MarbleUnderTheFridge

Ao3: UnderTheFridge | It's dusty down here, but I do enjoy the company of the dust bunnies (and the plot bunnies).

[acecroft]

ALIEN: ISOLATION 2 dev. Creative Assembly Reveal Trailer

[notreallychopspy]

I made a Warhammer Uquiz to see which chaos god you worship. Time to circulate it again.

I'm gay and trans. Here's a warhammer quiz.

Which one did you get?

Khorne

Tzeentch

Nurgle

Slaanesh

Remaining time: 1 day 3 hours

[bunnyrabbitfacts]

*pointing at bunny* you know that thing would eat you if you were grass, right?

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[overtherails4u]

[paper-mario-wiki]

do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

[lvmimis]

tbh i love hear me outs but i also love the opposite of hear me outs where it’s like nearly everyone thinks they’re fuckable except you

[vintxgemiseries]

count me outs

[tallochar]

Adopting that immediately.

[ask-mortarion-the-death-lord]

[nightclubsinger]

i’m strange but friendly so people tell me things

[ao3commentoftheday]

Is using spell check okay at all now?

In writing groups I'm in it's grammar and spell check is for newbies and those wanting a crutch or a cheat code.

I'm going to be frank with you, anon. Those writing groups sound toxic as fuck and I'd recommend finding a better place to spend your time.

Grammar check and spell check are embedded in most word processing software and have been since the 1990s. People don't have to use them if they don't want to, of course, but there's nothing wrong with using them.

English spelling is famously a bastardization of French multiplied by German divided by Latin with fifty other languages thrown in for fun. And don't even get me started on the Great Vowel Shift.

All that to say, being bad at spelling is not a moral failing nor is it a sign of weak character. It's a fact of life for an overwhelming majority of people writing in English.

Or, to put it another way, would you tell a near-sighted person such as myself that wearing glasses is a cheat code and that I should just "see better"? I really hope not.

[lytefoot]

Spell check - yes, literally every time. Spell checking was, like, the third thing people wanted personal computers to do, after calculating mortgage payments and balancing their checkbook. (Maybe fourth, playing blackjack is on that list somewhere.) If you were a serious writer, your typewriter had a rudimentary spell checker in it by the late 1970s!

People who refuse to use a spell checker are the same kind of pretentious assholes that think you shouldn't use a calculator ever. Absolutely there are steps you can take to improve your spelling, and being able to spell most words easily will make the writing process easier and more fluent. (Although you'll get a lot more mileage out of improving your touch typing.) But use the spell checker. Also use a calculator when you want to know the answer to a long division problem.

Grammar check - iffy, and it depends on the software. I don't use it because I think a lot of what it calls "grammar" is actually a point of style that I disagree with. However, if you find that when you're typing quickly you often omit or double words, grammar check is a really efficient way to type that.

Stuff like Grammarly's "reword this"? This is questionable. Now you're getting into something that is no longer your writing. If you're trying to build your voice, don't do it, because the voice you'll build is someone else's.

Asking ChatGPT to reword something for you? Now that is a crutch for people who don't want to learn to write.

Spelling and grammar checkers are no substitute for proofreading, but they are useful tools to help you conform to the conventions of standard English. Don't take their word as gospel, make sure to look up words if you're not 100% sure which option from the spell checker you want, and take every recommendation of the grammar checker with a grain of salt. And find better writers groups.

[megpie71]

Seconding all of the above, with the note that the thing to be aware of is where the limitations of various tools lie.

Using spelling and grammar checkers cannot substitute for learning the skills of spelling and grammar entirely - but they can make the process of proofreading a lot easier to run through, because they will point out your errors rather than letting them be lost and overwhelmed by the good stuff you've put around them.

Be aware that a spell-check program (even the best ones out there) is not able to handle things like homophones (words that sound alike, but mean different things), homographs (words which are spelled alike, but mean different things), or anagrams (two valid words composed of the same set of letters, each arranged differently, and meaning different things). So if you've made a mistake and put "bugle" where you meant to put "bulge", your spell-check program won't notice.

(Your readers, meanwhile, probably will).

Grammar checkers in most word processing programs tend to be optimised for creating corporate documents - corporate reports to managers, for example. Which means that a grammar checker which is set to proof read a corporate report is going to look at your sonnet (or your free verse) and metaphorically have a breakdown.

All tools are imperfect, and part of learning how to use a tool well involves recognising when the tool you have handy isn't going to be able to do the job. Often, the best way to learn this is to do things the long, hard, tool-free way at first, then use the tools so you can see where they can help you, and where they will hinder.

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Wang and Lai (2014)

[gemstone-gynoid]

[skunts-own-truth]

Peaches is an easily misunderstood beast. One would think she’s here to cuddle to have warmth, attention, and affection. No, no, Peaches is here to cuddle to remind you that she can bite the hell out of you at any given moment.

[ogrishpuntocom]

nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well

enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.

It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar

[ogrishpuntocom]

this post came back to me like a dear son from war, hello ol boy

[diabolicalevil]

[blondebrainpowered]

Cat paw prints in the medieval floor tiles of the 12th century CE St Peter Church in Wormleighton, England

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[thememedaddy]

[tiny-wins-and-gold-stars]

⭐To all the fanfic writers out there, a little gold star!⭐