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28.Infj-t,Anxiety-ridden and terrified.Adulting.Aspiring Author. Liberal Arts A.A. Chaos to come. They/Them

[studiousautumnalfaye]

This account is related to Academia and my Pursuits of higher education; I reblog anything I feel could be inspiring,motivating, or helpful. I am a neurodivergent student which means I need more resources like Bionic Reading, or listening to material via Speechify.

My Current Class is very Literary Fiction & Literature focused. Anything related to politics will be deleted and ignored on this account. That is not the place for it. Please find another blog for those pursuits. I appreciate your kindness.

Thank you for Reading. It’s nothing personal against you, that’s just how I establish my boundaries online. This is for studying. You’re not seeing me walking up in your class as it’s happening and interrupt you there asking those same words you ask me.

After all, how can one make a difference if not given the opportunity to study in order to make that precious green that’s sought which can further benefit us all.

[writingdose]

things I won’t let ai take away from human writers

em dash

“not x, not y, but z”

short sentence stacking as a stylistic choice

none of these belong to ai. these are all what human writers have been writing since day one, way before ai was invented. ai was trained to mimic how human writers write — so em dash, not x not y but z and short sentence stacking would never have been used by ai at all if ai hadn’t learned and mimicked them from human writers.

no, you are not “fighting against ai” by accusing every work that has em dash, not x not y but z or short sentence stacking in it as ai-generated, you are helping ai harm the writing community by engaging in witch hunt and scaring human writers away from creating/sharing their works for fear of being wrongly accused of using ai.

speculations, accusations and ai witch hunt harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.

[theunfortunate-author]

my daily affirmation as an author

[catchymemes]

[goldensunset]

we talk about how surreal it is to befriend really good creatives on here but what’s really surreal is when those really good creatives also have, like, debilitating social anxiety and impostor syndrome. leonardo da vinci is on my dashboard calling the mona lisa cringe. rembrandt thrives off of my deranged tag rambles like a starving college student going after café leftovers

[my-dailydreams]

[toastbutteregg]

[ibroughtyoumybullets-ningy]

the stars are dead. it doesn't matter that simon can see them. they're just dead light fading away. simon is dead from the minute he was welded in that sub. it doesn't matter that we can see him.

[kosmogrl]

everybody needs to read more. read all the time. read every day. read read read

[ordenna-deactivated20181024]

tbh the real advice I’d give to anyone is, do shit alone. go to a museum & go at your own pace & leave the instant you’re done. go somewhere you’ve never been and just wander around, duck into & out of places as it pleases you. linger as long as you’d like.

[midnightinshadow]

[permanenteclipse]

Autistic trauma is so devastating and yet so corny. You'll be doing everything perfectly normal in public but someone will sneer at you and you'll spend an hour agonizing over yourself like "fuck what if no one told me it was Don't Wear Yellow Thursday"

[frostedmagnolias]

Leaf Ring

c. 1900

by René Lalique

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

[historical-fashion-polls]

which outfit would you rather wear? (Lucas Cranach the Elder)

left – Portrait of a Woman (ca. 1525-1527) ❤️🧡🤍

right – Princess Sibylle of Cleve (1526) ❤️🤍🩵

Voting ended onJan 17

[headspace-hotel]

My version of "doomscrolling" nowadays is just going to iNaturalist, browsing pictures of animals and fantasizing about where I would introduce them outside of their natural range if I was some kind of ecology-focused evil scientist. I do this when I'm depressed. I don't know if it helps.

[headspace-hotel]

to start, I would like to set a few things straight

cheetahs don't belong in north america

i will not introduce cheetahs to north america

Miracinonyx "american cheetah" was a totally different genus

cheetahs feed primarily on small ungulate prey of under 50kg. Pronghorns are 35-65 kg, so they could be used as prey, and it's possible that mule deer or white-tailed deer could occasionally be caught (though they are generally too large for a cheetah to handle) but in general, there are almost no suitable prey species. we would have to introduce small antelopes to north america and that's a whole other thing

With that out of the way:

Saiga antelope should go in North America. I think this has actually been proposed, since they were here in the Pleistocene.

Camels should also go here. I hear Australia has a major camel problem. We can take their camels, problem solved. Though it would be neat to have Bactrian camels as well.

release capybaras in USA (actually there are already some in florida)

i would also like to have tapirs but they are very tropical-climate restricted so maybe genetically modify them to have a thicker coat?

north america also needs some flightless birds. Emus already do pretty well here, and there are several feral populations I think, but there are some other options. i want to see if penguins can survive in the great lakes. also ostriches could probably thrive in many areas

cassowaries should be moved wherever is appropriate for them climate wise, because they are cool

put okapi in south america

all of the minuscule possums of australia should be distributed across the entire face of the earth. Same with echidnas.

the indian rhinoceros would probably do great in the u.s. state of georgia

put clouded leopards in the southern appalachian mountains

i have lots of other evil plans but these are the main ones

[headspace-hotel]

We don't have another Earth, but I wish we did so I could do all this stuff and see what happens

[galileoace]

Moving Cassowaries anywhere sounds like a colossally bad idea for everyone involved. They're huge, they're actively aggressive and hostile, the can and will disembowel you, and moving them will only make them angrier.

Camels are an introduced species, and like almost all species introduced to Australia they became a serious problem, so you can definitely have them.

As to possums, echidnas and emus, the ones that have already been removed from Australia are too many. We take biosecurity extremely seriously, that means things going out* as well as coming in.

[headspace-hotel]

Fortunately, in this scenario, I am evil, so the cassowaries can disembowel a few of my evil minions, and I will only mutter "the fools..." and command more of my evil minions to assist with the cassowary evil plan

[rhythmic-idealist]

Just so people know, epilepsy warnings aren’t about, like, purity culture, or online leftists acting as if disabled people are real. It’s about my mom

[rhythmic-idealist]

We human beings have discovered patterns of light and/or sound that kill some people and we should probably not have hissy fits about your right to fire a weapon at my mom. Like if you could put some text onscreen explaining the upcoming seizure-inducing patterns so that people can scroll away. That’s super fucking easy. i AM sorry that something as mindless as a tiktok edit could kill someone but hey, so could driving to work every morning, we all treat THAT accordingly (long, pointed stare. because yes we had better be treating that accordingly too)

The casual abundance of Thing That Kills People doesn’t mean you shouldn’t avoid killing people

[rhythmic-idealist]

#all media should have epilepsy warnings like all food should have allergy warnings#and if you disagree then I'll kick your ass

via @angst-and-fajitas

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Me, studying Natural History:

[asteroidtroglodyte]

My Dearest Fellow Human, who told you that the Arospec people are incapable of Love? Just because you do not Pair-Bond as the others do?

Ask the Good Teacher how they feel about their Pupils. Ask the Musician how they feel about Music. Ask the Sailor how they feel about the Sea. Ask the Astronomer how they feel about the Cosmos. Ask the Bus Driver how they feel about the Regulars on their route. Ask the keepers of Dogs and Cats and Cows how they feel about the Beasts within their care. There is Love in the hands which swing the hammers and raise the homes; Love in the hands which tend to the wounds; Love in the hands which turn the soil. Ask. Listen.

There is Love everywhere. The Human creature enters this world helpless, and remains so for years. The Human Infant must be pulled into this world by loving hands.

Even Hate, that most twisted and unfortunate thing, is a form of Love; merely warped and folded in upon itself until the pain of its malformation outweighs the brilliance of its light.

[holding your face in my hands] the ways of Love are myriad and abundant; an expression of the core of the Human Experience; the thing which makes Being Human distinct from Being Oak or Being Shark. You are not exempt from this. Just because you do not desire your fellow Human as the others do does not divorce you from this.

Also: I Love you. For existing. As a hypersexual, and a hopeless Romantic, you are my balance. The natural inversion of my form. I find myself reflected in you; and is it not so wonderful that Humans are formed in such myriad ways?