constantly for my bug blog content.

[glumshoe]

[kisses you evilly] thank you so much for telling me this

[floridensis]

good time to mention, if you use inaturalist, you can change your image licensing under account settings, under content and display!

i /think/ the default is attribution non commercial but im not 100% positive. I have all of mine set to no copyright/public domain. the licenses change how accessible your images potentially are for researchers or people like @glumshoe​. CC0 is hands down the most accessible, but a lot of people dont prefer it for their own content because there is no requirement for attribution and people can use your content for anything. If that doesnt bother you, and you really want your images to be available for people to use, CC0 is a good choice - i changed mine from attribution to CC0 because my sister said that she found a lot of people prefer that license for its accessibility.

on the page where you can set your license, it gives you information about what they all mean so you can make the choice you like best.

[onenicebugperday]

Reblogging for the last addition - it is SUPER helpful if you submit your photos to iNat to make them available for sharing.

[paxamericana]

[betterhaircut]

[studthismuffin]

He didn’t stutter

[madamslayyy]

Now why he burn her ass up on national television

[blendyhendrix]

RIP Alex

[thathighguy]

RIP to the GOAT Alex!!! He gave no fucks!!!

[r4cs0]

Jesus fucking Christ

[joshuu-nutboi-higashikata-deact]

[nonetoon]

Don’t get be wrong axolotls are adorable and deserve the love but I don’t see enough attention for their freaky cave hermit cousins the olm

[nonetoon]

Like if u think the woman on the right is just as beautiful as the women on the left

[cockyroaches]

I thought the head was just stylization you know - as one does - but no that's literally how they fucking look

[lifeofcynch]

the olm is like the Long Horse of amphibians

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Borzoi Axolotl

[pogues-run]

Fascinated at the implication that Borzois don’t have eyes

[barbienefertiti]

I’ll represent you in court :)

[niggaweaintfriends]

Isn’t it consensual when she gave him the photos when they were together 🔚

[wheresmywig]

From a lawyer: “The photos were consensual. But she did not consent to distribution “

[ifuckwiththerainbows]

He really thought he did something with that comment and his lil stank emoji at the end lol

[brownbitchacho]

Reblog to save a LIFE dat shit is not ok

[diazeddies]

for the ladies, and even gentlemen, who follow me and find themselves in this situation.

[apollo-and-the-moon]

Same goes for you Men. If your ex leaks photos of your dick or any videos you sent her, you can sue too. Yea, giving the photos with consent is Aight, but spreading them around and “exposing” Ain’t it chief

[puppybaby15]

LETS NOT FORGET IN SOME STATES REVENGE PORN IS CONSIDERED DOMESTIC ABUSE