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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

#resource #stuff

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brigid I have a confession….every time I stalk your blog and I’m met with The William Posts I get more confused about who this mythical creature is. you interact with Him as if he is your feral drunken child that you want to keep in your pocket and I’m like? I am not even sure he’s a real person. he might just be someone brigid made up (*insert good for you cupcake meme*). but like? what does he even do? is he an actor? singer? just some guy? real?

brigid I have so many questions and your brainrot blog does absolutely nothing to answer them😭you’re my hero for real

he’s my wife he’s my babygirl he’s uniquely special and mysterious in that he is so shaped and has no braincells he’s my jenna ortega he’s my bagel with cream cheese he’s a lost member of nsync he’s never been to college he lives in my walls and steals my left shoes he’s the only man ever he’s been to space he played a gay prostitute he would be the first to die in an apocalypse he invented serving cunt in every single picture of him with a child he looks like he will pick them up and throw them he’s so fucking coded coded with what? everything, babygirl, everything this man’s never seen a piñata he didn’t like he’s been in every film ever he can’t cook to save his life his best friend is his dog he owns a gym he lives in your walls he’s the queen of my world he’s the queen of my heart he wrote his own theme song for himself it’s named after his birthday he’s a singer and a dancer and an actor only he’s not good at any of them but just believes in himself so hard that people just let him do whatever he wants he’s never had a coherent thought in his life we are getting married in a distant spring he makes the worst clothes you’ve ever seen in your life and he’s never going to die

#observe william #he is an Experience #and it is my solemn duty to set aside a spoon each week to add fuel to the fire #last week i had no spoons left #i attempted to make up for it this week #because he is very dear to me

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I have been waiting all year to post this.

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god i love the blue catfish so much. kind of a terrifying superpredator honestly. they like living in muddy water so their eyesight is dogshit, but they've got these huge barbels around their face to feel around, and their whole body is covered in almost two hundred thousand tastebuds to figure out exactly where their prey is, and they've got a special adipose fin to be extra tuned-in to water currents/pressure, and they have super keen senses of hearing at really low AND high frequencies, and they ALSO have a deeply forked tail to decrease drag so they can just cruise around and gulp down literally whatever they want, including other catfish, even in like zero-visibility water where every other animal is basically blind. and they get so fucking stupid huge with this technique that nothing can grab them because they're as big as a person. and if an eagle or something does grab one before it's gotten big enough to be eagle-proof, the catfish has fucking POISON KNIVES on its fins to not only stab things but also envenomate them in the process

you may not like it, but THIS is what peak performance looks like

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its insane to me that people do not eat their food from bite theyre going to enjoy least to the one theyre going to enjoy most. like you bithes just eat at random? what if the last bite sucks? have yall not suffered enough? 🤨

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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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if you like crafting and also free things, might i suggest the antique pattern library?

it’s a not for profit that’s gathering books, patterns, and other materials related to crafting that are out of copyright (or getting permission from copyright holders in some cases) in order to share them online. they scan items, clean them up, then make everything available for free!

free things are great, especially when you’re just starting to get into something. like oh, i’m supposed to spend money on this hobby i just picked up 20 minutes ago???

the first time i ended up on the site, i seriously spent hours just trawling through everything. there’s the usual suspects like knitting, crochet, embroidery, but there’s also woodwork, calligraphy, and books on things like how to mount and frame pictures. with cross stitch patterns, they also make modern charts with the dmc colour codes available.

links to their webbed site and instagram:

https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/

https://www.instagram.com/theantiquepatternlibrary/

behold, a glorious cat cross stitch pattern (link goes to antique pattern library page):

[image id: Multicolour charted cross stitch design of a cat sitting on a red pillow with tassels, holding a green ball]

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hello! do you know of a handy chart or reference for keeping track of which word for uncle/aunt a person would be depending on side of family they're from and relation to you?

Master Chart for Familial Relationships

I HAVE OPTED TO DO THIS INSTEAD OF SLEEP. 

I’m too tired to proofread so if you see a mistake please point them out. Click on them to see the clear pics. 

[Notes:] 

* these are typically northern Chinese terminologies. 

** They use of “a-” in front of  something like “a-die” like “A-Cheng” is regional. From what I understand this is typically a southern Chinese practice.

Bolded = modern & historical times

Highlighted = ONLY used in modern times aka 20th century and afterwards.

Use name = in conversation with someone one younger than you, don���t typically use the relationship term, just call them by their name. The addresses are really used for those older than you as a sign of respect. This is particularly true for modern times.

All uncles and aunts and cousins and brothers and sisters are typically paired with the # they are in the fam [da, er, san, si, wu] (1-5). 

Edit: y’all when i say “paternal” cousins I mean cousins that share your last name, if your cousin doesn’t share your last name, that’s a maternal cousin. 

ADDENDUM: 

OKAY FOR THE COUSINS

The chart was going to get too long, so I tried to short cut and ended up making it more confusing for people.

When I say “paternal” cousins, yes this means cousins on your dad side of the family. But your father’s sisters’ kids, who are technically your paternal cousins, do not share your last name, so don’t use “tang”, use “biao”.

#names #resource

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if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes

#iron and board is for aida cloth if need be #also those beads #y'know the ones #make fun patterns

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hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

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Character idea- a medium runs an antique store and helps ghosts who haunt old objects move onto the after life. One of these ghosts haunts a 1950's rotary telephone and the medium is able to talk to her through the phone specifically but this ghost refuses to move on. Obviously they're lesbians.

Also there's a poltergeist who haunts the store and is just a pest that knocks shit over. The medium never sees the poltergeist (because ghosts can choose to allow her to see them) and so she thinks he's just an annoying pest. Turns out the poltergeist is a ghost cat just doing cat shit.

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Had a debate with a friend and now I gotta know

please reblog for larger sample size, my friend bet me no one would say Gimli and I wanna prove her wrong

#i was very into elves in general at the time #and vampires #etheral beings #i had a crush on arwen as well as legolas #oh and galadriel #mmhmm #at that time i was a dumb little twat who didnt know bi/pan but by god was it obvious

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me: oughghgh okay you gotta go OUT today and run errands like an adult, pick up prints, buy floss for the beans cross stitches you sell, maybe some groceries....

also me: oh 3pm's not that late! plenty of time to spend on a cross stitch project!

several hours later, it is already dark out:

me:..... shit.

(ty to @presidentdragon for a sentence that goes extremely hard)

also idk what the cheapest way to get this pattern out to yall would be is there like, a public drive folder somewhere where you can upload free pattern pdfs?

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note: am v aware i have horrible taste lol

#i was about to say fuck every type of bean but then i rememered baked beans is one of my safe foods #but still fuck every other type of bean #ive never had mozzarella sticks or bagels and i dont like cream cheese #i assume a snow cone is shaved ice i dont like that #yeah cook the fuck out of the broccoli #no to soggy fries but also no to crunchy fries. secret third option. in between.