sam

she/her || 25 || ♋ || esp/eng || a little bit of everything

[samduqs]

Hi!

I am selling some books on vinted.

I have books in Spanish 🇪🇸, English 🇬🇧 and French 🇫🇷!

I would really appreciate if you could take a look ♥️

my user is samanthaduqs

[promptcalender]

Piece of advice to all writers who need a cover but don’t have the money to hire an artist: use the public domain.

Online, you can find quite a lot databases for photography in the public domain that you could use (always check their specific rules regarding commercial use), like Pixabay, Unsplash, or Pexels.

But, even a tad more charming, there are also hundreds of thousands of paintings in the public domain. If the artist has been dead for over 70 years, the image is (typically) in the public domain and can be used however you want it. This is not a new concept, big publishers like Penguin and the Oxford’s World Classics do the same!

When you use such images, always make sure that 1. the painting really is in the public domain (sometimes the art itself may be in the public domain, but the photograph you are using to see it is not!), and 2. that it is an appropriate image. Sometimes, an image may look innocent and fitting, but would actually cause irritation, like accidentally using a painting of siblings for a romance or using a controversial image for different reasons.

Some places you can find art in the public domain (always double check!): National Gallery of Art, Artvee, Public Domain Image Archive, and most websites of bigger museums.

[Prompt Calender: April 23rd, World Book and Copyright Day]

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Your cover will look so much more professional and interesting if you use public domain imagery rather than AI.

Your hard work deserves thoughtful presentation.

[samduqs]

the casting for the One Piece live action is simply perfect

[lizclimo]

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

So we're all gonna let the new Harry Potter show die on the vine, right? No hatewatching. No thinkpieces. No videos about how bad it is. Deprive it of oxygen and let it wither away unremarked-upon and unprofitable; make HBO lose their entire investment and prove to the corporate entertainment sphere that the entire IP is poison. And spend that time doing something that brings you joy instead.

[llawstudies]

Do you ever love a book series so much that as soon as you finish it you want to reread it

[chamomile-teabag]

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

[samduqs]

Italian study buddy

Helloo!

I am looking for someone who I can speak Italian with (preferably a native speaker) to practice my skills. I used to have a A1/A2 level, but I haven't practiced Italian for 2 or 3 years, so I have lost a lot of it.

My idea is to practice everyday Italian and talk about our day, hobbies, passions, etc., nothing formal, just casual conversation to improve my fluency.

In exchange, I can help you with:

Spanish: I am a native speaker!

English: I have a C1 certificate.

Feel free to send me a DM if you're interested! Grazie mille!

[blogbibliophilia]

[formerlychalamet]

i'm trying to fight the second one but THE VOICES-

[books-and-cookies]

My boy is releasing a new game soon (hopefully in about a month or so) called Shardstorm - a roguelite fast-paced game where you get to kill lots of minions and have super fun 🥳

You can find the game here - even just adding it to your wishlist helps TONS. Also, my voice is featured in the beginning, so that's nice 🥹

Thanks for the support guys ❤️

[skatinginfinitelywithyourmom]

how to get up in the morning tutorial

[skatinginfinitelywithyourmom]

how to get up in the morning walkthrough

[skatinginfinitelywithyourmom]

how to get up in the morning tips and tricks

[samduqs]

I just finished This Fatal Kiss and it got me like

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[mckitterick]

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy