(It pulls the strings and makes them ring.)

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[chegguss]

Summer vacation

[leebrontide]

Can I offer a reframe of the common "write the shitty first draft" advice? I like that advice a lot but I think the way it's often presented bounces off a lot of people and activates shit that does not help writing happen.

I think of the first draft as an armature.

If I was making a beautiful bronze statue, I would need to make a clay model first. And, depending on the shape, before I even got out my clay I would need to get some good thick wire and create a basic shape for the clay to adhere to, so it doesn't all fall down. Once I have this essential 3D wire frame, I can start building and subtracting and refining.

But if I try to refine on just clay, it won't have enough of a core to hold it up. I'll sculpt a beautiful hand only to have the whole arm fall off and go smush.

The armature isn't the sculpture. It is the frame you build the sculpture around.

The first draft isn't the novel, it's a sort-of-novel-shaped thing that will hold up everything you build and beautify later.

Write the armature draft. Try to make it a good armature, instead of trying to make it a good novel before it's ready.

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[lilybug-02]

Thank you

[crpl-pnk]

you ever realize how able bodied people just are not expected to do things that cause them excruciating physical pain? like they’re just. not

if i shouldn’t use my cane because i can sometimes technically walk without it, it would just hurt like a motherfucker then abled people should no longer be allowed to use potholders to take things out of the oven because i mean

well they could technically pick up a hot pan with their bare hands. it would just hurt like a motherfucker

[crpl-pnk]

*sees an abled person using potholders*

i just think it’s really sad that you’re giving up on yourself like that

[crpl-pnk]

if you use potholders how will you ever build up the calluses necessary to pick up scalding hot metal without burning yourself so severely? it’s like you’re not even trying to get better

[darklingdawns]

I mean, my mother uses potholders, but she’s in her 70s. You’re just… too YOUNG to be resorting to potholders at your age.

[kipplekipple]

If you start using potholders, your inability to hold hot metal will only get worse.

[planouteverythingitwentwrong-de]

As a professional cook I was, and still am, able to pick most stuff up out of an oven without a pot holder. I might get blisters and maybe it will hurt, but usually it won’t

[crpl-pnk]

AMAZING! based on this one specific individual’s experiences i will now safely assume that it’s possible for anyone to overcome hand pain & leave potholders behind for good!!! as long as you want it bad enough, anything is possible!! make this story go viral so that all those self pitying losers who still use potholders know that there’s no excuse

☆♡LIKE & SHARE IF YOU WERE INSPIRED!!!♡☆

[rundownstage]

Little thing I did. Wouldn’t really call some of these guys “villains” but you get my point

[indigoleague]

the ultimate pokemon favorites asks! ~

put one or more numbers in my ask! <3

favorite type

least favorite type

favorite dual type

least favorite dual type

favorite trainer

least favorite trainer

favorite gym leader

least favorite gym leader

favorite elite four member

least favorite elite four member

favorite trial (sun & moon)

least favorite trial (sun & moon)

favorite antagonist team

least favorite antagonist team

favorite shiny pokemon

least favorite shiny pokemon

3 favorite pokemon

3 least favorite pokemon

favorite pokemon game 

least favorite pokemon game

favorite legendary/mythical pokemon

least favorite legendary/mythical pokemon

favorite music track from a pokemon game

your favorite team of pokemon you’ve ever had 

favorite design of a pokemon

least favorite design of a pokemon

overall favorite generation of pokemon

overall least favorite generation of pokemon

favorite normal type

least favorite normal type

favorite fire type

least favorite fire type

favorite fighting type

least favorite fighting type

favorite water type

least favorite water type

favorite flying type

least favorite flying type

favorite grass type

least favorite grass type

favorite poison type

least favorite poison type

favorite electric type

least favorite electric type

favorite ground type

least favorite ground type

favorite rock type

least favorite rock type

favorite ice type

least favorite ice type

favorite bug type

least favorite bug type

favorite dragon type

least favorite dragon type

favorite ghost type

least favorite ghost type

favorite dark type

least favorite ghost type

favorite psychic

least favorite psychic type

favorite steel type

least favorite steel type

favorite fairy type

least favorite fairy type

favorite pokemon movie

least favorite pokemon movie

favorite animated adaptation

least favorite animated adaptation

favorite pokemon card

least favorite pokemon card

favorite pokemon tumblr blog(s)

favorite pokemon plushie

favorite pokemon merchandise

favorite alolan version of a first gen pokemon

a pokemon that you feel is overrated 

a pokemon that you feel is underrated

favorite eeveelution

least favorite eeveelution

[fanartsofliliput]

my pc is baaackk i can use the edit tools again!!!!!! have a finished scene i had lying around!!!! i looove making `100500 version of the same drawing so much!!!!!

[woman-becomer]

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

[auxins-insanities]

this disability pride month lets be kinder to folks with moral ocd . no more “if you really care about this minority , you’ll reblog this post” , “someone will die if you don’t reblog this” , etc etc , and all other kinds of guilt tripping reblog bait . at the VERY LEAST tag your reblog bait so we can filter it out and avoid unnecessary spirals . it’s 2026 , we need to move past using guilt to get engagement .

[audacityinblack]

also let's stop assuming that people's lack of reblogging = lack of action. you have no clue what someone might be doing off this website. many people are explicitly avoiding posting about their political action for privacy + safety reasons or just because they're too fucking busy.

just gonna be a bit brutally honest here for a minute, you aren't entitled to space on anyone else's blog. if someone reblogs your post for whatever reason, it's an act of good will, keyword there being will.

[peachebo]

Sorry Hornet, find another bench

[mizukibrumi]

alt pure vessel/the hollow knight :)

been gone for awhile once again!! um life took a very big toll on me, but i will be trying to get back to posting again. in the meantime i was gone, i got into hollow knight (as you can tell hehe) so yea:)

[yellydany]

Suicune taking a nap in the forest💧🌾

[dramatic-dolphin]

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

[hiveswap]

^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.

[leonthelemon]

as a Greek, this is 100% our reality. Here, building a house is tricky bcs there are ruins everywhere and archaeologist basically have to pick which ones should be displayed in a museums and which are ok to destroy. In our metro station, there are mini museums of what they found while digging. Our streets and motorways have the same names as the ancients ones. We are modern people! And we are certainly not all white, most people look vaguely Arabic

[werewolf-transgenderism]

basically my favorite thing to do is imagine The Character in some sort of situation of terrible emotional turmoil. it’s like enrichment for me

[paleknights0]

A ghost.

[pokemonarchive]

Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs (2010) - Key Art Illustrator: Kouki Saitou

[twilidramon]

#0403 - #0404 - #0405 Shinx, Luxio, Luxray

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