Dreamer

Me, an unfortunate amount of years old, idiot

[ladyofthelairss]

Sir, that’s my emotional support unrealistic romantic delusion

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[senorpacman-deactivated20200826]

every july. every fucking july this post gets reblogged to shit. why. why does this god forsaken website love egg. i gave egg a voice in 2013 and it always comes back. i try to forget egg. i bury egg as far as i can but somehow someone always finds fucking egg post. this post could be dead for months but it always managed to come back like some sort of zombie egg. enough egg. no more egg. fuck eg

[australian-frog-cakes-deactivat]

I now have this scheduled to reblog every year on July 1st at exactly midnight

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The First Thing You Learn in University Creative Writing Classes

I was very fortunate to major in Creative Writing when I went to college. It was a great experience, but I remember being so nervous when I walked into my first class as a freshman.

I'd been writing stories since elementary school, so I worried that this first class would teach me something wildly different than what I knew about writing. Maybe there was some secret formula to creating characters or mental exercises that immediately dissolved writer's block that you could only learn from a professor.

When my first class ended, I was shocked.

The first thing you learn in a university-level creative writing class?

Read more than you write.

It's that simple. I thought my professor had lost his mind, but the many others that followed always echoed the advice.

The advice then saved my ability to write when I was getting through each day during some of the hardest times of my life.

Pick up the good books. The great books. The terrible books that make you quit reading them because they're so bad.

They will all make your writing stronger.

You'll learn how to write fantastic characters, weave plot lines, and paint worlds with words. You'll also learn what you don't like in someone's writing so you can avoid it in your own.

Even during the periods when I wrote nothing at all, reading kept that love for writing alive in my heart.

It's the best way to reconnect with that passion if you've lost it and the greatest way to develop that skill.

Read more than you write.

Your storylines and characters will thank you later.

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[senorpacman-deactivated20200826]

every july. every fucking july this post gets reblogged to shit. why. why does this god forsaken website love egg. i gave egg a voice in 2013 and it always comes back. i try to forget egg. i bury egg as far as i can but somehow someone always finds fucking egg post. this post could be dead for months but it always managed to come back like some sort of zombie egg. enough egg. no more egg. fuck eg

[australian-frog-cakes-deactivat]

I now have this scheduled to reblog every year on July 1st at exactly midnight

[ladyofthelairss]

Let’s just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting “All gods are bastards”

- Ricewind the Wizard on Twoflower, Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic

[ladyofthelairss]

I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.

- Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

[ladyofthelairss]

"Because it’s kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way."

- John Green, Paper Towns

[tragicallyunaesthetic]

tumblr holidays:

the met gala

halloween (the month)

the ides of march

nov 5 (new!)

[tragicallyunaesthetic]

some ones i missed:

eurovision (region specific)

dashcon memorial day

october 3rd

neil banging out the tunes’ anniversary

and for those who remember, the 21st night of september

[tragicallyunaesthetic]

a few more:

mishapocalypse (dreaded)

the perfect date: april 25th

pride month

any time that it’s gonna be may

[ladyofthelairss]

Barricade day (from Les Mis)

[ladyofthelairss]

"It was one of those moments when a great Don’t Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky."

- Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

[tlirsgender]

Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon

[tlirsgender]

It’s carbon it’s pretty and it didn’t involve slave labor what’s not to love??? Hi I’m having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I’m right

[tlirsgender]

There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don’t have the time to unpack all that

[val-ritz]

not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself “man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce”

[fuckyeahmineralogy]

We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.

[thegreenpea]

another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond’s 2.419 and here is the difference 

and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less

[ladyofthelairss]

Why do you guys think buying diamonds is about the rock?

It's about an EXPENSIVE rock you wear and show off as a sign of your prosperity.

You don't gape at diamond jewelry at weddings because it's diamond, you gape because it's so expensive, thus proving that the wearer is doing well in life n stuff.

It's because of what the diamond goes through it has value. (lame metaphor but still it's true)

Also on the 'it's all carbon' point, you're welcome to wear a lump of coal as a necklace.

[argumate]

I’ve said it before, but it’s important to remember that all religions are basically the same; the surface details may look very different, like viral proteins trying to fool your memetic immune system, but they all rest on a solid bedrock of assumptions from the broader culture that spawned them that are taken for granted so implicitly that they are never explicitly stated or clarified, such as:

 - humans have non-physical spirits that continue to exist after death

 - humans are the players for which the stage of the universe was created

 - human morality is of cosmic importance

 - humans regularly receive communications from supernatural entities

 - human thoughts, words, and rituals affect the world in tangible ways

and you have to discard these before anything else in the world makes sense.

[argumate]

religious beliefs reflect human instincts, which are an outgrowth of human origins and do not provide direct access to cosmological truths.

[paindragon]

Wait, are you saying that the things you listed are all part of every religion, or are you just using them as examples for implicit beliefs? 

Because I don’t think all of those things are true for every religion. 

[argumate]

if you drop all of them then what you have left is not very religious.

[ladyofthelairss]

So basically what you're trying to say is that the concept (or lack of concept) of god is the same everywhere because core religious beliefs have similar basis.

But, the whole idea of different religions is that god is NOT the same everywhere.

So the existence of religion disproves religion?

[argumate]

wait you're an ancap? i thought you were one of those annoying hyperindividualist free market left anarchists but not like, capitalist. like mutualism or whatever.

I’m whatever the reader finds most irritating.

[ladyofthelairss]

So basically opposition for the sake of opposition because you believe the designated opposition isn't good enough.

Or you just like irritating people.

[transxfiles]

me: *writes fic*

me: great! time to post to ao3-

ao3 summary box: *exists*

me: 

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[rooksandravens]

[rjeddystone]

Ooh, this is actually kinda a neat thing, because you can think of it as a checklist:

Who: Main character(s)

Why: Character goal or desire (stated)

Why: Character need (implied)

When: Inciting Incident

What: Means (that achieves the goal/need)

Where: Place A >> Place B

How: The Plan

Obstacle(s): antagonist or challenge

For example:

Who: Bilbo Baggins, a respectable hobbit of Hobbiton

Why: Treasure, wealth (stated)

Why: Adventure, self-respect (implied)

When: After supper

What: Quest

Where: Hobbiton >> The Lonely Mountain

How: A company of dwarves, a wizard, and an ancient map and key

Main antagonist(s): a dragon

Thus, in less than 100 words:

Bilbo Baggins is a respectable hobbit in Hobbiton, never making any trouble or having any adventures. But when a wizard and a company of dwarves invite themselves to dinner, Bilbo finds himself joining their quest from the shires of Hobbiton to the legendary Lonely Mountain, the home of a long lost treasure, and quite, possibly, a dragon.  

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The Anatomy of Story by John Truby is a really good book by the by, if anyone’s interested in this sort of thing.

[roguecompanion1812]

This is super helpful!’

[loveletter2you]

ending a story in other languages

kurdish: “my story went to other homes, god bless the mothers and fathers of its listeners” (Çîroka min çû diyaran, rehmet li dê û bavê guhdaran.)

greek: “and they lived well, and we lived better” (και ζήσανε αυτοί καλά και εμείς καλύτερα)

afrikaans: “whistle whistle, the story is done” (fluit fluit, die storie is uit)

goemai: “my tale has finished, (it) has returned to go (and) come home.” (tamtis noe lat / dok ba muaan yi wa)

amharic: “return my story and feed me bread” (ተረቴን መልሱ አፌን በዳቦ አብሱ::)

bengali: “my story ends and the spinach is eaten by the goat” (aamaar kothati furolo; Notey gaachhti murolo) *means something is irreversibly ended because goats eats herbs from the root

norwegian: “snip snap snout, the tale is finished” (snipp snapp snute, så er eventyret ute”

polish: “and i was there [at the wedding] too, and drank mead and wine.” (a ja tam byłem, miód i wino piłem.)

georgian: “disaster there, feast here… bran there, flour here…” (ჭირი – იქა, ლხინი – აქა, ქატო – იქა, ფქვილი – აქა)

hungarian: “this is the end, run away with it” (itt a vége, fuss el véle)

turkish: “lastly, three apples fell from the sky; one for our story’s heroes, one for the person who told their tale, and one for those who listened and promise to share. And with that, they all achieved their hearts’ desires. Let us now step up and settle into their thrones.” (Gökten üç elma düşmüş; biri onların, biri anlatanın, diğeri de dinleyenlerin başına. Onlar ermiş muradına, biz çıkalım kerevetine.)

[ladyofthelairss]

All right I'm going to use the Bengali one EVERY. SINGLE. TIME and annoy everyone.

[thatwasthenightthingschanged]

I’m convinced if ppl on this site knew how crappy gifs look before you color them properly, they would appreciate editors more

[thatwasthenightthingschanged]

for context reasons, this is how a gif I used in a recent gifset looks like without any adjustments/coloring whatsoever:

and here it is afterwards:

[5ummit]

I truly don’t think people realize how dingy and dark most movies and tv shows actually are so they can’t appreciate the work and skill it takes to make gifs look the way your brain “remembers” it looking.

Another before and after example:

This gif needed 6 different adjustment layers, not including the sharpening process, which is its own separate challenge. The blue window was also changed to green to keep the palette more consistent and to reduce the range of colors needed, because a wider range of colors generally results in worse gif quality since gifs only support a max of 256 (compared to the millions your monitor can display).

[uuuhshiny]

yeah…

[lokiperfection]

I have such appreciation of all the gif makers here! They put their time and energy into make these gifs for us to share.

Thank you so much, gif makers!

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

a collection of underrated tweets, part 3

(the series)

[quotemadness]

“I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.”

— Iain S. Thomas