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@vidisha
I just. I get really emotional about mirror spiders and their reflective scales.
they look like itty bitty bejeweled hatpins and I can’t. cope. i want one to dangle on my earlobe like an earring and whisper its tiny spider secrets into my ear. i would laugh at all of its jokes, and walk slowly and with my neck held very straight, so as not to disturb it during spider naptime.
Imagine wearing one as a necklace and in it you can see every version of yourself (like mirrorball)
i keep forgetting the sky does that
melts?
basically yeah, just in very slow motion
time-lapse photography needs to stop teaching me things my psyche is a frail and stuttering sandcastle unwoven by the tides
that’s the view as the sun pulls us through space like this
PLEASE STOP TEACHING ME THINGS I IMPLORE YOU
es a Nap meg ugy megy korbe a Tejut kozeppontja korul, mint korhintan a pacik
my translation app did a thing
Hi, Hungarian here. They’re saying “and the Sun is going around the center of the Milky way like the horsies on the merry-go-round”
this is DELIGHTFUL information I thank you
A NASA scientist has revealed the mind-blowing time scale of the dinosaurs, with a stunning animation showing Earth at the opposite side of
…tumblr keep teaching me things
This is the most enlightening yet humbling thing i have seen till date.
Medusa and her gargoyle gf
Everyone’s assuming her petrifying gaze would have NO effect here and that’s clearly wrong. It would be a healing stat buff actually. She can regenerate and strengthen her girlfriend by looking at her.
Just like girlfriends in real life
Just like girlfriends in real life.
You can say that their relationship is "SOLID"
Writing fight scenes
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1. Pacing
A fight scene should be fast-paced and intense. Unless it's a final battle with numerous parties, a fight scene that's too long tends to take away suspense. To speed up your pacing, use active voice to describe movement and don't overdescribe your characters' thoughts. Excessive inner monologue will be unrealistic, as people usually have no room to think during intense combats.
2. Character mannerisms
Here's a point that people often overlook, but is actually super important. Through fight scenes, you should be able to reveal your characters' contrasting mannerisms and personality. A cunning character would play dirty - fighting less and making use of their opponent's weakness more. A violent character would aim to kill. A softer one would only target to disarm their enemies, using weakened attacks. A short-minded character would only rely on force and attack without thinking. This will help readers understand your characters more and decide who to root for.
3. Making use of surroundings
Not only the characters, you also need to consider the setting of your fight scene and use it to your advantage. Is it suitable for fighting, or are there dangerous slopes that make it risky? Are there scattered items that can help your characters fight (e.g. nails, shards of glass, ropes, wooden boards, or cutlery)? Is it a public place where people can easily spot the fight and call the authorities, or is it a private spot where they can fight to the death?
4. Description
The main things that you need to describe in a fight scene are :
• Characters involved in the fight
• How they initiate and dodge attacks
• Fighting styles and any weapons used
• The injuries caused
Be careful to not drag out the description for too long, because it slows down the pace.
5. Raise the stakes
By raising the stakes of the fight, your readers will be more invested in it. Just when they think it's over, introduce another worse conflict that will keep the scene going. Think of your characters' goals and motivations as well. Maybe if the MC didn't win, the world would end! Or maybe, one person in the fight is going all-out, while the other is going easy because they used to be close :"D
6. Injuries
Fights are bound to be dirty and resulting in injuries, so don't let your character walk away unscathed - show the effect of their injuries. For example, someone who had been punched in the jaw has a good chance of passing out, and someone who had been stabbed won't just remove the knife and walk away without any problem. To portray realistic injuries, research well. I have two posts about writing realistic pain and injuries back in my pink theme, check them out if you need any reference!
7. Drive the plot forward
You don't write fight scenes only to make your characters look cool - every fight needs to have a purpose and drive the plot forward. Maybe they have to fight to improve their fighting skills or escape from somewhere alive. Maybe they need to defeat the enemy in order to obtain an object or retrieve someone who had been kidnapped. The point is, every single fight scene should bring the characters one step closer (or further :D) to the climax.
8. Words to use
• Hand to hand combat :
Crush, smash, lunge, beat, punch, leap, slap, scratch, batter, pummel, whack, slam, dodge, clobber, box, shove, bruise, knock, flick, push, choke, charge, impact
• With weapon :
Swing, slice, brandish, stab, shoot, whip, parry, cut, bump, poke, drive, shock, strap, pelt, plunge, impale, lash, bleed, sting, penetrate
Can confirm, all of these will save your life writing fights.
They always warn about the dangers of traveling to the past and endangering the timeline. They never understood the power in going to future and wreaking havoc, only to return and have it never happen. A murderer with a clean conscience. Evil scientist indeed.
tumblr ask me about mlm skeletons
I’m asking
your co-operation is noted and will count in your favor when the Great Tally arrives. Presenting:
straight skeletons
straight skeletons
gay skeletons
three seemingly-similar wikipedia articles, and yet:
(this post is part of a series critiquing biased wikipedia writing. you can request more on ko-fi)
TLDR
*male & female skeleton found in grave*
archeologists: “this is LITERALLY Romeo and Juliet. she died of a broken heart. i am in TEARS”
*male & female skeleton found in grave*
archeologists: “holy shit ya’ll they are SPOONING. they are SPOONING and the boy is the big spoon just as jesus intended.”
*male & male skeleton found in grave*
archeologists: it’s problematic to romanticize these things
The first couple held hands -> love
The second couple was spooning -> love
The third couple was apparently kissing, a hand on the cheek -> no homo though
and they were tombmates
oh my god they were tombmates
“and there was only one tomb”
no wait wait wait: BURY YOUR GAYS
“i’m a fearsome indestructible monster of lore whose one shocking weakness is fire” buddy everyone’s weakness is fire
“zombies/vampires/witches/frankensteins can be burned to death” buddy who can’t
“zombies can be killed by cutting off their heads” dude I got news for you about how heads work
“a stake to the heart will kill a–EVERYBODY, IT KILLS EVERYBODY
“silver bullets” explain to me your understanding of the purpose and function of a bullet
fuck that mess, u know whom i respect? Wicked Witch of the West getting melted by a bucket of fucking mop water. that is some Grade A Classy Shit TM. who gets killed by a bucket of dirty water??? no one, literally nobody else. just that one weird green witch. now THAT is how you build a fucking brand
In the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, wizards can be melted using soapy water mixed with a little bit of lemon juice.
#this method has been proven not to work without the lemon juice
hi tumblr :)
What did you do
would you like to hear a fun fact tumblr :)
WHAT DID YOU DO GAUD
insects don't have lungs :) instead they have a series of holes called spiracles :) which open and contract to let air in :) and are located around the thorax and abdomen :)
so imagine if you had a dozen belly buttons scattered all over your belly and back, squelching open and shut as they gasp against the cotton of your t-shirt desperate for air :) :) :)
my local farmers market sells vegan zombie fungus
Gaud, are you harvesting clowns again?
first of all i was CLEARED OF ALL LEGAL CHARGES re cannibalism so that is grounds for libel my friend
While I’m glad you got the cannibal clown carrion conperson conundrum of your hands, could you please elaborate on the zombie fungus thing?
there’s a fungus co-op booth at my local farmers market that sells mushrooms and mushroom grow kits and they also sell cordyceps aka “zombie fungus” but they use a pseudocloning technique that allows them to grow it vegan…veganly? veganically? the adverb form of vegan
so nifty little fun fact, cordyceps fungi are parasitic and are typically found growing through the bodies and skulls of extremely unfortunate host insects. valued (by humans at least) for medicinal properties, many of the commercially available supplements (like the ones at my local market) are grown instead on brown rice and other grains (from spores harvested from infected larvae? the salesperson had a fun creepy explanation for it. best sales pitch I heard all day)
but here’s what they look like growing in the wild :)
bonus: growing out of an itty bitty Fly Skull
i’m putting together a little list of the short creative writing i’ve written for tumblr. so far i’ve got: april fool’s door saga, Don’t Touch The Pink Stuff, clown meat deli dream, tupperware dream, grinch x tony the tiger fic, scuba horror story, cabin in the words horror story, atheist afterlife, Arcady the Vampire, and my tip jar if you enjoy my writing and want more. am i forgetting anything?
thank you for the reminders, i really need to keep better track! ‘make this creepy’, psychic murder gerbil, do we have any homework?, monster under the bed, unreality prompt, accidental kidnapping. anything else?
(also yes the April Fool’s & Pink Stuff Incident were real things that happened, i just retold them in my signature unreasonably-dramatized style)
#tip me if u like my content bc sadly i require money to exist in this capitalist hellscape :) #money and an enclosed container such as a lava lamp or coffee mug for me to slosh around in
(also here is a working link to Don’t Touch the Pink Stuff)
(gently) it’s called a reblog button and content creators rely on you using it
reblogging this bc gaud makes a very good point and their writing is so creepy and marvelous
Farewell online privacy
What happened?
Trump happened.
just get a VPN?
You can’t just tell people to ‘get a VPN (Virtual Private Network)’. Buying a VPN is like buying a house. It’s very very important. Having no VPN or having a ‘wrong’ one can seriously damage your life. Especially for Americans because their privacy laws are garbage. I am going to try explain why you should get a VPN but bare with me, I am from Germany and my English is far from perfect.
Let’s start with a simple test. Click this link here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/ It will tell your IP adres, your ISP (internet service provider), and your location. The location might not be very accurate, but then again, it’s just a simple website. Imagine what the government can do!
So basically, everyone can find out where you live. But there is more danger. Your ISP. Your ISP logs your every move online and they are required to keep it in case the government wants access to it (or if a 3rd party wants to buy your data (yikes). They have everything. What websites you visit. How long you stay on a website. What you download. Your search terms. European laws are more subtle on this but if you are from the US you are #@*#&, especially because Trump doesn’t support the open internet. It’s scary but maybe in the future you can’t get a job because the recruiter knows your searched on ‘how to deal with depression’ or anythings else that’s supposed to be private because it’s your f*cking right. Or you get a $100k fine because you pirated a movie 15 years ago. You need a VPN. You’re dumb for not using one. but what does a VPN do?
A VPN encrypts all your data so if it were be intercepted no one can ‘crack the code’ and damage your privacy.
Usually being online goes like this (simplified): Your computer —-> ISP (—–> keeps data —–> sells it)
But with a VPN it goes like: Your computer —–> VPN (encrypts data)—–> ISP (ISP can’t see shit)
Furthermore, a VPN hides your IP address and location by giving you another IP address located in Spain for example (you can often choose from a list and change as many times as you want).
Now that you know why you should get a VPN and what is does it is important to educate yourself because people often choose the wrong VPN. VPN providers are also businesses and have to obey the law. If you choose a VPN provider located in the US then you are throwing your money away because the laws in the US shits on your privacy. If the US gov wants the provider to give all their logs they have to obey. The ISP still can’t see what you are doing online and sell your data but the US gov can interfere with your VPN provider so NEVER CHOOSE A PROVIDER LOCATED IN THE US.
I just wanted to make that very clear so my followers don’t buy false security.
There is still more danger! Who says your VPN provider isn’t selling your data? You need to check their logging policy. Do they keep logs? If yes, what for? For how long do they keep them? Tip: Choose a provider who doesn’t keep logs
More about law The US is part of the Five Eyes program (the worst):
The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence (source)
There is also a Nine Eyes (bit better) and Fourteen Eyes Program (better). You don’t want a VPN provider who is located in one the Five Eyes countries. If you had to choose go for a provider located in a country that’s part of the Fourteen Eyes Program or even better, go for a country that isn’t part of any program!
I know this is a shitty explanation and please pardon my english but now it’s time to do your own research. Take your privacy seriously. Maybe WWIII breaks out and you get killed for liking the ‘wrong’ FB-page.
Go to this website: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/
Make sure that your future VPN provider both has green boxes for Privacy Jurisdiction and Privacy Logging.
I recommend ovpn.se and trust.zone. ovpn is located in Sweden so they are part of the 14 Eyes Program and they keep minimal logs. Their business ethics, however, are alright.
Trustzone is located in the Seychelles. No country can interfere and their privacy jurisdiction is the best you can get. The US want your data but needs to get it from Trustzone? The Seychelles will simply give them the finger and wave them goodbye. However, this makes this provider very appealing for people who torrent and criminals because they keep no logs (and that is how it shoud be) Also, there are almost no marketing efforts so this provider is one the cheapest)
Also, often providers such as ExpressVPN are being called ‘The Best’ on websites about VPNs but know that this is just marketing which also makes those provider more expensive (and they too shit on your privacy)
This must be the worst article you have ever read but please, please take your privacy very seriously.
EDIT: I got many people asking me which provider I use. For those who want to know, I use Trust Zone. They offer a free 3-day trial with no strings attached. But still do your own research!
I am also with Trustzone but I think you forgot to explain one of it’s most important features. It protects you when you are using someone else’s Wi-Fi. If you are at Starbucks and you use their Wi-Fi your privacy is at risk. Anyone with ill intentions could steal your information. Especially if you are using an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot. With a VPN your data gets encrypted so no one can steal it.
Wait, what’s going, on? Did trump destroy internet privacy with a bill or something? Where’s the news? Oh wait, why am I getting visions of Alex Jones and selling water purifiers?
He hasn’t yet but he says he wants to. And if he is serious about it it would be really easy to do. Since all our data is already recorded, as the person above explained.
Trump wants more surveillance of Muslim Americans. This in a country where internet privacy is already close to non-existent.
Trust.Zone has a free trial. Use it.
btw this post only has 11k notes? That’s quite disappointing for something this important.
Don’t reblog this post to save a life. Reblog this to protect an entire family!
@earth-ruins @writing-prompt-s Should I get trustzone for my mobile device?
If you use public Wi-Fi, then yes. Which VPN you use is up to you, amigo. Take @earth-ruins advice. Do your own research first.
@elvesfromthedeep just brought the current situation in the US to my attention (March 30, 2017).
Sources
Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped
Congress just voted to let internet providers sell your browsing history
To all my friends in the US, please read this entire post. Making everyone aware of VPNs is going to be my mission. Your privacy matters. Please reblog this post.
Don’t tell me you just wanted to scroll past this. Stop looking at pictures of cats for a moment, okay? Don’t you realize how important this is? This is dangerous! ‘America, the best FREE country in the world’ my ass.
With this new law your ISP can sell your Internet history which could include passwords, usernames, religion, credit card numbers, race and much more to the highest bidder. So here is what I want you to do. You are going to read the whole thing and before you think ’this is so important. Let me reblog this real quick and go back to admiring cats again-’ NO! Don’t reblog this. Take action first. Then reblog. Sign up for a free trial! Trust.Zone offers one (here). Yes. It might be difficult to set up a VPN for some people. But is that going to stop you from protecting yourself and your family? 30 minutes. 30 minutes is all that it takes. 5 if you know how to install software. The problem with some of you is that you see ‘difficult’ as something negative. I want you to see difficult differently. I need you to push through this stuff. You are going to protect yourself. There is nothing negative about that. VPNs are fun and costsaving too! A VPN bypasses geographical restrictions so you can access websites you normally can’t or you could start Netflix’s one month free trial over and over again- forever. And it’s legal! (unless you use it to buy weapons etc.,) Don’t tell yourself that you are too tired and that you will do this tomorrow. Because that isn’t going to happen and you know it. You have to do this right now. You only have to click on it. Don’t let this/shit/life just happen to you. Take yourself seriously. Get a VPN.
Privacy is not a privilege, it’s a fundamental human right
Ok sorry that it’s so freaking long and also sorry for the language, but this is extremely important. Please reblog!
Reblogging again bc this is important
We have a VPN you should get one too
Please read.
Can you get them for your phones?
^ you can. & when you have a subscription you can use it on your phone and computer. no need for separate subs or purchases.
it is absolutely so important for safety. but one of my fave things to do with my vpn is access non-US netflix. I mean other places have all the new good place eps, all the ‘classic’ bggo eps…
IMPORTANT
reblogging so new people can be aware :)
I say this with the most tender of affection, but I feel like more of you bitches should be on anxiety medication
that’s not even me being mean-funny, I’m just seeing waaaaaaaay too many people with untreated anxiety, and that is an incredibly soul-sucking way to live. you deserve better, so please be aware that medication and therapy are both powerful treatment options to consider.
wait, there’s medication for anxiety?
babe, there are a bunch of different types, that work in different ways depending on your brain’s specific needs. there are mild or more powerful options, long-term and short-term options, medication you can take daily or simply as needed in times of increased stress. some meds are used to treat multiple issues; e.g. many antidepressants are commonly prescriped for anxiety. (heck, I’m on one, wellbutrin, that helps with both my anxiety and adhd.) if you’re worried about the risks of a certain drug, there are other options your doctor can recommend. because again, there are a lot of different options!
medication isn’t for everyone, and it takes trial and error to find what works best for each individual (and your needs may change over time). but for many of us the right medication can be life-changing. a good psychiatrist will explain your options and work with you to find the best solution for you personally. therapy is also a very important tool to consider, and typically works best together with proper medication management. so consider both! both is good!
if you’re struggling, please talk to a doctor if you can. you don’t need to commit to lifelong medication, you can just–try it and see. see if it helps. even just short-term take-as-needed prescriptions can be incredibly helpful when you’re going through a rough patch.
above all, you deserve help when you are struggling. use whatever tools you can access.
“Oh no there’s only one bed” trope doesn’t really work with Team Rocket because honestly they’d be more like “oh my god look, a bed!”
Dude they canonically sleep all cuddled into a pile even when there isnt a bed
Perfect addition, and I love that so much
Allow me to add a collection of Team Rocket casually sleeping on each other, because this is the only reason I’m alive
Honestly they could have a million beds and they’d still end up sharing one
Hot
favorite fun fact to pull out at parties? preferably something that gets you weird looks
All the sea monster stories are actually whale dicks. All Blue Whales sex is a m/f/m threesome in which the female is sandwiched. So the bottom male's junk which is not in use rises above water like a flag, the same "flag" was percieved as sailors as sea monsters. Also, the top male's "not-so-flag-like" dick produces 20 liters of baby makin' juice out of which only 10% succesfully enters the female.....so.............explains why the ocean is so salty(´⊙ω⊙`).the largest whale phallus recorded was 16 feet and their balls can weight upto 150 pounds.
*you reach out to twist open a doorknob but instead receive a vigorous handshake*
*i suck its fingers*
*it sucks yours back*
suggestions for gender neutral version of mom/dad? something less formal than just ‘parent’
please note that while progenitor, guardian, spawnpoint etc are all respected titles, they are more the equivalent of mother/father than an affectionate nickname you would scream through the house multiple times a day. gimme something we can use people
I just tried to combine the words and got “dom” and i cant-
but wait, if we reverse ‘dom’ you get ‘mod’. I suggest we use ‘moderator’ as a gender neutral version of mom/dad
Admin and op would work makes them sound powerful and in charge of everything
Admin (respectful) Op (derogatory)
i was going to add something else to this but instead i got to thinking and i was like huh. what could you use.
in most languages the word for ‘mother’ usually starts with an M, because phonetically [m] is one of the easiest sounds for a newborn to make when they start babbling, and mothers tend to be the one most around the child. so in my mind that crosses M off the list, because it’s automatically associated with a feminine figure
similarly, ‘father’ tends to start with D, T, P, or B. (phonetically these sounds are very close together; [p, b] and [d, t] are all only different because of being voiced or unvoiced.) these are also phonetically easy letters and ones kids pick up on earlier.
now the hard sounds for kids are the following: [ɹ, d͡ʒ, tʃ, θ, ð] or in normal speak: the English R, the “j” or “dge” sound in “judge,” the “th” sound in “thigh” and the “th” sound in “the.” and we don’t want kids unable to say their parent’s name for years, so those are also off the list.
additionally, it’s easiest for young kids to just repeat the same sound twice rather than figuring out the tongue gymnastics of putting different sounds together, which is why kids will say Ma-Ma or Da-Da and not Ma-Mo or Da-Po. and we’ll want to stick with low back vowels like “ah” and avoid ones like the hard “i” or “ee.”
so what does that leave us? when we want a sound kids can learn easily and early but don’t want to just put a funky spin on “mama” or “dada”?
my suggestions: G, K, W, L. i personally lean towards W and L. they’re called liquids, since they’re the consonants that kind of aren’t consonants, and kids (and ESL learners) will tend to swap out the English R for a W or L until they can learn the R.
if i ever have a child, they’ll start calling me Wawa. then when they get older, they’ll call me Wala, or maybe even Wally.
and then, once they’re finally phonetically developed, they can call me by my true title as their nonbinary guardian for their 18+ years:
Waluigi.
Okay, but on an actually serious note, Baba is used in several different languages, but the meaning changes between mother, father, or grandparent. However, it is not used in English afaik, so it could be a good English option.
baba is what I use as a nonbinary parent (it has a long history for butches!) and this post hit me like a two-by-four to the back of the goddamn HEAD
How about Tata, because no matter what, they’re gonna try to latch onto a nipple
wait wait wait, do babies try to latch on to the nipples of non-lactating parents too? is this a thing? do babies just automatically zero in on any nipple in the vicinity, regardless of the presence of breasts or breast milk? is this an experience cis men deal with I need to KNOW
UPDATE: based on the notes the answer is a resounding YES!!!
