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Unsplash - photography, illustration, & art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Getty Images - photography & illustration

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

StockSnap.io - stock photos

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without plagiarizing! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own.

Please add on if you know any more resources for free images <3

debtdeath

recently found out about openverse which i think aggregates a bunch of creative commons images from flickr, wikimedia, nasa etc… pretty handy

traegorn

I’m shocked so many people don’t know about my go to – Morgue File.

It’s full of searchable, rights free images uploaded by photographers.

batmanisagatewaydrug

unexpectedly sexy part of the Sinners credits. we LOVE a thoroughly sourced film.

batmanisagatewaydrug

looked into the twins consultants and it turns out Coogler called up the most buckwild twins he knows, which really helps explain why Smoke and Stack are Like That

Michael B. Jordan has dual roles as twin brothers in the vampire thriller 'Sinners,' and director Ryan Coogler tells PEOPLE he hired twin co

batmanisagatewaydrug

I do 100% believe the Smokestack twins would have done this if they made it to the cellphones era btw

malibuklaus

galadriel1010

Sometimes you get a brief glimpse into the American worldview and decide that you don't want to know.

transcyberism

I cannot stress enough that this meme is entirely literal. there's no reference or subtext you don't know. these are simply the objectively most popular works of art from each denomination.

natalieironside

Have you tried just channeling your instincts to appease into BDSM instead of letting them inform your political philosophy?

If you really just have a deeply ingrained need to be in a hierarchical space and give respect to ppl u call ur superiors, like. Hi. We can do that for you. I know some people.

thelovers-thedreamers-and-me

if you really want to lick boots we can make that happen but with better boots

naamahdarling

We have flavored boot polish.

asleepygoldenstorm

missing this baby boy extra hard today 💔

avelera

If posting fic online has taught me anything, it’s that I have no idea how the reader will react to anything. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Not the faintest clue.

Fics that I think I scribbled off just to get them out there get the kindest, most rapturous feedback. Fics I slaved over, agonized over, bled my soul into get a couple tepid replies. Fics I thought were me revealing the darkness and weird kink that lives in my brain, scared to even post it for fear of judgement, get, “Aaaw that’s so sweet!” replies. Baffling.

My conclusion? You just never know. You really just can’t know. When I did a workshop with 20 other writers I would try to guess what their critique of my story would be and I was right maybe 1 in 20 times. Only one other writer would have the same critique for my story that I had. And it wasn’t even always the same person.

The encouraging part about this is, if self recrimination, the fear that you know what people won’t like about your story, is holding you back, just say fuck it! You’re almost certainly wrong! All you can do is make it the best story you can for the energy you have. And yeah, sometimes that means scribbling it out in an evening and kicking it out to the void of the internet before you can change your mind or worry about editing it more than once because then you’ll never post it.

It’s all chaos, man. You don’t get to decide what the audience thinks. All you can do is create it and put it out there for them to decide.

dduane

And you will never know what they're going to think.

The message, therefore, becomes:

Find your story and tell it, and don't allow yourself to be affected by what you think other people will think of it.

Is this tough? OF COURSE IT FUCKING IS. All our damn lives we're taught to second-guess our own narratives with an eye to what other people will make, or think, of them. (And twice as hard if we're women, because of the ruthless socialization to which we're subjected.)

But your vision is the single thing that's the most perfectly yours in the whole world. And when you're writing, the experience of putting down on paper (or in electrons) what you see and feel, your own true take on the world's reality, is the closest to perfect freedom—as you tell the story that is uniquely yours—that you will ever get.

The Deity itself is waiting on you for that story. No one else can tell it. No one else shares the unique psychological and life-experience coordinates, the unique temporospatial spot, from which it's being told. Nothing in this whole physical universe can compare. This whole universe will be lesser without your story, told.

So tell it. And fear nothing. 😀

blanketforcas

whatever i was gonna say can't possibly be funnier than the mere existence of this draft

halebop-s-art

The diagram for the classic Origami Goat, with a twist to make its horns curve ! It's from this video by by Origami Word, but it seems to be a pretty old/intemporal design that a lot of people have made. I could not find a diagram online so I made one.

(If you make her in yellow/orangy-yellow, then decorate her with red ribbons, you can make your own origami gävlebocken ! )

kayvsworld

my body, tearfully: when sleep???

me: my dude we just woke up!! It’s time for wakefulness and doing things and Productivity

my body, weeping: but???? when sleep?????

rizaoftheowls

me: okay, finally now is sleep

my body: no. wrong.

depsidase

sandersstudies

Me: my weight fluctuating is totally morally neutral. I don’t need to dedicate large portions of time to gaining or losing weight because my weight doesn’t define me. As long as I eat nutritious food and get in some movement, my weight isn’t important :)

Also me: my fouckingPAMNTS

sandersstudies

Me: yayyy buying sustainable clothes that will be in wearable for a long time and not resorting to fast fashion :)

Me when I shift two sizes by the following year: :,( m y… fouking panms

parrishsrubberplant

@allthefoolmine

viggiq

omg THIS

trying hard not to get annoyed about perimenopause weight gain but UNDIES LEGGINGS FANCY DRESS PANTS urghhhhhhh

seawallglen

Fucking ditto. I spent the last decade both accepting my body in a positive/neutral fashion, curating a wardrobe that was as comfy, ethical and aesthetic as I could afford. Then pregnancy + perimenopause has me starting all over again 😩

heavyweightheart

Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.

Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.

jenroses

what

no seriously

what?

robotlyra

PLEASURE IS A NECESSARY PART OF HUMAN HEALTH, BOTH PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND PHYSICALLY

aleatoryw

this is why you should be eating your chips with salsa and guac instead of beating yourself up for not eating a salad with tomato and avocado (unless you are a salad bitch like me then enjoy both of them!)

killjoy

here’s a recent systemic review of all the research done on the subject

daroos

for those of you wondering if the studies cited above are legit and if so where we can read about them, here’s a link to one of the (more than a dozen!) papers written on the topic of nutrient absorption and how you eat your food:

Previously reported levels of iron absorption from common Southeast Asian meals composed of rice, vegetables, and spices were too low to be

nehirose

hey look, additional info!

the-barn-rat

real tired of hearing the vegan vs. omnivore arguments when the real superior diet in terms of both cruelty and ecosystem is locally sourced

beef and pork from a farm 10 minutes away from you is more ethical and less detrimental to the environment than quinoa grown in ecuador. the future is food forests. the green revolution is food forests. if we manage to survive this apocalyptic hellscape all of your food, plant and animal, is going to come from within half an hour of where you live. plant a vegetable garden in the meantime

clouddoggo

As a trained conservation biologist this is the most important step we can take. You do not understand how many issues we could solve if people bought most of their food from local sources.

viggiq

THIS THIS THIS

elbiotipo

why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

elbiotipo

If you read ecology books printed in the 70s and 80s, they were absolutely convinced that whales and tigers would not survive the century. There's a whole plot in Star Trek about how whales are extinct actually. Here in Argentina, we were sure that yaguaretés would have gone extinct. It was thought that rainforests would be forever lost, because there was no way that such complex ecosystems would be restored.

Now, you can go to Península Valdés and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In Iberá, where yaguaretés were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?

We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.

I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.

Millions of people are working on this. You can learn about it, perhaps even become one of them. Or be a pointless doomer in my ask box. Your choice.

crabussy

if there are people who care, it's never a lost cause. at one point, kākāpō, a nocturnal flightless parrot species from aotearoa, were thought to be entirely extinct for decades. until 1977, where booming calls from males were heard on the small island of whenua hou. now, thanks to people who care so much they dedicated their lives to caring, kākāpō numbers are close to 300. despite the setbacks. despite the small gene pool causing infertility and health problems. people cared so fucking much that they survived. this is one of COUNTLESS, countless similar stories. I'm studying ecology so that I can go into conservation and all around me, every day, I see people who care enough to put years of their lives into learning about and solving environmental problems. I don't know man. hope isn't just some nebulous thing. it's tangible if you do something with it.

kedreeva

Tim Wong saw the decline of the pipeline swallowtail butterfly, and dedicated himself to providing habitat and raising babies, and it worked.

Spix's Macaws were extinct in the wild for 70 years, and now captive breeding and conservation groups have reintroduced a small population (with more on the way) and there are babies being successfully raised in the wild again.

And what else is there, but hope? We exist for the grace of hope. Those who have lost all hope don't stay here. If you are here to send an ask like this, it is not because you have given up, it's that you are hoping someone will show you that that hope is worth having.

It is!! It always is!!

There will be good things and if you cannot find them, make them! The time will pass anyway, you can choose what to do with it, and so many, many people are choosing to try to help.

mysharona1987

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cryptile

Something my dear friend said to me that i think fits

youtastelike-sunlight

@clottedcreamfudge

hetchdrive

On a less serious note Mensah and Murderbot's relationship is so funny she came back home from being kidnapped and was immediately like "this is my emotional support killing machine who I'm calling to come hold my hand while I argue with my in-law"

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