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posttexasstressdisorder

That last fucking sentence.

johanirae

Oooh oohh now study if pizza parties have any effect!

mstyr

Workplace wellness initiatives that have worked for me:

My boss going for a swim at lunch every day

My boss arriving at 9 and leaving at 5.

My boss taking time to care for his kids.

My boss giving me infinite unpaid leave if I needed it when a close family member was seriously injured (I didn’t even use it, but knowing my position was safe was so helpful to my stress levels)

My boss making me cups of tea when he makes his own on a busy day.

My boss encouraging sick staff to go home and take sick leave rather then working from home.

Free fruit and nuts in the tea cupboard.

My boss organising a lunchtime stroll once a week. Non-compulsory and non-competitive.

I’m pretty sure only one of these cost the company more money than it saved. And that’s the food. It was less helpful than any of the others.

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prompt 1609

Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice on Short Stories

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

The greatest American short story writer of my generation was Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964). She broke practically every one of my rules but the first. Great writers tend to do that.

–Kurt Vonnegut, preface to Bagombo Snuff Box

nat-20s

I NEED TO READ I NEED TO WRITE I NEED TO CREATE I NEED TO DRAW I NEED TO CLEAN I NEED TO WORK OUT I NEED TO LEARN *watches YouTube for 6 hours*

colorfulcrabguy

Living on a planet where any government is allowed to go through with military action that they know will result in the death of civilians should be gut-wrenchingly painful for all of us. Over 10,000 children have died in Palestine since October 7th, and there is not a single child in Gaza who is not suffering. CHILDREN. INFANTS. I can't stop thinking about all the innocent children we are losing and leaving to suffer every day.

Please use whatever privilege you have to do whatever you can during the Global Strike for Palestine (January 21st - 28th). Contact your representatives. Call for an immediate ceasefire. Boycott, stimulate the economy as minimally as possible, participate in pro-Palestinian protests, educate yourself, and most importantly, amplify the voices of Palestinians.

A few ways you can donate to/support people in Palestine:

eSims for Gaza

Hardcore 4 Gaza

Hirbawi Kufiya Factory

Handmade Palestine (the inspiration for this post)

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he-calls-me-kitten

Hmm is this what all Beel and Diavolo simps want...

take note 📝

I never did post this Levi drawing huh? Dhkkhdhkd I keep forgetting to post stuff X'D At the time I realized that it was an absolute crime I hadn't drawn him in his adorable shark onesie :'3

And also at the time, I thought a full combo was the best you could get, until the actual next day when..

...

Welp, I'm not changing it XP

hime-arts

Here, take him with you on your journey 💛

royalnaym

Two Blocks High

pubby-pupperoni

Heads up to not use Duolingo or to cease using it

In December 2023 they laid off a huge percentage of their translation teams, replacing them with ai and having the remaining members review the ai translations to make sure the translations are “acceptable” (Note how they use the world acceptable and not accurate)

Link to the tweet that informed me of this:

https://x.com/rahll/status/1744234385891594380?s=46&t=a5vK0RLlkgqk-CTqc0Gvvw

If you’re a current user prepare for an uptick in translations errors as I’ve already seen people in the comments say they’ve noticed

gertritude

I mean this in the kindest way possible, but if you want to draw OCs/do a lot of original work, you must accept that most people are not going to care about them. Like, at all. This is not a negative thing and is in fact the normal way of the world. If you want people to care about your stuff, you have to MAKE them care!

gertritude

Like, you can have the coolest idea for a character, but the character that people see isn't the one in your head - it's the one you draw and show to them. People get more invested if you're able to "present" your ideas well. It's how most stories work, and in general, I think a lot of artists would benefit from thinking more like writers in this regard!

maximumgraves

this is very much true and here is my advice on how to do this.

1. you can make short comics about your characters. these can just be random conversations or monologues, or portray a single event in a character's life. these comics don't have to look professional or even necessarily finished.

2. you can also draw your characters with speech bubbles saying funny or interesting dialogue that you wrote for them.

3. if your character has an interesting job, skill, or weird habit, make a drawing of them which reflects that.

panthea-owns-my-soul

When pen says literally anything anymore

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sanktpolypenbourg

Look it is so easy to get worked up about one silly person thrown to the socialist wolves like that, but seriously - does anyone genuinely care whether or not you can get "rich" in a country? If you had the choice between a country where you get guaranted healthcare (and, ideally, your own roof over your head) and your kids can go to college for free, or one where you can become a billionaire, who THE FCK picks option 2? It's on the level of saying, would you rather live to be 80 or have a 1 in 3 million chance to turn into a unicorn princess? Even if you assume everyone has the same fetish as you - because you grew up in a culture where unicorn princesses are the upper class and your amount of basic rights is determined by how closely you resemble one. Even if you think, you, personally, have a much higher probability because you are smart and optimistic and work to "better yourself". How the fck do you think you can sell this to the rest of the people in that 3 million statistic. Are you counting on them being suckers who only think they have a shot, unlike you who absolutely definitely has a shot and is not a sucker? It's an amazing gotcha that only works if you assume your audience is nothing but idiots who fell for the same scam you did