K.C. Hastings

Author, Artist, Weirdo 🏳️‍🌈Bi, Polyamorous

[k-c-hastings]

The building of a dirt road.

- County Road, Dead End

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[dduane]

Any first-ish draft is going to be crap. (With the usual note: if it's not crap when you write it, it will be later. Or large parts of it will be. You'll look at what came out of you at white heat [or even just in an everyday piece of work and kinda lukewarm] in two or three days, and it'll be crap then. It's frankly kind of astonishing how quickly perceived perfection turns to crap. It's almost like there's, I don't know, some kind of Entropy thing running or something.)

And this is fine. Move on past it and edit what you wrote.

Then write some more crap.

My cousin in Thoth, this is how it goes. This is how it will always go. Even when you become a career writer—thirty, forty, fifty novels along—it will still be crap when it first comes out.

AND THIS IS OKAY. The essential imperfection of the Universe makes it impossible for your initial emission to be perfect either.

(And if you think it is... wait till your betas or your copyeditor get at it.) :)

So now go do more. Because otherwise, nothing gets done. ...And then where are we?!

[k-c-hastings]

No war, No Kings

[k-c-hastings]

A little positivity ✨

[k-c-hastings]

Two Spirit flag painting for one of my kids

[nightvaleofficial]

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

(X) (X) (X)

[justalittlespore]

Just remember, sending them the bee movie script doesn't really help. They'll just filter it out automatically. You need to waste their time with false reports that sound legit, so they have to waste their time looking into it and ultimately can't sort out the real reports from the fake ones.

[charmedatlaw]

IF YOU ARE UNMARRIED, DON'T HAVE KIDS, AND HATE YOUR PARENTS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HAVE A FUCKING WILL

this has been a public service announcement from your friendly neighborhood probate lawyer

[charmedatlaw]

Again:

1. The law doesn't care how long your parents and family have been out of your life

2. The law doesn't care about your long term friends or "found family"

If you don't have legal documents that say otherwise, your biological family calls all the shots.

This goes especially for LGBTQ+. Please do not get deadnamed in your obituary.

[the-final-sif]

How to make a will.

How to make a living will (Advance Healthcare Directive) so you don’t get fucked over by biological family if you end up in a situation where you cannot make your own healthcare choices.

[pyroinfusedtiger]

If youre trans, this video is a good ref to start with and she provides links and organizations that can help

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

also have a designated medical power of attorney. even worse than your shitty parents getting control of your estate is your shitty parents getting control of your still-living but incapacitated body.

no, having a chill adult sibling isn't enough, it still defaults to parents for some dumbass reason even if your parents are old as balls. if you want your chill adult sibling to be your emergency decisionmaker, get it in writing.

[musicalhell]

Talk to someone about life insurance. I don't care how young and healthy you are, you are one beer truck away from lifetime disability or funeral expenses. Do what you can within your means to avoid saddling your loved ones with the bill.

[nudityandnerdery]

Resisting tyranny takes a lot of forms.

[guerrillatech]

[sealinne]

same moment different angle

[bonnibeldam]

[whitmerule]

The bullet bandolier over the skirts is a look. 😌

[zwoelffarben]

these pictures of a platoon of og antifa drag queens manning a gun bigger than my car better not awaken anything in me.

[the-uncanny-dag]

[k-c-hastings]

Btw you can also find me over at Bluesky.

I post there a lot more than here

🤷🏻‍♀️

[shamebats]

Join me on my journey to finally unbalance my hormones, toxify my body, boost my inflammation, maximize my cortisol and absolutely destroy my gut health.

[shamebats]

I just realized it's literally just the fucking humors again. We've arrived back at the starting line.

[silkysong]

not suicidal not wanting to be alive but a third secret thing. i want my current state of existence to be refragmented like a shitty rusty hard drive

[silver-tongues-blog]

wanting to prick a finger on a cursed spindle and fall into a deep sleep only to wake up when everythings better?

[silkysong]

you get it...

[depsidase]

[bealittleimprobable]

This has been driving me insane.

I used to be *good* at search. It was a whole thing - I found people's "lost songs" or their unknown-source childhood stuffed toy or whatever from Google.

Now, you can't search for the exact brand/design name of something and get accurate answers. It drives me spare on Amazon - if I search for XYZ and you don't have any, or you only have 2, tell me that.

I wouldn't mind if it said "Here are 2 XYZ. Shoppers also searched for..." Instead it'll just throw a random, barely-linked pile of results and you have to wade through every single one to see if the thing you want exists.

[kimberlychapman]

THIS. For ages I used to say that I had "high Google-Fu". I could find *anything* because I knew how to use strings to enhance searches. The string commands haven't even worked for well over a year or more, far before they put in this infernal (and often wrong!) AI BS on top.

I used to be able to search for recipes and easily eliminate unwanted ingredients with a -. For example I'd look for low-carb desserts but without the zillions that use peanut butter simply by searching for something like:

low carb chocolate dessert recipe -peanut

And I'd get a slew of on-point suggestions. For some time now if you do -peanut Google ignores the - and assumes you want recipes stuffed with peanuts.

Where it's even worse now is now you get directed to sites full of bogus AI recipes that don't even make sense. But they have peanuts in them.

I used to be able to use reverse image searches to find out who made that awesome art so I could give credit in my share. They've removed that ability entirely and replaced it with Lens, which is AI BS just showing you more like what you looked for. (Rebecca Watson complained about this in her recent video about JD Vance jizz cup rumours and I apologise for that sentence but...yeah. Watson is great, go find her on Youtube and subscribe because she went into detail about how Google has become less and less useful for debunking.)

This isn't just about Google inserting shopping ads instead of what you wanted to learn about. That's bad. But the results now are just *broken*. The tools we used to have to make searches better have been removed. Google no longer wants us to find the answers we seek, but the answers they want us to have, and that's super creepy and dangerous.

And the alternatives are either using Google in the back end or have other significant barriers to use.

This sucks.

[bogleech]

Duckduckgo and all the other alternatives work this way too, now.

[revretch]

Verbatim search, guys!! Go to "Tools," and enable "Verbatim."

It's a pain in the ass, but it still works!

[dalniente]

1) yay, thank you

2) WHAT THE FUCK WHY DID THEY HIDE IT

[morphinemilkshake]

For all you Firefox users, here's an addon that forces verbatim mode to always be on:

unfuck-google – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download unfuck-google for Firefox. This addon forces 'Verbatim' search on Google - removing all bs personalization and localization and let

[elfwreck]

This addon forces 'Verbatim' search on Google - removing all bs personalization and localization and letting you find results for what you type, not what Google thinks is in your head.

It also forces "Sort by Date" on Google News search.

In the flood of bad search results, I had forgotten about Google News giving me 2012 articles related to high-profile drama instead of whatever happened last month that I was actually looking for.

[nightvaleofficial]

Did you know Night Vale Creators Jeffrey and Joseph have other podcasts? Love mystery? Unlicensed is for you. Horror movies (or interested, but squeamish)? Check out Random Horror 9. Alternate realities? Within The Wires. https://www.nightvalepresents.com/

Night Vale Presents

Night Vale Presents

[k-c-hastings]

If you’re on BlueSky, come find me