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WE GOT FESTIVAL INVITATIONS FOR OUR AUTHORS

#I’M SO FUCKING HAPPY LOL #and I was the one to do those pitches 😌#I thought at first that they hadn’t been invited. bc we got one (1) invite from the same festival on Monday and then nothing else #and we thought that was it #and I was a bit disappointed that we only got the single invitation despite pitching so many of our authors #but then today. half hour before clocking out. THREE MORE AUTHOR INVITATIONS #screaming jumping punching the air #personal #work

gasterofficial

curlybrow-kun

One Piece party is canon to me

curlybrow-kun

HAPPY PENIS DEATH WEDNESDAY

#scheduling this for Wednesday #op #op party

creatingblackcharacters

what are the correct uses of people of colour and which ones are to be avoided?

Okay. Grammar lesson!

"People of color" is a noun. So use it as a noun.

"I am speaking about people of color."

People who are of color. People. People is a noun.

It is not, as the Internet likes to use it, an adjective!

"POC characters!" is the color blind racist equivalent of "colored characters!"

Do you want to call me colored? Is that the racism we really want to use? Old 1960s racism? Shall I go to the colored water fountain next? I'm sorry- the POC water fountain?

If you are talking about all non-white people as a group, use "People of Color".

"White people are used to being the default- which is why they get to be White and the rest of us are People of Color. The Other."

If you are talking about a specific group of people, and you KNOW that, then SAY their group and NOT "people of color".

"I am not just a person of color, I am Black. Antiblackness is about Black people, not all people of color. Otherwise, I'd just say racism. Words have meaning!"

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#yeah the other day a coworker called me over and asked me if it should be ‘BIPOC’ or ‘BIPOC people’#and I had to explain that BIPOC is itself a noun and not an adjective despite how lots of people use it #he was genuinely taken aback by that hfjgkfk #and for context he is an editor and we work at a publishing house #I’m grateful that he asked me though (despite me not being in an editorial position) and trusted my judgement instead of just Assuming #but yeah it was kind of an eye-opening moment. and also reminded me of how we have zero nonwhite editors working full time at the press rn

sapphling

the more time you spend in active recovery from any given self destructive behavior or addiction the more you understand the common conception of the "relapse" as defined by a broken "streak" to be, like, so bad for one's own well-being that it would be funny if it weren't resulting in just a lot of misery and death

the-peoples-puppy

I told my girlfriend to think of quitting vaping as training her endurance by seeing how long she can run before she gets tired, then doing it again and hoping to go further next time. She said it really helped her.

stantler

Happy Memorial Day

wizardarchetypes

Do you have any favorite instant pot recipes you could share? I'm looking at getting one also for disability reasons, and would love to have a variety of yummy foods to try out

My favorite instant pot meals are Lasagna Soup and Butternut squash soup. Both of which you can make in a regular pot ofc. They're just faster in the instant pot. You can do so much more with an instant pot but I'm an insatiable soup fiend so I fear all of my recs are gonna be soups.

I usually prep my instant pot meals all in the same day and put them in freezer bags. Then throughout the week I can just open the bag and dump them into the pot. For the lasagna soup you only have to keep the meat separate because you brown it first on the saute setting before you dump the rest in.

The above linked recipes are similar to the ones I used way back when from a cookbook when I first made the soups, but these days tbh I sort of just feel the measurements in my heart and change ingredients however I like.

#:o #cooking #for reference

wizardarchetypes

while we’re on the topic:

when i was practically housebound by pots and many days getting out of bed was difficult, i went thrifting on a good day and bought myself a few pairs of nice, matching pajamas. i picked out a few pairs of underwear and socks and put them all together and designated them strictly for daytime wear. i didn’t wear them to bed except for naps.

when i woke up I got dressed in the underwear and pajamas and socks and those were my clothes.

spending all day in bed or on the couch in dayclothes like jeans was uncomfortable, but i did hate waking up in my sleepclothes and wearing the same ones all day. my days and nights already ran together miserably, and i wanted to get dressed and feel put together and nice when i had a little bit of energy.

getting dressed in pajamas as dayclothes vastly improved my mental health. i cannot recommend it enough.

and yes, when i had the energy to drive down the street to pick up food or to the pharmacy etc. i went in my pajamas because they were most comfortable for me they were my dayclothes, even if other people didn’t think so. of course sometimes when i went out i had to put on standard dayclothes if i were entering a situation where people’s opinions of me did matter (dr. appointments etc.) but mostly i lived in my day pajamas.

whatever you can do to improve your day & therefore your life matters, and it is good enough.

#even if I’m having the worst depression day it helps me so much to change Out of the clothes I use for sleep and Into a daytime outfit #even if I don’t / can’t leave the apartment. just getting dressed helps so much

propertyofjameswilson

happy pride month everyone!!

#house md

optical-trapping

#video #chinese #mandarin #orientalism

louisegluckpdf

i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what i’m calling the “little life” and “what else?” tests

louisegluckpdf

for reference.

#writing #craft #this was the hardest goddamn lesson I had to learn wrt writing to publish lol #that eternal question of ‘so what’#I had a piece critiqued by an author and he was very kind about it but then he also asked me ‘what are you trying to say with this’#(or something along those lines. I can’t remember his exact wording but the sentiment was very similar to the above posts)#and I was shocked when I realized I couldn’t answer him lol #like I’d described things that happened and how I felt about it. but then there was nothing beneath that #and that was the fundamental overarching flaw of that particular piece #that piece had won me some uni awards and local praise but never got anything beyond that and I also always felt the piece was missing smth #and that was the reason! I couldn’t explain why The Reader Should Care. and the piece couldn’t develop further bc I was missing that Reason #I feel like — at least for me — the most difficult part of writing creative nonfiction/memoir-like pieces is just. finding that Reason lol #I struggle with it so much. and I feel like I’m at a stage/level where I can’t afford to worry about that yet #because otherwise I just won’t write at all 💀#and realizing this was humbling as hell. like I had to go all the way back to the very basics lol #fish in a puddle entering the ocean for the first time kind of moment #but fortunately I don’t feel discouraged by it. there’s a kind of excitement in realizing how much you don’t know #and how much more you could possibly grow #also imo—I feel like a distinction might need to be made re: types / reasons for writing #imo the above post doesn’t apply at all wrt writing for yourself and/or writing for pure fun. like do whatever the hell you want forever #it’s something of a different beast I think when it comes to writing to be Published. writing that you intend to have read by an Audience #THEN you have to start taking into consideration What you want readers to take away from your piece #I don’t think I’m wording this well or comprehensibly at all 💀 but like I don’t mean that your writing Needs To Be Widely Marketable #or whatever the fuck in order to be Published traditionally or otherwise #but there maybe should be like. a reason. something there that you’re trying to say beyond just ‘this happened’#like. a reason as to why somebody is taking time out of their day in order to read this #maybe that reason is just Entertainment. and that’s okay!!!#but then maybe there are other reasons too / instead. and you have to find those reasons #I hope to god this doesn’t read as snobbish 💀

delicate-viscera

usamerican soldier STUNNED into silence when he learns that his willing and paid participation in the murder and neocolonization of foreign people is a huge red flag to everyone with a conscience

base-and-superstructure

usamerican civilian stunned to learn that justifying and defending this willing and paid participation (even tho it's the only way to go to college/get a job/whatever nice thing that is apparently worth more than other people's lives and freedoms) is an equally huge red flag fr fr fr

#also cdn military lol

m3atbuff3t

i coul dnever be the captain of a ship. everyday id be like third lieutenant ..... do a backflip lol

#op #to me.#Luffy is like this except he Is captain and would absolutely ask his crew to do backflips if they could lol #also shachi / penguin coded post

cripinpain

healthcare should not have a weight limit.

cripinpain

like it doesn’t matter if a person is so fat they’re immobile & have infections in their skin folds & need assistance with everything from hygiene to cooking to cleaning etc. they should still get good medical care.

the fattest person you possibly imagine still deserves medical care. it also doesn’t matter why they’re fat, even if that person got fat because all they did was eat and eat without ever exercising, they still deserve medical care.

rocketspurs

“toldja not to overdo it,”

#;-;#I think about young law growing up with the swallow island trio so often #law really has lost Everything three separate times huh #op #fanart #art #trafalgar law #op shachi

soaked-doors

birds of a feather

#trafalgar law #op #fanart #art

beholdingslut

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

dikdikpronouncedxylophone

bigfoots-biggest-fan

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

punkrorschach

happy first day of pride everyone

#audio

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