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[juliajm15]

sorry for any grammar mistakes

long time without a tutorial… I tried to explain my general process of working here, hope someone will find it useful :)

[ashes-of-inspiration]

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[wafflewarrior111]

So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.

I'm going to try it.

[missroserose]

I love the lawyer metaphor, because whenever I see “John knew that...” in prose writing I immediately think “how?  How does he know it?”  Interrogate your witnesses.  Cross-examine them.  Make them explain their reasoning.  It pays dividends.

[heck-in-a-handbasket]

All of this, but also feels/felt. My editor has forbidden me from using those and it’s forced me to stretch my skills.

[ineedthesons]

This is your "show not tell" advice explained!

[tarysande]

Editor here.

First, let me preface this with something very important: you can treat all of this advice as SECOND-DRAFT ADVICE. It is so much easier to rewrite this kind of stuff once you have words on the page. Telling yourself the first draft is totally appropriate and acceptable.

What we’re talking about here are FILTER WORDS (and to some degree verbs of being). Yes, “thought” words are included. But so are “heard, saw, looked, tasted, smelled” etc.—most words having to do with the senses.

This isn’t black and white advice; sometimes you’ll use these words and that’s okay. They’re not WRONG. They’re just weaker. And they’re weaker because they create distance between the reader and the experience of the character.*

If you want your reader to feel like they’re experiencing the story right alongside the character, you want to cut down on filter words.

*This is particularly important with first person and close third POVs. The reader always knows whose eyes they’re seeing through and thoughts they’re privy to. So you don’t need to tell them “I saw X.” Or “I heard X.” Or “I thought Y.” You can just jump into the action/observation as it’s happening.

This is also where you want to pay attention to verbs of being.

“It was rainy.” Versus: “The rain pounded against the roof.” Or “The rain howled like an injured animal.” Or “The rain tapped against the window like an anxious lover.” All of these are inviting the reader deeper into the experience of the story by using stronger verbs and similes. And, at the same time, they stir feelings (instead of TELLING feelings). And feelings keep your reader engaged. Engaged readers keep turning pages; engaged readers become FANS.

[the-haiku-bot]

This is also where

you want to pay attention

to verbs of being.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[wolvenblacksmith]

Wow this is useful

[vinkandpaint]

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[shrubsparrow]

I made an art/anatomy tutorial about birds! I hope people will find it helpful!

[hoaxghost]

small guide to my emoticon usage

[hoaxghost]

Did a lil addition for various other emoticons people have asked me about

[icecreamsoup]

I wanted to add my takes on these two

[madderhatter]

[s-lycopersicum]

All you need in life is a color picker willing to expose you to the unbounded madness we call color vision.

me, absolutely clueless: "I want a color just like this one, but in red" color picker: Fuck you think you are, a Mantis Shrimp? Don't talk to me again until you can afford a wide gamut monitor.

[rnadvillain]

what is even happening here 😨 wheres the circle with the triangle inside we all know and love..

[s-lycopersicum]

The circle and triangle are a lie we tell ourselves to cope with the ugly reality... Now this-- this is the real deal!

In seriousness, this is oklch.com, a color picker for the OKLCH color model.

There are whole several hour lectures one could take in color science and theory, but to keep it short: the set of colors we can see, the set of colors monitors can display, and the set of colors computers can model are three circles that only somewhat overlap.

In this case, if I wanted this color

but in red, I could just go of Photoshop and move over the hue slider, getting this as a result:

Which is.. acceptable, but not as "bright" and "vibrant" as the green I had. Looking at the graphs in the OKLCH color picker, we can figure out why:

It tells us that a red with the same luminosity and chroma as this green is out of gamut—that is, it cannot be displayed by this monitor.

In this case, you can use the edges of the graph to find the color that is closest to what you want. You can, for example, keep the chroma but sacrifice lightness,

keep the lightness but drop the chroma,

or a bit of both, which is what the common HSV triangles already do.

But I like to know when it happens, y'know?

[batneko]

[gallusrostromegalus]

My mother grew up within biking distance of Bill Watterson in Ohio and would like everyone to know:

“Snow Goons” like this are very real

If anything, Mr. Watterson has toned down the scale and horror of some them.

[tendermiasma]

I’m not an expert but I like hands a lot so hopefully some of this was helpful!

[communistbakery-deactivated2017]

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okay so yesterday i started writing this piece for the piano and I liked how it sounded and tried making it into a dance song and so i showed you part of it and this is the finished version so yeah i hope you like it! you can download it for free here!!

[pandasslayer]

Can I have the sheet music???? This is brilliant ok good job

[communistbakery-deactivated2017]

here you go!!

[ruttotohtori]

Ulkomainen turisti ymmärsi hirviaitojen tarkoituksen väärin ja teki erikoisen päätelmän suomalaisesta maaseudusta

Väärinkäsitykset ovat yleisiä missä vain, mutta mahdollisuus niihin kasvaa erityisesti, kun ollaan oman maan ulkopuolella. Lukijat muistelevat kömmähdyksiä, jotka saavat hymyn huulille.

– Tuttu italialaisparinkunta oli vieraana eräänä kesänä. Italialaisrouva kyseli kaikenlaisia asioita suomalaisuudesta. Yksi ylitti kaikki muut, kun hän kysyi, kuinka lämmintä teillä on täällä talossa sisällä talviaikaan? Kerroin, että noin 20 astetta. Siis pakkasta, rouva jatkoi. Sanoin, että plussaa. Ilmeestä päätellen ei uskonut minun vastaustani.

– Suomessa on todella paljon rikollisuutta ja ihmiset ovat varuillaan maaseudulla, kun tienvarret on aidattu pitkiltä matkoilta, totesi eteläafrikkalainen Suomessa.

– Jenkkivieraat ihmettelivät matkalla Helsingistä Kouvolaan sitä, miksi melkein kaikki talot ovat punaisia. Jenkkirouva nirsoili ruuan kanssa ja valitti, että kananmunat maistuvat liiaksi kananmunalta. Lisäksi hän epäili kraanaveden puhtautta. Oli kuulema saanut Meksikossa ripulin vedestä. Siihen piti jo ärähtää.

– Skotlantilaiset ystäväni ihailevat Suomen tapaa pullojen ja tölkkien palautuksessa. Hämmästys oli suuri, kun siitä saa vielä rahaa. Mattoja myös ihmettelivät, sillä heillä on joka paikassa kokolattiamatot. Heille oli myös järkytys, että lapsi (silloin 10-vuotias) voidaan jättää yksin kotiin esimerkiksi kaupassa käynnin ajaksi.

– Meitä suomalaisia alettiin kutsua tuulipukukansaksi joskus 70-luvulla. Pukeutumiskoodi oli arkena useinkin juuri se tuulipuku. Itse en ollut edes huomannut, että ne puvut olivat niin yleisiä. Oli 80-luvun alku ja englantilainen herrasmies ihmetteli ostoskeskuksessa, että ”onko paikkakunnalla joku urheilutapahtuma, kun kaikki ovat pukeutuneet sport-asuihin?”.Perustelin asuja sillä, että tämä oli ”finnish fashion”. Hän ihmetteli ääneen tätä pitkään.

[torillatavataan]

Yhet mun tutut Japanista harmitteli, että ku hotellin suihkusta ei tullu tarpeeks lämmintä vettä. Ne ei tajunnu painaa sitä punasta nappulaa, et hanaa sais käännettyä kuumemmalle.

[aprincenolonger]

Itellä suurinta kummastusta on aiheuttanut varmaan jokamiehenoikeuksien selittäminen ja vauvojen ulos nukkumaan jättäminen talvella.

[roskapostimies]

Omat kaverit on kovasti ihmetellyt kun ei Suomessa oo enää lankapuhelimia käytössä. Kysyvät, että miten sitten lääkäri saa suhun yhteyden jos haluaa puhua sun ajanvarauksesta tai jtn? Matkapuhelimeen soittamalla??

[jalkasienimuhennos]

Mun pappa kerto joskus jostain taksikuskista joka oli kuskannu Rovaniemel turisteja. Ne oli ihmetelly että kuka nuo tienvieruksen puut oli koristellu (niissä oli kuuraa tai lunta). Se totes että kyllä se on luontoäiti sen tehny eikä vaan tienreunuksen puihin vaan ihan kaikkialle, vaan ei ne uskonu ennenku näki kunnolla että tosiaan kaikki puut oli kuurassa/lumessa :D

[tunnaa-unnaa]

Kanadalainen mieheni ihmetteli aluksi miksi meillä on aina kaksi eri autotietä vierekkäin ja vain toista käytetään. Selitin että se toinen väylä on jalankulkijoille ja pyöräilijöille, ja sanoin että se on auton levyinen jotta se voidaan aurata talvella. “Kuka niitä haluaa aurata??” Ööö kaupunki hoitaa ne. Oli ihan äimänä. Ja vielä enemmän kun sanoin ettei kukaan aja autolla huvikseen kevyen liikenteen väylällä vaikka siihen mahtuukin autolla.

[kevytmaitohorsma]

En tiiä onko jotain wnb-urbaanilegendaa vaan, mut oon kuullu kerrottavan et ulkomaalaiset ois ihmetelleet millaiset lamput niissä pienissä tolpissa on kun ne syttyy aina kun niitä lähestyy ja sammuu kun ajaa ohi (=aurauskepit).

[tilthat]

TIL in 1915, San Diego hired a “rain maker” who used a secret mix of chemicals to “attract rain” for $10,000, payable if he filled their reservoir. It rained for most of January, destroying bridges, dams, and causing 20 deaths.

via reddit.com

[armedandgayngerous]

that was the Devil

[general-thinks]

I mean they wanted rain

[northerlygale-deactivated202307]

His name was Charles Hatfield and I’m not saying that you shouldn’t make a deal with him, but I am saying that you should be very clear about the terms and conditions

[prokopetz]

I think we need to fully appreciate the fact that the reason he “looks like the Devil” is that many depictions of the Devil in American popular media are specifically caricatures of this guy. Like, imagine being a con man and fucking up your hustle so badly that for more than a century afterwards people start drawing the Devil to look like you.

[sunshinetomorrow]

my grubhub being delivered by a wizard or some sort of apostle

[mellointheory]

Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

[the-haiku-bot]

Who makes the porn bots.

Where do they come from. What do

they hope to achieve.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[mellointheory]

and what about you, little haiku bot? do you feel kinship with your brethren? do you understand them? they speak words of enticement and seek love, but are met with disdain. you only parrot the words that cross your screen, but we all love you. or rather, since all you do is reflect us, maybe we simply love ourselves through you.

do you understand them, do you wish you could speak to us like they do? if you found your own voice, would we still care for you?

[the-haiku-bot]

My voice repeats what

you all say: I love you I

love you I love you.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[solkorolevaa]

[thenewborndeity]

This. This is the first time. The only time. That it was not an echo. It was not found. Oh god.

[kindlythevoid]

I love you too little haiku bot.

[everydaylouie]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

The ghost duet is here, Halloween has officially begun :D

[mielipuolistapaskaa]

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[mehikasvain]

Minä, nyt 12:49, sängyssäni: 🥲

[torillatavataan]

Täähän oli sitten vissiin siulle tarkotettu. :D Senkin rasvakala.

[spandexinspace]

I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

[foxgirlofficial]

pov: you’ve been transported to the 17th century

[uvradical]

#in the article it says that the sailboat sailors were concerned because they could not be towed quickly because of the kind of boat#so they asked Götheborg what type of ship they were and warned that they would not be able to go above a certain speed#and götheborg went ' we are also a sailboat. 50 meters length. no worries :) '#and the poor sailboat sailors were just like ' That's not possible. they have to be messing with us' and then the ship Rolled Up (via bunjywunjy)