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Hi everyone :) I just randomly reblog stuff without any concept. Mostly cats.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

nosferatu? no. tuferatu. no es mi problema.

[quorpiest]

no mi circo no mis feratus

[cbk1000]

So, I lurk in some writer subreddits, and a frequent topic of discussion is prose: what constitutes good prose, how do you write it, how do you improve it, etc. And yesterday I stumbled across one topic about the difference between good descriptive prose, and purple prose. OP asks people to share some of their favourite authors who they think write beautiful prose without tipping into purple. No problem; people are happy to oblige.

One person says that Steinbeck is one of their favourite authors for prose, and then they share an example of what they would consider purple prose. It is so violetly awful that I think the poster must have written it themselves as a kind of parody of purple prose. Other people assumed the same.

But as it turns out, they are quoting from a book written by a YouTuber whose channel ia dedicated to talking about writing (namely, their own writing, which is genius, but often not comprehensible to the drooling plebs).

Naturally, I read the free sample of their book in awe and horror, and I'd like to share some screenshots with you. If you also have trouble defining or understanding what purple prose is, it's this.

Yes, every single fucking page is written like this.

[cbk1000]

Reading some more of the preview for this book, and I realise this is by far not the biggest problem, but I'm begging this guy to just use 'shadow' instead of 'umbra'. I promise I will not accuse you of being a philistine.

[cbk1000]

'Noctilucent orbs'. Even fanfic written by a 14-year-old wouldn't dare.

The author is a man in his 30s, btw.

[the-pen-pot]

*throws this in the face of everyone who has ever accused me of writing purple prose*

[ninhaoma-ya]

Do yourself a favour and read through the tags and comments. They are amazing.

[best-ship-tourney]

Best Ship - Semi-final 1

Pesse canoe (Real Life) vs Going Merry (One Piece)

Pesse canoe

Going Merry

Remaining time: 1 day 8 hours

Pesse canoe propaganda:

not a ship but IT'S ABOUT TEN THOUSAND YEARS OLD!!!!! the oldest ship we've ever found! isn't that fucking cool

Going Merry Propaganda 1:

(SPOILERS THROUGH ENIES LOBBY)

everyone loves her

so protective of the crew she carries

literally was destroyed but essentially the ships soul came back to fix herself for one last voyage to save her crew

(for context the ship’s soul will only appear if the ship is truly loved by her crew)

is a sheep. Thats adorable

has gone on so many adventures

(via @random-blog-stuff)

Going Merry Propaganda 2:

The Going Merry was built by a butler during his free time as a hobby.

Gifted to the strawhat crew as thanks for saving the lady of the house from another golddigger murderous butler.

Sailed the crew UP a mountain.

Up a water spout onto a sky island.

Was so filled with love from the crew that she fixed herself as much as she could to help them keep going.

When she was diagnosed by a ship builder/fixer as being genuinely unfixable it almost tore the crew apart for good.

Despite being pretty much a pile of trash she convinces the head ship builder/repairer on the ship building/repairing island to fix her up enough for one last trip.

And saves the entire crew from certain doom by sacrificing the last of her life.

When they gave her a funeral i fucking cried.

This ship has made so many people cry, because she's just that goated(ha!)

(via @coolestglalie-intoxicatedinkeep)

[checkmateyourprivilege-deactiva]

2013 was five years ago let that sink in

[itscolossal]

Women Sport Puffer Coats in Bold Baroque Portraits by Nieves González

[lowpawly]

this is my impression of what it would look like if the toddlers at my job could make traumacore edits about me

[lowpawly]

alright by popular demand here is more toddler traumacore

[incaseyouart]

Coming soon: Wild Lines

Traditional black & white pencil sketches of various fauna

My animal sketchbook "Wild Lines" Kickstarter will be launching soon! This book will be a 8.5"x5.5" small zine, 96 pages (with 92 of actual drawings), all matte-finish texture. If you've ever bought one of my other three books then you'll know they're good quality ^_^

I'll make a better advertising post for when the KS actually launches, but in addition to the digital copy ($5), and the physical copy ($20), I'll be offering up stickers, two prints of designs not in the book, and a very limited tier of a custom animal sketch ($90) (All prices are in CAD). Here are some promo images:

It would mean a lot to me if people could back this - it's my first non-fanart art book, and since my main source of traffic is gone (my old insta), I'll have to rely more heavily on advertising and ppl spreading the project around.

I'll post again when it's launched!

Cheers <3

[amuseoffyre]

One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

[neiljostenpussyindulgence]

I love gay people theres a guy in my neighborhood who named his one singular dog “simon and garfunkel”

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

used to think it terribly silly (and kinda funny) when fantasy or sci-fi stories would have people refer to major recent historical events as The Flood or The Incident or The Revolution, and im sure historians fucking hate that because it's not helpful or descriptive, but we sure do be calling it The Pandemic

[oneheadtoanother]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[thestoryofaslut]

about fucking time

[fluffylandshark]

Reblog to give the prev person some dopamine.

[best-ship-tourney]

Best Ship - Round 3 Match 1

Pesse canoe (Real Life) vs Black Pearl (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Pesse canoe

Black Pearl

Voting ended onJul 4

Pesse canoe propaganda:

not a ship but IT'S ABOUT TEN THOUSAND YEARS OLD!!!!! the oldest ship we've ever found! isn't that fucking cool

[rohirric-hunter]

I am sort of frustrated about that post I made about Google Gemini giving an AI summary of Tumblr users if you google a URL because it quickly turned into a long post where people started sharing all the things the AI got wrong about them, and I'm not saying it isn't good for a laugh when an AI is wrong, but I feel like people are missing the point. Who cares if the AI offers information about you that's wrong? What's worrying is all the information the AI got right.

That initial accidental google I did of a mutual returned an AI summary that was absolutely correct, and featured information about them that would not have been obvious from a quick perusal of their blog. The first few times I googled myself the AI overview was 100% correct. The version of that post that is circulating is not the one where I shared that the AI gave me someone's real name. I had hoped that it had screwed up and it wasn't their real name after all, but no, I checked with them, and just by googling someone's Tumblr URL, I got their honest to goodness legal name. Do you have any idea how dangerous that is? Like yeah I get that it's fun to go, "Haha, AI bad at collecting information," but that's not the problem. The problem is that sometimes AI good at collecting information, and it can collect a lot more a lot faster than a normal human can, by running multiple searches simultaneously and cross-referencing a lot of different documents all in a few seconds, for a level of snooping that would take a real person hours or even days, if they could do it at all.

That is so dangerous and I need people to be angrier about the fact that Google thinks it's okay to let their AI do this for online users. If you google your legal name and you're not already famous the AI won't say shit. Because that would be creepy and invasive! So why does Google think it's all hunky dory to do it for random internet users?

[apollomission8]

If you're reading this and thinking that sounds incredibly scary/unsafe, please go into your blog settings and make sure the setting to discourse external searching is turned on!!!!

^ it should look like this ^

I've had that setting on for a long time. When I saw this post I tried googling my account and no AI summary appeared. I decided to experiment, and I turned that setting off and googled my url again–that time the AI summary appeared. It got a lot wrong, but it did get some things right, and had a concerning amount of information considering a few minutes before the AI summary didn't even appear. It also had the state I live in listed, accurately. That's not something I'm super secretive about, I have said it on here before, but it's also not something I necessarily want an AI telling someone umpromted just because they Googled my URL–frankly I think it's absolutely insane that the AI is able to do that without people questioning it. I quickly turned the discourage external searching setting back on, and I'm no longer getting the AI overviews. But it's definitely something we all should be aware of–especially on other social media sites that don't have that feature.

[defectivegembrain]

[ID: screenshot of a setting turned to the on position. It reads:

Discourage external searching of apollomission8

External search engines like Google or Yahoo will be discouraged from indexing your blog and showing it in search results. It is ultimately up to them to honor your request.

Link text next to this reads: Learn more]

[mathsbian]

You have to do this individually for each blog you own.

[brucebocchi]

[20th-centuryghost]

sorry this was going to be a tags addition because I only get to use my coated pantone swatchbook like 6 times a year when i have a new enamel pin to design, but...

METALLIC GOLD PANTIES ????

[purlturtle]

[mayfay]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week

[goblinwithblankets]

Drinking spiders??!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You put ice cream in a glass and pour soft drink over it. It creates a thick layer of delicious foam on top of a sweet, creamy drink with ice cream in it.

And yes I did attempt to get a picture by googling “Australia spider” like a fucking moron.

[thecybird-deactivated20250228]

I think that’s called a float in the states. Although we usually plop the icecream into the glass after the soda. Similar effect though.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

We wouldn’t be able to call it that because the word is way too easy to confuse with a floater, which is a meat pie floating in a bowl of pea soup. It is every bit as delicious as a spider though. I should get some pies and pea soup.

[kitstacean]

I would like to announce that this is not a standard Australian food, it’s exclusively a South Australian one and the rest of Australia is just as appalled as the rest of the world.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It’s not our fault that the rest of Australia is incorrect about food.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#WE HAVE SPIDERS IN AOTEAROA and they serve CUNT#im gonna steal ice cream from work this weekend and make spiders with it. i will steal the fizzy from work also#i fucking hate my boss 

Living your best life I see

[blatantescapism]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in South Australia and BADLY misinterpreted our survey question,,

[mariaalenkoshepard]

[blackshvck]

Chappell Roan was right. it is like a hundred ninety nine degrees