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@pgknott
I got really tired of my blanket capes sliding off of my shoulders, and rather than doing the easy thing (putting on a heavier jacket), i opted to take apart an old pair of suspenders and make some cloak clasps with them. (One for me, and one for my housemate)
things to say during a firm handshake with another man:
your hands are so warm and tender
I love you
you remind me of my late wife
your eyes are beautiful yet filled with pain
its just been so long since someone touched me
finding out jk rowling invited epstein over more than once is really the least surprising thing out of them
at this point i expect hp fans to delude themselves more into thinking somehow its not what it looks like when theres literally no other way to look at it
Hi! I’m really sick of whitewashing and the various excuses that artists come up with, so I wrote a guide! How To Not Whitewash, at least with regards to skin tone. Please make use of it, and encourage other artists to do so as well. Here’s a link to this guide on a Google Doc - this document has image descriptions. Feel free to contact me if the link stops working, or if you have questions (in good faith).
I feel like this is an unpopular opinion, but more people should read incomplete/unfinished/in-progress fanfics.
I've noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say "and make sure to scroll down and click completed only" or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics 'because they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didn't realize this fic hadn't been updated since 2012'.
The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writer's WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isn't the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while they're ahead when they aren't garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If you're worried about reading something that hasn't been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.
Anyways, support your favorite fanfic writers by engaging with their WIPs.
Legit, getting a subscription on a fic I'd abandoned 10 years earlier spurred me into action to finish it (and write a sequel!)
#The journey of reading a fic while it's updating is part of the fun!
Yes exactly this! I love subscribing to fics forgetting about them a bit and then being pleasantly surprised when they update again and they show up in my inbox. It makes me feel like I'm a Charles Dickens fan living in 1830s London waiting patiently for his new chapter to be released via the daily paper.
First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die
How you dying 👀
Political Campaigns???
Boarding School.
I’m the victim in a feckin dark academia murder mystery.
self acceptance 😔😔😔
It’s like how in cartoons you don’t fall until you notice you’re over the edge. You’ve been dead for years, but you’re not dead until you accept it.
One of them meaningful paranormal stories. Probably got someone coming of age in it.
Rough oral sex
Oh, so your end is explosive.
I finally cum for the first time in years. 20 dead 16 injured 5 missing.
POV Female Character
As a lesbian, I can’t complain.
if you dont like bush you literally dont deserve to fuck
he invaded iraq???
Wrong bush dude
a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted
their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"
"Every writer"?
come on
Reblog if you're a writer who doesn't use AI.
Why would I use AI to write? I don't use AI to eat chocolate for me, pet dogs for me, or look at beautiful sunsets for me. I'm not outsourcing my joy to a robot, and I don't understand why anyone who actually enjoys writing would
I get why AO3 allows it: banning it won't make it not present, it'll just make it unlabeled, which will make it difficult both to seek out and to avoid, for any value of 'it'; the Archive Of Our Own was designed specifically to protect the sort of fanworks others want to ban, because fandom has learned this lesson many times
but AO3 stats are not competitive, and writing competitions are not archives
i love when fic writers who have clearly never tried any kind of alcohol in their lives try to write someone drinking bc they're always like
"he ordered a tall glass of hard liquor. after three large glasses he was feeling tipsy" like babygirl i can't be sure but i think u just sent this man to the hospital
"the amber liquid tasted sweet" bestie i can assure you it did not
Did you even listen to what Hozier said?
very important video of Monkie kid but just when wukong and macaque say each other's names/titles.
was too shy to post it on Twitter because I felt like no one would get how insane this makes me but I figured Tumblr would be insane enough to comprehend how much this means to me this shit funny as fuck HE CANT SHUT UP!!!
macaque has a count of 29
wukong has a count of. 5 LMAO
I'd like to note wukong does refer to macaque as bud most times, which is why I really like when he says his name. it's so rare... while macaque looks like he can't keep wukong's name off his damned mouth!!!
doing a late-night poll for this on twt so i will also do one here cuz i need to branch out a little but like. not too much
what should i draw instead of sonadow
shadamy
knuxadow
metadow
,,,also sonadow
am i a joke to you
Yes
If you're reading this...
go write three sentences on your current writing project.
# my favourite part about this post # is that nowhere does it say to reblog this # but we’re all reblogging it # because if we have to suffer # so do other writers
We need to bring back the athletics body type post
This one
Tumblr has 10+ image limit had to add these on too
This photoshoot unlocked something in me the first time I saw it. The idea that EVERY body here is what "peak physical condition" looks like.
Skip Google for Research
As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
hot artists don't gatekeep
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
Reading and Rolling
Do you consider yourself a nerd? Are you a Dungeons & Dragons player or dungeon master? Or are you perhaps a fan of the lore or fantasy stories? Maybe you're just a fan of Stranger Things and you're generally curious about the game.
Well, if you've answered 'Yes' to any of those, then this selection of books just might catch your fancy.
Some you might be familiar with; others might be something completely unexpected. Read them to inspire your DnD campaign, or maybe just entertain yourself!
Not sure what to pick? Well, why not decide with the roll of an 8-sided die? Happy reading!
(All of these are of course available at your library, assuming your library is LCPL. Yes, even the official manuals!)
1. Endless Quest: Into the Jungle by @mattforbeck
Get ready! As a Dwarf-cleric, you've been given a task to rescue an adventurer who holds a very important artifact. Can you survive the jungles of Chult? Trust me: in this land, everything's a danger to you, and even victory might not feel so sweet, either. I love choosing my path in these stories, but these ones feel heavy. Good luck! *Only available in audiobook format.
2. ORCS! (Vol. 1) by Christine Larsen
A fun, somewhat juvenile, little trade paperback (without the paper if you get the Hoopla version) featuring a family of orcs banished because of a squirrel-related incident following a frustrating adventure. They'll cross paths with monsters and humanoid races common in fantasy adventures, while winding up on new adventure tying in with another ongoing story.
3. Goblin Quest by @jimhines
Now this is a fun alternative to the classic D&D-esque tropes we're all familiar with. Here we've got a klutzy, near-sighted goblin named Jig who's essentially the runt of his community... a community of cannon-fodder for adventurers! Naturally, you'd think he'd be dead when living with these bullies (especially after crossing paths with a team of adventurers). Instead, he's now their “guide” on a mission that's all too likely to get him killed.
4. The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins by Clint McElroy & @careydraws
If you want some laughs, good art, a surprisingly well-thought-out story, and a even a little bit of seriousness, this might be the book for you. You've got a human warrior, a dwarf cleric, and an elf wizard being guided by the dungeon master on an adventure based on a particularly popular podcast. Too bad this trio is so incompetent! Think they can manage some basic “gerblins” before things get really challenging? See for yourself.
(Editor's note: More titles under the cut to save your dash, you're welcome)
