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Alrighty, I've got something in the works. If anyone happens to enjoy history/timelines/historic traveling/etc and would like to help with a book series project, let me know and we can talk details. This will be a series of journal based books with a semi autobiographical feel to them, based around a complex timeline spanning hundreds, potentially thousands of years
things to say after fucking up egregiously
pack it up boys we've made a social blunder
let's run that again
one more time normal style
I'm going to become a statistic
further proof god is out to get me
it's because I tore my acl senior year
I couldn't do it for religious reasons
my ex took my talent in the divorce
good thing nobody saw that (said directly to someone who definitely saw it)
I bet it feels real good to be a sailing ship when they tighten the rigging
wrong. everyone get more perverted about marine vessels now and I'm not kidding
this post reaching Actual Ship Captains is beyond delightful holy moly
i was hanging out with my brother internet sensation hank green tonight, and he was like, "If you spent more time on bluesky you'd be so popular," and i found out he has like 800,000 followers there.
and then i was like, "But I'm on tumblr, which is like the Marines for the Internet. Do you know how fucking dangerous it is there? I am putting my goddamned life in my goddamned hands every time I log in. Bluesky could never."
HEY.
HEY YALL.
USAMERICAN DEMOCRATS SUCCESSFULLY REMOVED EVERY ANTITRANS RIDER FROM EVERY FUNDING BILL
Spread the fucking word because LORD knows democrats fucking suck at spreading it themselves and will fail once again to inform their base
But just in case youāre sitting there going āthe Dems arenāt doing anything,ā THEY ARE
IT IS JUST SLOW
AND MOSTLY INVISIBLE
BUT THEY ARE
all the tips I found for drawing a fantasy map are like :) āhereās a strategy to draw the land masses! hereās how to plot islands!ā :) and thatās wonderful and I love them all but ??? how? do y'all decide where to put cities/mountains/forests/towns I have my map and my land but Iām throwing darts to decide where the Main Citadel where the Action Takes Place is
okay so i know i said most of this in the replies but it might be easier to actually reblog and say stuff instead lmao
Cities - go near water!Ā freshwater lakes and rivers (rivers especially) are the best places for cities because A) source of water and B) travel and trade is much easier cus you can put your boats like right there.Ā Basically ever relevant city ever was built on a lake or a river.
for rivers in general - because gravity, rivers run from mountains (forming from melting snow and ice (this is why they get fat in springāmore stuff melting)) to lakes/ocean where they can empty out (and even lakes will have rivers leading out that eventually get to the ocean), which can help when mapping out where those start and end.Ā rivers are also much thinner and faster in steeper elevations and very slow and wide when the land is flat
mountains - i like to think of what the tectonic plates look like because thatās what makes mountains!Ā mountains are also never standalone theyāre always in mountain ranges (archipelagos are really just underwater mountain ranges babey).Ā a cool trick I like to do is occasionally separate mountain ranges across continents, because over time the tectonic plates shifted and literally split the range in half.Ā These mountains are really old tho so theyāve eroded and therefore it makes them smaller and rounder (like the appalachians) as opposed to relatively young mountain ranges like the rocky mountains which have taller and sharper peaks
Another mountain trick: if your mountains run along the ocean, the ocean side of the mountains will get a LOT of rain while the other side will be very dryāalmost desert-like, in fact.Ā think of temperate rainforests in British Columbia vs the drier conditions in the canadian prairies
forests - depends on how warm the area might be.Ā coniferous forests are found further north (before you hit the tree line, and then itās only tundra onwards) but as you head south you get leafier trees, and the leaves tend to get larger too
If you think about general elevation too, youāll have places that might be swampy (wet + lower).Ā if your world has an ice age like we did, then glaciers may have carved the land, leaving piles of soil in the south that was left when the ice receded and places where the bedrock has been bared north of that (like the Canadian Shield in Canadaāthe reason we see that is because of the glaciers)
You might also have a land thatās dotted in a shitton of freshwater lakes as well because the meltwater filled the holes that the glaciers scraped out (this is why canada has so many goddamn lakes)
and if the ice age was more recent than it was in our world, then you might not even have the forest re-growth and it could be a lot of open plains
tl;dr i like to think of major climate events that might have also shaped the land on top of some basic rules
The Artifexian has an entire series on building your world from literally the stars down and then the ground up.
All my worldbuilding videos
Though, for fantasy, you can make the world operate on entirely different principles:
With that done, the actual topic of city placement can be covered by videos like this:
Or
Once you have your places, if you want help naming them in realistic ways, this video can help:
This one is on architecture, which is definitely a subset of cities:
But for a more relevant practical guide on making settlements realistic:
Hereās a quick guide for making demographics:
holy shit?
I got another spam comment today on AO3, and I want to share it as a PSA. But before I do, I want you to understand that you SHOULD NOT DO what this comment is asking. Ok? Ok.
See that bit at the bottom? Don't do that. Insert ParamedicGuy.gif going "Don't."
Other malicious spam comments I've gotten seemed designed to make an author question their writing, or outright encourage them to delete their stories from AO3. This one is different, in that it tries to get you to destroy the work on your own computer.
If you ran that command, it basically locates your Documents folder, then deletes everything in it, including all subfolders. It also does it without any prompt, so you have no chance to second guess your actions.
This is just fucking trolling.
Coincidentally, we just did training on a cyberattack similar to this, called a ClickFix attack. You can read about how that works here.
As a general rule, if ANYONE or ANY WEBSITE tells you unsolicited* to do anything in Powershell, CMD RUN, command prompt, shell command, or something similar, DON'T.
*There are legit reasons for running commands in PowerShell or the command prompt, but in those cases you are likely seeking out a solution to a problem you are already experiencing. Don't just run random commands on your computer as recommended by some unlogged-in guest on a fan fiction site.
Always think and consider before taking action, and get a second opinion from a trusted source. When I got this comment I was pretty sure what the command would do, and it took me about three seconds of googling to confirm it.
Be safe out there!
Do you kinda hate AO3?
Do you kinda hate AO3?
Yes
No
imagine hating a non-profit site created by fans, for fans, with excellent tagging system, no censorship, no ads, no algorithm, no capitalism bullshit ā just fans creating and sharing their art with other fans for free, out of pure love and passion ā couldn't be me
AO3 is one of the only good websites on the internet.
Seeing the value for "yes" go up is driving me nuts. I have a cool idea for the 11.1% of you who hate it:
Don't fucking use it! Ao3 provides all the tools necessary to avoid what you don't like or need to avoid. But no, you want thought crime and moral purity and censorship instead. Sorry for being so mad about this, but honestly, go fuck yourselves.
i love fall *slips into seasonal depression as soon as it gets dark .1 second earlier than im used to*
ommmggg i have enough plastic bottles gathered that if i go put them in the recycling machine i'll get like 3 euro and then i can buy a delicious baguette!!!!!!!!!!!!
not as much as i thought but we can work with this
TWO BAGUETTES AND CHANGE
ugh, i miss this. things were so much better back when i made these posts...
Did you eat your baguettes too fast?
STOP making jokes about the welsh language being ridiculous, STOP saying that welsh people are āmeant for the mines,ā STOP using hiraeth as an aesthetic word, STOP refusing to learn welsh pronunciations because they ālook too hard.ā kill the british coloniser in your mind. read about about the blue books, the welsh-not, or any of the things that were said about welsh people at the height of their oppression WHICH ARE STILL BEING SAID NOW.
I donāt know how many boys follow me, but I gotta bet thereās some. I just wanna tell yāall to be careful.
Abusive girls exist and what theyāre doing is seen as like ābadass tough donāt take no shitā but your girl should not hit you. Ever.
She should not demand for you to hand over your phone to look through.
She should not yell at you and humiliate you either alone or in front of people.
She shouldnāt make you distance yourself from your friends or family.
She shouldnāt scratch you or twist your arms.
She should not call you names.
She shouldnāt tell you āsheāll kill herself if you break upā
These are just a few examples of abuse and itās just seen as okay when girls do it and god knows Iāve fallen victim to it a few times, but you shouldnāt have to.
Never worry about not being in a relationship. If theyāre worth it, they wonāt hurt you.
No one has the right to hurt you.
I wish someone had told me that these things are actually abuse. I would have been able to escape my ex so much sooner. Reblogging to help other people in similar situations
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My stepmom was extremely abusive to my dad, using these tactics
It was dismissed by others as her ābeing a strong and independent womanā
For the love of God donāt take this shit. Break it off immediately
For the love of God
donāt take this shit. Break it off
immediately
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I work in the domestic violence field and guys? Lads? Bros? I have seen some really awful women out there.
I have seen cases where women beat the hell out of their boyfriend or husband and then called the cops on him for finally responding physically to stop her.
I have seen cases of women sexually abusing their boyfriends or husbands and insisting that he must have wanted it because heās a man and his body physically responded.
I have seen cases of financial abuse where women leveraged traditional gender roles of men as providers and then drained accounts and disappeared.
I have seen a ridiculous amount of stalking behavior from women, harassment, and/or tracking and monitoring their male partnersā or exes every move.
I have seen cases of women using children as pawns and/or making false allegations to child protection agencies.
I have seen cases of especially white women enacting horrific racial abuse on their black, native, or latino male partners.
I have seen cases of women who are caretakers for their disabled male partners using that caretaker role to control, manipulate, and abuse them.
I have seen cases of mental, physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse of mothers or other female caretakers to their sons/other boys under their guardianship or care.
I have seen cases of cis women outing stealth trans male partners to their communities, resulting in targeted transphobic violence from those communities and from the state.
I have seen cases of women intentionally getting their sober/recovered male partners back into drugs or alcohol as a way to control them and make them dependent on her again, and Iāve also seen cases of tiny! frail-seeming! women using drugs and then viciously physically attacking their much larger and theoretically stronger male partners or relatives to the point of putting them in the hospital.
Iāve seen cases of severe mental, emotional, and/or spiritual abuse of men by women go completely unaddressed for years because he wasnāt believed or it was downplayed to such an extreme that he didnāt seek help.
Iāve seen cases where women intentionally stopped taking birth control like theyād agreed upon as a couple in advance to force a permanent co-parenting relationship on their male partners.
And yeah! So many of these women showed up and tried to pretend that they were the real victim (against the great weight of the evidence) and/or that they were Strong Independent Girlbosses for doing this stuff.
This stuff happens to men, from women, all the time, and if itās happened to you: 1) Iām sorry you had to go through that, and 2) the true promise of feminism is a world in which the victimās gender does not determine whether or not they are believed or helped, and the abuserās gender does not determine whether or not they are held accountable.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong and very possibly malicious.
So guys if you are going through any of this with your girlfriend, wife, or female relative, you donāt have to take it. You deserve help and love and compassion and safety. You deserve to heal. And youāre not alone.
I know someone who dated a woman who used leftist buzzwords as a cudgel. Any time they had a discussion and she didnt agree with him, not even an argument, she would say he was mansplaining to her. He felt perpetually on the back foot because she could never be wrong, because she was queer and had trauma and was therefore more woke and more of a victim than he, a cishet white man could ever hope to be. According to her.
The last straw for him was when she wanted him to come over to hers for sex and he refused because it was Friday night and heād been drinking. Not only did she refuse to come over to his instead, she complained until he felt compelled to go over (he had stopped drinking by then and had taken steps to sober up including giving it time), sent him home when they were done, and then the next day told him she felt slut shamed by his refusal to immediately come over.
He dumped her, but even the few months they were together fucked him up a bit.
You should feel supported in a partnership, not beaten down.
This also true for lesbian relationships btw.
This also true for
lesbian relationships
btw.
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I adore this
Iām trying to get the boys I coach to stop saying āIām gonna kmsā after every little inconvenience (itās my fault tbh) and last night my goalie missed an easy shot and screamed heās gonna run away to Africa, become a National Geographic photographer and win the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.
Turns out thatās actually what he wants to do. And I love that he replaced ending his life with his dreams for his future. Like yes, this inconvenience sucks but I will persist anyway.
my friend's discord server has a "proof of touch grass" channel where they post pics of them doing regular activities outdoors/in public. i think many online spaces could benefit from such a thing
funniest convo ever with a guy who said 2 me "nobody uses journalism degrees" and i said "my mom has a bachelors in journalism" and he smiled like knowingly and said "yeah, but what does she do?" and i said "she runs a newspaper and publishes romance novels on the side." and he literally said "oh" and nothing else. like he ended the whole conversation there.
i've just been informed he has a trombone degree. like the study of playing trombone. which is all well and good, i genuinely think we should all have the opportunity to chase our academic bliss but i do think the trombone studies guy should hesitate to judge the economic value of other people's degrees no
i love the tags on this post because thereās other music/instrument majors implying niche field-specific drama like āof course it was a trombone player šā and then thereās trombone majors like āthis was NOT me for the recordā
once you reach a certain level of Animal Knowing you become burdened with two absolutely true, completely contradictory facts:
animals are basically the same, a lion is a big kitty
a lion is absolutely not a big kitty, are you fucking stupid?
not necessarily that contradictory, a lion is a big kitty which means they do kitty things, but Big. and kitty things like "smack thing that's bothering me" or "hunt prey animal" are harmless to us when small but if a Big kitty does them it kills you
Knowing animals is full of seemingly contradictory statements that are true.
Like for example, if you know nothing, you think whale is fish maybe.
If you know some things you know whale is not fish, it's a mammal.
And if you know a lot about animals a whale is a fish, because all mammals are still fish, including the land ones like us, because you can never evolve out of your clade.
Is like knowing dinosaurs are extinct, except they aren't, because birds are dinosaurs, and once again it is because you can't evolve out of a clade, and only the non avian dinosaurs are completely gone, though there are entire branches of aves that have disappeared between when they broke off from the non avian dinosaurs.
And the distinction isn't just everything before the kpg is dinosaurs, everything after is birds either! Birds split off in the late Jurassic. Their origin is so far back that if you placed a timeline of their origin and stretched it to now, the KPG event that killed off the non avian dinosaurs was about 2/3 of the way through! And entire clades of aves also disappeared during the KPG, including enantiornithes, which made up the majority of the birds alive during the Cretaceous. So when the rest of the dinosaurs died off, birds, which were already their own thing, also mostly died off, leaving just a few lucky survivors. But they were always, and will always be dinosaurs, because you can never grow out of a clade.
I had a point which was a little more linear, but I'm tired and rambling, so I guess you're welcome for the rambling info dump, I'll come back later if I remember my point.
Like for example,
if you know nothing, you think
whale is fish maybe.
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