The Long and Short of it

[sunflowerseedsandscience]

REBLOG IF NAZIS OFFEND YOU MORE THAN NIPPLES.

[bump-of-whump]

Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

[wordybee]

“There are three things you must ask yourself before you say anything…”

[hummingbird-hunter]

Your gender is now the first randomized wikipedia article you get. No rerolls.

What is your gender now/what did you get?

A person (real or fictional)

An animal

A plant/fungus/otherwise alive non-animal

A non-living natural thing (e.g. a rock) or a natural phenomenon (e.g. tornado)

A place

A period of time or a specific event

A concept

A man-made object

A work of art or a piece of media

A field of study or a specific research

Something else? Put in tags

Voting ended onNov 4, 2024

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Rickrolling.

I got Rickrolling. Like, I selected "A concept" but it could just as easily apply to "A period of time" or "A work of art."

The world is full of grand and complex things, and not everything fits neatly into even the best considered boxes.

[echo-at-the-pond]

Guys if I get 271,100 notes on this till my 21st birthday (November 27th) I'll get

Don't walk on my roof

tattooed in ancient greek

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Okay guys

I did the math.

It's 157 days till my birthday and 245085 notes to go

To make it we would have to add 1561 notes per day

Do you really think you can do that?

[amillionandonefandoms]

I am so sorry to all of my followers but yes. Yes we can.

[vampiremansionpoolboy-moved]

ur obligated to reblog this at least once if it’s on ur dash /hj

[kitchenscene]

combine your first real fandom with your current one to create a terrible, terrible au

[ramblingandpie]

Sailor Moon/Mass Effect.

I think it has potential, tbh.

[unforth]

The Beatles/The Untamed.

Uh.

No that's way to gross and white-washy.

[ltleflrt]

Dragon Age/Supernatural I mean... I've always wanted to write that AU....

[slytherkins]

Harry Potter/Dragon Age.....

It's....it's doable. (I just don't wanna do it.)

[imbiowaresbitch]

mass effect/supernatural

[anarchycox]

dragon age/merlin - well that’s just too easy

[bladeangelx]

Digimon/RE8. Someone's going to be killed via digivolved agumon

[superwholocked-for-life]

Sherlock/Danganronpa

I don’t have a good feeling about this

[thegreenmeridian]

Green Day and The Terror.

Bisexuals everywhere.

[earlgraytay]

The Dark Crystal and Dark Souls? Yeah, that works entirely too well.

"A thousand years ago, the land was green and good. Then the fire waned."

[ardwynna]

Star Trek and Final Fantasy 7? I wrote a drabble series on it once.

[megpie71]

Depending on how I define my “real” fandoms (I mean, all of them are real to me) I get either: Dr Who, Discworld, or Lord of the Rings meeting up with Persona 5. 

Dr Who meets Persona 5, and the protagonist of Persona 5 asks the Doctor whether he could please at least use the TARDIS as a study space because he needs at least three extra hours in each day and time travel looks like it might be one way of getting them.  The Doctor, running up against a protagonist who is very much in the same “chaotic trickster” mode as himself, winds up spending a lot of time in LeBlanc drinking coffee and staying the fsck out of the way.

Discworld meets Persona 5 and umm... well, I suspect Lord Vetinari would pretty immediately figure out what was going on with the whole “Phantom Thieves” thing, but I feel the whole thing would be delegated over to the wizards in Unseen University, because Magic, and therefore it is Their Problem.  Ponder Stibbons would be fascinated, Ridcully would be bluff and jovial, Rincewind would be running very fast in the opposite direction, and the whole business with Killing A God would fit in very nicely with the overall ethos of the Discworld, because quite frankly, any god behaving that badly needs to be removed.

The one which winds up being brain-breaking is trying to collide Persona 5 into the same vague space as Lord of the Rings, because they’re each coming from entirely different narrative traditions, but they’re both about a bunch of very “real world” issues, and how really, the heroes don’t actually “fix” all that much, how real-world problems are bigger than people, and how traumas happen.

[allsortsoflicorice]

FFVII is like chocolate ice cream. It goes with everything. 

FFVII and Narnia? The four Pevensie kids climb into a wardrobe in Middle England and discover a dusty bedroom in a mansion in Nibelheim. Aslan is a summons. 

FFVII and Dr Who? I always wanted to write a fic in which the Doctor arrives just as the world is ending, rescues Vincent in the Tardis, and they go back in time to create a better future in which nobody dies (except maybe President Shinra. Some people just can’t be saved). 

[risingoflights]

VII-OG and VII-R crossover would be kinda rad, now that i’m thinking about it........

[moosifer-unleashed]

FFVII-R and Rainbow Brite.... ooookay. Not sure how that's gonna work.

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Hercules Poirot and Mass Effect...

Alright I would watch the hell out of ‘Murder on the Sur’Kesh Express’ or ‘Death on the Destiny Ascension’ where a polite and fastidiously suited Quarian (I think they best represent Hercules’ concerns with cleanliness) solved murders.

[ofools]

not gonna say it again!!!!

a BOG is a wetland that is acidic

a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

FINALLY someone said it!!!!!!!

[flight-freedom-deactivated20231]

a SWAMP is a wetland that can support trees a MARSH is a wetland that cannot support trees

[omruc]

tumblr posts like this do more for the education system than any public school in america

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Where does a mangrove fall in these definitions?

[andtosaturn]

since people are asking, here’s a list of places you can donate to help the australian bushfires. donating literally $1 means you have done more than our prime minister. (* = can donate internationally; for the other ones you might have to google it) 

cfa (VIC firefighters) 

rfs (NSW firefighters)*

rfbaq (QLD firefighters) 

cfs (SA firefighters) 

red cross*

WWF NSW bushfire crisis*

WWF koala crisis* (both WWF links are in aud so use a currency converter if you’re outside aus)

St Vincents NSW (partnership with channel 9)

St Vincents SA 

RSPCA NSW 

here is a list from the abc (but maybe don’t donate to the salvos bc they suck) (x)

i’ll keep it updated as i find more

[drferox]

If you want to avoid the big organisations and help the battlers more locally on the ground, here’s an incomplete list. The firefighters are vital and working hard, and some local stations are set up to take donations directly. But if you want a more animal-focused bent (because that’s what I do)…

Mallacoota Wildlife Shelter (koalas and wildlife in the thick of the East Gippsland fires in Victoria right now, bank details on the Jan 2nd post)

Wires.org.au Wildlife rescue

Port Macquarie Koala Hospital, in NSW.

Adelaide Koala and Wildlife Hospital, in South Australia (coping it hard since Xmas day)

Currumbin Wildlife Hospital, in SE Queensland.

Ipswich Koala Protection Society, in Queensland.

Koalas in Care (NSW, takes paypal)

Vets Beyond Borders is a large organization which will accept donations, and also coordinated AVERT - the Australian Veterinary Emergency Response Team. Vets, vet nurses and vet techs can register as volunteers there.

And there are other organizations that can be helped in other ways.

Medical Pantry, a collective which gathers unused or surplus medical supplies for redistribution. They will be helping supply what they can.

If you have space in your home, Airbnb Open Homes lets you register your home for displaced people or relief workers to offer them accommodation.

There are fodder drops being organized for livestock in affected areas but…well, some of these areas are not accessible yet and nobody’s quire sure what’s alive down there. But there will be a need for fodder and agistment paddocks for horses and livestock.

Some shelters or vet hospitals will also need things like feed/waterbowls and dog crates to house wildlife. A local organisation might have a pickup point near you, or some clinics will have staff registered to go as volunteers when asked.

In addition, some local knitters/sewers/crafters guild will be turning old cotton and flannelette material into pouches and wraps for injured wildlife. If you’ve got a local group, see what they’re doing and what you can donate out of the cupboards. I know Wonderground in South East Melbourne has a sewing day this Sunday (5thof Jan) and they are local to me, but see which groups are local to you.

This is the most up-to-date list of crafted products required that I have at the moment.

(From Animal Rescue freecycle)

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For those in the back.

[chaosroid]

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Fucking Yes!

[sandandglass]

[rillegas08]

Oh, that’s the context.

[rustiieldritch]

good dad

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OG simpsons y’all

[tooquirkytolose]

Straight Men just Be Like That sometimes

[longanshort]

Well what the fuck. 

Think I love my dad a little bit more after seeing this. I mean, I love my dad, but he knows how to spell my name.

[stjepan-sejic]

Are Harley Quinn and poison ivy dating in harleen?

nope. this is harley’s life story of sorts. so it goes through her relationship with the joker and if the sales justify further publishing we’ll get to ivy and how she becomes a crucial part of harleen’s life

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And now I’ve had to subscribe to make sure this part of the story comes to pass.

[jadedownthedrain]

I love Burnum Burnum ❤️💛🖤

[cumaeansibyl]

more about Burnum Burnum

text of the declaration:

The Burnum Burnum Declaration England, 26th January, 1988

I, Burnum Burnum, being a nobleman of ancient Australia do hereby take posession of England on behalf of the Aboriginal people. In claiming this colonial outpost, we wish no harm to you natives, but assure you that we are here to bring you good manners, refinement and an opportunity to make a Koompartoo - ‘a fresh start’. Henceforth, an Aboriginal face shall appear on your coins and stamps to signify our sovreignty over this domain. For the more advanced, bring the complex language of the Pitjantjajara; we will teach you how to have a spiritual relationship with the Earth and show you how to get bush tucker.

We do not intend to souvenir, pickle and preserve the heads of your 2000 of your people, nor to publicly display the skeletal remains of your Royal Highness, as was done to our Queen Truganninni for 80 years. Neither do we intend to poison your water holes, lace your flour with strychnine or introduce you to highly toxic drugs. Based on our 50,000 year heritage, we acknowledge the need to preserve the Caucasian race as of interest to antiquity, although we may be inclined to conduct experiments by measuring the size of your skulls for levels of intelligence. We pledge not to sterilise your women, nor to separate your children from their families. We give an absolute undertaking that you shall not be placed onto the mentality of government handouts for the next five generations but you will enjoy the full benefits of Aboriginal equality. At the end of two hundred years, we will make a treaty to validate occupation by peaceful means and not by conquest.

Finally, we solemnly promise not to make a quarry of England and export your valuable minerals back to the old country Australia, and we vow never to destroy three-quarters of your trees, but to encourage Earth Repair Action to unite people, communities, religions and nations in a common, productive, peaceful purpose.

Burnum Burnum.

[ladyshinga]

Being an extrovert with anxiety is not only 100% possible/real, but pure hell. It means talking a lot at a party and then agonizing for WEEKS over whether everyone was secretly annoyed about it and hates you now

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Then you tell people and most of them don’t take you seriously.

“But you’re so confident and chatty!”

Mate, it’s all an act and I have fucking insomnia because I told a joke four weeks ago and nobody laughed.

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I was working. How was your Australia Day mate?

I was working. How was your Australia Day mate?

So if you’re not Australian or Australian-adjacent (shout out to my fellow drink-slingers over in Whistler) there a solid chance you’re unaware that yesterday, January 26th, was Australia Day. Pronounced Straya Day. It’s a day of beaches and barbecues and arguing about what song will be No. 1 on the Hottest 100 when it plays on the 27th for some people, and to advocate for changing the date to…

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Hitting that nostalgic note

Hitting that nostalgic note

It’s late, and I’m clicking through Youtube watching random clips while waiting for the cheese in my chorizo and mushroom toastie to melt. All my neighbours are likely in bed, and no cars drive by on my street this late, so the only sounds are coming from my laptop and the sandwich press. I scroll through the suggested options, pick a video and watch as it takes two seconds to load up the…

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So I’m tired and have some free time and bought myself a bottle of wine to have with dinner, ‘cause I don’t do that very often. Big, oaked, full-bodied shiraz from South Australia. And it’s pretty decent. Not blowing me out of the water, but better than the price.

And, like, I’d already decided I was having a curry tonight (because that’s what is in my fridge - I make in bulk at the beginning of the week). 

A big shiraz is not a good thing to have with a curry. It fights too hard. If you wanna have red wine with a curry you want to have light-to-medium. You don’t want a full South Australian Shiraz. 

And I know better. I fucking know better. I worked in a Sri Lankan fine-dining restaurant with an excellent wine list. I used to explain this to people all the time when they asked for our fullest wine and I’d be “well sir, even our Barossa shiraz is a lighter example of the variety.”

I’ve done this to myself. I’ve ruined a perfectly good glass of wine. I’m going to have to drink the rest of the bottle to make up for it.

I don’t know why I felt the need to write this. I just did. I hope this was helpful.