Practically Perfect in Every Way

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[shamebats]

Why teenagers are the best.

Posted by @ missfiction (she/her).

[brofisting]

helpful tattoo reminder: they are technically Injuries so u have to eat a lot of calories drink a lot of water and sleep a lot after so your body can Heal The Injury

[brofisting]

another helpful tattoo reminder: the 24-48 hours after you get a tattoo your brain can not be trusted in regards to whether or not you should have gotten that tattoo, if you have somehow ruined your life, if it turned out ugly, etc. ignore that

[brofisting]

finally, while i am at it: always bring a candy bar and a sugary drink to your appointment for blood-sugar reasons (worst case scenario) or so you can have a treat (unilaterally applicable)

[brofisting]

this has been your friendly neighborhood haver of 19* tattoos (assorted sizes and placements)

*not totally sure here. bad at counting

[parasocialanxiety]

Can I just emphasize that not everyone reading this has yet encountered the information that injuries require food, hydration, and sleep? I think the way many people associate rest and injury is that you rest the injury itself to avoid making it worse, but overlook that the healing process itself requires rest regardless of if not-rest directly injures it further.

Also exercise is a form of controlled injury so that as your body heals it heals stronger. You also need food-hydration-rest for strength and cardiovascular improvements after exercise.

[krisrisk]

louder for the people who think chronically ill people should just work out more please

exercise is a form of controlled injury

[wizardshark]

Listen I get it but you CANNOT use "sensory nightmare" as an excuse to avoid essential things. You HAVE to find a way to make it work, such as finding effective alternatives. But you can't just avoid it.

You need to eat some vegetables in your diet or you will become a lich.

You have to wear a life jacket or you will literally drown and die.

You need to be able to exist in public spaces with children.

You have to find a way.

[clytemnestraaa]

hi this drives me crazy

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

these are all different words with different meanings.

[prokopetz]

Cultivating a thick skin regarding criticism of your own work is useful not only for peace of mind, but because even haterism can provide valuable feedback. If someone has a strong negative reaction to your work and the stuff that's pissing them off is all stuff you put there on purpose, you know you're communicating successfully!

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Do NOT

under ANY circumstances

give Renfield a cat

[romanimp]

just saw a post giving "writing advice" about how long paragraphs are Bad actually and I'm smh. There's nothing inherently wrong with long or short paragraphs. it's just a tool. It's all just a series of tools.

When I want to do a writing exercise I do the one Ursula Le Guin used to give to her students in which she said: "Thanks to “show don’t tell,” I find writers in my workshops who think exposition is wicked. They’re afraid to describe the world they’ve invented. (I make them read the first chapter of The Return of the Native, a description of a landscape, in which absolutely nothing happens until in the last paragraph a man is seen, from far away, walking along a road. If that won’t cure them nothing will.)"

So I go read the first chapter of The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (sometimes I even physically write out some of it on paper) and then I go write a few paragraphs of something I've been working on. It works like a charm. Puts me in a rhythm that I can use to mull over a scene.

Don't listen to exposition haters. Write a long paragraph. Write a short paragraph. Know why you're doing it. Don't just let people tell you "long paragraphs are bad" ffs

[m-7572]

People on twitter are acting like Artfight is more about getting free art from big artists you like by attacking them and less about appreciating original characters (which have been relentlessly bullied by almost every community for years now) and its getting annoying so heres your reminder that you should be drawing oc designs you like and nobody is obligated to attack you or at all

[redstonedust]

my worst habit as a writer is that i lovveeeeee to expand on families as character and worldbuilding but then i have to sit here like. is there any possible way for me to introduce "has an aunt whos a postal worker and single mother trying to bounce back from a recent divorce' into the narrative. can i naturally drop my aunt lore. its important to me.

[heywriters]

Even the most observant character will only notice what they are already trained to observe.

Even the smartest character can be blind to the most obvious answer.

Sometimes plot is easy to write, but writing a realistic thought process requires acknowledging that brains are weird and individuals can't always follow plot.

[2well2water]

i am so sickkkkkkkk of people seeing misogyny perpetuated by a man and automatically going "well SOMEONE'S closeted" omfg you know that men hate women even when theyre attracted to them right??? why are you more interested in making fun of gay people than hating misogynists. you fucking freak

[giraffeter]

I often see posts about curating your own online experience that make the point, “content creators aren’t your parents.” And, yes, that is absolutely true! And I try not to be like “as a parent,“ but as a parent…

EVEN PARENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE READING/VIEWING BEHAVIOR. NOT filter everything ahead of time for their kid.

When my kiddo was 5, his pediatrician was asking him the usual Well Child Visit questions (“What are your favorite foods? What do you do to get your body moving? Do you know what to do if you get lost in a public place?” Etc.) and she asked, “What do you do if you see something on TV that scares or upsets you?”

I piped up like, “Oh, he doesn’t watch TV without one of us in the room,” which was true at the time and is still largely true now. She said, “Yes, but that won’t always be the case, so make sure you’re talking to him about what to do if he sees something that upsets him.”

So we started talking to him about that, and the answer is simple: “Turn it off or leave the room, and talk to someone you trust about what you saw and what you’re feeling.”

The answer is NOT “Ask your parents to make sure you never see anything upsetting again,” because that’s just not possible — and ultimately that would be doing the kid a disservice, since sooner or later he’s going to be out in the world where we can’t control what he watches or reads. That doesn’t mean we don’t try to make sure he’s watching/reading age-appropriate stuff, it just means that’s not the only safeguard he has — and that’s a good thing.

So yes, content creators aren’t your parents and aren’t responsible for making sure you never see anything you don’t like — but also, your own parents should have taught you what to do when that happens. So if they didn’t, take it from me, your internet mom:

Turn it off.

Walk away.

Talk to someone you trust about how you’re feeling.

And leave the person who created the thing that upset you alone.

[desolationlesbian]

somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

[bogleech]

this can't be true can it

[bogleech]

Apparently yes and I cannot wrap my head around this. You're telling me most of these teens and early 20 something's dominating social media do not even have a laptop full of organized directories of favorite images? They aren't downloading and playing with creative SOFTWARE rather than stupid little "apps??" They already can't navigate what was supposed to be the new standard level of technological familiarity!?

[ivv]

what the fuck

[beemovieerotica]

oh so this is why no one pirates media anymore

[what-even-is-thiss]

Pc is more customizable and has a bigger screen. It’s easier to block ads. I can actually read recipes on my pc and never think about ads while I’m using it. Typing is faster, print is bigger, an actually good version of mahjong comes free with it. Clicking things feels good.

[winry-lucy-beth]

I'm 28 and teach High School and things have changed in the 10 years since I was in school. When I was in school the average student knew way more about all digital technology than the teachers. I remember helping my teachers with tech issues all the time. That has completely flipped now.

Teenagers are now more digitally illiterate than teachers. I had to show several students in each class how to add bullet points to a document the other day.

At the beginning of this year I regularly had students call me over and say they can't find something they are searching for on Google because it didn't pop up on the summary box at the top. At no point did they think to scroll down and look at the other links or click into a website to see if they can find it by reading the article. They are beginning to learn but it was disturbing that 15 year olds didn't know how to find basic information online.

[totally-titular]

It gets worse the further you go back. Back when gen Z was in elementary school, administrators believed that those kids would be so entrenched in the digital world that there was no need to teach them to type, how to use email, or how to stay safe online. Then they decided that teaching students how to write wasn't important because typing is more common. But they aren't taught how to type, and typing isn't something you learn by osmosis.

No keyword use on Google, no ability to write an email, no understanding of customization unless it's listed in the opening stages of purchasing a new phone. It's not their fault - they've been let down from the beginning. I can't tell you how often I've had to help my sisters look something up because they didn't know how. I used to type their last-minute essays while they dictated because I can type at 90 wpm and they could type around 20 wpm in high school.

Kids today have been let down in ways I can't believe, in ways I struggle to understand. I teach college students, most of whom think their canvas inbox is their email account. It's an uphill battle that they have no choice but to fight.

[slimegargoyle]

guys you gotta stop thinking of women in their 30s as elderly it’s just misogyny

[courtesyname]

you also gotta stop thinking about actual elderly women as lesser human beings. Youth is not a measure of one’s worth.

[tokkibean]

i love fanfiction because unlike original work the plot and characters are all plotted and characterised for you to use so its a really good solution for those “i want to write but i dont know what to write” moods it lets you focus soley on the craft and its wonderful

[aureutr]

Unfriendly reminder that if you're displeased with a piece of fanfiction your courses of action are:

Read something else

Bitch PRIVATELY to friends

Write your own take on the premise (strongly recommend!)

All of the above

Under no circumstances should you try to "politely" critique the author who put the story up as a hobby. For free. Especially if the story in question is multiple years old. Ao3 is not Goodreads