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this blog is officially retired. much love and adoration to all! see me over at duskforged.tumblr.com instead

[duskforged]

ok i think i finally managed to follow the main people from my old account. everyone seeing this should follow me here now instead <3

(old account was hesperos-xi)

[ink-the-artist]

man

[ink-the-artist]

i like it too :)

[ink-the-artist]

[appleandsinnamon]

[arnaerr]

Some ramblings on art pricing bc I'm tired of this discourse

[ot3]

my problem is that i dont want to be a professional artist but i also have never wanted to do anything but be an artist

[teaboot]

wanna get sponsored by a lord so I can live on one of their many sprawling estates and make funny little paintings until I die of consumption

[allsadnshit]

Constantly remember how full of choices life is and how if you let your guilt or shame lead you instead of joy you truly will have no one to blame but yourself when you are living a life that feels heavy and constrained instead of happy and free

When you are not a child anymore you have to make decisions based on your own beliefs and no one else's and if you can't then no one is gonna save you - it's something you do for yourself regardless of how it looks to people around you and no one is gonna tell you to choose yourself

[allsadnshit]

Check in - My life has continuously improved since I voiced this and really actualized it

[sarahconnorjr]

[coffeemeetsanxiety]

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[lynati]

Harvard alone has these free online classes: Citizen Politics in America: Public Opinion, Elections, Interest Groups, and the Media U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy U.S. Public Policy: Social, Economic, and Foreign Policies

We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy Justice ...in case anyone wants to brush up on how these things (are meant to) function.

[manda-kat]

I think parents don't understand how punishing a child isn't for when they make you upset, it's for when they do something wrong. Like, you don't just punish them for stress relief, it's so they can learn right from wrong.

So if your kid learns, for example, that helping mom make dinner = getting in the way, but not helping = being lazy, but asking if mom needs help = being annoying and asking stupid questions, then you have basically trained a person to see the only option that doesn't lead to scolding as 'hide and don't be thought of until dinner is done'. So now what relationship is your kid going to have with cooking or cleaning or chores in general? How is that going to affect them as an adult?

If there is no right answer regarding the things that bother a parent, then your kid is going to associate those things with being punished no matter what they do. If talking during a car ride is bad and annoying, but being quiet and staring out the window is bad and disrespectful, then what are they going to do every time they're in the car with you but count every word they say? If texting is suspicious, but why don't they have friends, but going out with people is irresponsible, but why don't they ever leave their room, but their friends are all bad influences, but why did they stop hanging out with them, they were nice kids, then what are you even doing?

If playing video games is lazy, going outside is unsafe, playing is ignoring chores and doing chores is being in the way, then YOU'VE CREATED A CHILD WHO'S LEARNED THE ONLY WAY TO AVOID BEING SCOLDED IS TO DISAPPEAR WHENEVER YOU'RE IN A BAD MOOD! You've created a person who is hardwired to feel guilty no matter what they choose to do. You turned them into a confrontation ninja, who can vanish as soon as a hard conversation enters the picture. You've trained a person to disregard why rules exist and instead focus on who they can placate and suck up to in order to make the rules change. Because to them, rules and punishments are just who gets on the bosses nerves at the wrong time.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Sorry for being cranky, Reddit found one of my stream-of-consciousness posts that blew up and, because they're Redditors, missed the part where posting on Tumblr isn't the formal, high-effort act that Creating An Entire Reddit Post is viewed as.

[tpwrtrmnky]

There's a huge cultural split between "and yet you made an entire post about it" websites and "do you know you can make your own post" websites, which means that posts on the one type of site will be completely recontextualized by screenshotting them and putting them on the other type to the single-website segment of the userbase.

On a Redditlike site, which broadly also includes forums, creating a Post is a privilege reserved for someone who's done their time in the comments by standing out and saying Important and Related Things, such as highlighting the flaws of the original post. Making a Bad Post is a crime, and if you're not putting in the effort to pander to the specific type of content that the sub-community wants, you're making a Bad Post.

On a microblogging site, posting means that you have a text box in front of you that you're encouraged to dump whatever the fuck you want into. Firing off three posts in quick succession vaguely centered on the same topic because that's what's on your mind is called "using the website." Replying to someone else's post with your own tangent is annoying, because you can just make your own goddamn post.

This clash is why I do not like when Redditors hallucinate about some block of text I put on the internet while waiting for the bus several months ago as if it was some deliberately crafted Statement and not like, me seeing some stuff on Tumblr and participating in an ongoing conversation at the time.

[sabertoothwalrus]

get those abs off of him

[sabertoothwalrus]

no shut up this about making him fatter

[kawareo]

I'm stupid. Like actually stupid. Realizing I might've been having a fever on and off for the last two days and it somehow didn't click to me. I've slept like 15h today and am still exhausted. fuck

[kawareo]

My normal body temperature is like 36 degrees (celsius) so for me 37 is a lowkey fever, wish I had a temperature thingy to check it

[acorviart]

fish want me. you want fish. you want fish hanging on your wall

[shop] - ceramics drop on Sept 21, 8PM CT

[teaboot]

Adult ProTip, from a security professional: If a kid tells you, "My parents are gonna kill me / kick my ass / kick me out" for something relatively minor, don't respond with shit like "Really? ;) that sounds a little extreme, don't you think sweetie?" because that shit really does happen.

Instead, respond as though whatever threat they are afraid of is fully valid, and offer whatever you can do to help- ask if they believe they are in danger of being hurt in any way, and work accordingly.

If they're overreacting, they'll usually realize and dial it back, self-correct and begin thinking a bit more rationally.

If they're not overreacting, and the danger is real, then they'll need a level-headed adult in their corner, not another condescending authority figure who doesn't believe them.

[seedysys]

sorry about the light mode but this is important also

[dialogic]

setting a fic in the omegaverse and then writing it about two betas having completely normal sex and not interacting with any other characters

[eternalgirlscout]

earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding

[sonypraystation]

white people have the sauce sometimes and dont even know it

[sonypraystation]

i just saw a youtube short of brandon sanderson on a podcast. the whole time hes talking hes doing book signings. what a flex. so many bitches on my dick i gotta multitask

[if-i-was-a-wyrm]

brandon sanderson is actually just built different. once on a podcast with patrick rothfuss they were talking about tools to write better and he said "i try to limit myself to 8 hours of writing per day." he took time off of writing during the first year of covid and accidentally wrote four unplanned books. he teaches a class at byu. his wife has a codeword to get him to stop writing in his head because at any given moment you might think he's doing something normal but no he's also writing another novel. stephen king said he's insane

[lostinhistory]

Solid life advice from Sue the T. Rex.