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#i can type twice as fast on a keyboard (in WPM) and can multitask e.g. talking and typing separate things simultaneously #if i'm typing on my phone i forget the second half of a sentence before i finish typing the first half smh #also the tendons in my hands can't last long typing on a phone before starting to burn #it's less that i learned to type on a keyboard and more that i have had call center/admin jobs where i had to use these skills for years

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#seal

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#i would have: #a viking axe #a dagger #an ace of spades playing card #a dove #a key #an otter #a pacific sea nettle jellyfish #the lyrics ''there's a way through this'' #i think i would be fine lol

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oceanic prisms 🌈✨ buy a wallpaper or leave a tip / twitter / instagram / shop 

#pixel art

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this is literally THE lewdest saint sebastian painting i've seen yet (including contemporary paintings) and it's from 1610

#st seb

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i know everyone (including me) loves the teatro comunale di bologna posters but i feel like we need to talk about the don giovanni one. they understand the assignment, which is 'this guy has to look like a trust fund grade-A SHITHEAD'. truly incredible

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For example, you might work from the beginning of the scene and from a point somewhere in the middle of the scene, switching back and forth between those points until they connect

like if the scene was "Character A is going to sneak into character B's house, and then character B is going to come home and find them, and then they are going to have an argument" you might start at the part where character B comes home, then skip back and write character A's initial sneaking in, and go back and forth a little bit, and then skip to the meat of the argument, and then connect the beginning

#oh constantly #my initial drafts are all like #text text text [this scene goes here] text text [add dialogue here] text text #otherwise i will get stuck on the same sentence forever

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Every discord I’ve ever been in has had a pets channel. I like that about humans. Our companions will never understand this form of affection, yet we still love them so much that we make space for them even in a virtual communities. We care regardless of whether it can be understood or returned.

#i started a discord server for an ace meetup group i'm in because people kept saying we should have one but no one was making one #i did not even really know how to use discord at the time lmao #and i don't even know how many times people suggested a pet pics channel and i just Did Not Understand #until someone gently informed me via DM that it is simply a part of discord culture to have one #so i finally made one #my genuine thanks to that person because i would never have figured it out on my own

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i did my best to include lots of birds. sorry if i missed your favorite or miscategorized it! i am no bird expert

#this one's for my multiple beloved bird moots 💛 #this was a very difficult decision but i had to go with waterfowl #both because i grew up around them and also because collectively they are all so Shaped

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I’m losing my fucking mind there’s a whole god damn online database full of illustrations for illuminated manuscripts, you don’t need a subscription or anything. And it has a search function so you can enter key words for whatever you want to see. Right now I’m looking for fucked up illustrations of the apocalypse in Revelations, like so;

If you click the images on the website they come out super high def too. They also have a couple bestiaries, as well as some illustrations of the Divine Comedy. This is my new best friend I’m so fucking excited

#noice #medieval stuff

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tag yourself

#c minor

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Ancient City

#pixel art

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this book is so clearly designed for people who have not experienced a decade plus of high dosage uninterrupted tumblr poisoning because to me this whole section reads somewhat like “enjoyers of food and beverages may be surprised to hear about ‘bread’ and ‘water’”

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‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’

- John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.

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I just want you all to know, that if and when this site does experience a real exodus and/or get sunsetted for good, even if we don't keep in touch I'll remember you so fondly. You're the online equivalent of the other kid on the beach where we built sandcastles together; the girl at the campsite where we explored the trees. You're the man next to me on the train who chatted cheerfully to pass the time when we got delayed. You're the drunk person who shared kind words in the bathroom at the club, you're the talented artists at the life drawing class or the poetry night in a city where I don't live anymore. It makes me sad that maybe in the future our paths won't cross so easily, but even when we leave this little shared piece of cyberspace, carried away on our briefly intersecting trajectories, just know I still love you