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Perpetually cuddled under several blankets. Call me Doom. They/them. Adult. 🌠 My AO3 | my fics | my memes | my queer banners | my art. Icon by my darling girlfriend and I, header by @maruti-bitamin. 🌠 My fandoms include Heartstopper, She-Ra, Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, Adventure Time, Omori, The Last of Us, Epic: The Musical, Steven Universe, Hollow Knight and The Good Place.

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4169:

writing in public? increase your font size to build that readership early

[flagellant]

kill the shift manager in your brain

[flagellant]

you are not wasting time you are vibing. you are not being unproductive you are literally chilling. make a grill cheese with cheddar cheese and slather a piece of the bread with some honey and maybe you'll relax

[foulmiraclekitty]

...ok but what if the shift manager is actually right

[flagellant]

you are a minor so i will say this with absolute confidence as an adult: there is not a single time on the history of this planet that a shift manager has ever been right. and more seriously, in this metaphor: treating yourself like shit for not being productive doesn't actually make you more productive. it makes you treat yourself like shit.

[aquilacalvitium]

☝️ Humans are apex predators and biologically and mentally built to spend the majority of our time resting and engaging in enrichment, spending most of our time working and being productive is a biologically abusive lifestyle being forced into us by people who want more money for themselves while we are literally not built to handle such hours of work

[omtai]

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

[gramarye]

feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore

[briwhosaysni]

To clarify for those who don't know, "free the nipple" isn't about going braless, it's about going topless

No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to

It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!

And the fact that not wearing a bra is so discouraged and stigmatized that people think the movement was about being able to go braless under your shirt in public rather than about being able to not wear a shirt at all says a lot about how far we've backslid in the past decade

[anxietyproblem]

[wizzzzzzard-deactivated20181215]

[feralratbitesu]

[sn4ilsh3llz]

[senatortedcruz]

Didn't you retweet incest porn on 9/11?

we all mourn in different ways

[jessaerys]

[thatdisasterauthor]

I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?

[thatdisasterauthor]

"Use Libre Office."

I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.

Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.

Industry standards are industry standards FOR A REASON. Having everyone on the same workflow can be crucial to getting things done effectively and correctly without creating a lot of extra work. And those things are not going to change overnight, as much as we might want them to.

[thatdisasterauthor]

:| :| :|

Yeah, Word, let me just leave this whole chunk of dialogue without the closing quotation marks. That's the thing to do. How dare I have two punctuation marks in a row. It's not like that's how closing quotation marks fucking work.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I am going to light something on fire.

[thatdisasterauthor]

And you know, for young writers, this has got to be so detrimental just from the perspective of opening your document and seeing a million corrections that, frankly, don't need to be there. If you're a young writer you're likely not going to have the background knowledge to know what is and isn't a good suggestion, you're just going to see a document that makes it look like you made every mistake possible so clearly you must be a terrible, stupid writer and should just give up.

[stargazing-enby]

I used to use the free version of Grammarly ca. 2019 to write fanfic. When I double spaced or wrote "smoled" instead of "smiled", it pointed it out. If I wrote "look me on the eye" instead of "in the eye" it pointed it out. This was useful because I'm not a native English speaker and I do sometimes make small grammatical mistakes that can easily be fixed.

I suggested Grammarly to my girlfriend because she's writing academic articles in English now and is insecure about making similar ESL mistakes.

... I now get to watch that stupid fucking machine underline ENTIRE SENTENCES and suggest she rewrite them entirely to sound more like an AI. You'll write something like "the analysed data comes to show that there are differences between A and B" and the fucking stupid piece of shit program will go 🤓☝🏼 akshually, you should change this to "from the gathered data, we can infer..." (Probably not verbatim, because I'm making this up and I'm a person and not an AI, but you get it). It does this for approximately 4 out of every 5 sentences in each paragraph.

So basically now Grammarly just takes your writing and goes "nope!!!! That perfectly grammatical sentence you just wrote just won't do it. Here's a completely different thing of saying approximately the same thing. You're welcome<3"

Like BITCH WHAT THE FUCK. STOP WASTING MY TIME. STOP UNDERMINING MY CONFIDENCE. I'M THE ONE IN CHARGE HERE. YOU'RE HERE TO STOP MY TYPOS AND GRAMMAR MISTAKES, NOT TELL ME HOW TO WRITE MY SHIT. STAY IN YOUR LANE

[grickle14]

Local music.

[ashenmind]

good lord this thing is useless

[fishmech]

idk what yall are mad about the new Lies Your Older Cousin Tells You machine is working great

[dragongirltongue]

Happy horse on mars day

[sapphling]

it's kind of crazy that he ruined "have your cake and eat it too" forever because like it Is an objectively better way to order that phrase for clarity

[sparrowthemormon]

Charlie Kirk is scheduled to speak at UVU. I have the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time

[sparrowthemormon]

IT WASN'T ME I PROMISE

[sapphire-wine]

[unyieldingsilence]

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[sigmaleph]

every day i am thankful to ancient humans for the domestication of the cat. fucking genius idea. agriculture was a good one too btw but you really outdid yourselves with the cat thing

[makingqueerhistory]

Am I Blue? Performed by Ethel Waters (1929) | Making Queer History

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“Am I Blue?” is a song composed by Grant Clarke and Harry Akst and performed by Ethel Waters in 1929. Waters was born in the Pennsylvania, United States on October 31, 1896. She was a well regarded singer and actress known for her jazz, swing, pop, and blues work. She made her way to Broadway and concert stages, and made a name for her self in film, television, and theatre. Her story is a remarkable one — the Black vaudeville circuit, a performer of the Harlem Rennaissance, the star of her own television show, and more. Waters identified as bisexual, and had both husbands and girlfriends, including the Harlem-based dancer Ethel Williams. You can find this and more works in our gallery!

[miss-wizard]

Tip: a Princess is a type of Girl with an immunity to the Spoiled status effect. it is impossible to Spoil a Princess due to her already deserving endless Treats.

[flareonfloof]

[girl-detector]

[raccoonmilf]

Fun fact: due to the ongoing financial support from the people of tumblr, critically endangered pygmy raccoons being rehabbed in Cozumel are now able to get vaccines for deadly diseases like distemper and rabies before they are released.

[leebrontide]

The funniest and most enduring legacy of dashcon.

[raccoonmilf]

To contribute to the critically endangered pygmy raccoon fund, you can donate:

On the website

On Venmo

On PayPal (make a note that this is a donation for pygmy raccoon conservation)

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4170:

try WRITEMAXXING™️ (this means you write)