[anxietyproblem]

[theartofanimation]

Sugarmints  -  http://sugarmint-dreams.tumblr.com  -  https://www.facebook.com/sugarmintdreams?_rdr=p  -  https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/SugarmintsArtstore  -  https://www.instagram.com/sugarmints

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Touching

Feeling another human’s touch.

touching foreheads

running fingers through hair

hiding face in neck

caressing the other’s hand

feeling their pulse

patting the other’s head

holding hands

shielding the other one with their body

listening to the other’s heartbeat

spooning at night

laying their hand on the other’s neck

pushing a strand of hair behind their ear

nudging the other one

putting an arm around the other’s waist

hugging each other

massaging them

holding the other’s chin up

squishing the other’s cheek

high fiving

bandaging/stitching up an injury

kissing the other’s brow

falling asleep on the other’s shoulder

carrying the other one in their arms

whispering in their ear, lips touching the skin

stroking the other’s arm soothingly

kissing the top of their head

pulling the other one towards them

feeling for each other in the dark

tickling the other one

grabbing onto their arm

doing a pinky swear

caressing the other’s back

tasting their smile

washing the other’s body

kissing their bruises and scars

lifting the other one up

putting their head on the other’s chest

stroking their leg

leaning into the other’s side

patting them on the back

sitting close and knees touching

braiding the other’s hair

giving them a piggy-back ride

sitting on the other’s lap

feeling their temperature

linking arms with each other

touching their elbow to get their attention

dancing with each other

holding onto the other’s shoulders for support

putting a hand over the other’s mouth to shut them up

Hand-holding|Hugs|Kisses

[creativepromptsforwriting]

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[eriklehnsherrgf]

[allthingshyper]

MLK was assassinated just over 50 years ago

He'd be 91 if he were alive today

Don't ever let them trick you into thinking this was a long time ago

[the-vaudevillain-deactivated202]

Let's talk about mynoise.net

Have you ever been listening to Rainymood and thought, “Yeah, this is good … but it would be nice if I could customize the sound more, or if there was a little more choice.

Let me introduce you to MyNoise.

MyNoise is a customizable sounscape looper with so many options, even within each soundscape.  So say, for instance, you really love rain sounds when you write or study or relax.  Anything.  I know I’m a big fan of rain sounds.  They have a page for that.

But say you like really high, pattery rain, and LOTS of low thunder.  Here’s where MyNoise really stands out: you can customize that.  See those sliders with all the cute colors?  That is your equalizer. You can adjust the levels based on what you want to hear more and less of.  Here’s how it looks when you want high, pattery rain and low, rumbly thunder:

But say rain isn’t really your jam.  Say you want something a little more ambient, a little more background noise-y.  Something with people.  Well, they have customizable coffee house chatter that even has the levels listed for things like “kitchen,” “babble,” and “table”:

Or say you miss the ocean.

Or say you miss your cat.

Or say you miss your spaceship.

Or say you miss the dungeon where you and your team of scalawag adventurers used to explore and face off against, say, dragons.  In the dungeon.

This site is seriously so helpful, and those are just a fraction of every kind of sounscape the site has to offer.  The best part is that if you want to layer it with music (for instance, I’ll layer a playlist + rain + coffee shop if the scene I’m writing takes place in a coffee shop), you can adjust the master volume, meaning all of your layers stay at their respective volumes, just louder or quieter.

Enjoy!

[readysetgaikokujin]

OH MY GOD

[kinkykinard]

Y’ALL I JUST STARTED USING THIS TODAY BUT THIS HAS BROKEN THROUGH MY WRITER’S BLOCK LIKE NOTHING ELSE.

TRY IT.  USE IT.  LOVE IT.

[madsiemoon]

🌱Some helpful tips to keep healthy house plants🌱

[underworldwitxh]

@bakugouscentedcaramel

[bakugouscentedcaramel]

Oooooo I was actually thinking of getting some plants when it warms up so this will come in handy!

Hopefully I don't add another plant to my kill count

[jenniferrpovey]

Okay.

There is a new Wattpad competitor called Dreame.

I suspect a lot of people here read stories on Wattpad.

Dreame is similar in concept.

BUT.

Dreame has been attempting to headhunt writers from Wattpad. Sounds good, right?

Nope.

One writer was offered a $60 advance…to sign over the RIGHTS to his book. They’ll license the print book rights back for 30%.

Please do not sign with these people as a writer.

And please do not give them money as a reader…they are either a scam or just completely clueless. Either way, you’re better off sticking to Wattpad and tracking down writers you think deserve money to pay them directly ;).

[copperbadge]

Dreame also tried this on AO3. They got an account, posted what looked perfunctorily like a fanfic but was actually a recruitment pitch, and then ran around on high-volume fanfics making comments asking writers to join up and directing them to their recruitment post, in violation of AO3’s TOS. I had a comment from them and AO3 took down the post after I reported it.

Although I will say if you check out their site there’s some real fun badfic reading amongst their paid authors.

[mumblingsage]

They’re doing it on Fictionpress as well. I got an email from them back in December & ignored it, figuring there was something off in the offer, but I didn’t realize just how scammy it was in its terms. 

[jenniferrpovey]

You’re smart.

They are claiming for one of their “contests” that they will “invite professional book reviewers” to review your books. No professional book reviewer is going to review a web series.

Some more gems, because I went to their site so you don’t have to:

To get the reward for daily updates, you have to update DAILY. You get two days off a month.

They are allowing fanfic authors to claim that they have the rights to their work. And yeah, I’m sure there’s fun badfic reading, but let’s not give them too much traffic, okay? :P

[h-brook-writes]

This is the first I’ve heard of Dreame, but that all sounds at least a little shifty. I’d encourage any writer - regardless of whether they plan to publish - to do some research on how legitimate publishing works and what the red flags are. 

Here are a few articles on red flags and publishing scams, which can help writers make a more informed and safer choice:

Writer Beware 

Publishing Companies To Avoid And Nasty New Author Scams

Best and Worst Self-Publishing Services Reviewed & Rated by the Alliance of Independent Authors 

[softguts]

Guys, seriously beware! I used to write on Wattpad and had a short story on there called “Molly, Molly” anyways a Dreame “Editor” pm’d me asking to me to switch over there and that I’d get paid. Right off the bat I said no, and they still pressed and pressed. I SAID NO 3 TIMES before they finally got the message.

[princessparadoxical]

The Copyright License Agreement is here and it looks dodgy as hell.

[heywriters]

In case y’all didn’t hear/believe me the first six times^^^

[heywriters]

They’re back. 

In bold are names/sites you should avoid:

“Dear Author, [you guys know my name by now, gimme a break]

This is Monnie, an editor from STARY PTE. LTD, which is based in Singapore and owns two fast-developing fiction-reading platforms: FicFun, focusing on presenting thrilling stories for male readers while Dreame, a community featuring romance stories for girls. […] You can learn more about us by visiting our website, or joining the FB Group “Online Fiction Writers & Readers Union”.

Fifth time’s the charm, eh creeps?

no seriously, this is the fifth time I’ve literally told them to “fuck off” and they won’t

[writeawaytrain-deactivated20250]

Please, please, please reblog this to spread the word that Dreame and FicFun are scams. In general if something looks too good to be true, don’t take it and do extra research/talk to other writers in the community about it. Be careful and stay safe, everyone.

[gayeld]

Aside from the obvious legal and creative problems with all this: thrilling stories are for boys and romances are for girls?  

Fuck your sexist shit. 

[just-shower-thoughts]

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

[unclebeanbag]

“Friend”

Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory.

[ulysseus]

Plants don’t wage war

[unclebeanbag]

Ever heard of blackberries?

Yes, plants do wage war

[kasaron]

Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else. 

[systlin]

I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago.

It’s currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries.

And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint.

[moirakatson]

This post did not go where I expected it to.

[deathbeforednf]

Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursing school. And by overrun I mean it was like a 4 foot tall thicket of wild blackberries. It hadn’t been touched by humans in at least 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later.

Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there.

[norseminuteman]

Yall mother fuckers don’t even talk unless you’ve had to wage war on kudzu (it’s an ivy strain directly from Hell) that shit doesn’t just wage war with other plants, it wages war with all living things on planet earth. It’s some gnarly ass Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed. 

[breadgunner-deactivated20181003]

Can second the comments of Kudzu.

I forget where I read it but there’s this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that’s in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant’s seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a goddamn scorched earth policy. It’s even more badass than plants that use toxins to starve other plants.

[booksandwildthings]

I’d like to third the comments on Kudzu. These are the battlefields:

See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu.

[ehyde]

Near my parents’ house in Oregon there’s an old WWII army training camp that’s long been abandoned, and it’s full of concrete remnants of buildings that are completely overrun with blackberries. It’s a really great spot to go berry picking, and it has an eerie, post-apocalyptic feel.

[momomorp]

That’s not even considering allelopathic interactions between plants-look up the black walnut tree (its toxin, juglone, is the most famous example)- basically, it wages chemical warfare on nearby plants through the root system (though the nutshells also contain juglone too). Juglone discourages germination rates and even inhibits root growth of already existing plants! Allelopathy in general is a new field-theres Discourse™ because each particular toxins only works on specific plants, which vary; therefore it’s really fucking hard to regulate & compile enough data to test out the effects of such chemicals compared to other factors (pests, soil depletion, etc), but theres a little community still because Targeted Pesticides™ would be really rad yo

[momomorp]

So yeah you go plants go poison that waterhole

[momomorp]

Um i was skimming the post and saw PLANT WARS so,,, I may have dumped a little too much,,, Suffice to say that plants are super versatile and should be feared Bow before them

[squeeful]

Phragmites australisa invades and conquers new territory by squirting acid on other plants so strong it dissolves roots in under half an hour.

(I watched a mint vs ivy showdown.  The ivy won.)

[philosopherking1887]

Nature, red in tooth, claw, and rhizome.

[the-seedling-witch]

This thread made my day so much better.

Also, I did have a mint plant a few years back, and I moved out and nobody in my family bothered to care for it, so it got BEYOND OVERGROWN and had taken over the entire plot I had for the mini garden. Mint needs to be restrained to a pot for the good of all gardens

[aggresively-dabbing]

@disgustingplants

[spinningorigins]

And not a single mention of mugwort or garlic mustard.

[mandalorianreynolds]

How about Scotchbroome?

[lizluvscupcakes]

So… can we have treehouses, or…?

[multishipping-goodness]

Yes.

[thedeadmemereturns]

Man this post was a fucking rollercoaster

[multishipping-goodness]

It was.

[just-shower-thoughts]

I hate that SEPTember OCTOber NOVember and DECember aren’t the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months.

[advanced-procrastination]

Whoever fucked this up should be stabbed

[brunhiddensmusings]

good news!

[liaragaming]

PSA - Don’t Ever Ever Ever EVER donate through Youtube superchat

tl:dr

you lose more than half your donation

youtube never states this anywhere

you cannot get a refund

[itsmandolove]

When people offer Mando food in public...

[espadaclover]

You know what? It’s really like that sometimes.

[bro-winkle]

This is automatic stress relief

[teenagerposts]

[aproblemlikebrianna-deactivated]

I’ll need a bigger mug for that, please and thanks.

[concerningwolves]

Can I just–

[autodiscothings]

Oh it got better

[mydaywithd-deactivated20180408]

Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.

(via Feminism)

[bookshop]

bisexual opera singer who killed ten men and snuck into a convent to shag a nun.

[allyitis]

Just so y'all know, she later set that convent on fire so she and that nun could sneak out. And she seduced one of the men she’d dueled.

[johannesviii]

Mademoiselle de Maupin (Julie d’Aubigny) has always been one of my role models. I’m so glad this post exists so more people can learn about her. The more you know, the more there’s to love. Let’s see:

Around 1678 (she was like fourteen or fifteen), she was making a living in Marseilles by doing fencing exhibitions, dressed in male clothes, with her boyfriend who was on the run because he killed a guy in an illegal duel in Paris.

Then she joined an opera company and fell in love with a young woman, but the woman’s parents decided to put her in a convent to, you know, protect her honor and all that…

…so yeah, that’s when the whole “sneaking into a convent to help a nun sneak out and also putting the room on fire” thing happened.

She wounded a guy through the shoulder with a sword in a duel because he had made fun of her clothes. They became friends after she came back a few days later to ask if he was okay.

She beat a singer who was quite famous at the time because he was being a jerk to some women from her new opera troupe in Paris.

She kissed a young woman in front of everyone at a society ball, and that angered three noblemen who were there, so she beat them all in duel and fled to Brussels. Then she resumed her opera career there.

Then she returned to the Paris opera and had yet more problems with the law because she beat up her landlord.

She retired to a convent after the death of her love Madame la Marquise de Florensac, and died at only 33 years old.

The legend says that she never got arrested for all her deeds because king Louis XIV thought she was way too entertaining to deserve death. I have no idea if that’s true. But she did sing in Versailles for the Court, so there’s that.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

She’s back on my dash!

The woman who is, no word of a lie, MY PERSONAL HERO :D

[christopher-bryant]

How badass can you be to basically get a lifetime pardon from the king?!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Julie D’aubigny: It’s okay I have a note from the king

“Julie can do what she wants - King Louis XIV”

[ahrima-deactivated20240728]

executive dysfunction be like *wants to do something* *doesnt do it* *feels bad* *wants to do something* *doesnt do it* *feels bad* *wants to do something* *doesnt do it* *feels ba

[o-v-e-r-w-h-e-l-m-e-d]

I recently learnt that executive dysfunction can be broken down into two main categories: anxiety that your attempt won't be satisfactory, or confusion about where to start or how to break it down into steps. As much as we feel bad about it, it's extremely important to remember that it is NOT laziness and we in fact shouldn't feel bad.

[ahrima-deactivated20240728]

hey reblog this instead

[glumshoe]

Disclaimer: my hatred of geologists is purely theatrical, but if I did have to kill one for some reason, it would be very easy.

I’d brandish my obsidian knife at them and they’d be compelled to approach. “That’s very cool,” they’d say, confident in their superior strength and endurance from all the rocks they carry around at all times. They’d shower me with very interesting facts about obsidian and hover just out of range of the cutting edge, waiting for me to exhaust myself. “But as it is volcanic glass, it’s very fragile, you see, and isn’t well-suited for use as a weap—” and then I’d hit them with the wooden baseball bat in my other hand, which they would not have noticed because geologists can only see rocks and minerals.

[reblogging-dragon]

Showed my Geologist dad a picture of the obsidian knife you had and he nearly said this exact thing word for word. I can't believe my own father would fall prey to this. Clearly you know thine enemy

[glumshoe]

I work too closely with geologists not to have a contingency plan for eliminating them.

[hendratds]

@snoodly-boop as a geologist, thoughts?

[snoodly-boop]

Well, as it is volcanic glass, it-

[anachronic-cobra]

As a geologist I'm pissed because I really want to see a picture of the knife and this would unquestionably work on me

[redlegomaniac]

@vala411

[catsbeaversandducks]

This speech-language pathologist taught her dog 29 words, and he can even form full sentences.

Video by Christina Hunger

[trustmeimanengiqueer]

[jenniferrpovey]

Dogs actually do have a language center in their brains. They process language just the same way we do, just not as well.

They do understand our words. This is not true of all domesticated animals (horses, for example, can only manage to distinguish a relatively small number of spoken commands…but boy do they know what you’re really saying).

They don’t understand “just your tone of voice” as a lot of people think.

As of 2016 the record vocabulary for a dog demonstrating understanding of words is over 1,000.

So if you give them a way to talk back, they’re going to use it.

The development of language skills is probably a side effect of domestication and of being kept in close contact with humans. A dog that was a better hunting partner would be kept and bred and over time they developed a better understanding of language.

In other words, dogs are pretty dang smart because we need them to understand us.

And also that is a very good boy.

[sandersstudies]

^ Would like to agree and make one amendment - very good GIRL. This is Stella the dog!

Check out the owner Christina’s Instagram: one of the first things I saw was a video where the dog started barking and, when prompted by the owner, said “outside, look look look look look look look, come outside.” Which is basically exactly how one would expect a dog to speak. 

The owner described bringing an unknown package into the house, and the dog ran away to push the buttons for “help no no help help” which is also about what I expect goes on in a scared pup’s mind.

In another video, the dog tried to push a button, and the button wasn’t working. The dog paused and then pushed the buttons for “No. Help.” 

In yet another (which the owner seemed impressed by), Stella said “come eat come play.” The owner asked the dog which she wanted to do, to eat or to play? And the dog clarified “come eat.” After eating, then the dog tried to instigate play. So the dog may have been able to understand a short spoken question, and how “questions and answers” work, and also understands sequences, even if she can’t express them (”I want to eat, THEN I want to play”)

Stella can even recount short-term memories, like when her family returned from the beach for dinner and she said “water good, no eat, play”

By the way, the owner uses the buttons as well, which probably really helps reinforce their meaning. She uses them to say things like “Stella all done eat” or “Stella and Christina go outside, bye!”

Wanna know my favorite part? Stella sometimes pushes the buttons for “Stella good” when she’s done a good job. Stella IS good! :D She also makes phrases using “love you,” like “Christina, love you, come play!”

[randomslasher]

*whispers* amazing