this keeps happening to me and it’s funnier every time
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tumblr will never count as social media to me. This shit a secret hideout and we just all happen to see each others thoughts
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“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.
It's right-handed
I am right-handed
There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly
I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.
There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.
I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.
A homo erectus made it
Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.
Who were you
A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?
Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?
Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?
Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?
Who were you?
What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?
What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.
Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?
Or has it always been divine?
Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?
Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.
The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.
Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?
I'm not religious.
But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine
I don't know what is.
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I went to the local aviary today and they had some really mean things to say about owls.
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Sleepy Eepy Mareepy
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if u keep liking my posts we gonna end up like this
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the purest form of serotonin is when a cat looks at u and u go like “what?” and it meows at u
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a few shadow gira sketches
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Bug type trainer Miku from Project Voltage
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what if you’re giving birth to twins and it’s the end of daylights savings day and the older twin was born first but the second twin travels back in time and is born an hour before the first twin, would that be fucked up or what.
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My philosophy for queer labels goes like this
1. Anyone who in good faith uses a label is fine to use it for themselves
2. There is no way to always tell who is using it in good faith
3. Act like everyone is using it in good faith.
4. …including assholes clearly IDing to be an ass. Treating them like they mean it is a quick way to make an asshole get yuckied out and knock it off. If they seem to be committed to the bit, maybe they really mean it
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Tips from a YA Editor by Anne Regan: Five Tips for Character Development
Know where they’re coming from.
A character profile can help define influences, values, motivation.
Background history shapes the character’s present and future actions.
Three-dimensional characters have both strengths and flaws.
What is the character’s core problem or desire?
Get readers to care about the character.
Show them struggling with issues and tough choices readers can relate to.
Show the effect their actions (positive or negative) have on the character.
What is the character’s motivation?
Tie in to their background and what’s important to them.
Use cause and effect to make the character’s growth realistic and believable.
Let them face both internal and external obstacles.
External: fired from their dream job
Internal: Longs for revenge on the evil boss who fired them.
Internal challenges can be more important than external ones.
You can’t control your environment, only how you react to it.
Development happens over time.
Avoid last-minute, deathbed conversions that come out of nowhere.
Change often isn’t linear—one step forward, two steps back
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So I got into dungeon meshi and i’ve been telling everyone who I talk to. I love everything about the world, characters, the art, etc.
BUT
People are not kidding when they say that senshi will manifest in your head to tell you to eat better. Like I have a hard time remembering to eat but my brain would be like “you haven’t eaten in some hours, you need a meal” and I would be like you’re very right internal senshi I’m gonna see what I can make. Then I make food??? Honestly Gods sent senshi for helping so many people eat better
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