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here's a tip if you struggle with being too scared to write bc you want it to be perfect and you don't know where to start: try opening a new document, copy paste what you have so far, and start writing from there. it takes SO MUCH pressure off knowing it's just a separate doc where you can experiment and do whatever you want, trust me but also just write what you love, even if it turns out "bad." write that scene you daydream about or want to read, even if it comes later in the story or you're not going to share it with anyone. let yourself have fun with it

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to the casual observer it may look like i'm trying to summon a demon but anyone who knows me will realize that i am simply calling my wife

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got told at lunch "you feel like Tumblr Incarnate" and i had to tell them i've been here for 13 years and counting. i was here three years before dashcon happened. i saw the mishapocalypse. i survived the gigapause. i've been here longer than the shoelaces post. i've been here since it was hipsters versus fandom and i played both sides extensively by overdoing the sepia filters on everything and making my own flashing galaxy gif edits for my fandom posts. i'm every tumblr. it's all in me

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I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”

Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile. 

You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening.

I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s treating other people with respect gone mad!”

Happy Valentine’s Day.

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i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

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How many people do you follow? Not your followers! How many people do YOU follow?

Under 10

10+

30+

50+

75+

100+

150+

200+ (!?!?!?)

#I'm at 1466 as of this moment #and I'm pretty sure it'll grow in few minutes again #there's too many interesting tumblrs/people/topics to follow to stop #still I aplaud everyone whos under 200

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regarding the genocide song contest:

various past eurovision contestants are campaigning for the removal of israel and some national finalists are now choosing to boycott. olly alexander, who will rep the uk, condemned the palestinian genocide and was subsequently attacked by israeli media (in a blatant rule violation the ebu did nothing about)

slovenian broadcaster rtvslo is purportedly trying to negotiate the removal of israel

1000 artists from host country sweden are preparing to send an open letter to the ebu to ban israel; the swedish left wing has also called for israel to be removed immediately

iceland is officially threatening to boycott eurovision pending the removal of israel

word on the street is that if iceland does compete, it will send palestinian artist bashar murad who is openly anti-israel and has collabed with previous icelandic reps hatari, aka the guys who did this back in 2019

iceland is now leading in the odds whereas israel has been steadily dropping, suggesting that the bookies are aware israel is becoming increasingly unpopular

lastly, in a move so ridiculous i'm beginning to suspect eurovision is a figment of our collective imagination, israel is seemingly gearing up to enter eden golan, a moscow-based russian singer. while russia is still banned for terrorism.

if you're european: please contact your participating broadcaster and demand for the removal of israel, or try to contact your nation's selected artist to put pressure on the broadcaster. if you're swedish, please try contacting svt or authorities with security concerns regarding the inclusion of israel. if israel does enter eden golan, complain about her selection and ties to russia. and absolutely DO NOT vote on, watch or promote this show if israel does end up competing.

#!! #palestine #esc #eurovision #situation with israel #ban israel #boycott israel

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while not an actual action item for the general strike, you could also find some Palestinian recipes to cook. Part of the attempted erasure of Palestinian identity has been Israeli appropriation of recipes/foods. (And some pan-Arab foods too)

#palestine

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I found a Palia community that - from the introduction - should be fine with my playstyle but my social anxiety still takes better of me and I'm too scared to join. </3

bc I only play once in a while, I'm not able to do daily or even weekly. I might log in five days in a row and disappear for the rest of the month and it makes me worried it might annoy ppl too much.

and then, it's still a game that's not a single player in the longer run no matter how much you try, ugh

#personal ramblings #palia game #palia mmo #palia #palia open beta #I love the game so much #but idea of playing with others is so scary #what to do what to do #it also might be fun to play with others??? #still...

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If you're logged into your AO3 account, you can mute any other account on the Archive. Muting means that you will no longer see:

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columns of kelp underwater are so gorgeous. absolutely one of my favorite things in the natural world

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Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

#!!!

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Yūzen  友禅

 Auparavant les kosode 小袖 (ancêtres du kimono 着物) étaient décorés de broderies, ou par teinture au fil noué, voire décorés de motifs au pochoir (katakanoko). Miyazaki Yûzensai 宮崎友禅斎 (1654-1736), moine peintre de Kyōto 京都, a amélioré la technique de la teinture en employant une technique de peinture par mise en réserve à la colle.  Cette technique s'appelle le “yūzen”, en hommage à son inventeur. 

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not even in a sexual way but i’m just craving affection because i feel like crap i just want someone to hug me for a couple of hours and tell me i’m going to be okay 

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Some character designs with some…atypical color choices? I guess. I don’t know what’s going on in that area.

This is Nimona and her supervillain friend (He doesn’t have a name yet, I’m working on that). Nimona is his sidekick/squire, they’re like the Batman and Robin of slightly Medieval villains, but she’s actually way more evil than him. He does what he does to make a point, and he doesn’t really want anyone get hurt - Nimona just gets a kick out of destroying stuff.

I’m going to attempt to make a two page comic with them? We’ll see how this goes.