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Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again
HI LET’S SHARE NICOLE’S WORDS ON THE SUBJECT!
It has been literal years but every time I see Martin’s tweets posted somewhere and his word is shared as truth while her post is not shared it sort of reiterates the fact that we trust men to speak about feminism more than we believe women who experience it.
Interesting, innit? https://medium.com/@nickyknacks/working-while-female-59a5de3ad266
Reading her account of how their boss treated her blows me away. Men are so emboldened that they will literally admit to illegal discrimination casually and face no consequences.
In all the years of seeing this post I’ve never seen a link to her side. Didn’t even know she’d written one.
Adding screenshots of her post. His whole post is there without needing a link. Hers should be, too.
Also, she posted this is 2017! It’s fucking 2020 and I’ve seen his side of this for years, but it took 3 years for her side to make its way to my dash…
I’ve reblogged his story at least twice; it’s time for Nicole’s.
Reblogged him, bout time I got to reblog her.
I turned all that fucking shit off. I can't have Copilot scraping my files because they contain CONFIDENTIAL LEGAL INFO. I'm not handing Microsoft the ability to doxx people, fuck off. I otherwise refuse to use Word. I've also stopped using Google Drive/Docs, and just finally sucked it up and switched to Proton (for mail/storage/docs/spreadsheets - I pay the sub for extra storage and multiple email addresses) and usd Obsidian to actually write in. Proton stuff is less convenient and Obsidian has its flaws, but I'm not worried about them fucking spying on me.
if you want local storage you can try libreoffice, openoffice and onlyoffice. cryptpad.fr is also good for online work and collaboration.
cut microslop out of your life
"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."
Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]
HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?
Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.
I've been looking for such archives, thanks
i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.
the first link broke, here you go
GUYS. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN WRITE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FICS ON AO3
Other things you can do:
Linked footnotes
Customized page dividers
Sticky notes
Lined paper
Paper that looks stacked on top of each other
Old looking paper
Newspaper articles
Tumblr posts
iOS text messages
Emails
Fake ao3 authors notes and kudos button
Freaking discord chats
Its fucking amazing. Ao3 is fucking amazing. Can I legally marry a website?
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about
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Cursed amulet necklace that doesnt have a cursed amulet its just the phrase cursed amulet
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an erotic poem:
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tabula rasa
please stop harassing black people off this website. it's like stormfront for toddlers on here. it sucks, stop it
idk how "black people should feel welcome on this website" became something you have to say out loud. if black people aren't comfortable or safe on here then that is our failure. be anti-racist or die.
being black in any art community is such a strange feeling cause you’ll see just blatant racism being expressed in others art and you have to just casually ignore it, for your sake if anything, colorism being something that’s just fundamentally there in every artist and you deal with it cause it’s not worth it in the end to even think of it too hard let alone even mentioning it, it’s definitely something
Hello nonblack reader of this post, I think you ought to share this one so that you and your peers can actively remind yourselves 1) of how your Black peers feel when you tolerate antiblack racism in your art spaces for entertainment and 2) that we notice it, but don't believe it is secure around enough of you to bring it up 🙏🏾
Happy 21st of September!
Okay but like, unironically I have Theories(tm) about this, as an ace-as-fuck prose writer, and the theories all essentially boil down to: fish don't have a word for water.
Like, the allos just take a look at something and KNOW it's hot, but the aces have to fucking DISSECT the thing to figure out wtf people are even going on about with calling it "hot", and funny story, turns out when you write a whole-ass 10k of PWP explaining what's hot about the thing in a way that makes sense to you personally, you are a whole lot likelier to make that thing read AS hot to people who normally would not think it was even remotely appealing ( and also, like, to take anybody who was already into the thing out at the knee ).
( see: everyone who has ever told me "I HATE this kink/that kink/this pairing/this genre/this trend, but when YOU write it--" )
And especially in prose, the dissection-explanation gets you into the mood of the scene/head of the character a lot better, while if you DON'T have the dissection worked out but also don't have the crutch of any visual aids to point to, well, then people are a lot less likely to instinctively understand what YOU instinctively understand, even if everyone in the conversation is the same sexuality/has the same tastes/etc etc etc.
So basically, if you're an allo, you probably have not actually HAD to spend that much time breaking down "why is this person/behavior/situation hot to me" unless you just felt like doing it; if you don't bother, though, you don't stop being able to look at something and go "that's hot". Because you just KNOW it's hot; it's like an instinct or a talent, and it's just immediately THERE, before you even necessarily fully know what it really is or develop it at all. You KNOW it's hot, and you don't get why anyone else would need that explained to them when it is just so damn OBVIOUS. You're immediately good at understanding it in yourself, but you don't necessarily understand it in a way where you can explain it to someone else; you haven't put in the practice or developed the thoughts, because you didn't need to, they were already just THERE.
But the thing with prose is you can't just point at the thing and be like "SEE?!??"; you've gotta figure out how to actually EXPLAIN the thing to people, and I feel like that can be a longer process for an allosexual person because they don't necessarily get what it is that they have to explain in the same way an asexual who's starting from ground zero does. The ace person already knows they don't know any of this shit, and knows there's other people who won't get it either, both ace AND allo. The natural talent, meanwhile, is just like "but it's so OBVIOUS, why don't you just GET it??" THEY get it, after all; it's OBVIOUS!!
So yeah, I would like to present, again, my hypothesis/thesis: fish don't have a word for water, but you are currently addressing a semi-aquatic mammal, and man, let me tell you about the water CYCLE.
[Screenshot of a video with the caption, "Smut so good it could only be written by an asexual." The rest of the video is covered up by a comments tab which informs us there are 525 comments. We see one by galacteddy, saying, "coaches don't play."
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As a rampantly bisexual autist, this actually makes sense because I too have had to create a PowerPoint presentation on the fly EVERY GODDAMN DAY to explain why I like (or dislike) something to my NT and/or Heterosexual (TM) friends, relatives and colleagues. It's almost always perfectly banal things like "yes Jessica, food has texture and to myself and many people, that is just as if not more important than the seasoning." Or "okay Jason, so the thing about workshop lights is that more is not necessarily better. There's very much an upper limit on how much light the human eye can be exposed to before it starts to hurt, and in the case of myself and our colleagues with migraine disorders, that threshold can be very, very low. So no, I don't think the ten billion lumen search and rescue spotlights are a good choice for a props warehouse."
That kind of self-justification is exhausting and shouldn't be necessary to be treated like a human, but alas, I live in a society that demands it, and if there is one marginal silver lining to this, it's that it's made me Very Good At Words.
I think it's yet another shared experience of the ace and bi communities (and every marginalized community tbh) to have to examine our experiences because they don't match the 'default' and come up with a working theory of why those are different and both valid to maintain our place in the world. The farther afield your experience, the more detailed and nuanced that understanding is likely to be.
To continue your fish metaphor, fish might not have a word for water but fish from the ocean don't have as nuanced a vocabulary for salinity as a freshwater fish who is much more vulnerable to changes in salinity does, and God help you if you're from an estuary.
Losing myself but never losing you
animated the "It's okay not to smile" scene from chapter 4
youtube link
Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.
For general graphics: use GIMP For vector graphics: use Inkscape For drawing and illustration: use Krita For print and web publishing and design: use Penpot For PDF authoring: use LibreOffice For PDF reading and form filling: use Okular
All are free, open source and cross-platform. None use AI.
Reblog for everyone
friends don't let friends use GIMP. use photopea
Gonna pop my favorite reference for Adobe alternatives here, lovingly compiled and updated by xDanielArt since at least 2020:
lord reblogging on main bcz fuck adobe (PROUD csp user)
