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There’s also a deeper message with this. Yin and yang, opposite attract and complement. Katara’s inner fire is expressed through the Painted Lady. Meanwhile, Zuko’s inner peace is expressed through the Blue Spirit because it is within those roles that they can both truly be who they are to the core.

parkchanwoohoo

I love seeing stores and cafes that display and sell shitty local art. Everybody on the planet should be making shitty local art. Everyone in the community should get to see what shitty local art everyone else is making. Eventually you will find something and be like hold on. This weirdly speaks to me. I've never seen anything quite like this, whether because of this person's idiosyncratic style or strange choice of subject matter or what. And suddenly your favorite piece of art is a collage painting done by a woman who waits tables during the day and does roller derby at night and uses the excess flyers and paper menus from both places of work to make amateur art on the weekends and you realize this is such a bizarre combination of circumstances that has produced something so striking to you, how lucky you are to live in a world where this got to exist and you got to see it

tanithas

Hey Ros, it's so exciting to hear that you plan to continue Incendiary! I've missed it so much and have often thought about the story and how it could continue. As a matter of fact, missing it made me finally gear up and start writing a story of my own that has been in my head for a while. I'm almost done now but just like any writer, I'm not quite happy with the quality of my manuscript. A while back you had posted writing materials that helped you in the writing process of Incendiary but I couldn't find the ask anymore. Would you mind posting them again? The ones you shared recently about filtering and melodrama were really eye opening. To me Incendiary is perfection so if my writing could get even a bit closer to yours, I would be so happy.

Omg! This makes me so happy, I love that you started writing! The fact that you're almost done with the manuscript is such an accomplishment. I do still have those resources. I went through my bookmarks and plucked out some favs so I can also add a few more:

Story Planner has a list of different outline possibilities based on what stage you're at (new idea, developed idea, in-depth knowledge).

Here is an article from the Story Grid website about the Heroine's Journey. If you go to the resources page and scroll all the way to the bottom, there are posts and info on all sorts of interesting categories.

Reedsy is a good resource. Here is an article on Reedsy about one of my favorite ways of looking at story, Dan Harmon's story circle

This article on Mythcreants argues all stories can be broken into a throughline, which is basically the very simplest level of plot. Mythcreants in general has so much helpful info.

KM Weiland's website, mostly I use the info on Character Arcs

An Overview of Writing Tips from the Odyssey SF Writing Workshop contains amazingly helpful info on editing.

Editor Ellen Brock's Youtube channel. Her four video series on writer/outlining types are some of my favorites but she also has a lot of great videos on story structure and editing.

If you want to get help being more concise at the sentence/prose level, you can put passages into the Hemingway Editor

And finally, if you want to gamify fast drafting, get words out fast, and stop overthinking: The Most Dangerous Writing App deletes what you've written if you stop adding words for too long.

Hope some of this is helpful! Good luck with finishing the rest! :D

maydainsula

4.11.2024

aritany

an absolutely remarkable thing by hank green is, so far, indeed absolutely remarkable

depsidase

lilliephoenix

autumntides

10h

"In the instance an employer makes an illegal request for a photograph as part of a job application, you may submit a complaint to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission." Successful violation fee collections are paid partially to the one who suffered the violation, which in many cases exceeds a year of work at these shit jobs. There's only two weak points to a corporation, and those are in the budget and in the supply chain. Hit them where it hurts.

kamikaze-kumquat

Fucking word.

Learn your rights!

ms-cellanies

AUTO REBLOG IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS THE 1ST TIME AROUND. It is important to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

bossykiwi

Spooky Mingos

lissar-deactivated20200503

when jorge luis borges wrote in a copy of beowulf that he was working on translating, “beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.”

lissar-deactivated20200503

here’s the full poem! it’s so. something so transcendent something so inevitable and real and conceptually like looking into the abyss and hearing a choir sing your humanity back to you

fuckyeahchinesefashion

Cnetizen's DIY curtains on xiaohongshu

konzaprairieunofficial

I am nursing a hangover because my neighbors invited me over for a dinner last night that was actually a high school graduation party for their eldest daughter but what it actually actually was was 16 Hindu families getting drunk and having a dance party in the basement teaching me, the Lone Jew, how to do Indian dances and getting me Quite Drunk while the kids watched YouTube upstairs

konzaprairieunofficial

Favorite highlights of the evening:

- my neighbors telling all their friends and family about my landscaping and woodland restoration. I have never discussed this with my neighbors! But hearing last night that it’s been positively noticed and they are so appreciative really did make me feel Quite Good. They also wanted to use my yard for photos because of all my native plant blooms lol and they can’t wait for winter for me to clear out more vines and bramble. The part that really made my heart sing was that everyone said they noticed a distinct increase in fireflies this year compared to last.

- a mom and her smol daughter are introducing themselves to me. Daughter gives me a very English sounding name, mom says something under her breath like “that’s not your name!” And I say to the smol girl “My Anglicized name is ____, but my real name, my Hebrew name, is ____. Do you want me to call you by your real name? Because I’d like to call you by your real name. I can pronounce it, I promise.” And both mom and smol daughter LIGHT UP and immediately ditch their English names.

- all 16 families give speeches about the high school grad and then suddenly I am also asked to give a speech about this girl I know only in passing. Made a joke, crushed it. I am the Cool Neighbor now.

- having Very Bad Scotch with all the men outside discussing Immigration, the Economy, and Agriculture. They were fascinated that I am the one who does all things outdoorsy, that I am the landscaper and gardener and farmer, not my cishet spouse. I give many facts about bats, I have convinced many to invest in saving bats by citing how much money they save Society in crop pest control annually. I give many impassioned talks about the prairies and learn a tremendous amount about rubber trees and rubber tree plantations in India.

- I have been over to their house a few times before this and there’s never ever been any alcohol so I assumed none of them drank but then this One Guy shows up and I am informed that he is The Guy. Next thing I know I have three drinks in my hand of three different liquors and I am thinking to myself “oh OKAY you guys party hard actually”

- when I am inside dancing with all the 50+ year old women, they are Impressed that I am picking up the moves so quickly and I say something off hand jokingly like “my people love to dance too” and then they stop the music and ask me to put on MY people’s music. Imagine it if you will, this Lone Jew, teaching 20 Indian women how to do the hora.

- love is real we have so much more in common than we don’t. People wanted my number to share with me Bollywood movie recommendations. I was sent home with so many leftovers. I love my little immigrant neighborhood. I love the instant Hindu-Jewish solidarity between our communities. It is so very, very real.

konzaprairieunofficial

I think the conversation that stuck me with the most hope was this elderly Indian man and I were in deep discussion about how native plants that produce harvestables should be cultivated and commercialized. And how much of these unique fruits, vegetables, legumes, etc. get lost and when you go to the store, whether in NJ or in India, it’s the same kind of produce everywhere. And talking about how native plants wouldn’t cost as much because they’re already adapted to the ecosystems they’re in. I was telling him about my sandhill plum saplings my mom just mailed me and he was ENTHRALLED. Maybe my real life’s mission is to marry my farming upbringing with my love of native plants and… idk, start a farm/orchard specifically for native cultivars of harvestables foods. I certainly don’t have money for that lol but. Hearing someone from another part of the world also wish the same thing that I do and rail against Big Ag like I was really just. Made me so hopeful.

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

ariaste

Ok since i saw this yesterday I have grown fascinated and gone on a deep dive. First of all, Kim Beaton invented that concrete-and-rubber-fibers stuff she mentions. It is called Pal Tiya Premium, and there is a whole youtube channel with all the information about how to mix it and use it. https://www.youtube.com/@PalTiya She makes a giant sculpture of The Great A'Tuin and Discworld with it!!!

Secondly, it cures in air alone, no oven or kiln required, and unlike clay it has microscopic shrinkage between wet and dry, so you can pack it around glass or whatever. When she says you can stand on this stuff, yes, you can (though for very large sculptures or very narrow sections of a sculpture, she recommends adding a metal armature for extra strength). It is impervious to water, so it can go outside in any weather, and any metal armature encased inside it won't rust

Additionally, Pal Tiya Premium can be added to at any point in the curing process, even weeks or months later, so you can make a sculpture in several pieces and, like with a mold, remove the foil core you sculpted on so you can use it again and again (though you have to add a sacrificial layer of foil between the core foil-sculpture and the Pal Tiya (see the videos on the youtube channel about it). You can color it with oxides, concrete stain, inks, or acrylics, including exterior-grade house paint so your sculptures can go outside.

Holy crap. My only question now is what am I going to make with this stuff, what do i need to have in my garden, aaaaaaa

ironychan

In archeology there are artifacts, which are items made or modified by humans, but there are also manuports, which haven't been modified but are found far from any possible origin point and there's no explanation besides somebody carried it there. Manuports include things like stones, fossils, and seashells, and have been found in deposits as much as three million years old.

So yeah, apparently the oldest human activity for which we have evidence is Picking Up Cool Rocks.

junglejim4322

Good things will happen in September

junglejim4322

I completely forgot I scheduled this post a year in advance and woke up to see the cat fish of fortune had come in the night to deliver the good news. Auspicious September everybody

teaboot

(running complex algorithms in my head on public transportation) if i sit down when i get home then i will lose momentum and accomplish nothing until 3am when i will be hit with unshakeable motivation to accomplish tasks... i will wake the next day exhausted before work begins and that evening will be forfeit... the only way to save the next forty-eight hours is to turn on the washing machine at 6:48pm EST....

teaboot

Three days from now my roommate comes home from work and finds me dead on the floor with a fist full of loose ham because I took a nap on February 6th, 2004

thedoubteriswise

so much of being an ok person is just 1) not panicking, 2) not taking things personally, and 3) not letting the vindictive gargoyle that lives in your head tell you what to do. this sucks because brains love doing those things