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I am reliably informed literacy will improve your chances of finding a decent job, not to mention reading rental leases carefully and being able to research your rights as a tenant, both of which will significantly reduce your chances of ending up homeless. Not to mention being able to budget. Or being able to read between the lines on ads so you're more likely to work out you don't really need the thing and/or it's a scam.

adhd-asd

Tips for Reading with ADHD

(or without ADHD, if they help regardless)

Physical print:

cover the page with a piece of paper and reveal lines/paragraphs as you read them

use a highlighter to emphasize important/interesting parts

take notes as you go to be physically engaged with the material

Digital media:

copy and paste the text into a doc/word processor

change the font size/style/colour to something more legible

make your own paragraphs and spacing

copy and paste one paragraph at a time to isolate them from the distraction of the rest of the text

install a browser extension like BeeLine Reader or Mercury Reader

zoom in on the page and scroll slowly so you’re revealing lines as you read them

physically cover the screen and reveal lines as you read them

if you do better with physical media, print it out or find a physical copy

Both:

read out loud

pace, move around, or use a fidget while reading

set a timer for 5 minutes and read in small chunks with breaks in between

divide the material into sections and read one section at a time with breaks in between

have another person, audio book, or text-to-speech program read it aloud as you follow along

iamthecutestofborg

elumish

If you find highlighted text distracting, as I do (it’s COLOR on my black and white page), one trick that works for me is to use a black pen and bracket the relevant section and then make a mark off to the side of whatever lines you are marking. That way it’s unobtrustive enough it won’t pull your eye while you’re reading, but it’s marked so you can refer back to it later if you need to.

elizabeth-forbes

We can show the people we are merciful.

fuckyeahfluiddynamics

Dune Fields From Space

An astronaut captured this image of the Oyyl Dune Field in Kazakhstan from the International Space Station. To the south and east of the dune field (right and lower parts of image) there are fluvial floodplains, sources of sediment that feed the dunes. (Image credit: NASA; via NASA Earth Observatory) Read the full article

lemonemenom

I'm starting to get smile lines.

How lovely to have smiled so often that happiness permanently etches itself into your face

lemonemenom

How metal to have lived a life where your face now pre-warns people not to fuck with you

lemonemenom

How resilient to have cared so strongly that empathy is now visibly displayed on your face

smbc-comics

Bias

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Narrative

bebsi-cola

disabled people deserve more than the bare minimum to live tbh. and i don't mean in the "oh we have extra costs that makes being disabled more expensive" - which is true, but i'm counting those in the budget to live. disabled people also deserve enough money to buy treats, nice clothes, fund their hobbies, take a trip away, and so on. being disabled shouldn't force you into a life of frugality and poverty

positivestress

I wish I was a female tiger because then if I was talking to someone and I was getting off topic I could say “but I tigress,” and then kill and eat them because I am a tiger

elumish

There's an idea I see a lot that's basically like, it's important to humanize fascists when we write about them so people understand that regular people can be fascists and that it's not just an amorphous evil, etc.

And I always have this knee-jerk negative reaction to seeing that. And it's not because I don't want people to understand fascism or people who commit right-wing violence or whatever (literally part of my field of study), but that it always seems to sort of be prioritizing the wrong thing.

I've written about this some before on my substack, but it keeps eating at my brain and I am incapable of letting go of stuff, so here we are.

The thing about fascism and about right-wing (esp far-right) ideologies in general is that one of the core tenants of them is that there are inate hierarchies of people, and at the extremes, it's essentially that the people at the top (white cis/het Christian men, in American/European right-wing ideology) are the most human, and the people at the bottom (Black people, in a lot of American right-wing ideology) are the least human.

And we as a society have no trouble humanizing white cis/het Christian men, by whatever definition we're using of humanize. And you need to look no further than how mainstream news organizations cover politics to see that this is true--it's almost a trope at this point that they will cover the opinion of every individual Trump voter at a gas station in Ohio before they talk to anyone else. News organizations show family photos of white murderers and mugshots of Black murder victims. People care about what every sobbing white woman thinks about POC she finds scary but often don't care about getting the other side of the story.

We know that (cis/het not-disabled Christian male) white people are human, because that has basically never been in question in the history of the world (or at least the history of the U.S.), and you can write someone as human without humanizing them--because humanizing is not just about literally writing someone as human (as opposed to, say, a squid), but about showing their individuality in a way that makes them more sympathetic.

Spending your time and energy worrying about humanizing fascists is a little bit like the AP announcing recently that their style guide now says to avoid the term TERF and to focus instead on the specific objections. What you'll end up with is not objectively incorrect, but it gives the microphone to the people who least need or deserve it.

The whole goal of fascists is to dehumanize other people--so if you're so opposed to the fascist ideology, why don't you focus your attention on humanizing those people? Give us the viewpoints and intricacies and individual meaningful human lives of your Black characters, your indigenous characters, your Jewish characters, your Muslim characters, your characters of color, your queer characters, your disabled characters, your female characters.

And this isn't to say that fascists should be presented as amorphous blobs, because that's silly and meaningless. But in a story, you only have limited space and reader attention to spend on building characters out. Why do you want to spend that on the fascists?

ephemeral-storyteller

"it's a foxgirl promise" means it's the most trustworthy thing in the whole wide world and you have to believe it 100%

tentacleteapot

letmebegaytodd

i do enjoy in survival-esque escape-type movies when someone gets hurt and someone else is like “i can help, don’t worry i’m a doctor.” like. they’re probably not lying, but they totally could be

letmebegaytodd

just once i want the villain in the movie to be revealed as the person in the group who said they were a doctor and everyone had just taken them at their word because why the fuck would you lie about that

letmebegaytodd

i can’t believe all the bad luck and injuries that have befallen our little group. good thing we have Dr. Hedical Halpractice with us

letmebegaytodd

now THIS is a concept!

letmebegaytodd

Also, cannot stress enough that Dr. Hedical Halpractice does NOT have some sort of doctorate in an unaffiliated field like a fun switcheroo, he just LOVES lying and is a HUGE asshole

letmebegaytodd

okay!

yamujiburo

HANAMUSA (JESSIExDELIA) MASTER POST

I probably should have started doing this forever ago but I wasn’t sure how long I was gonna stick with drawing these comics. But I guess we’re in it now! This will be continually updated~ EVERYTHING UNDER THE CUT

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luisonte

Pa mi…

simon-newman

Pure seagull energy

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valeriehalla

do you have any advice for creatives who are just starting out? i'm acutely aware that my art skills aren't that great and my follower count is low, and i'm worried that whatever i put out there is just going to get lost in the background noise of Online

my advice is to remember that art is a form of communication. do you have something you want to say that you think a lot of people want to hear? i think your technical skills and your follower count and whatnot are kind of secondary to that. like, if you're good at drawing you can get a lot of retweets and reblogs by just drawing fanart or stuff like that, but the kind of audience you accrue that way is a little superficial -- the "message" they're here for fundamentally belongs to someone else. fuck the absolute magnitude of your follower count; make exactly the thing you want to make and see if you can't find 100 people who are fully here for it. it's not guaranteed to work, but you'll develop your technical skills and your ability to communicate through art fastest by just going for it, so it's worth it no matter the outcome.

other tips: don't be afraid your message is too niche; niches are great for artists because the more specific the audience is the hungrier they are for the very specific thing they want. art that's normal about trans people was and kinda still is a niche, which is the only reason you've ever heard of me, for example

valeriehalla

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yes, i know this is the third time i've redone this song. i had a fun and legit reason to give it a tune-up this time, though!! (doesn't explain what it was)

valeriehalla