#For future reference

[pintoras]

Marianna Carlevarijs (Italian, 1703-after 1750): Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, traditionally identified as Claudio Giupponi, and Portrait of a lady, bust-length, traditionally identified as Antonia Girardi (1759) (via Dorotheum)

#Marianna Carlevarijs #for future reference #women artists #women painters #art #painting #eighteenth century #pastel drawing #portrait

[cinematicnomad]

(tweet 1) (tweet 2) (article)

#ok so #should i do this??? #writer's block #for future reference

[nakajimeow]

USEFUL WEBSITES FOR WRITERS

Writing With Color: Helps with writing about culture, ethnicity, and religion. Overall, it gives advice on how to write about diversity.

Name Generator: As the name says, it helps you build names for your characters. Very useful if you cannot think of names for your characters!

KathySteinemann: The 'archive.pdf' section helps you with synonyms in case you struggle to find the right word for your sentences (also to avoid using redundant words).

Spwickstrom: Similar to the previous one, this one provides grammar tips. Extremely helpful when finding phrases, verbs, conjunctions, adjectives, and so on.

Servicescape: The perfect website if you're experiencing writer's block. It provides writing prompts. It helps you spark creativity when it comes to writing.

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#writerblr #writeblr #writer things #writing #creative writing #writerscommunity #writing tips #writing advice #writing resources #writing help #how to write #writing tips and tricks #writer block #website #resources #for future reference #links #writing prompt #writing prompts

[veilkeeper]

i only just noticed this excuse me. did he. did he perfume the invitation? just to give it to me??????

for a tav this is extremely funny, but for a durge this would be Simp Behaviour

#gortash #bg3 #roz pt #durgetash #for future reference

[iknaenmal]

Since the last one only went up to the end of act 3. Here it is!!! In all it's glory.

HOMESTUCK

(minus the flashes bc the swf files didn't play nicely when merged with gifs so i had to remove them)

HELL YES!!!!! its finished.....

#should i pin this in my blog y/n #transgendercombat #ikna answers #homestuck #gif #gifs ever #for future reference #1k

[em-dash-press]

Game-Changing Sites for Writers

A recent search for a specific type of site to help me build new characters led me down a rabbit hole. Normally, that would make me much less productive, but I have found a treasure trove of websites for writers.

Bring Characters/Places to Life

There are a few different places you can use to create a picture of something entirely new. I love this site for making character pictures as references, instead of stock photos or whatever pops up on Google Images.

thispersondoesnotexist: every time you reload the page, this site generates a headshot of someone who doesn't exist. This is great if you're thinking about a character's personality or age and don't have specifics for their facial features yet.

Night Cafe: this is an AI art generator that takes your text prompt and generates an image for it. I tried it for various scenery, like "forest" or "cottage." It takes a minute for your requested photo to load, but no more than maybe five for the program to finish the picture.

Art Breeder: this website has endless images of people, places, and general things. Users can blend photos to create something new and curious visitors can browse/download those images without creating an account. (But if you do want to make an account to create your own, it's free!)

Find Random Places on Earth

You might prefer to set a story in a real-life environment so you can reference that place's weather, seasons, small-town vibe, or whatever you like. If that's the case, try:

MapCrunch: the homepage generates a new location each day and gives the location/GPS info in the top left of the screen. To see more images from previous days, hit "Gallery" in the top left.

Atlas Obscura: hover over or tap the "Places" tab, then hit "Random Place." A new page will load with a randomly generated location on the planet, provide a Google Maps link, and tell you a little bit about the place.

Random World Cities: this site makes randomly selected lists of global cities. Six appear for each search, although you'll have to look them up to find more information about each place. You can also use the site to have it select countries, US cities or US states too.

Vary Your Wording

Thesauruses are great, but these websites have some pretty cool perspectives on finding just the right words for stories.

Describing Words: tell this website which word you want to stop repeating and it will give you tons of alternative words that mean the same thing. It typically has way more options than other sites I use.

Reverse Dictionary: type what you need a word for in Reverse Dictionary's search box and it will give you tons of words that closely match what you want. It also lists the words in order of relevancy, starting with a word that most accurately describes what you typed. (There's also an option to get definitions for search results!)

Tip of My Tongue: this website is phenomenal. It lets you search for that word you can't quite place by a letter in it, the definition, what it sounds like, or even its scrambled letters. A long list of potential options will appear on the right side of the screen for every search.

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Hope this helps when you need a hand during your next writing session 💛

#writing resources #writeblr #writers of tumblr #writing websites #websites for writers #writing advice #writing #writing tips #creative writing #writing help #writing community #writers #writing inspiration #resources #for future reference #useful stuff

[silvermoon424]

Silvermoon424's Piracy Guide

I've put together a general piracy guide full of links and software any potential pirate could desire. Believe it or not, I still do have some things I want to recommend, but I've decided to publish this document as-is and just add to it

I would recommend bookmarking this doc, both because it's useful (if I do say so myself) and because like I said I'll probably be adding to it in the future. Please spread this around!

EDIT: 6/2/2023: Added more links, including Aidoku and Tachiyomi (apps that allow you to read manga on your phone).

EDIT 7/30/2023: Google has flagged this doc as "suspicious" and now has a warning on the top about phishing for some reason. I promise y'all that I verified these links. Obviously use your own judgement, but imo it's pretty obvious Google is trying to deter people from piracy.

#piracy #pirating #useful stuff #helpful #for future reference

[venacoeurva]

Pride month Nerevoryn

I couldn’t think of anything very intriguing, but a large guar would be interesting to see

-Please do not reupload, edit, or use without proper credit or linking back. Ask first, please.-

#nerevar #indoril nerevar #voryn dagoth #dagoth voryn #morrowind #nerevoryn #guar #tes #tesblr #request #artsyfartsyness #a little manners with a please or thank you would be nice anon #for future reference

[nekohooch]

God I love the internet.

I’m working on a project and I need to figure out how much lace to buy for the hem of said project and was having trouble mathing said hypothetical hem. I found a fabulous person who made an entire blog post about looking at extant garments measurements or paintings and pictures all the way from before the 1600s to the 1930s and estimating their hems.

I’m a person who needs visuals to be able to picture accurately and this is a godsend. Just needed to find a garment whose hem mimics the project hem and convert the inches into yardage.

#reference #for future reference #fashion #sewing #sew last century #extant garments #historical fashion #thaaaank youuuuuuu

[itberice]

Seven of Nine implant details I Star Trek: Picard

#Star Trek: Picard #Seven of Nine #Picardedit #trekedit #Star Trek #startrekedit #for future reference #my edits

[pintoras]

Eliza B. Duffey (American, 1838–1898): Still Life with Books, Peach and Butterfly (1865) (via Freeman's)

#Eliza B. Duffey #women artists #women painters #art #painting #for future reference #still life #books #reading #fruit #1860s #nineteenth century #american painters

[jonasiegenthaler]

"That was a nice lucky bounce right there, Bratter, Hischao to me [...]"

#john marino #nico hischier #jesper bratt #devils #nico nickname drop ‼️‼️ #for future reference #.avi

[nakajimeow]

WRITING ADVICE THAT I HEARD (THAT ABSOLUTELY WORKS FOR ME)

Okay, so I am writing these tips that I have learned/heard from other authors. It worked for me, I just want to share it just in case other people might find it helpful too!

Know the ending of your story before starting it.

Whenever you have an idea, WRITE IT. IMMEDIATELY! (before you could even lose it or worse, forget it)

READ MORE !!! (get inspiration from other people's books)

Write EVERYTHING. Just correct/edit them later when you are finished.

Explore other genres. (do not get stuck with one genre. instead, read/write other genres. you never know, you might be better at writing other genres)

Similar to the first one, CREATE OUTLINES PER CHAPTERS !! I REPEAT, CREATE OUTLINES. (in this way, it would be easier to write because you have a summary of what is going to happen in each chapter.)

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#writerblr #writeblr #writer things #writing #creative writing #writerscommunity #writing tips #writing advice #writing resources #writing help #how to write #writing tips and tricks #writer block #website #resources #for future reference #links #writing prompt #writing prompts

[portraitoflestatonfire]

#for future reference

[transienturl]

there is a sizable subset of the ultra-enthusiast tumblr community who (reasonably, in cases, given the circumstances) have been convinced by the sheer volume of tumblr-related discourse that is driven away from factual considerations by the victim complex, the need to have an enemy, and an external imagination of how websites work that doesn't hold up to scrutiny. I don't think that's debatable. I see the volume as a tragedy and a bit of a disappointment (it will always happen but I do think we can do better) and am sympathetic to the people who accept it uncritically, if somewhat concerned (I imagine this kind of thing extends into the non-internet world).

but yeah, like. I enjoy working on the XKit projects, and that's why I do it. I enjoy doing support for them, too—I don't have a way of counting it, but gosh, I must send 50-100 messages a month responding to inquiries, giving tutorials, etc. okay I actually have no idea what the number is. but anyway.

admission: it's not nearly as fun when some huge percentage of the posts you're responding to are just laced with this stuff. "1-starring the app will make tumblr better!" "staff broke xkit on purpose!" "I know the reason behind changes I don't like and they are malicious/ignorant!" "it would be easy to fix [x thing] and it is not fixed so someone is out for me!" (there are more nuanced ones too but those are all pretty unambiguously false examples.) again, I see why people repeat these things because they are so darn prevalent, often from people you trust.

this is a site about sharing things that resonate with you. feeling like you're mostly helpless against a big power without your best interests at heart is deeply relatable. I get that. it's still annoying though.

I don't know to what degree I have the power to change any of this? maybe to some degree I can pull the "I'm half or more of the XKit development for at least the past year" card and maybe that has some weight re: making people see my perspective as coming from "being on the side of the users," blaze some posts maybe, but I dunno, man.

Feels like a weird thing to really lean into, on the one hand. And public comms stuff is a ton of work. On the other hand, I guess it would be silly if I didn't ever pull that card and eventually just quit if it didn't seem worth dealing with. I don't think that would kill the XKit projects, but... okay yeah I'm just saying that because it's nice to be optimistic. I have zero idea if it would or not.

#tumblr meta #for future reference

[deximexi]

Lampert design inspired by @lucid-daydreaming-art !

Poor guy needs a nap

IF YOU USE THIS DESIGN PLEASE CREDIT ME.

#lampert #regretevator lampert #lampert fanart #roblox #regretevator #please reblog #for future reference #reference sheet #inspired #Fanart #Roblox fanart #Dexi’sArt