gotta revive again and again

for those who don't know where to go, any way is the right one

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Botanical Names Part V

Here are some plant names you can choose for your characters. Some of them have already appeared in earlier parts, because this is a more common name edition. Lmk if you know some more!

Jasmine

Lily

Poppy

Magnolia

Daisy

Rosemary

Hazel

Fern

Aspen

Petunia

Holly

Iris

Marigold

Sylvia

Rose

Erica

Laurel

Daphne

Clover

Victoria

Melissa

Rye

Viola

Phyllis

Flora

Dahlia

Sage

Felicia

Alder

Veronica

Juniper

Willow

Rowan

Aster

Violet

More names!

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[liberalsarecool]

"I want children to suffer" is the ultimate flex by red-pilled conservative anti-feminist dorks who are equally racist when screeching about birth rates dropping.

[mercymaker]

you guys really need to stop saying that people don't contribute to a fandom unless they're making fanart or writing fanfics or doing something creative where the final output is "content".

i've seen enough posts parroting this sentiment that makes me believe it's not just one person's dumb take, but a growing belief and that boggles my mind.

commenting, engaging, encouraging, and yes, even geeking out about your favorite artist or your favorite fic IS contributing to a fandom. it is vital to the general fandom ecosystem, the way creating and sharing fanworks is!

[writingdose]

"why isn't there any fic about xyz?" my love, if you want something to exist, sometimes you will have to create them yourself. you can't wait for someone else to do it for you. only you know what you want best. write that self-indulgent fic. then keep writing more for your own enjoyment.

[captain-price-returns]

[luna-azzurra]

Something I had to unlearn: giving your character a tragic backstory is not the same as giving them a wound. A backstory is just information. A wound is the thing that makes them flinch at something totally unrelated fifteen chapters later and the reader goes "oh." If the backstory doesn't leave a nerve ending somewhere in the present-day plot, cut it. Nobody needs the trauma. They need the flinch.

[captain-price-returns]

[enki2]

[aaawunder]

Ray Bradbury wrote a short story in 1950 set on august 4th 2026 called There Will Come Soft Rains… today is your only day to read it on the day it was set

[aaawunder]

[quietwingsinthesky]

its so weird to me that cis people will dislike their name so ardently and yet. not change it. you guys know that’s an option, right. no one can make you keep the shit name your mom gave you. no, not even her.

[penrosesun]

One of my friends in undergrad changed his name because he didn’t want to bear the name of his abusive and absent father. It’s been years since he did it, and he still says that it was the single best decision of his life.

One of my friends in high school changed his named as soon as he turned 18, so that the ethnic name his family gave him was finally the name reflected on all of his paperwork. He told me that he understood why his parents had given him an “English” name, but that he felt that if he needed to assimilate in order to succeed, then that was a type of success that he didn’t want.

When I was on my way home from the courthouse after changing my own name, I got into a conversation with my rideshare driver, who was extremely interested once I told him what I was in court for, and wanted to know how I’d done it, how much it cost, was it difficult, etc. It turned out that his girlfriend had chosen the name “Yo-yo” when she came to the United States, unaware of how rare that was as a name, and that she was frequently made fun of because of it. Neither one of them had realized that a name change was so easy, and he told me he was excited to let her know that she had options.

There was an intern at a summer job I had once, who changed her name to be the same name, but a different spelling. She said that she had no idea why her parents had spelled her name so oddly to begin with, and suspected that it was just an honest mistake either by them or by some nurse, but it had been a headache for her entire life, and it was a huge relief to not need to be correcting people’s spelling on important documents anymore.

One of my exes legally changed his name to have an exclamation point, because he liked to sign his name with an exclamation point.

You can always change your name if you don’t like it. You always have that option. It doesn’t matter why – it can be conformist or anti-assimilationist, serious or silly, a minor change or a major change. Your name is yours, and you have every right to change it to be whatever you want.

[captain-price-returns]

Half of them are feds, but are off the clock.

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[cafhune]

"I used to be taller than him" Older sisters and their brothers 💞

[info page]

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[the-tao-of-fandom]

Speaking as someone working a lot of front desks, I Infinitely prefer people coming over and asking "stupid questions" to the alternative. Please don't make me watch you try the door, decide you're in the wrong place, walk around the building and try the emergency exit for some reason, eventually make it in through the main entrance, and then creep around the building for 10 minutes searching for the bathrooms instead of Just. Asking. Me.

[magicalmanhattanproject]

Thinking about the time I got really cranky about a ton of people calling to ask me a really obvious question when the answer should be right there on the website so I checked the website and the website was wrong