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Hetherev is an art challenge RP hangout. I started the original group on DA years ago. This one has new challenges and a slightly different way of doing things, but I kept the name for sentimental reasons. It is hosted on Discord. You don't have to RP! You can show up and do nothing. No one minds. 21 and older only, sorry.

Get motivated to draw.

No politics/talking about the art climate. Just good vibes.

Draw your OC meeting someone else's.

Nightly voice chat/multistream.

The basics/willingness to try required to participate.

Non-artists welcome in guest areas.

No deadlines. No expectation to participate. https://discord.gg/fVGSJ6UzkZ

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hi neil! i saw your post about writing ~300 words a day and you'll end up with a book after a year & it really inspired me. made me think, hey, i can do that. i want to say thank you a lot, because i've been doing that for the last 3 (?) days and i'm really proud of how much i've gotten down. usually it takes a lot of effort for me to get something down, and i write a thousand words in one day and abandon it. but now that i'm expecting myself do to only 300 words a day, i'm able to consistently craft a story. it's coming out nicely, i think. so thank you for that.

I'm glad it helped!

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nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well

enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.

It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar

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That feeling when your body is requesting something but you're not sure what so you just start eating and drinking random stuff to try and figure it out

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Women need to have each others back!!

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We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

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why this a bop LMAO

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I hurt from laughing

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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most of the talk on this website about Game Changer is how Sam Reich psychologically tortures his contestants, but I want to make it clear to the uninitiated that he's actually extremely ethical about it

He sends out a company wide email and asks them to choose episodes based on a chili pepper rating system

meaning he doesn't put 🌶️🌶️ people into 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ episodes

they're also big on consent ie cast and crew have to be okay with it before they'll do nudity or something like that in an episode

it's like the bdsm of psychological torture. safe, sane, and consensual.

the contestants know what they're getting into, and they're full down

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A friend of mine that was a homeless drug addict posted this on Facebook. It really makes you think.

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But seriously, when we got our property, it was all just…grass. A sterile grass moonscape, like a billion other yards. With two big old maple trees. Just grass and maples, that was it. 

But then I got my grubby little paws on it, and I immediately stopped fertilizing, spraying, and bagging up grass clippings and leaves. I ripped up sod and put in flowers and vegetables. I put down nice thick blankets of mulch around the flowers and vegetables. 

When I first was sweating my way through stripping sod, I saw a grand total of 1 worm and 0 ladybugs. The ground was compacted into something that would bend shovel blades. 

Now, six years later, I can’t dig a planting hole without turning up fourteen earthworms, and there are so many ladybugs here. Not the invasive asian lady beetles; native ladybugs. They winter over in the mulch and in the brush pile. I see thousands of them. 

The soil is soft and rich. There are birds that come to eat, and bees of many sorts.

Like this is something that you, yourself, can absolutely change. This is something that you, personally, can make a difference in.

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My friend Dylan is such a profound person, and yet so simple at the same time. Do you know what I mean

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Literally had cramps while drawing this

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(tw: abuse, rant about me being abusive)

I need people to stop jumping to my defense about my right to have children whenever I say that I would be abusive. There's a goddamned reason for me to say that, idiot! I would be abusive and neglectful towards any child I have.

I know exactly what kind of person I am - I may not show it, but I get angry very easily and for random reasons. I can't be angry towards other people – people who will be in my presence for only a few minutes – because they don't deserve that, so most know me as polite, nice, and quiet.

My child though? The kid that would be in my presence for 24/7? If that kid does not behave the way I want it to, then I will hit it. I enjoy my silence. I enjoy my order. I enjoy not being bothered. A child will ruin all of that.

"You would never hit a child! You're so good with them! They always ask about you!" The people cry. The reason why I'm nice and not hitting them is because they're someone else's child and my unfavourable actions will have consequences. 

I get mad easily and sometimes "randomly" – what I mean by that is this:

Yesterday I was in my uni's cafe, a place I go to whenever I have a large gab between classes and do some writing. I'm used to the hustle and bustle of it, and I'm used to my companions' chatter, but for some reason I got very annoyed by them yesterday and that annoyance continued on during classes. I wished to do them bodily harm. Do you see how easy it is to anger me? Even something that I'm used to has limits.

So if I say I would be a bad parent, that is not reassurance baiting. I'm making a statement and people have to accept it.

Sure, I can probably teach the child to be quite, but they may not listen at times, or I will love bomb them when I crave attention then ignore them again. No child deserves that.

See the fact that you know this about yourself and don't want children as a result? That's yet another reason why the right to choose is so so goddamn important.

Children aren't for everyone, nor should they be.

We should all have the right to choose when it comes to parenthood, even those of us who don't want it.