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Z || She/Her || {AGE REDACTED} I share Hot Takes that I'm wildly unqualified to have

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Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

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Reblogging this bc it's so damn useful y'all

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It's been a while gang but will someone please tell me why random bots keep following me

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Me in the (very dead) group chat, when it's my best friends birthday: WAKE UP BITCHES WISH THIS BITCH A HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Me when it's my birthday: yeah uh i guess I'm a year older or something I'm not gonna mention it

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The forest falls eerily silent. The air smells of humus, and dead grass, and ozone. You see a hole in the air that is shaped like an animal. The edge of the hole crackles like television static.

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I initially read this as hummus and still i didn't question it

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Link here

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Looks like I've found yet another obsession

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Welcome back to "Survivor Advantages, but on Crack". I'm your host, Zee.

In today's post:

The Evil Eye/Cursed Amulet Advantage

This lovely advantage is possibly one of my favs, and it's based loosely off the steal a vote advantage that already exists in the game. It's a little bit complex but I'll try to explain it as best as possible.

As always there's the option to take it or leave it for someone else to find.

When opened, the advantage tells the player that they must hide the provided amulet in another players things, somewhere they think this player wouldn't find it, since they can only hide it once.

When hidden, this advantage will cause the player who it's hidden on, to lose their vote every other(or every two other) tribal councils. At the tribal this player loses their vote, that vote is given to the player who placed the evil eye on them, and the person without a vote sees this message:

"You have been given the evil eye by another player and thus, you are without a vote this tribal council. The evil eye is hidden amongst something that belongs to you, find it and it's yours to place on someone else. You are unable to speak of your loss of vote or the evil eye to other players."

Or something along those lines. This will happen again every other(or every 2nd other) tribal until the evil eye is found by the cursed player, and at that point it will belong to them, and they must then place it on another player and begin the cycle anew.

Here's the catch:

The player who must place the evil eye, has to do so within the same day they find the advantage(unless it's night when they find it). If they fail, they are unable to place it the next day, only being allowed to place it every other day. If they go to tribal on a day that they can place it, they cannot vote.

I hope I explained that well lol, enjoy gang, until tomorrow ✨✌️✨

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Welcome back to "Survivor Advantages, but on Crack" in today's post:

The an Ear for an Ear Advantage:

So obviously the player, or players who find this advantage are given the option to take the advantage or leave it for someone else to find.

If they take it, they're given a list of 5 secrets of theirs relating to their gameplay, each getting higher in "oh shit this is deep about my gameplay" levels. Here's how I imagine the levels:

1 - Ok this isn't bad and probably wouldn't ruin my game

2 - This one's bad and could actually affect my game but not in a ruination way.

3 - Mid level, this could affect me and I might have to worry about who finds out about this one.

4 - Yeah I might need to do damage control

5 - Oh my god this is not great i definitely need to do damage control

The player who gets this advantage spends the day telling their secrets to other players on their tribe, and chooses the level of secret they tell to each person.

They may only tell ONE secret to each person.

Now, at the end of the day they're given in treemail or by production or whatever, a list of secrets. This list is different from the one you had to choose from to tell others. This one is a secret, chosen by production or whomever, pertaining for each person you told. The level of the secret you told that person, is the level you get told in response. So it's up to you how much information you're willing to give in order to gain a leg up, since you're told about this ear for an ear system when you get the advantage.

Hope y'all enjoyed, this has been "Survivor Advantages, but on Crack"

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Ok so I kinda wanna start a series of posts I'm probably gonna call something along the lines of "Survivor Advantages, but on Crack". Hope y'all enjoy. :)

Starting off with a fun one based on a toddler social experiment. I give you:

The Marshmallow Advantage

This advantage begins as many others do, with a choice, however this one is a little bit more complex.

Choice 1, is to take the advantage immediately, however this is a basic advantage, maybe a 10% challenge advantage(like some of your ladder rungs are made already, or a puzzle is partly built you get the gist) or something along those lines. This choice however, comes with the risk of an unknown(to the player) disadvantage.

Choice 2, is to leave the advantage, with the knowledge that it will become something greater than it was before. The downside is that you don't know what this greater advantage will be, and you have to wait one entire day(not including the day you're currently in) to search for idols again.

Choice 3 is just to leave it for someone else to find.

Now let's go through what happens(or could happen) when you choose either of the first choices.

Choice 1:

When the player takes the advantage immediately, they get the 10% challenge advantage or whatever low level advantage it was, however, since they didn't leave it for someone else, and let their greed consume them and didn't wait the day for the bigger advantage, the disadvantage they're given, is that they must now wait TWO whole days to search for idols again.

Choice 2:

When the player waits the day and comes back to find their advantage, they're then given a "Free Pass". This free pass grants them the option to hand it in in order to gain immunity at one of the following 2 or 3 Immunity Challenges(or if it's a pre-merge thing immunity in one of the next 2 or 3 Tribals).

Anyway yeah that's my first advantage idea that I think would be pretty dope.

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Ok I wanna say like ik a lot of like gay code is being found by the straights on TikTok and stuff but I'd love to remind people that some straights aren't aware of the code, for example, the hand flop thing.

I was at a group dinner at this school course thing and I was across from like three people who gave fruity vibes so i was like "are y'all, yk ✨💅✨" and two of them were like yeah but the third went.

"What. Are we what. Finish the sentence"

And we had to explain it to him. He ended up being straight. I was shocked.

Enjoy :))

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the Voynich Manuscript is the OG aesthetic notebook

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Stop this is such an incredible hot take

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Hot take time:

❗‼️Ok so, spoiler alert! Don't read this if you don't want some crucial plot points in "The Invitation"(2022 film) to be spoiled for ya. ‼️❗

For the rest of you, enjoy :)

So first hot take about this movie is that Evie fumbled the fucking bag so hard bro. Like Walt is hella rich, and he's offering you immortality? Take that shit bitch, take it and run fr. Like he obviously needs you, he says so later in the movie that ur bloodline mixed with the other three are crucial. Like bitch Evie has room to negotiateee. So that's hot take one.

My second hot take, and the main one I wanted to talk about is: imagine how fucking funny it would be if Evie was a lesbian. First off there's two other wives but we'll get to them later. But like Walt's whole plan hinges on Evie being like, down bad for his romantic advances. And also he NEEDS her. He needs an Aleksander bride he needs her blood she's gotta be born from their bloodline like 👁️👄👁️. I just think it would be hilarious if Evie was a lesbian bc like listen he's tryna kiss u?

"Oh I'm so sorry i really hope you didn't get the wrong idea bro, like....i don't swing that way pal."

Also i feel like this movie doesn't work as scary on the gays bc we're like "no yeah I'd take it. I would for sure take the deal like what."

You've never gotta work again. You're immortal now. You're insanely rich, and if you're mlm you can have Walt yay spooky badass vampire guy. We wlw have two options through this marriage. Like?? Also you can negotiate SO MUCH. Again, he NEEDS YOUR BLOOD.

Idk, this is mostly rambling in this hot take. Hope y'all enjoyed :))

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Hey hey! I love writing accs so I thought I'd do a lil ask:

So what's your thoughts on creating languages during worldbuilding? Or like ur process if you've already created languages. As a language nerd who made one before for an old story that's sitting on the "please write me for the love of god" shelf, I'm super interested to see other writers thoughts on it! Maybe it means I need more writing moots, who knows lmao.

Anyway this was kinda a long ask sorry lol ✨✌️✨

I think it’s really interesting to create languages during world building! It’s just so unique to world building. I haven’t really created a language during my world building, as I usually write my fantasy stories where they’re all speaking their region’s language but it’s just being translated to English for the readers (which is like a common thing in fantasy I think). It may be a cop-out or whatever, but it’s what I do.

Though I do have like certain words for certain things. By that I mean, in one of my books where it’s placed in an underworld and it’s all about the gods of the pantheon there are certain gods whose variation of their names will be a word. Like the god of Death, Xiar, will be used as death but the variation of his name (Xiaran) will be used for the word and not his actual name. If that makes sense.

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Ayo that's actually super neat! I think that's a very interesting spin on language and names with the pantheon twist.

For me I was obsessed with languages even more so at the time and I really wanted to create a language since my story centered around realms and each had their own language. So I'd wanted to make languages to understand how those people would change the common tongue bc of verb differences or variations.

I ended up coming up with some rules but it's mostly a symbolic language, so it's just where every symbol(character) in the language corresponds to a word in the English(which was the common tongue) language. I never ended up using it though and the only thing that came out of it is that I can write in my own coded language. Part of me wants to find a way to turn it into a font for keyboard but I'm not smart enough for that lol

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Hey Gang,

I know there's only like 7 or 8 of you who actually follow me but if y'all are seeing this, how are you? Who are you? How's ur day going? Lmk ✨✌️✨

Have a good day folks take this lil seratonin boost right here from this post, here ya go, Enjoy :)

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We now interrupt your regular program with a small Interlude from our big Survivor content to bring you a less serious and more self-insight related Survivor post.

Basically I recently had an aha moment for if I were to ever play the brilliant game of Survivor. I am, in kind words, petite.

In less kind words, I'm the human version of a small breed of dog, like the ones people carry around in their little purses. I'm shorter than most of those people on TikTok or Instagram who say they're extremely short and then turn out to be around like 170cm. I'm 153cm on a good day. According to google that's somewhere around 5 feet in height. I'm also relatively average in weight.

Thus, this brought me to a more unhinged version of the wall climbing strategy post i made yesterday. I like to call it, "Yeet the Child". It's pretty simple in that the strongest(1 or 2) player needs simply to Yeet me up the wall or over obstacles.

Thank you for your time, your regularly scheduled broadcast will return shortly.

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Fun Survivor Strategy Idea:

So recently for a brief period of time i was exclusively on wall climbing TikTok. And if you don't know what that is, it's basically where groups of around 6 people climb wooden walls that are almost identical to those vertical wooden walls with the wooden circle bars at the top that you see in a large number of Survivor challenges. Of course this gave me an idea based on technique used in the videos on how to format this for Survivor.

So let's start with assuming you've got six people, just so I can explain the basic idea behind this concept, and then maybe I'll format how to do it with less. But moving on, let's assume you're still a fully functioning tribe of six at this point and you come across one of them good ol walls.

The first thing to do is to send two of your strongest players up, this way there's more strength pulling people up the wall. Have the remaining four players ready to push those two up the wall. Everyone sturdy with their backs against the wall, the two more sturdy players of your four will be in the middle. They hold their hands as a foothold, and lean their heads to the side so their shoulders can be stepped on.

Once the two players(remember we're still sending our strongest two to the top) step on their hands and then go to step up again, the people on the outside assist in pushing them up. Once those two are up the wall, they lean down(on their stomachs), but hook their legs onto the bar for leverage. Now it's time to shoot the other tribe members up.

Keep one of the middle two sturdy people where they are, they're going to work on sending people up still, while the strongest two use their strength(and it's important that their strength is in their arms as well) to pull these people up. Once there's only the last person remaining, lower down something for them to grab onto to aid them, since there's five other tribe members who can assist in grabbing them up this.

This last person really has to run and jump to get up there and grab whatever was lowered down(a shirt or smth) and then be pulled up by their tribe. Of course I'm likely explaining it WAY clunkier than it actually would flow, but here it is gang.

Also you'd only have to tweak it a little if you've got less tribe members. But yeah this has gone on long enough post wise, enjoy gang ✨✌️✨

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Ok kinda random but I thought of a fun Survivor Beware Advantage concept:

So let's say you're walking through the jungle and you're looking for idols and you find a beware advantage. You open it read the whole you don't have a vote if you don't pull this off in the next 24h and all that jazz. So what's the challenge?

You've gotta place a disadvantaged idol for someone else. Same Beware packaging, it's just a disadvantage for them like maybe in the next tribal they can't vote or something.

If they don't find it you don't get a vote next tribal(or until merge I'm not picky). Seems pretty easy right? Just lead someone to where you've very obviously hidden the "idol", under the guise of gathering sticks or something, and pretend to be extremely oblivious to it. But this is where it could get tricky especially since it's Survivor and everyone is overly suspicious and cautious.

Additionally, who do you bring? If you lead someone who's in your alliance or who's been working with you, you've just given your numbers a disadvantage. If you bring someone who you don't really work with a lot or who you aren't tight with on your tribe, they might not feel good grabbing it with the risk of you catching them. There's also the chance that someone else will be oblivious about it for real.

You won't really know until you hit tribal wether or not you can vote, which would be a toll to your mental game due to all the worrying. There's also the added problem if/when they do find it. Because now they're wondering who planted this disadvantage, or if it's a part of the game.

If they're thinking about who it could be, there's a big chance they'll think about the person who led them to the idol on "accident"(unless you left it out hoping someone would find it but let's be real that's VERY risky). And if you play your idol later in the game it could poison that person against you to ruin your game(unless they're voted out and they were voted pre-jury).

Anyway yeah thoughts were thunk, enjoy.

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Whenever people ask me what my favorite animal is I always reply with "dogs" because I feel like the real answer(raccoons) is too difficult to explain.