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[dhillarearenn]

some makeup advice for new girls, women, and fems, from someone who started out a girl but still had to realise she was one after all:

YOUTUBE MAKEUP ARTISTS ARE (generally) FULL OF IT. There is no set "correct" method for doing makeup! How you apply literally every aspect of it depends on your face shape, individual features, skin tone, and personal style. YouTube MUAs who make tutorials will give fantastic advice if you share their exact face shape and features. Otherwise, take it all with a grain of salt. They're not a useless resource, but their words are NOT gospel.

Wash your face before applying makeup! A gentle cleanser (I typically use Cetaphil Gentle Cleanser and Happy Skin by Lush) and a rinse goes a long way. Removing the sweat and sebum/oil buildup will help massively, both in ease of application and overall final result. No cleanser? No prob, find some gentle facial wipes in the makeup section of the grocery store. It'll make a world of difference!

Also: use Q-tips to neaten up lipstick! You can get angled/pointed beauty q-tips at most makeup stores or stores with makeup sections. People rarely get their lipstick absolutely perfect first try, no matter how experienced they are. You can always adjust, tidy, redo, or start over.

When wearing lipstick, you do not need to line your whole mouth to the edge. Most people actually have uneven lips! It's usually not noticeable until you apply makeup to the whole shape and cry because it looks lopsided and messy. It's okay. You can change the shape of your lips and take creative liberties with it. No foundation or coverup necessary; just play with it, figure out what looks good and even and which shapes flatter your face. You can also overline a little on the top lip; try giving yourself a small cupid's bow! If you've already got one, try enhancing its shape :)

Similarly to Point 3; with liquid eyeliner, the way you may need to give yourself wings will differ depending on your eye shape. For example, I have hooded eyelids, so in order to get an angled wing, I actually have to draw straight up from the middle of my eyelid, then out, rather than following the corner of the eye. Finding out what eye shape you have and then looking at "how to do eyeliner for x eye type" will help much more than a standard tutorial.

This is less of a beginner tip, but primer really makes a difference. It helps with ease of application, blending, and makes the colours really stand out. Foundation can work as primer in a pinch for contour and blush, but I'd recommend saving up and investing in the real thing. Just remember there's different kinds of primer for face and eye makeup!

You don't need to apply foundation to your whole entire face. You don't actually need foundation at all; it can clog up your pores really badly, and using it as concealer runs the risk of worsening acne and rosacea. But if you want to use it, a little bit goes a long way! Sponge applicators work the best, in ny experience. Also, when in doubt, go for the lighter shade; not because lighter skin "looks better", but because too-dark foundation will make you orange.

If your foundation looks shiny or feels sticky or heavy, gently dab away the excess, and try following up with some powdered foundation. This sets and seals the layer and helps it look more natural!

Mascara is your friend, but apply her last or she will be your enemy. Also, if you've got blonde or red eyelashes-- try brown mascara first! You may find it enhances your eyes more than stark black, but it depends on your style. There's tonnes of different brush types and mascara types to experiment with, too.

Applying mascara is much less intimidating than it seems. Firstly, wipe the excess on the edge of the tube, like with lip stain. Be gentle, you don't always have to "blink" down on the brush. If your lashes naturally sit curved up or out, tilt your head up and back slightly, meeting your eyes in the mirror so your eyelashes sit away from the skin. If your eyelashes naturally sit downwards, tilt your head forward Kubrick-style and look up at your reflection. Gently comb the brush once or twice through your top lashes. Experiment with adjusting the angle you brush at or the ways you tilt your head, depending on your eye shape and size. For hard-to-reach eye corners, try using the very end of your brush with minimal product, or find an angled mascara brush designed for hooded/folded eyelids. For lower lashes, if they sit curved out or down, it can help to tilt your head forward slightly. If they sit on a short angle, tilting your head up and back can help you reach them. Using less product (wiping away more excess), lightly glide the brush down your lower lashes once or twice, until you're happy with the result.

Don't worry if mascara gets on your skin or eyebrows, it happens to everyone ♡

Most importantly, find what works for you. Makeup can seem really overwhelming; there's cream eyeshadow, powdered eyeshadow, liquid lip stain, tube lipstick, pen eyeliner, pencil eyeliner, liquid eyeliner, cream primer, liquid primer, pencil primer, liquid foundation, powdered foundation, concealer, rouge, blush, contour, bronzer, highlighter, mascara, mascara brush types, lip liner... You'll be okay. We're all scared of it at first. ♡

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I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw or a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently

#unreliable narrators #writing #narration #also! the reason/motive for a narrator's unreliability is imperative. are they hiding something from you or themselves?

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Idk who needs to hear this but...write. Write about things you enjoy. About things that are "problematic". Write about controversial topics and non-controversial topics and if it's about a topic you don't know much about but you want to write about it then do your research, talk with people who know more on the subject, who live through it, but WRITE. Care about what you are creating, put love and emotion in it but don't let ANYONE gatekeep creating something that will make you happy.

#WRITE FOR YOU !

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If anyones interested in learning about the first black vampire short story, published in 1819, heres a link to the wiki, its called The Black Vampyre, and its about a former slave turned vampire who seeks revenge on his slave master. Its actually a first in many categories!

#the black vampyre #fav #library

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Imagine cutting humanitarian aid to any country around the world without batting an eyelash. People at their most vulnerable -who are being massively ethnically cleansed and displaced -who are being permanently disabled because of destructive bombings and with whom will probably have little to no resources to help them manage these disabilities their entire lives, who have been and are at the brink of starvation and death... this is what these western/European countries are doing instead of the bare minimum which is a ceasefire.

Albeit it's not a surprise to me (or most of us) since settler-colonial and imperial countries like the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK have notorious histories of genocides against Indigenous people and have been (and currently are) perpetrators of imperial violence.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency provides basic assistance for people -and to deny that life-saving help to Palestinian people (because we know what this is about) is aligning with IOF terrorism -and it undeniably makes these governments all equally complicit.

My MP's office is closed on weekends but I'll be calling and emailing her, and then emailing genocidal apologist Trudeau. Call and/or email your representatives. This is beyond heinous. I truly don't think these governments could sink any lower -be any more evil, and then they do and it's beyond disgraceful.

#WOW that is fucking disgusting #calling and emailing my reps + pm today. fucking vile

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I need everyone’s best character advice. STAT.

#most of all remember rules are made to be broken! #how you write a character can also be very dependant on the genre/plot/narrator/etc ♡ #but anyways that first answer especially is stellar advice #characters #character building

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Duolingo Alternatives by Language

Disclaimer: I haven't used or tested all of them. All resources have different strengths, e.g. Drops being designed for vocabulary. They often aren't full alternatives for Duolingo or formal classes. I just wanted to compile resources for all languages on Duolingo to make the switch easier, especially for the less popular languages.

Feel free to also check out my collection of free textbooks

If you want a more detailed resource list for any of these languages (or perhaps one not listed here) you can send me an ask and I can see what I can do.

Arabic

AlifBee

Arabic Unlocked

Beelinguapp

Bluebird

Busuu

Clozemaster

Drops

Infinite Arabic

Ling

LinGo Play

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Qlango

Write It! Arabic

Catalan

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

LingQ

LyricsTraining

Mondly

Qlango

Chinese

Bluebird

Beelinguapp

Bunpo

Busuu

Chineasy

Clozemaster

Drops

Du Chinese

Hello Chinese

HeyChina

Immersive Chinese

Infinite Chinese

Ling

Lingodeer

LinGo Play

Lingopie

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Pleco Chinese Dictionary

Qlango

Czech

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Ling

LinGo Play

Mango

Mondly

Qlango

Danish

Babbel

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

Lingvist

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Qlango

Dutch

Babbel

Bluebird

Busuu

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

Lingvist

LingQ

LyricsTraining

Mango

Mondly

Say Something in Dutch

Qlango

Esperanto

Clozemaster

Drops

Esperanto12.net

Kurso de Esperanto

LingQ

Qlango

Finnish

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

LingQ

LyricsTraining

Mango

Mondly

Qlango

French

Babbel

Bluebird

Beelinguapp

Bunpo

Busuu

Clozemaster

Collins French Dictionary

Conjuu

Dr French

Drops

HeyFrance

Infinite French

Lilata

Ling

Linga

Lingodeer

LinGo Play

Lingopie

Lingvist

LingQ

Listen Up

LyricsTraining

Mango

Mondly

Nextlingua

Oxford French Dictionary

Qlango

TV5MONDE

Xeropan

German

Babbel

Bluebird

Beelinguapp

Bunpo

Busuu

Clozemaster

Collins German Dictionary

Conjuu

Drops

DW Learn German

Infinite German

Ling

Linga

Lingodeer

Lingopie

LinGo Play

Lingvist

LingQ

LyricsTraining

Mango

Mondly

Nextlingua

Oxford German Dictionary

Qlango

Xeropan

Greek

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Drops

Greek Alphabet Academy

Ling

LinGo Play

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Qlango

Write It! Greek

Guaraní

Clozemaster

Guarani Ayvu

Haitian Creole

Bluebird

Mango

Hawaiian

Drops

Mango

ʻŌlelo Online

Hebrew

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Shepha

Write It! Hebrew

High Valyrian

Valyrian Dictionary

Hindi

Bhasha

Bluebird

Beelinguapp

Clozemaster

Drops

Hindwi Dictionary

Ling

LinGo Play

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Qlango

Hungarian

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Qlango

Indonesian

Babbel

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Irish

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Collins Irish Dictionary

Drops

Easy Irish

Ling

Mango

Teanglann

Italian

Babbel

Beelinguapp

Bluebird

Bunpo

Busuu

Clozemaster

Collins Italian Dictionary

Conjuu

Drops

Infinite Italian

Ling

Linga

Lingodeer

Lingopie

LinGo Play

Lingvist

LingQ

LyricsTraining

Mango

Mondly

Nextlingua

Oxford Italian Dictionary

Qlango

Japanese

Beelinguapp

Bluebird

Bunpo

Busuu

Clozemaster

Drops

HeyJapan

Hiragana Quest

Infinite Japanese

kawaiiDungeon

Ling

Lingodeer

Lingopie

Lingvist

LingQ

LyricsTraining

Mango

Mondly

Oyomi Japanese Reader

renshuu

Takoboto Japanese Dictionary

Todaii

Qlango

Write It! Japanese

Klingon

boQwl! Klingon Language

Klingon Translator

Write It! Klingon

Korean

Beelinguapp

Bluebird

Bunpo

Busuu

Clozemaster

Drops

Hangul Quest

HeyKorea

Infinite Korean

Ling

LinGo Play

Lingopie

Lingodeer

Lingvist

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Qlango

Write It! Korean

Latin

Bluebird

Cattus

Clozemaster

Collins Latin Dictionary

Grammaticus Maximus

Latinia

Legentibus

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Perdisco

Qlango

Vice Verba

Navajo

Navajo Language Renaissance

Navajo Language Program

Speak Navajo

Norwegian

Babbel

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

Lingvist

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Mjolnir Norwegian

Norskappen

Qlango

Polish

Babbel

Bluebird

Busuu

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

Lingvist

LingQ

LyricsTraining

Mango

Mondly

Qlango

Portuguese

Babbel

Beelinguapp

Bluebird

Bunpo

Busuu

Clozemaster

Collins Portuguese Dictionary

Drops

Infinite Portuguese

Ling

Lingodeer

Lingopie

LinGo Play

Lingvist

LingQ

LyricsTraining

Mango

Mondly

Nextlingua

Qlango

Romanian

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Qlango

Russian

Babbel

Bluebird

Beelinguapp

Busuu

Clozemaster

Collins Russian Dictionary

Drops

Infinite Russian

Ling

Linga

LinGo Play

Lingopie

Lingodeer

Lingvist

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Nextlingua

Qlango

Write It! Russian

Scottish Gaelic

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Go!Gaelic

Mango

Spanish

Babbel

Beelinguapp

Bluebird

Bunpo

Busuu

Clozemaster

Collins Spanish Dictionary

ConjuGato

Conjuu

Drops

Infinite Spanish

Ling

Linga

Lingodeer

LinGo Play

Lingvist

LingQ

Listen Up

LyricsTraining

Mango

Mondly

Nextlingua

Say Something in Spanish

SpanishDict

Qlango

Xeropan

Swahili

Bluebird

Bui Bui Swahili App

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

LingQ

Mango

Nkenne

Swedish

Babbel

Beelinguapp

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

Lingvist

LingQ

LyricsTraining

Mango

Mondly

Qlango

Turkish

Babbel

Beelinguapp

Bluebird

Busuu

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

LingQ

LyricsTraining

Mango

Mondly

Qlango

Ukrainian

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Drops

Ling

LinGo Play

LingQ

Mango

Mondly

Mova Ukrainian

Qlango

Speak Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Collins Vietnamese Dictionary

Drops

Learn Vietnamese with Annie

Ling

Lingodeer

LinGo Play

Mango

Mondly

Welsh

BBc Cymru Fyw

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Say Something in Welsh

Yiddish

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Mango

Proste Yiddish

Roni Gal Learn Yiddish

Vaybertaytsh

Yiddish Book Center

Zulu

Bluebird

Nkenne

Bonus: Polygloss which claims to be available for all languages as long as there is another user also learning the same language

#linguistics #language #ref

[dhillarearenn]

few things make me happier than when a fictional character has some kind of condition that makes it difficult for them to show affection in basic ways we usually take for granted, like holding hands or even touching at all, but instead of trying to change who they are the people that love them find a suitable compromise that works for them both. like in pushing daisies when the guy can't touch his resurrected lover without killing her again, so they kiss through a sheet of clingwrap. it's not perfect, but just the fact that they love each other enough to try to make it work in spite of the obstacles that lie between them makes it all the more meaningful.

#insp #I actually also love this through an OCD lens ♡

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the angel staying over at my house asked for a nightlight in their room and i told them buddy, don't you produce your own light? what're you gonna do with more? and they said they wanted to see why people like it so much. and also that the nightlight i own is blue and they're been trying to understand color. anyways i think they've stared at it for an hour now

#the angel staying over at my house is one of my favourite little tumblr stories ♡♡♡ #fav

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yes carrie killed over 400 people ok. thats bad i know. but have you considered that i feel really bad for her :(

#carrie #my love. god carrie was so important to me when i was a teenager #esp an abused bullied shunned overdeveloped overmature teenager. it really really hit #carrie was never meant to be monstrous. you were meant to connect with her and feel with her #and ultimately revel in her revenge-- then pity her for how it carried her & the few people willing to show her kindness to the grave also #Anyways. love this book so fucking much its unbelievable

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genuinely, i think watching live theatre can improve your media literacy so much

like people who look at doctor who and are like 'lol the effects are so rubbish'

maybe watch a stage play where there's no backdrops and half the characters are played by the same three guys in different hats and maybe you will calm down

#FAV #agreed!

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I literally cannot overstate how important creative hobbies are when dealing with mental illness. If you can’t draw, there are coloring books. If you can’t write a novel, you can write in short journaling bursts. If you can’t sing in the shower, you can listen to music. Sometimes with mental illness it feels like we have this dark presence inside of us that is bumping around in our brain and organs, causing problems. It helps immensely to let it out.

#important #vitally so

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doomed by the narrative but not to death. doomed to survive. doomed to stay alive inside the story. doomed to never escape the narrative, not even through death. you are allowed no exit. there is no way out for you and there never was. you couldn’t die if you wanted to. the narrative has a hold on you and it won’t let go. death is too sweet a doom for you. the story has something much worse in mind. there is no way out.

#held captive by the narrative. forced to live through the narrative. unable to die because the narrative needs you to live itself #fav

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suzanne collins is such a genius... the cultural phenomena of her series leading to the hanging tree house remixes, mockingjay being milked for two (bad) movies, the capitol-inspired makeup palettes, the halloween costumes, the explosion of the market for dystopia, the butchering of her characters and removal of disabilities, disfiguration, and racial tension + representation to sell more tickets, the extra gale scenes to fuel discourse, and the audience showing up to cinemas to watch what was pretty honestly marketed to them (the jacob vs edwardification of the symbolic love story and also to watch children fight to the death) it's just so ridiculously ironic i would say you can't write this shit, but she did write about it... in The Hunger Games published 2008

#thg #why i love the films genuinely! not for the reasons they want me to but i do! #excellent tools for analysis of the hollywood sphere as a whole. and of thg's message #the films are a horrifying real-world example of what suzanne collins was actually writing about. you dont get more meta than that

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A brief aside: Nobody here is stating Sarah's fantasies are healthy or should be emulated. That's sort of the point of the entire film; she was faced with the reality and tangible repercussions of the things she fantasised about, from the disappearance of her brother to Jareth's advances, and found she didn't really want them at all.

These fantasies are not healthy or unhealthy, they just are.

I’m all in favour of LGBT reimaginings of popular media, but with respect to some of the Labyrinth fan-castings I’ve seen floating around lately, there’s really no getting away from the fact that the Goblin King is a sexual predator.

Like, that’s the straight-up text of the film, and it’s not especially subtle about it.*

I’m not saying gay people can’t be villains, but the whole point of Jareth is that his attraction toward Sarah is sick, and her rejection of him represents a triumph of good over evil – it’s very much a film born of the Stranger Danger narrative that was all over popular media in the 1980s. I’m sure it’s possible to do a same-gender version of that without falling down the slippery slope of Unfortunate Implications, but it doesn’t feel like that concern is even on the radar in a lot of these proposals.

* Though the subtext isn’t slacking off, either. Remember the scene where Sarah first encounters Jareth, where he starts fondling a crystal ball, smirkingly invites her to play with it, then snarls and thrusts a snake in her face when she declines? That ain’t the reading-too-much-into-the-curtains kind of symbolism!

#labyrinth #anyway! very important post. excellent breakdown and meta-analysis of the specific roles of fantasy characters :) #ESPECIALLY in so meta a film as labyrinth!

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im not the unreliable narrator im the narrator who stepped up

#richard papen

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the ship of theseus wikipedia article in 2003. 20 years later, after 1792 total edits, 0% of its original phrasing remains. (x)

#fav #♡